Alexander Severinsen

library(dplyr) library(gm) golden <- tribble( ~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric, "E4", "q", "I’m", "G4", "q", "done", "C5", "q", "hid-", "B4", "q", "-ing", "D4", "q", "now", "G4", "q", "I’m", "E5", "q", "shin-", "D5", "q", "-ing", "G4", "q", "like", "B4", "q", "I’m", "A5", "q", "born", "F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to", "G5", "q/3", "be._", "G5", "h", "" ) music <- Music() + Key(1) + Tempo(125) + Meter(2, 4) + Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) + Tie(13) + Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) + Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) + Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) + Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) + Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) + Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) + Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13) show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

The @maprva.org surveillance map, ported to #Rstats using mapgl, osmdata, sf, and dplyr.

gist.github.com/mhpob/17782b...

Not 1:1 in terms of Ultra/Mapbox GL JS -> R, but pretty close!
Original query: overpass-ultra.us#query=url%3A...

cc @mackaszechno.bsky.social @kylewalker.bsky.social

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition.

Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python.

Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demonstration: using agent mode to create an R package with Roxygen2 docs and testthat unit tests.

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-a...
#rstats

Positron connected to a not-really-remote remote session inside a Docker container

*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...

Really enjoyed speaking to Cascadia R Conference today! Materials from my talk are at rfortherestofus.com/cascadia2025. #rstats

Great. Thanks!

I am contributing with more Rstudios running than browser tabs 😬 (but I do turn them off during Christmas).

#rstats
I recently needed a Py lib in a R Shiny app (in a Docker container). Magical to use reticulate and uv to make this work! Later, I restarted the container - no code changes. App crashed. Why? uv had silently installed the latest version of a Py lib. What’s the best practice to prevent this?

A screenshot of the book chapter

A screenshot of the book chapter

A screenshot of the book chapter

A screenshot of the book chapter

Chapter 7: Coordinate Reference Systems 🧭📐🌐

This chapter explains how to work with coordinate reference systems (CRSs) in R. Learn how to reproject vector and raster data, and understand how CRS choices affect spatial analysis.

🔗 r.geocompx.org/reproj-geo-d...

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx

shikokuchuo{net}: mirai 2.3.0 Advancing Async Computing in R

We are delighted to announce mirai 2.3.0 for advanced async computing in #RStats!

Mirai allows event-driven async in Shiny & parallel processing in purrr.

This release brings improvements in serialization & distributed computing. Read more from @shikokuchuo.net: shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir...

Posit We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats

The @mapbox.com Standard Satellite style gives you a stunning 3D globe out of the box that you can use to build your maps and apps.

If you are an R user, this is all you need to get started:

library(mapgl)
mapboxgl(style = mapbox_style("standard-satellite"))

Try it out!

#rstats

A screenshot from the blog post

A screenshot from the blog post

A screenshot from the blog post

A screenshot from the blog post

New blog post: Spatial Machine Learning with tidymodels 🌍🧠📦

This post shows how to apply the tidymodels framework to spatial data workflows in R. Part 3 in a series about #sml.

🔗 geocompx.org/post/2025/sm...

#rstats #rspatial #tidymodels #gischat

Fonts in R Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

On the blog: side-by-side synced maps, comparison maps in Shiny, and much more in the latest release of {mapgl}.

Read the post: walker-data.com/posts/mapgl-...

#rstats #gis #datascience

library(shiny) library(bslib) library(mirai) daemons(1) onStop(function() daemons(0)) ui <- page_fluid( p("The time is ", textOutput("current_time", inline = TRUE)), hr(), numericInput("n", "Sample size (n)", 100), numericInput("delay", "Seconds to take for plot", 5), actionButton("btn", "Go"), textOutput("progress_log"), plotOutput("plot"), ) my_func <- function(x, y, file){ writeLines(paste0("Starting..."), file) for (i in 1:y){ Sys.sleep(1) writeLines(paste0("Step ", i, " complete"), file) } writeLines(paste0("Finished"), file) runif(x) } server <- function(input, output, session) { progress_file <- tempfile() output$current_time <- renderText({ invalidateLater(1000) format(Sys.time(), "%H:%M:%S %p") }) task_var <- NULL task <- ExtendedTask$new( function(...) task_var <<- mirai(run(...), environment(), .args = list(run = my_func)) ) observeEvent(input$btn, { if (task$status() == "running"){ mirai::stop_mirai(task_var) } task$invoke(input$n, input$delay, progress_file)} ) output$plot <- renderPlot({ if (task$status() == "success"){ hist(task$result()) } }) progress_reader <- reactiveFileReader(100, session, progress_file, readFunc = function(file) { if (file.exists(file)) { readLines(file) } } ) output$progress_log <- renderPrint({ cat(paste(progress_reader(), collapse = "\n")) }) } shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

Being able to cancel and restart slow-running jobs in shiny with {mirai} is a bit of a game-changer #rstats Full app in alt text / gist.github.com/simon-smart8... with a method for updating progress too

It is now possible to easily pass data from and to Python and #RStats by serializing to json (but you can still convert more complex objects using rxp_py2r() and rxp_r2py() which uses {reticulate} under the hood for conversion)

Yesterday, I was just reading a Hacker News comment about R’s annoying all-or-nothing namespacing, and then R 4.5.0 comes out with `use()`!

Import just what you need:

use(“dplyr”, c(“mutate”, “summarize))

#RStats

The hex sticker for the chores package: A cartoon illustration of a light orange potato character with rosy cheeks, holding a clipboard with a checklist in one hand and several small cards in the other. The potato is set against a purple hexagon outlined in a lighter orange. The word 'chores' is written diagonally in white in the upper right of the purple hexagon.

Introducing chores, a package that uses LLMs to help with repetitive, hard-to-automate coding tasks!

Manage prompts as markdown, select a chore, and let LLMs handle your tedious #RStats work.

@simonpcouch.com introduces chores and shows how it cuts roxygen2 boilerplate: posit.co/blog/introdu...

GitHub - USEPA/elevatr: An R package for accessing elevation data An R package for accessing elevation data. Contribute to USEPA/elevatr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just wanted to thank all of your #rstats folks that have used and promoted my elevatr 📦(github.com/usepa/elevatr)! It is currently the fourth most starred USEPA repository on GitHub! I am humbled.

And stay tuned for some future updates!

After an hour of nonsensical discussions with ChatGPT it finally understands how to make me right when I am wrong 😅 #rstats

Daniël ten Wolde | DuckPGQ: A graph extension supporting SQL/PGQ Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast · Episode

Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast released the second episode of its new series, “DuckDB in Research”.

In this episode, Daniël ten Wolde talks about his research on integrating SQL/PGQ into DuckDB, and the resulting DuckPGQ community extension.

open.spotify.com/episode/3e3u...

Mastering Software Development in R by Roger D. Peng, Sean Kross and Brooke Anderson
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/r%20programming.html#mastering-software-development-in-r

webR is AMAZING!?! I'm running these interactive examples in a revealjs presentation all in the browser! Absolutely endless possibilities being able to write in Svelte, create UI like I normally would but have #rstats running for students to play with. Thats ggplot in the browser omg. #dataviz

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

@simonpcouch.com is doing some really cool work with LLMs in R!

He's created experimental packages like chores, ensure, and gander to help automate tasks like unit testing and roxygen tags.

Check out his blog post to learn more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

#RStats #LLM

Air (our extremely fast R formatter!) now has official documentation for both Neovim and Helix, thanks to our awesome community (Tamás Plaszkó, Philippe Massicotte, @mmuecke.bsky.social, and Tymoteusz Makowski)!

Neovim: posit-dev.github.io/air/editor-n...
Helix: posit-dev.github.io/air/editor-h...

Great Tables plus Python

Creating tables in Python keeps getting better!

With the Great Tables package, you can create professional display tables. We round up some of the updates that you may have missed: posit.co/blog/creatin...

Have questions? Join our Discord: discord.com/invite/skZ5S...

#Python #PythonProgramming

YouTube video by SSDAN 2025 Webinar 3 Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in R with Kyle Walker

@kylewalker.bsky.social's 3rd free workshop on mapping US Census data with R is now on YouTube! Hour 2 is on using his new {mapgl} #RStats 📦 , followed by some advanced workflows in hour 3. I attended live and got a lot of it, highly recommend.
#RSpatial #GIS