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CSL (Citation Style Language) is used quite widely now to specify citations in a standard fashion. csl is an R client for exploring CSL styles, and is inspired by the Ruby gem csl. For example, csl...

setup backup curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/' -d '{ "type": "fs", "settings": { "location": "/Users/sacmac/esbackups/my_backup", "compress": true ...

Recently I spun up a box on a cloud hosting provider planning to make a tens of thousdands of queries to an Elasticsearch instance on the same box. I could have done this on my own machine, but did...

Someone asked recently about tips for package development workflow to optimize a successful submission to CRAN. The ultimate guide is probably Hadley’s book on package development, but here’s more...

I’ve been working on a little thing called httping - a small R package that started as a pkg to Ping urls and time requests. It’s a port of the Ruby gem httping. The httr package is in Depends in t...