Collaborate Disseminate
Last week I introduced a new bookdown series on how to embed R into a macOS Swift application. The initial chapters focused on core concepts and showed how to build a macOS compiled, binary command line application that uses embedded R for some functio… Continue reading New SwiftR Chapter Up: Building an R-backed SwiftUI macOS App
I went completely daft this week and broke my months-long Twitter break due to the domestic terror event in my nation’s capitol. I’ll likely be resuming the break starting today. Whilst keeping up with the final descent of the U.S. into a fully failed … Continue reading Safety Checking Locally Installed Package URLs
Over Christmas break I teased some screencaps: A more refined #rstats #swift “SwiftR” example. Simple Image view + some text views, a color picker and a button that runs R-in-Swift code (like {reticulate} does for Python in R) Note no ssd/hd storage ro… Continue reading Bringing R to Swift on macOS
While the future of the Apache Drill ecosystem is somewhat in-play (MapR — a major sponsoring org for the project — is kinda dead), I still use it almost daily (on my local home office cluster) to avoid handing over any more money to Amazon than I/we a… Continue reading Updated Apache Drill R JDBC Interface Package {sergeant.caffeinated} With {dbplyr} 2.x Compatibility
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything R-related and, while this one will be brief, it may be of use to some R folks who have taken the leap into Big Sur and/or Apple Silicon. Stay to the end for an early Christmas 🎁! Big Sur Report As #rstats + … Continue reading Apple Silicon + Big Sur + RStudio + R Field Report
(This is part 2 of n “quick hit” posts, each walking through some approaches to speeding up components of an iterative operation. Go here for part 1). Thanks to the aforementioned previous post, we now have a super fast way of reading indiv… Continue reading Quick Hit: Speeding Up Data Frame Creation
(This is part 1 of n posts using this same data; n will likely be 2-3, and the posts are more around optimization than anything else.) I recently had to analyze HTTP response headers (generated by a HEAD request) from around 74,000 sites (each response… Continue reading Quick Hit: Comparison of “Whole File Reading” Methods
The Marshall Project has a solid story and set of visualizations on the impact of COVID-19 in U.S. prisons. They keep the data (and vis) regularly updated. They do great work and this is an important topic, but this visualization breaks my “order… Continue reading Aligning the Dots On COVID Prison Waffles
The incredibly talented folks over at Bishop Fox were quite generous this week, providing a scanner for figuring out PAN-OS GlobalProtect versions. I’ve been using their decoding technique and date-based fingerprint table to keep an eye on patch … Continue reading A Look at PAN-OS Versions with a Bit of R
Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the Apache Drill REST API via {DBI}, {dplyr}, or directly — to CRAN. The CRAN aut… Continue reading {sergeant} 0.9.0 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors!