I do have opinions about the now infamous e-mail server (which will no doubt come out here), but when the WSJ folks made it possible to search the Clinton email releases I though it would be fun to get the data into R to show how well the igraph and ggnetwork packages could work together, and also show how to use svgPanZoom to make it a bit easier to poke around the resulting hairball network. NOTE: There are a couple "Assignment" blocks in here. My Elements of Data Science students are no doubt following the blog by now so those are meant for you:-) Other intrepid readers can ignore them. It's not advertised, but it's not hidden either. They were kind enough to actually make this resource available to the public to help them make up their minds as to whether this was a horrible, awful, terrible, inexcusable breach of national security through conceit, hubris and naïvety (see, I have opines:-) – or not – and we really shouldn't constantly hit their API just because we want to work with the data on our own.