Henrik Bengtsson

My version: With CRAN, the package maintainer pays the price for end users to have a smooth ride, instead of vice versa

Used StickerApp last year. Happy with em. Had no idea but they ship out of Malmö, Sweden ~10 days to US

I rushed in order that arrived just before catching a flight to teach workshop in Sweden. I could have walked to their place in Malmö when I landed - turns out my brother even knows them. Haha :)

It's unfortunate that data.table seems to require a list, as async() creates, because otherwise:

data[, .(x = future(long(x))), by = .(group1, group2)] |> value()

would have worked

Not sure, but I think

value.default <- function(x, ...) x

was in the 'future' package at some point, but I then cleaned it out + protect against unexpected mistakes

u caught my curiosity;

async <- function(...) {
list(future(..., envir = parent.frame(1)))
}

value.default <- function(x, ...) x

value.data.table <- function(x, ...) {
x[, names(.SD) := lapply(.SD, value, reduce = `c`)][]
}

data[, .(x = async(long(x))), by = .(group1, group2)] |> value()

📣 The useR! 2026 committee invites global R users and developers to submit abstracts for talks, panels, posters, and tutorials!

Submissions are peer-reviewed based on content and balance.

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Use can use future::value(x) instead of lapply(x, future::value). It's actually the preferred way if there are several futures

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YouTube video by Studio24Sto Du levande: Scenbyggen

Many scenes are set indoors in his small studio in Stockholm - even the ones that look like they're outside - impressive scenography (www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK66...). He uses ordinary people as actors in this commercials and movies (archive.org/details/bein...)

He is "known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life." Who can resist movie titles such as 'You, the Living' and a 'A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence'? Highly recommended - they'll grow on you (www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ro...)

Studio24Sto Roy Andersson Filmproduktion/Studio 24

Above commercial was made by Roy Andersson, a fantastic film director, who started out by creating brilliantly commercials (www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FN8...) to fund his movies (In Sweden we only had commercials in the cinemas before the movie started - that was part of going to the movies)

When you dawdle submitting your #RStats package to CRAN and you end up behind {dplyr} in the reverse-dependency check queue ...

nx10.dev/cransubs/

Looking at github.com/search?q=org..., we can see that there's have been 1300+ issues posted there by mistake

@gaborcsardi.org , would it be possible to turn off all issue trackers under the github.com/cran organization?

I, and others, post issues there by mistake. Despite knowing it, it's so easy to miss that you're in that organization, e.g. you end up there from a web search.

#RStats

Promotional poster for the useR! 2026 Conference in Warsaw, scheduled for July 6–9 at the Warsaw School of Economics and online. The right side features a portrait of keynote speaker Kari Jordan, a Black woman with bright teal curly hair and a warm smile, wearing a pink blazer. The left side displays the conference title and four colorful squares—blue, yellow, orange, and purple—each containing a black geometric pattern representing iterations of a Sierpinski carpet fractal.

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community"

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Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI | Mistral AI

It does not, no. Mistral AI is the closest-to-frontier org that has released a comprehensive environmental impact report including data along those lines (that I know of) mistral.ai/news/our-con...

A bar chart showing the electricity use of several daily activities with the subtitle "The 'typical query' is not a useful way to think about coding agents' energy use." The bar for a 'typical ChatGPT query' is not even visible. My median Claude Code session is somewhere between the average US household per minute and toasting bread for three minutes. My median day with Claude Code is something like running a dishwasher.

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day.

On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

December was an exciting month for rOpenSci! They proudly continued supporting LatinR as a community partner in 2025, and their community manager, Yani, was recently interviewed on our new NumFOCUS podcast, Give Me 5! You can watch the 5-minute episode now: youtu.be/SqafLv6CYPI?...

Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication for Audiences with Visual and Auditory Impai

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#StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats
@royalstatsoc.bsky.social

R is a truly beautiful language! ✨

#RStats #futureverse #StayTuned

Exciting news 🎉 The 2026 Cascadia R Conference is happening in Portland, Oregon on June 27, 2026! The Call for Presentations and Early Registration is now OPEN! Have a cool project in #rstats? Share with the Cascadia community! 🌲
Submit here: cascadiarconf.com/cfp/
#CascadiaR #DataScience #rstats

I am very happy to announce that I will be a keynote speaker at useR!2026 in Warsaw!
Hope to see many incredible members of #RStats community in person there 😀

The CRAN submit page is my go to for this: cran.r-project.org/submit.html

R parallelization solutions are basically fancy orchestrators for what you otherwise would do manually, e.g. save relevant variables & code to file and then manually run that in separate R sessions. When done, save all results to file and read it back in in the main R session. Nothing magic 3/

This is a mental model that is useful for most multi-*process* parallelization frameworks out there. There are some rare shared-memory exceptions, but we're not really using them in R. 2/

I find it helpful to imagine that each parallel worker runs on a separate computer isolated far away from the others spread across the world. They share nothing with each other or the main R session. They receive tasks in the mail and send results back when done in the mail. 1/

TIL If a global variable gets altered in a foreach loop, each worker needs to have its own copy

#rstats

Possible a new record for me;

CRAN submission of {futureverse} took just six (6) minutes from start to finish 👏

(it's a package with no reverse dependencies) #RStats

One final contributing to base R post from me today, sharing a blog post from Rhian on her experience of participating in an R Dev Day.

rhian.rbind.io/posts/2025-1...

@statsrhian.bsky.social #RStats