Publications by hrbrmstr
Improvements to RSwitch in v1.3.0
It’s only been a couple days since the initial version of my revamped take on RSwitch but there have been numerous improvements since then worth mentioning. For starters, there’s a new app icon that uses the blue and gray from the official (modern) R logo to help visually associate it with R: In similar fashion, the menubar icon now looks be...
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RSwitch 1.4.0 Released
Swift 5 has been so much fun to hack on that there’s a new update to macOS R-focused mebubar utility RSwitch available. Along with the app comes a new dedicated RSwitch landing page and a new user’s guide since it has enough features to warrant such documentation. Here’s the new menu The core changes/additions include: a reorganized menu ...
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RSwitch 1.4.1 Released
A minor update to RSwitch has been released. Apart from some internal code reorganization there are three user-facing changes. First, RSwitch is now notarized! That means you won’t get a notice about it being from an “unidentified developer” nor will folks on Catalina see a warning about unable to check the download for malware. You can use...
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September 2019 Democratic Debates Added to {ggchicklet}
The latest round of the 2020 Democratic debates is over and the data from all the 2019 editions of the debates have been added to {ggchicklet}. The structure of the debates2019 built-in dataset has changed a bit: library(ggchicklet) library(hrbrthemes) library(tidyverse) debates2019 ## # A tibble: 641 x 7 ## elapsed timestamp speaker topic ...
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RSwitch 1.5.0 Release Now Also Corrals RStudio Server Connections
RSwitch is a macOS menubar application that works on macOS 10.14+ and provides handy shortcuts for developing with R on macOS. Version 1.5.0 brings a reorganized menu system and the ability to manage and make connections to RStudio Server instances. Here’s a quick peek at the new setup: All books, links, and other reference resources are under...
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Twitter “Account Analysis” in R
This past week @propublica linked to a really spiffy resource for getting an overview of a Twitter user’s profile and activity called accountanalysis. It has a beautiful interface that works as well on mobile as it does in a real browser. It also is fully interactive and supports cross-filtering (zoom in on the timeline and the other graphs cha...
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RSwitch 1.5.1 Released
An RSwitch user, lcolladotor filed a most-welcome issue letting me know that the core functionality of the switcher was busted . After testing out the 1.5.1 release candidate I had made a “harmless” & “clever” change to reduce some redundancy in the code that handled with switching which resulted in busted symbolic link creation. Tis fixe...
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100% Stacked Chicklets
I posted a visualization of email safety status (a.k.a. DMARC) of the Fortune 500 (2017 list) the other day on Twitter and received this spiffy request from @MarkAltosaar: Would you be willing to add the R code used to produce this to your vignette for ggchicklet? I would love to see how you arranged the factors since it is a proportion. Every t...
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Spelunking macOS ‘ScreenTime’ App Usage with R
Apple has brought Screen Time to macOS for some time now and that means it has to store this data somewhere. Thankfully, Sarah Edwards has foraged through the macOS filesystem for us and explained where these bits of knowledge are in her post, Knowledge is Power! Using the macOS/iOS knowledgeC.db Database to Determine Precise User and Application...
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Quickly Create (Mostly) Responsive HTML Columns With {htmltools}
I had need to present a wall-of-text to show off a giant list of SSL certificate alternate names and needed the entire list to fit on one slide (not really for reading in full, but to show just how many there were in a way that a simple count would not really convey). Keynote, PowerPoint, and gslides all let you make tables or draw boxes but I re...
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