Intro Using email to send notifications seems old school nowadays. Quite often its nonetheless a tool that is available and accepted in many settings and where recipients are already familiar using it. While sending emails from Linux machines is qu... [Read more...]

Sometimes, more precisely quite often, the standard libraries hold treasures that we are not aware of. Maybe they have obscure names, have been reinvented and shadowed by the newest cutting edge convenience package or one simply does not expect those t... [Read more...]

The {wikipediatrend} package This blog post covers the major release of the {wikipediatrend} package - namely version 2.1.4. ❤ Thanks to all CRAN people ❤ The History Introduction {wikipediatrend} dates back to late 2014. It is my first R pack... [Read more...]

The {tabit} package This is a blog post announcing the brand new micro package {tabit} that just made it to CRAN. ???? Thanks to all CRAN people ???? Motivation {tabit} is a package that is about making simple tabulations simple. My motivation for... [Read more...]

The Summary In this short note I will write about the httr package and my need to detect whether or not an HTTP request had been redirected or not - it turns out this is quite easy. Along the way I will also show how to access information of an ... [Read more...]

… or how I stoped worrying and wrote a blog post to remember it ad infinitum. Magrittr’s pipe operator is one of those newish R-universe features that I really want to have around whenever I put some lines into an R-console. This is even TRUE when writing a package. So ... [Read more...]

I just got the news from the CRAN-team that the robotstxt version update 0.6.0 was accepted and now is available. The robotstxt package aims at working with robots.txt files from within R by providing a parser as well as a permission checker - and s... [Read more...]