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curtisalexander / fsharp-httpclient.fsx

Last active November 7, 2019 21:42

	open System.Net.Http
	open System.IO

	let downloadDataWithHttpClient (url: string) =
	async {
	use hc = new HttpClient()
	// Just read the header
	let! response = hc.GetAsync(url, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead) \|> Async.AwaitTask
	// if response.IsSuccessStatusCode
	let filename = Path.GetTempFileName()

curtisalexander / boxstarter.ps1

Last active January 26, 2019 16:06 — forked from jessfraz/boxstarter.ps1

Boxstarter Commands for a new Windows box.

	# Description: Boxstarter Script
	# Author: curtisalexander, forked from jessfraz

	# Run this boxstarter by calling the following from an elevated command-prompt:
	# start http://boxstarter.org/package/nr/url?<URL-TO-RAW-GIST>
	# OR
	# Install-BoxstarterPackage -PackageName <URL-TO-RAW-GIST> -DisableReboots
	#
	# Learn more: http://boxstarter.org/Learn/WebLauncher

curtisalexander / keybase.md

Last active August 24, 2019 12:05

I hereby claim:

I am curtisalexander on github.
I am calex (https://keybase.io/calex) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 095A 82B6 0C23 C6B6 966B 4FC1 9551 294F 845B BAE6

To claim this, I am signing this object:

curtisalexander / install_openssl_R_pkgs.sh

Last active March 3, 2018 20:30

Install openssl from source to the global library, with the appropriate configuration variables

curtisalexander / rmarkdown-with-alt-langs-example

Last active November 22, 2017 18:54

	---
	title: "R Markdown with Alternate Languages"
	author: "Curtis Alexander"
	output:
	html_document:
	include:
	in_header: header.html
	mathjax: null
	params:
	hilang:

curtisalexander / _watch-render-rmd.R

Last active November 14, 2017 21:18

Run rmarkdown::render() when files that match a pattern change within a directory

	#!/usr/local/bin/Rscript --no-site-file --no-init-file --no-restore

	# --vanilla ==> --no-site-file --no-init-file --no-restore --no-environ
	# thus the above reads the .Renviron file(s)

	## required packages ==
	# install.packages(c("docopt",
	# "testthat"))

	## docopt.org ==

curtisalexander / _watch-render.bat

Last active November 26, 2017 12:50

Windows batch file to accompany _watch-render-site or _watch-render-rmd in lieu of a *nix shebang

	@echo off
	cls
	C:
	PATH C:\Program Files\R\R~\bin;%PATH%
	:: pushd required in the event that the _watch-render-site.R or
	:: _watch-render-rmd.R script is on a network drive
	@pushd %~dp0
	:: reads .Renviron as it sets the environment variable RSTUDIO_PANDOC
	:: which is the PATH to pandoc
	cmd /c Rscript --no-site-file --no-init-file --no-restore _watch-render.R --patt=".+\.Rmd"

curtisalexander / _watch-render-site.R

Last active November 26, 2017 12:43

Run rmarkdown::render_site() when files that match a pattern change within a directory

	#!/usr/local/bin/Rscript --no-site-file --no-init-file --no-restore

	# --vanilla ==> --no-site-file --no-init-file --no-restore --no-environ
	# thus the above reads the .Renviron file(s)

	## required packages ==
	# install.packages(c("docopt",
	# "testthat"))

	## docopt.org ==

curtisalexander / taskkill-pipeline.R

Last active January 29, 2018 22:33

Use R to kill tasks on Windows

	# for checking and installing packages
	# extracted from CRAmisc package
	# https://github.com/curtisalexander/CRAmisc/blob/master/R/install.R
	check_install <- function(pkgs, repos = NULL, ...) {
	installed_packages <- installed.packages()[ ,1]
	for (i in seq_along(pkgs)) {
	pkg <- pkgs[[i]]
	if (!pkg %in% installed_packages) {
	cat(paste0("Need to install: ", pkg, "\n"))
	if(is.null(repos)) install.packages(pkg, repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com")

curtisalexander / taskkill.R

Last active January 29, 2018 22:28

Use R to kill tasks on Windows

	# install (if applicable)
	# install.packages(c("dplyr",
	# "processx",
	# "purrr",
	# "readr"))

	# libraries
	suppressWarnings(suppressMessages(library("dplyr")))
	suppressWarnings(suppressMessages(library("processx")))
	suppressWarnings(suppressMessages(library("purrr")))

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