My information highlights for the week: CodeWhisperer on the Command Line Jobs with Higher Income and Fewer Hours and httr2 v1.0.0.

I have a challenge: extracting data from an enormous JSON file. The structure of the file is not ideal: it’s a mapping at the top level, which means that for most standard approaches the entire document needs to be loaded before it can be processed. It would have been ...

The {emayili} package already has adapters which make it simple to send email via a variety of services. I have just added an adapter for the ZeptoMail transactional email service. The adapter is available in {emayili} version 0.7.13.

At Fathom Data we have been doing a lot of automated documentation and automated reporting. Although many of these documents are rendered to HTML, there’s an increasing demand for PDF documents. So we’ve had to raise out game in that department. The {pagedown} package has become invaluable. This ...

I’m a density plot devotee. And, using geom_density() from {ggplot2} these plots are effortless to produce. However, sometimes the results of geom_density() are not exactly what I’m after. Here’s how I tweak them to give me precisely what I need.

In the previous post we looked at how to apply a linter and styler to a Python Project. Now we’re going to do the same for an R project. We’ll use the {precommit} R package to make the setup a breeze.

While trolling the internet aimlessly this morning, this TikTok video caught my attention.

In a previous post I took a look at some granular weather data that I acquired via the Weather API. One interesting application of these data is calculating the Fire Danger Index (FDI), which measures the degree of fire danger using information on dryness, wind speed, temperature and humidity.

A quick note on how to use the Shiny Server Docker image, rocker/shiny. I’m a big believer in starting with the simplest possible setup, getting that to work and then adding complexity in layers. We’ll start with a simple Shiny application in app.R.

I’ve just added some more data to the {blimey} package: postal codes and postbox locations.

I’ve just added data on schools in England to the {blimey} package. The raw data were obtained from gov.uk.

Getting R set up on Linux can be somewhat frustrating. Many of the fundamental packages (like {devtools} or {remotes}) have implicit system dependencies. So installing these packages can involve numerous iterations back and forth between R and the shell while you figure out what those dependencies are and get them ...

I’m building a model which requires historical weather data from a selection of locations in South Africa. In this post I demonstrate the process of acquiring the data and doing some simple processing.

I have a challenge: extracting data from an enormous JSON file. The structure of the file is very challenging: it’s a mapping at the top level, which means that for most standard approaches the entire document needs to be loaded before it can be processed. It would have been ...

I have a challenge: extracting data from an enormous JSON file. The structure of the file is not ideal: it’s a mapping at the top level, which means that for most standard approaches the entire document needs to be loaded before it can be processed. It would have been ...

Introducing the nascent R package {blimey} (repository). At this stage it contains only the following data: railways — latitude and longitude segments along railway lines (wide format); railways_pivot — latitude and longitude segments along railway lines (long format); and railway_stations — codes, names and locations of railway stations.

In the previous post I ran through the process of setting up a Mailfence account for encrypting emails. In this post I show how Mailfence can be used with the {emayili} package for sending encrypted email from R.

Drug pricing is complicated. In this post I take a look at reconciling ASP and WAC prices, focusing on normalising the WAC price per billing unit to achieve a price which is comparable to ASP. This post includes a number of case studies with the objective of laying out and ...

A recent announcement from Google stated that from 30 May 2022 they will no longer support login via username and password (this is the “less secure” option). The change will have an impact for people using the {emayili} package to send email from R, but will also affect many others who use ...