tl;dr: some stats agencies use the ISO standard to number weeks for data with weekly frequency. This has some funny implications, some of which cannot be handled with base R on some systems nor with {lubridate}. Use {ISOweek} for now. This is one of those posts written for future ... [Read more...]

This is a brief walk through of the session functionality in {rvest} as used on a recent project involving data on the web hidden behind multiple layers of forms and file-download malarkey. It comes from a recent project where a periodically update... [Read more...]