Publications by hrbrmstr
Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates
More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here’s a run-down of various updates: waffle The square pie chart generating waffle package now contains a nascent geom_waffle() so you can do things like this: library(hrbrthemes) library(waffle) library(tidyverse) tibble( parts = factor(rep(month.abb[1:3], 3), levels=month.abb[1:3]),...
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Roll Your Own Federal Government Shutdown-caused SSL Certificate Expiration Monitor in R
By now, even remote villages on uncharted islands in the Pacific know that the U.S. is in the midst of a protracted partial government shutdown. It’s having real impacts on the lives of Federal government workers but they aren’t the only ones. Much of the interaction Federal agencies have with the populace takes place online and the gateway t...
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splashr 0.6.0 Now Uses the CRAN-nascent stevedore Package for Docker Orchestration
The splashr package [srht|GL|GH] — an alternative to Selenium for javascript-enabled/browser-emulated web scraping — is now at version 0.6.0 (still in dev-mode but on its way to CRAN in the next 14 days). The major change from version 0.5.x (which never made it to CRAN) is a swap out of the reticulated docker package with the pure-R stevedore...
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hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News
Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks have been seeing in blog posts and tweets over the past few months. It’s called theme_ft_rc() since it is an homage to the wonderful new chart theme developed by...
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Quick Hit: Automating Production Graphics Uploads in R Markdown Documents with googledrive
As someone who measures all kinds of things on the internet as part of his $DAYJOB, I can say with some authority that huge swaths of organizations are using cloud-services such as Google Apps, Dropbox and Office 365 as part of their business process workflows. For me, one regular component that touches the “cloud” is when I have to share R-...
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Quick Hit: Using seymour to Subscribe to your Git[la|hu]b Repo Issues in Feedly
The seymour Feedly API package has been updated to support subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds. Previously the package was intended to just treat your Feedly as a data source, but there was a compelling use case for enabling subscription support: subscribing to code repository issues. Sure, there’s already email notice integration for repository issu...
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Fast Static Maps Built with R
Luke Whyte posted an article (apologies for a Medium link) over on Towards Data Science showing how to use a command line workflow involving curl, node and various D3 libraries and javascript source files to build a series of SVG static maps. It’s well written and you should give it a read especially since he provides the code and data. We can ...
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Homebrew 2.0.0 Released == homebrewanalytics package updated
A major new release of Homebrew has landed and now includes support for Linux as well as Windows! via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are overall stability and speed improvements baked in as well. The aforelinked notification has all the info you need to see the minutiae. Unless you’ve been super-lax in updating, brew update will get you...
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R Package Update: urlscan
The urlscan package (an interface to the urlscan.io API) is now at version 0.2.0 and supports urlscan.io’s authentication requirement when submitting a link for analysis. The service is handy if you want to learn about the details — all the gory technical details — for a website. For instance, say you wanted to check on r-project.org. You c...
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Send UDP Probes (with payloads) and Receive/Process Responses in R
We worked pretty hard over at $DAYJOB on helping to quantify and remediate a fairly significant configuration weakness in Ubiquiti network work gear attached to the internet. Ubiquiti network gear — routers, switches, wireless access points, etc. — are enterprise grade components and are a joy to work with. Our home network is liberally popul...
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