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#RStats posit conf hot take:
I want more delight and whimsy than this conference seems to offer
Charlie Gao's talk on Mirai/Mori seems to be one of the few interesting talks this year
I'm not sure I need 16 sessions on agenetic AI workflows.
#positconf2026
#OldManYellsAtCloud
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#RStats A warrior appears!
Little realtime animated vignette in R
Samurai from: https://xzany.itch.io/samurai-2d-pixel-art
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#Rstats wanderers, come with me on a short (realtime) stroll through a secret forest!
Animated rendering in R + native rasters
Gfx by edermunizz: https://edermunizz.itch.io/free-pixel-art-forest
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#RStats 100k tiny triangles at 60 frames-per-second. A little bit #JacksonPollock a little bit like fireflies.
"I went out to the forest and caught
100,000 fireflies" - Magnetic Fields
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@trevorld@fosstodon.org I appreciate your efforts in doing things that I don't have the patience to do :)
i.e. dealing with windows and waiting on R-core :)
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@jonocarroll glad you enjoyed it - it's one of favourite books.
You might also enjoy "The Mote in God's Eye" - first contact with a race of alien engineers.
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b(if)tek's cover of "Wired for Sound" is also a banger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fejmuF4D108
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#RStats array subsetting syntax: A Modest Proposal
x[, 1] always retains dimensions
x[[ ,1]] reduces dimensionality by 1
x[[[ ,1]]] returns a vector
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
#AModestProposal
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In 24 hours, typst output from {emphatic} has gone from nothing to "pretty ok" !!
Very satisfying!
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{emphatic} typst support: deep dive
The current method of output (using a mono space font and non breaking spaces) looks terrible as soon as the page width overflows.
Typst raw blocks have much better overflow behaviour. And as a bonus, the typst code for raw blocks looks much cleaner!
Top: current method
Bottom: raw block
Thanks to @baptnz for this suggestion!
#RStats #typst
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... And this is what raw generated typst code looks like!
It's so funky because:
- multiple whitespace are always collapsed to single whitespace by typst engine, so need to use a special non-breaking space in unicode i.e. u{00a0}
- The opening "<" bracket needs to be escaped
- Multiple lines by having a bare "" at the end of each line
- colours using "#highlight" and "#text" for each coloured block
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@trevorld@fosstodon.org sorry to hear about your unreviewed patches! Sucks to put the work in and then be ignored!
I had a similar issue with 'windows()' back when playing with {eventloop} - no 'onIdle' handling meant that you really couldn't do anything interactive with it.
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