I’m pleased to announce that splashr is now on CRAN. (That image was generated with splashr::render_png(url = "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/splashr/")). The package is an R interface to the Splash javascript rendering service. It works in a similar fashion to Selenium but is fear ...

I was about to embark on setting up a background task to sift through R package PDFs for traces of functions that “omit NA values” as a surprise present for Colin Fay and Sir Tierney: [Please RT]#RStats folks, @nj_tierney & I need your help for {naniar}!When does R ...

There was a discussion on Twitter about the need to read in “.msg” files using R. The “MSG” file format is one of the many binary abominations created by Microsoft to lock folks and users into their platform and tools. Thankfully, they (eventually) provided documentation for the MSG file format ...

One of my tweets that referenced an excellent post about the ethics of web scraping garnered some interest: Apologies for a Medium link but if you do ANY web scraping, you need to read this #rstats // Ethics in Web Scraping https://t.co/y5YxvzB8Fd— boB Rudis (@hrbrmstr) July 26, 2017 ...

Matt @stiles is a spiffy data journalist at the @latimes and he posted an interesting chart on U.S. Attorneys General longevity (given that the current US AG is on thin ice): Only Watergate and the Civil War have prompted shorter tenures as AG (if Sessions were to leave now). ...

I couldn’t let this stand unchallenged: The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating.That's higher than O's #'s!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2017 Ramussen makes their Presidential polling data available for both ? & O. Why not compare their ...

I caught a mention of this project by Pete Warden on Four Short Links today. If his name sounds familiar, he’s the creator of the DSTK, an O’Reilly author, and now works at Google. A decidedly clever and decent chap. The project goal is noble: crowdsource and make ...

I caught the 0.7.0 release of dplyr on my home CRAN server early Friday morning and immediately set out to install it since I’m eager to finish up my sergeant package and get it on CRAN. “Tidyverse” upgrades aren’t trivial for me as I tinker quite a bit with ...

Last year, I was able to sit back and lazily “RT” Julia Silge’s excellent retrospective on her 2016 @rOpenSci “unconference” experience. Since Julia was not there this year, and the unconference experience is still in primary storage (LMD v2.0 was a success!) I thought this would be the perfect time ...

Many of my posts seem to begin with a link to a tweet, and this one falls into that pattern: And @_inundata is already working on a #rstats palette. https://t.co/bNfpL7OmVl— Timothée Poisot (@tpoi) May 21, 2017 I’d seen the Ars Tech post about the named color ...