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Yep, as someone who both uses lots of R packages and writes lots of R packages (which, in turn, import other R packages), I've grown to appreciate the strictness of CRAN: if a pack…

Absolutely correct. CRAN takes down and rejects packages all the time for minor issues and violations of their rules and guidelines. And there are a lot of them: https://cran.r-pro…

> The proof is in the pudding. Every single grad student of mine that was brought up on the tidyverse produces gigantic R markdown files with 20 imports to accomplish something tha…

Honored!

I've done exactly what you're talking about using tree-sitter (via the tarborist VS Code extension), specific to targets pipelines: https://bsky.app/profile/tylermw.com/post/3mjmcy…

Yes, the main benefit is caching and reproducibility: with targets (or any other DAG-based approach), you only recompute what needs to be recomputed and you are assured that no sta…

Thanks for all the work you (and the rest of the contributors) have done putting this together! I think bringing tree-sitter to R has already shown massive benefits: Just air alone…

I read this article a week or so ago and immediately implemented a VS Code extension that I've always wanted: a static analysis tool for targets pipelines. targets is an R package …

A non-Apple entity using "macOS26" as their organization name? Are you trying to trigger everyone's corporate phishing training?

Author here. I wrote an R package to generate realistic sky maps for a given location and datetime (with scattered light, realistic moon phases, stars, and planets all at physicall…

This is pretty astounding. Honestly, this is the feel-good "our company is helping save dogs" story that should have been featured at the super bowl. The fact that AI can be used b…

Nice work! It's always fun to see a new renderer in the wild.

Looks like the author fixed the graph!

Nice results! SIMD can be a pain, good to know Zig makes it easy. However, note that the plot under "Native SIMD Throughput Comparison" is extremely misleading: for an accurate pro…

When you're dealing with large populations (here, the study include 230,065 students--a very large number), even small shifts due to some treatment can be significant. It is very h…

There is a way to model this type of situation for watertight dielectrics with interface tracking: you assign each material a priority value, and a transition between materials occ…

The developing S7 object system ( https://github.com/RConsortium/S7 ) is looking fairly promising in that it combines many of the nice properties of S3 and S4 (validation, multiple…

What's going on with this plot's y-axis? https://bsky.app/profile/tylermw.com/post/3lvtac5hues2n

For 28 Years Later, note that while the iPhone sensor did in fact ultimately collect the photons for the movie, they attached substantial professional-grade glass to the front to a…

Yes, the distortion noted in the article is also seen in wide angle lenses on traditional cameras.

Importantly, the base R pipe implements the operation at the language parsing level, so it has basically zero overhead.

Yes, you are correct, I should have typed "runs". But the point is that MITRE runs the U.S. National Cybersecurity FFRDC that maintains the CVE system, and FFRDCs are deliberately …

MITRE is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), which is a distinct type of federal contractor with strict conflict of interest regulations. They are owned by …

trace is great for shimming in your own code to an existing function, but it’s not an interactive debugging tool.