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georgestagg

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    Comment #47838285

    In principle, yes, that’s the idea! However I will say we have focused mainly on the grammar and using DuckDB for reading from local files for this alpha release, so I expect there…

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    Comment #47838260

    Currently our only writer module is for vegalite, the output is a vegalite spec (JSON). Tools already exist to render this kind of output to an interactive chart, SVG, PNG, etc. wi…

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    Comment #47834407

    ggsql has the concept of a "reader", which can be thought of as the way ggsql interfaces with a SQL database. It handles the connection to the database and generating the correct d…

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    Comment #46089403

    This is great! Thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #46087380

    You can, yes: https://shinylive.io/r/examples/

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    Comment #45443681

    If you’re at all interested in segmented displays Posy’s YouTube video about them is pure gold: https://youtu.be/RTB5XhjbgZA

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    Comment #45338826

    For those who haven’t seen it before, Jones Forth is a wonderful implementation written in literate programming style. It’s well worth reading through, even if you don’t know any a…

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    Comment #44997267

    Here’s a ggplot2 example: https://webr.sh/#code=eJxtkLFOwzAQhsWapzh5ckSUpEgsSBkY2RAVrN...

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    Comment #44997138

    There’s a simplified example here: https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/tree/main/src/examples/eval

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    Comment #40884941

    I like how the rules to the right of the headings react to the page width and how many lines are used.

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    Comment #39947403

    WebAssembly is generally most useful when you want to write high performance web applications using languages like C, C++ or Rust. WebAssembly sits in the background quietly poweri…

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    Comment #39945498

    I’ll definitely be trying out more of LFortran in the future. For this post I really wanted to go deeper into the approach we’ve taken with flang, but I can see that LFortran is al…

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    Comment #39945442

    Thanks! There’s a series of books I really like, The Theoretical Minimum[1], that also takes that kind of approach but for teaching physics. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…

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