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Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1210 #renv #pak #reproducibility #RLang

Here's a question for #rlang programmers: do y'all use the package `box` to handle namespaces?

As someone who thinks R's handling of namespaces is hot garbage, this looks very good to me. However, I work with a lot of people who think standard "library/require" is a *good* pattern (i.e. the "namespace challenged") and I want to know if this package is used a lot?

Or is your practice all `package::function()`?

Or are there other solutions that I am missing?

#r #rstats

https://klmr.me/box/

TIL (1) that R has a function called `dput()` that writes a text representation of an R object and (2) that a `c()` in an index will effectively flatten a mixture of indices. Hence:

`dput(names(df)[c(1:4, 7)]`

solves the problem of picking out a list of column names from a data frame and turning that into an object ready to insert into code. 🙃

#rlang #r #rstats #datascience #dataanalysis

"A little bit less than two years ago, building on work by Jim Hester and Kevin Ushey, Davis Vaughan completed a very impactful JavaScript file for the R community: an R grammar for the Tree-sitter parsing generator." by @rOpenSci

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/

#dataScience #rlang

Wait! You can wrap pipelines in R in parentheses to directly use the last value?!?

#rlang #tidyverse #R

Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1210 #renv #pak #reproducibility #RLang

Having gotten my head fully around R pipes, I feel I need to write an article about it before I forget the fiddly details:

|>, %>%, with(), lambdas, %$%, ...

there are a lot of clever tricks for edge cases! (The with() hack I should have figured out for myself though!)

Also, %$% -- the exposition pipe -- why didn't any of you tell me about this one!?!? You're slacking!

#rlang #datascience #stats #statistics #rprogramming #tidyverse #tidydata #Rpipes #pipes!

Fresh WIP piece of #Archaea #phylogenetics data for a collaborator.

Those barplot margins are driving me crazy - it's actually throwing off the immediate impression of the data! (pink bars are essentially all 1/2 or less of the orange bars, which is pretty important in context) I really need to buckle down and get to hand-coding my trees from scratch using #rlang or #julialang soon.

Hmm. How's Julia ecosystem for phylogenetic trees these days?

#microbiology #bioinformatics

Ok, why do people keep doing this:

library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)

when the first call automatically loads the package in the second call? Am I missing something here?

I see this **everywhere**!

#rlang #rlanguage #tidyverse #lubridate

Finally sat down to try to get my head around `reshape()` after being told somewhere that `melt`/`cast` are old hat, `reshape` is the new hotness...the result?

Friendship ended with `reshape`, now me and #tidyr are besties, `pivot_longer`/`pivot_wider` ilu :blobcat_hearthug: #rlang #dataviz

Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/1210 #renv #pak #reproducibility #RLang

Hello again, R . . .

R for sure has deficits (but so does python), but for exploratory data analysis, particularly ones heavy in statistics, R can sometimes shine. I still abhore passing variables into functions, but I get why for simple EDA one might want non-standard evaluation.

R is making a comeback:
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4102696/r-language-is-making-a-comeback-tiobe.html

#rlang

Dark times call for desperate measures, and with my career being a little hosed, I'm writing a book! It's about teaching R users to write code like software engineers do, and the hope is that I can use it partially as content marketing for my coaching offerings. Here's the first chapter: #R #R-lang

R the Software Engineering Way...

Heya R devs - did you know you can run all your favorite GitHub actions on Codeberg?

Codeberg is rolling out Forgejo actions - an (almost) drop-in replacement for GitHub actions, which means we can (almost) use `r-lib/actions` directly on a free and open source platform!

Just a couple tweaks are needed, and for your convenience I'm automatically mirroring r-lib/actions and applying those changes so they're ready to use.

https://codeberg.org/r-codeberg/r-lib-actions

#rlang #rstats #codeberg

@etiennebacher Jarl is working as an R linter in #HelixEditor now, thank you! https://jarl.etiennebacher.com/editors#helix #RLang

@tommytang.bsky.social On #ComputerLanguages for #Bioinformatics There is an era of #Bioinformaticians who learned #R #RLang back when #Python #PythonLang wasn't very good at statistics/plotting. More recently, the trend has shifted towards the latter.

Doing a little geo math in R the other day, and for some reason my computer was really struggling to calculate ~3 million distances between pairs of locations. I figured my intuition was just off, and set it aside.

Today I took a second look - did it on a small subset and...figured out that the "m" in "distm" is not *meters*, but rather, *matrix*, and I was asking it to calculate the distance between every unique combination of my three million locations, and thus calculating something like 10 *trillion* distances. Oops!

Let this be a reminder of the value of running things on a subset first to do a little reasonableness check :blob_sweats: #rlang #statistics

I finally took the time to properly document an issue with S7, which prevents multiple packages pkg2, pkg3 from reexporting the same generic from another pkg1: https://github.com/sebffischer/S7-issue The workaround is to not reexport the generic directly, but a wrapper that calls into this generic. #rstats #rlang

A question for the #rlang -in-the-terminal crowd

Does anyone know of an R package for plotting in the terminal using a terminal graphics protocol (kitty/iterm/sixel)?

I’ve been toying around with it, but realized I should do some due diligence to make sure it doesn’t already exist before I get too far along.

#rlang #rstats

This is a great news for #rlang - as someone who took the weirdest possible coding education route (python -> julia -> r), some investment in R infrastructure is a promising sign.

https://r-consortium.org/posts/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-450000-in-r-foundation-to-enhance-r-sustainability-and-security/