Tag:post
All the articles with the tag "post".
Engaging the tidyverse Clean Slate Protocol
I caught the 0.7.0 release of dplyr on my home CRAN server early Friday morning and immediately set out to install it since I'm eager to finish up my sergeant package and get it on CRAN. "Tidyverse" upgrades aren't trivial for me as I…
R⁶ — Scraping Images To PDFs
I've been doing intermittent prep work for a follow-up to an earlier post on store closings and came across this CNN Money "article" on it. Said "article" is a deliberately obfuscated or lazily crafted series of GIF images that contain all…
Drilling Into CSVs — Teaser Trailer
I used reading a directory of CSVs as the foundational example in my recent post on idioms…
L.A. Unconf-idential : a.k.a. an rOpenSci #runconf17 Retrospective
Last year, I was able to sit back and lazily "RT" Julia Silge's excellent retrospective on her 2016 @rOpenSci "unconference" experience. Since Julia was not there this year, and the unconference experience is still in primary storage (LMD…
R⁶ — Idiomatic (for the People)
NOTE: I'll do my best to ensure the next post will have nothing to do with Twitter, and this post might not completely meet my R⁶…
A Very Palette-able Post
Many of my posts seem to begin with a link to a tweet, and this one falls into that…
R⁶ — Using R With Amazon Athena & AWS Temporary Security Credentials
Most of the examples of working with most of the AWS services show basic username & password authentication. That's all well-and-good, but many shops use the AWS Security Token Service to provide temporary credentials and session tokens to…
R⁶ — Tracking WannaCry Bitcoin Wallet Payments with R
If you follow me on Twitter or monitor @Rapid7's Community Blog you know I've been involved a bit in the WannaCry ransomworm…
Travis-CI Flaw Exposed Some 'Secure' Environment Variable Contents
Tagging this as #rstats -related since many R coders use Travis-CI to automate package builds (and other things). Security researcher Ivan Vyshnevskyi did some ++gd responsible disclosure to the Travis-CI folks letting them know they were…
Plot the Vote: Making U.S. Senate & House Cartograms in R
Political machinations are a tad insane in the U.S. these days & I regularly hit up @ProPublica & @GovTrack sites (& sub to the GovTrack e-mail updates) as I try to be an informed citizen, especially since I've got a Senator and…