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lucacerone / pdfcompress
Created February 26, 2014 13:22
Simple bash script to compress pdf files using Ghostscript
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Compress a pdf using gs.
# Requires in input the compression type, the name of the file to compress and the name of the output file (in this order).
# Example:
# pdfcompress screen MyHighResDocument.pdf MyLowResDocument.pdf
#
# Possible values for compression types are:
# screen , selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller “Screen Optimized” setting.
# ebook , selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller “eBook” setting.
# printer , selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller “Print Optimized” setting.
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lucacerone / impala.R
Created November 4, 2016 11:09 — forked from daroczig/impala.R
Connect and query Imapala via SSH and Impala-shell from R
#' Connect and query Imapala via SSH and Impala-shell
#' @param query SQL query to run
#' @param host server hostname or IP
#' @param log enable or disable logging of debug/trace messages
#' @return data.table object
#' @export
query_impala <- function(query, host = 'localhost', log = require(futile.logger)) {
## measure time of query
timer <- proc.time()