Using Amazon S3 with R
Somehow I was convinced that using Amazon S3 would be a supremely difficult thing to learn, kind of like learning git and GitHub for the first time. Thankfully, it’s not like that at all. With the help of the aws.s3 package, you can manage cloud data storage from R with surprisingly little pain.
Data types in Arrow and R
A post describing fundamental data types in R and Apache Arrow, and how data is exchanged between the two systems. It covers conversion of logicals, integers, floats, decimals, strings, date, and times, among other things. It talks about higher level structures like tables, data frames, and so on. For reasons that now escape me, esoteric authors are quoted, and I try to bribe the audience into reading the whole thing by adding artwork. This post is, um… long
R scripts for twitter mutes and blocks
Social media safety tools like muting and blocking are often misused, but for people who are targeted for harassment they are powerful and important. This is a brief tutorial illustrating how to partially automate twitter mutes and blocks from R. The intended use is defensive, to help people minimise the impact if they are targeted by large scale harassment.
Data serialisation in R
A terrifying descent into madness, or, an explanation of how R serialises an in-memory data structure to summon a sequence of bytes that can be saved or transmitted. Eldritch horrors are unleashed by reading occult texts such as the R internals manual, SEXPTYPE codes are extracted from RDS with bitwise logic, and in the dark conclusion the R source code is consulted
How to mint digital art on HEN
Not every artist wants to make cryptoart, and that’s okay. Others do, and that’s okay too. But if you want to try it out in a socially responsible way, it takes a bit of effort to get started. This post attempts to make the process a little easier by walking you through the whole thing
