Grant McDermott

Hmmm, I wouldn't say the problem is the availability of binary-build channels. Alongside r2u (great albeit Ubuntu only), there's rspm and the Posit manylinux repo (both multi-distro). The problem is conda hijacking and/or overriding these channels, so that they don't work like normal :-/

Yeah, unfortunately the inconsistency is the killer here. I've also run into a (related?) problem of missing pre-compiled binaries on some Linux distros that we use at work. So you end up having to install + compile everything from source ☠️

RE: lack of love for conda-forge, see this thread by @jeroenooms.bsky.social fosstodon.org/@jeroenooms/...

It's a constant stream of untaxed negative externalities that I can only assume are part of some cunning grand plan for language hegemony.

Old ground, but I still cannot believe how poorly 🐍 plays with other languages. Okay, we're going to force you to do everything in a venv (b/c otherwise we break everything...) But that venv is going to auto instantiate and override any system level env vars or processes that you've set ☠️

Fair points. Still, if you feel like modifying / playing around... bsky.app/profile/gmcd...

Successfully nerdsniped myself into writing a little script for this. gist.github.com/grantmcdermo...

(Longer than it probably needs to be bc of annoying Wiki table formatting, but I'm too lazy to find another source.)

Hmmm, I don't think so. If the state of the system hinges on a few critical units then I think you want to model those directly. To the OP, if we don't see much volatility of those marginal units over time then I don't think it makes sense to talk about "close" vs "big" victories, no?

Not giving CM the inside ball at 1:30 (beautiful line!) was a legitimate gripe. But vanishingly few of those.

No. (Carry on.)

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Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but isn't the way to evaluate US victory "closeness" by looking at the minimum no. of voters that could have swayed the EC?

Rinse and repeat.

tinyplot showing US GDP since 1980 with recessions highlighted in the background

Clearly not the most important news coming out of Oregon tonight, but I just added a recession bars example to the tinyplot “Tips & tricks” vignette. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... #rstats

Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in

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The real pros (TM) use symbols > 32 or cut straight to Unicode, e.g. pch/shape = "\u2642" 🥴

We enforce R >= 4.0.0 to make use of some of the newer palettes that became available at the time. But I sometimes wonder how far back `tinyplot` _could_ have been implemented from a purely technical perspective. I think the hard req. would be recordGraphics, which was introduced in R 3.1.0 IINM.

It's in the gallery linked in the alt text: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

If you just want the exact code, here's the snippet file. github.com/grantmcdermo...

The (g)goat, for sure. Hopefully we're filling a useful niche.

My man 🤜🤛

+1

Exciting stuff, thanks for sharing @dfalbel.bsky.social.

tinyplot bubble chart example with dual legend, using penguins data. Taken from https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vignettes/gallery.html

`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes.

Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...

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Update: it won't see us through the winter, but a respectable harvest through the season.

"Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group. But a lot." Quote from @kjhealy.co

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Now you have my attention!

(Seriously, sounds great. I'd love to see a demo if/when you have one to share.)

Relatively early doors, but `rv` is very promising and has worked well for the projects that I've used it in. a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/

Yeah, very nice. Fwiw, I recall seeing on Mastodon that Seb Fischer (and maybe @dfalbel.bsky.social?) are proving out an equivalent R framework with bindings to the same upstream XLA / JIT libraries.

Oh, really nice on the AD support. I'm a little uncomfortable with the Py dependency, but I can appreciate the dev benefits that flow from a common backend (and Jax is a truly best-in-class IME).

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