Tag: Updates

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Windows Platform team here at Puppet has been working hard on updating our key Windows modules. Customers who use our Puppet Supported SQL Server module will be happy to know that we added support for SQL Server 2016. We also added support for internationalization and the new Puppet 5 platform. You can see all of the updates here.We also made updates to our supported IIS and ACL modules. Both now support Puppet 5. Additionally:IIS 4.1 includes bug fixes based on customer feedback. See the changelog for more details.ACL 2.0.1 allows you to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on notast. [This article was first published on R on notast, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. reticulate allows us to toggle between R and python in the same session, callling R objects when running python scripts and vice versa. When calling R data structures in python, the R structures are converted to the equivalent python structures where applicable. However, like translating English to Mandarin, translating R ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thinking inside the box. [This article was first published on Thinking inside the box , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Release 0.3.3 of the RPushbullet package just got to CRAN. RPushbullet offers an interface to the neat Pushbullet service for inter-device messaging, communication, and more. It lets you easily send (programmatic) alerts like the one to the left to your browser, phone, tablet, … – or all ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Yep, you read this right. If you know Puppet, you know we have a great admiration for dogs. It’s a delight coming to work with awesome people every day, but we also have an extra perk: getting to pet our doggy friends in our London, Belfast, Seattle, and Portland offices. Whether wagging their tails, begging for treats, or being generally adored, it’s a joy to be surrounded by our furry colleagues.But let’s get real: In our industry, cats rule supreme. In fact, cats rule the internet. So in honor of International Cat Day ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; PuppetConf 2017 is fast approaching, and we have some exciting updates to share. Block out your calendar for 10–12 October in San Francisco, and register by 10 August to receive the 20 percent discount for early birds. IT Leader trackPuppetConf offers awesome keynotes, sessions (and so much more!) for practitioners — but don’t forget to invite the IT leaders in your organization. For the third consecutive year, PuppetConf will feature an IT Leader track focused on emerging trends in IT, plus real-world stories of digital transformation, the future of DevOps, security and compliance, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Stats and R. [This article was first published on R on Stats and R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Simple linear regression is a statistical method to summarize and study relationships between two variables. When more than two variables are of interest, it is referred as multiple linear regression. In this article, we focus only on a Shiny app which allows to perform simple linear ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Last week we released a new version of the Puppet Learning VM, with a complete rewrite of the lesson content. The new content covers a few new topics in configuration management, such as the roles and profiles pattern and the Embedded Puppet (EPP) template format. The main change, however, is in the architecture of the lessons. The previous version of the Learning VM focused on writing Puppet code. All the code was demonstrated by applying it directly on the Learning VM itself. The new version also teaches you how to write Puppet code, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; According to the U.S. Department of Justice, ransomware is the fastest growing malware threat, with an average of more than 4,000 ransomware attacks occurring daily since 1 January 2016. This represents a 300 percent increase over the approximately 1,000 attacks seen daily in 2015.As we saw earlier this year, WannaCry ransomware was unleashed on a Friday, and spread rapidly to machines across the globe. Four days later, WannaCry had crippled an estimated 300,000 computers in more than 150 countries. While the reported ransom per incident was relatively low (U.S. $300-$600), Reuters reported that ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rsquared Academy Blog. [This article was first published on Rsquared Academy Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. We are excited to announce the nse2r package. NSE (National Stock Exchange) is the leading stock exchange of India, located in the city of Mumbai. While users can manually download data from NSE through a browser, importing this data into R becomes cumbersome. The nse2r R package implements the retrieval ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on OSM. [This article was first published on R on OSM, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In our last post on the SKEW index we looked at how good the index was in pricing two standard deviation (2SD) down moves. The answer: not very. But, we conjectured that this poor performance may be due to the fact that it is more accurate at pricing larger moves, ... Read More