Articles by hrbrmstr

Head’s Up! Roll Your Own HTTP Headers Investigations with the ‘hdrs’ Package

March 5, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I blathered alot about HTTP headers in the last post. In the event you wanted to dig deeper I threw together a small package that will let you grab HTTP headers from a given URL and take a look at them. The README has examples for most things but we’...

CRAN Mirror “Security”

March 3, 2019 | hrbrmstr

In the “Changes on CRAN” section of the latest version of the The R Journal (Vol. 10/2, December 2018) had this short blurb entitled “CRAN mirror security”: Currently, there are 100 official CRAN mirrors, 68 of which provide both secure downloads via ‘https’ and use secure mirroring from the CRAN master (via rsync through ...

htmlunitjars Updated to 2.34.0

February 28, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The in-dev htmlunit package for javascript-“enabled” web-scraping without the need for Selenium, Splash or headless Chrome relies on the HtmlUnit library and said library just released version 2.34.0 with a wide array of changes that should make it possible to scrape more gnarly javascript-“enabled” sites. The Chrome emulation is ... [Read more...]

drat All The ?! : Enabling Easier Package Discovery and Installation with Your Own CRAN-like Repo for Your Packages

February 28, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I’ve got a work-in-progress drat-ified CRAN-like repo for (eventually) all my packages over at CINC? (“CINC is not CRAN” and it also sounds like “sync”). This is in parallel with a co-location/migration of all my packages to SourceHut (just waiting for the sr.ht alpha API to be ...

Cloudy with a chance of Caffeinated Query Orchestration – New rJava Wrappers for AWS Athena SDK for Java

February 22, 2019 | hrbrmstr

There are two fledgling rJava-based R packages that enable working with the AWS SDK for Athena: awsathena | GL| GH awsathenajars | GL| GH They’re both needed to conform with the way CRAN like rJava-based packages submitted that also have large JAR dependencies. The goal is to eventually have wrappers for ... [Read more...]

I Just Wanted The Data : Turning Tableau & Tidyverse Tears Into Smiles with Base R (An Encoding Detective Story)

February 19, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of ‘Muricans who can’t spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes their 7 year old will outgrow in a year— is closing. CNBC also had a story that featured a choropleth with ...

In Dev: WiGLE Your Way Into A Hotspot with wiglr

February 18, 2019 | hrbrmstr

WiGLE has been around a while and is a great site to explore the pervasiveness or sparsity of Wi-Fi (and cellular) networks around the globe. While interactive use is fun, WiGLE also has a free API (so long as you obey the EULA and aren’t abusive) that lets you ...

Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages

February 17, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I must preface this post with the posit that if you’re doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it’s the easiest way to wire them up to R DBI- and tidyverse-wise. I’ve said as much in previous ...

Using the ropendata R Package to Access Petabytes of Free Internet Telemetry Data from Rapid7

February 14, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I’ve got a post up over at $DAYJOB’s blog on using the ropendata???? package to access the ginormous and ever-increasing amount of internet telemetry (scan) data via the Rapid7 Open Data API. It’s super-R-code-heavy but renders surprisingly well in Ghost (the blogging platform we use at work) ... [Read more...]

Quick Hit: Speeding Up a Slow/Mundane Task with a Little Rcpp

February 9, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Over at $DAYJOB’s blog I’ve queued up a post that shows how to use our new opendata???? package to work with our Open Data portal’s API. I’m not super-sure when it’s going to be posted so keep an RSS reader fixed on https://blog.rapid7....

Send UDP Probes (with payloads) and Receive/Process Responses in R

February 3, 2019 | hrbrmstr

We worked pretty hard over at $DAYJOB on helping to quantify and remediate a fairly significant configuration weakness in Ubiquiti network work gear attached to the internet. Ubiquiti network gear — routers, switches, wireless access points, etc. — are enterprise grade components and are a joy to work with. Our home network ...

R Package Update: urlscan

February 3, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The urlscan???? package (an interface to the urlscan.io API) is now at version 0.2.0 and supports urlscan.io’s authentication requirement when submitting a link for analysis. The service is handy if you want to learn about the details — all the gory technical details — for a website. For instance, say ...

Homebrew 2.0.0 Released == homebrewanalytics package updated

February 2, 2019 | hrbrmstr

A major new release of Homebrew has landed and now includes support for Linux as well as Windows! via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are overall stability and speed improvements baked in as well. The aforelinked notification has all the info you need to see the minutiae. Unless you’...

Fast Static Maps Built with R

January 30, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Luke Whyte posted an article (apologies for a Medium link) over on Towards Data Science showing how to use a command line workflow involving curl, node and various D3 libraries and javascript source files to build a series of SVG static maps. It’s well written and you should give ...

Quick Hit: Using seymour to Subscribe to your Git[la|hu]b Repo Issues in Feedly

January 30, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The seymour???? Feedly API package has been updated to support subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds. Previously the package was intended to just treat your Feedly as a data source, but there was a compelling use case for enabling subscription support: subscribing to code repository issues. Sure, there’s already email ...

Quick Hit: Automating Production Graphics Uploads in R Markdown Documents with googledrive

January 24, 2019 | hrbrmstr

As someone who measures all kinds of things on the internet as part of his $DAYJOB, I can say with some authority that huge swaths of organizations are using cloud-services such as Google Apps, Dropbox and Office 365 as part of their business process workflows. For me, one regular component that ...

hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News

January 21, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes???? package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks have been seeing in blog posts and tweets over the past few months. It’s called theme_ft_rc() since it ...

splashr 0.6.0 Now Uses the CRAN-nascent stevedore Package for Docker Orchestration

January 14, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The splashr package [srht|GL|GH] — an alternative to Selenium for javascript-enabled/browser-emulated web scraping — is now at version 0.6.0 (still in dev-mode but on its way to CRAN in the next 14 days). The major change from version 0.5.x (which never made it to CRAN) is a swap out of the ...

Roll Your Own Federal Government Shutdown-caused SSL Certificate Expiration Monitor in R

January 10, 2019 | hrbrmstr

By now, even remote villages on uncharted islands in the Pacific know that the U.S. is in the midst of a protracted partial government shutdown. It’s having real impacts on the lives of Federal government workers but they aren’t the only ones. Much of the interaction Federal ...

Waffle Geoms & Other Miscellaneous In-Development Package Updates

January 10, 2019 | hrbrmstr

More than just sergeant has been hacked on recently, so here’s a run-down of various ???? updates: waffle The square pie chart generating waffle???? package now contains a nascent geom_waffle() so you can do things like this: library(hrbrthemes) library(waffle) library(tidyverse) tibble( parts = factor(rep(month.abb[1:3], 3), ...

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