@RMHoge asked the following on Twitter: Hello #rstats hyve mind! Is there a package that reads epub into R? I can not find any, I now convert to text and parse the text but you sort of lose the structure of the text. Pinging @dataandme @hrbrmstr — Roel (@RMHoge) April 12, 2018 Here’...

Many R package authors (including myself) lump a collection of small, useful functions into some type of utils.R file and usually do not export the functions since they are (generally) designed to work on package internals rather than expose their functionality via the exported package API. Just like Batman’...

Modern MacBook Pros have a fairly useless (c’mon, admit it!) “Touch Bar” that did little more than cause severe ire in the developer community after turning a full-fledged, tactile Escape key into a hollow version if its former self. Having said, that, some apps do make OK use of ...

There’s a yuge chance you’re reading this post (at least initially) on R-Bloggers right now (though you should also check out R Weekly and add their live feed to your RSS reader pronto!). It’s a central “watering hole” for R folks and is read by many (IIRC ...

You have to have been living under a rock to not know about Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS offering. I won’t go into “privacy”, “security” or “speed” concepts in this post since that’s a pretty huge topic to distill for folks given the, now, plethora of confusing (and pretty ...

The fs package makes it super quick and easy to find out just how much “package hoarding” you’ve been doing: While you can modify the above and peruse the list of packages/directories in tabular format or programmatically, you can also do a bit more work to get a ...

A quick Friday post to let folks know about three in-development R packages that you’re encouraged to poke the tyres o[fn] and also jump in and file issues or PRs for. Alleviating aversion to versions I introduced a “version chart” in a recent post and one key element ...

(FWIW I think I even caused myself pain due to the title of this blog post). Kaiser Fung (@junkcharts) did a makeover post on this chart about U.S. steel tariffs: Kaiser’s makeover is good (Note: just because I said “good” does not mean I’m endorsing the use ...

I work with internet-scale data and do my fair share of macro-analyses on vulnerabilities. I use the R semver package for most of my work and wanted to blather on a bit about it since it’s super-helpful for this work and doesn’t get the attention it deserves. semver ...

Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine lobsterfolk. Most of the news sites in Maine do a feature on the annual landings (here’s one from Bangor Daily News). There was a marked decline — the largest ever — in both poundage and revenue ...

What’s Up? The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be responsive. The widgetframe R htmlwidget uses pym.js to bring this (much needed) functionality into widgets and (eventually) shiny apps. ...

Time for another look at what’s new and interesting in the #rstats world with the help of Peter Meissner’s (@marvin_dpr) crossword.r?. The answers to last week’s puzzle have been posted (it seemed to make more sense posting the answers a week later vs the Monday ...

Peter Meissner (@marvin_dpr) released crossword.r? to CRAN today. It’s a spiffy package that makes it dead simple to generate crossword puzzles. He also made a super spiffy javascript library to pair with it, which can turn crossword model output into an interactive puzzle. I thought I’d ...

We’re doing some interesting studies (cybersecurity-wise, not finance-wise) on digital currency networks at work-work and — while I’m loathe to create a geo-map from IPv4 geolocation data — we: do get (often, woefully inaccurate) latitude & longitude data from our geolocation service (I won’t name-and-shame here); and, there are definite ...

NOTE: The likelihood of this recipe being added to the recent practice bookdown book is slim, but I’ll try to keep the same format for the blog post. Problem You want to collect all the tweets in a Twitter tweet thread Solution Use a few key functions in rtweet ...

The new year begins with me being on the hook to crank out a book on advanced web-scraping in R by July (more on that in a future blog post). The bookdown? package seemed to be the best way to go about doing this but I had only played with ...

(You can find all R⁶ posts here) A Twitter discussion: I'm going to keep my eyes out for this one! Would love to have an easy way to embed tweets in Rmd talks!— Jeff Hollister (@jhollist) December 30, 2017 that spawned from Maëlle’s recent look-back post turned into a quick ...

2017 is nearly at an end. We humans seem to need these cycles to help us on our path forward and have, throughout history, used these annual demarcation points as a time of reflection of what was, what is an what shall come next. To that end, I decided it was ...