CVE-2024-27322 Should Never Have Been Assigned And R Data Files Are Still Super Risky Even In R 4.4.0

| | R
I had not planned to blog this (this is an incredibly time-crunched week for me) but CERT/CC and CISA made a big deal out of a non-vulnerability in R, and it’s making ...

Ligatures In RStudio Dailies

| | R, RStudio
I had thought most folks likely knew this already, but if you are user of RStudio dailies (this may apply to regular RStudio, but I only use the dailies) and are missing ...

Tracking Rite-Aid Store Closures

| | R
Rite-Aid closed 60+ stores in 2021. They said they’d nuke over 1,000 of them over three years, back in 2022. And, they’re now about to close ~500 due to bankruptcy. FWIW Heyward ...

New R Package For HTTP Headers Hashing

| | R
HTTP Headers Hashing (HHHash) is a technique developed by Alexandre Dulaunoy to generate a fingerprint of an HTTP server based on the headers it returns. It employs one-way hashing to generate a ...
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Poor Dude’s Janky Bluesky Feed Reader CLI Via R & Python

| | python, R
Lynn (of TITAA and general NLP wizardy fame) was gracious enough to lend me a Bluesky invite, so I could claim my handle on yet-another social media site. I’m still wary of ...
Supreme Annotations Plot Redux & An OJS Plot↔ggplot2 Rosetta Stone

Supreme Annotations Plot Redux & An OJS Plot↔ggplot2 Rosetta Stone

| | Observable, R
Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the day. Since ...
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Start Creating Vanilla JS WebR Apps With Less Inertia

| | R, webr
WebR has a template for React, but I’m not a fan of it or Vue (a fact longtime readers are likely tired of hearing right about now). It’s my opinion and experience ...
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Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar}

| | ggplot, R
I was cranking out a blog post for work earlier this week that shows off just how many integrations our platform has. I won’t blather about that content here, but as I ...

Introducing WebRIDEr: The WebR “IDE”-ish REPL You Didn’t Know You Needed

| | R, webr
The official example WebR REPL is definitely cool and useful to get the feel for WebR. But, it is far from an ideal way to deal with it interactively, even as just ...

🧪 Lit + WebR + Observable Plot: Linking Lit’s Lightweight Web Components And WebR For Vanilla JS Reactivity & JS DataVis

| | R, webr
See it live before reading! The previous post brought lit-webr, to introduce Lit and basic reactivity. Today, is more of the same, but we bring the OG Shiny demo plot into the ...