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Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Code, Data, Analysis, Teaching, Sometimes Running, ...

"God doesn't know, and the devil isn't telling." xkcd.com/2867/

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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I'm a single-issue voter. My single issue is that I'd like to continue voting.

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Dirk Eddelbuettel's avatar Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com
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Opinion: To serve its country, New York Times Editorial Board should leave the paper. See also: Wall Street Journal.

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That is indeed the case. The R Foundation / CRAN were on the case finding something affordable. Here, these are registered a 'data' artifacts (as software doesn't really fit the DOI model) at what I am told are about $2 per package.

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Grant McDermott's avatar Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social
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`tinyplot` is now available on CRAN. 🎉

tl;dr `tinyplot` is a super lightweight extension of the base #rstats graphics system that makes it easy to draw sophisticated plots with minimal overhead. See our website for more examples and a detailed intro tutorial. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

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It is there now and has been for a few days. Try any package at CRAN on its CRAN package and it is there now, as it is in what tools::CRAN_package_db() returns.

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Can you do a version for those of us with a French doctorat?

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What is the German word for the sequence of (eventually) accommodating a 'connection request' on that other rather silly platform only to unfollow that very person within days as the posts are insufferable? Maybe "LinkedInVerknuepfungsReueWenigeTageSpaeter" ? Not quite a word. Please send help.

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I fear I may spend inordinate amounts of time on this page between now and November (as an occasionally complaining subscriber).

Model by The Economist, Andrew Gelman et al. So likely #rstats based

www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Chaka’s Tiny Desk is amazing (of course!) but my only quibble is we didn’t get to see her play any instruments. I wanna see Chaka on the drums! Also interesting that she didn’t do “I Feel For You”; very few artists have a song that big. Almost none would omit it from a set. youtu.be/Gse1LKXuV2M?...

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I posted about this over on mastodon in a thrice updated post so here is the summarized and updated gist: We now get both *Deadline* (!!) and (where available already) *DOI* in the CRAN db returned. The screenshot has the goods. #rstats

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Tom Reagan’s Hat's avatar Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social
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It’s Prince’s birthday This is my favourite story about him by a country mile

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TIL: If you absentmindedly forgot to split the sourdougher starter / flour / water mix you prepared the previous evening you end up with too much 'wet' mix requiring about a third more flour to make up for the non-separated starter. And get two breads instead of one. Life could be worse.

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#r2u update: we now shipped 20 million .deb packages containing CRAN packages making #Rstats deployment and testing on Ubuntu faster, easier and more reliable.

#r2u: Easy. Fast. Reliable. Pick all three.

More details at eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/

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Hashtags are now supported so maybe time to drop the dual-emoji filter?

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What a gorgeous day here. And I had forgotten how pretty the landscaped lake-facing side of Northwestern's campus is...

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As someone who still has a strong streak of Dream-of-the-90s Web in their bones it's a bit demoralizing to find the AI Search-Summarize-Slop Loop seriously confronting me with the question of why I, or anyone, should ever again write anything of substance that's just freely available online.

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And of course also the following. Only do discourse in one-line sentences. Which are separated as distinct paragraphs. Because apparently one assumes the readership to be incapable of consuming _two_ sentences. It. Drives. Me. Up. The. Wall. But we already agreed that LinkedIn is the worst.

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Dirk Eddelbuettel's avatar Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com
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post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

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That's alpha.

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The actual update step then brings in a few updated system utilities (docker, brave, ...) as well as a handful of CRAN #Rstats packages including one of mine.

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This newer gets old: wake the laptop up from a slumber of a few days, say `wajig update` to see things `apt` learned about and using `wajig new` what has been added --- which via #r2u is the set of new-at-CRAN #Rstats packages since the last time this ran.

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Peter Sagal's avatar Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social
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We need a word for the opposite of regret. Something you look back on with relief that you *didn’t* do. For example, not buying a Tesla.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock's avatar Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social
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I endorse r2u in the **strongest** possible terms. It's a game changer for Ubuntu+R workflows, especially when you need to deploy fast.

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Just lovely when the term is over, grades are ready and I get my weekends back. Here's to a quick three hour ride featuring the lovel 606, lakefront north to Sheridan, then down to 31st, up Halsted and back as I used to (occassionally) bike commute when I worked in the loop. Gorgeous day for it.

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We follow CRAN and keep current versions. In theory, `apt` can use a package pool so we may use calendar-based PACKAGES files together with matching R indices. I will leave that to the next developer. What we have here works *fabulously* for standard use. You can also 'freeze' your container image.

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R 4.4.0 has long been at the CRAN mirror for Ubuntu, so it is just a matter of `apt update -qqq; apt upgrade -y`, or a container rebuild. I am busy (and very close) with 24.04 and BioC 3.19 which is 'there' but needs a little more polish. I will soon update all three containers for it.

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I.e. this Dockerfile (where I use `install.r` over `Rscript -e 'install.packages(...)'` as it is shorter) run in 43 seconds.

#rstats #r2u

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If you base your container on r2u you can write `install.packages()` listing the #Rstats packages. `bspm` then _resolves all R packages by installing the apt package and their dependencies_ via the integration to the system manager.

#r2u. Fast. Easy, Reliable.

eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/

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Ben Marwick 's avatar Ben Marwick @benmarwick.bsky.social
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The Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) now does a "reproducibility review" as part of the submission process: www.elsevier.com/connect/how-... If your manuscript mentions using an open source programming language, it will get this review, in addition to the normal peer reviews.

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