mastodon 4.7.3#rstats primarily but learning #haskell, #julia, #rust, #python, #APL, #lisp, and many others
Also learning Japanese 🇯🇵
Happy to also talk #chess, #woodwork, #biotech, #physics, and lots more
Working remotely from Adelaide, South Australia
I've been looking into dbt for data engineering and wanted to flesh out what the similarities and differences were to just using {targets} - I learned lots about both of them!
I wrote up my findings in this post
https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/05/04/comparing-r-s-targets-and-dbt-for-data-engineering/
New post: Schotter Plots in R
https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/04/17/schotter-plots-in-r/
in which I reproduce a famous plot in R based on translating some Python code, itself translated from ALGOL
Maybe I knew this at one point in the past, maybe not, but it just blew my mind (all over again, if I did)... 🤯
In a terminal, Ctrl+x Ctrl+e opens $EDITOR to edit the current command with whatever ergonomics you're more familiar with in that editor - amazing for long terminal commands.
As mentioned the latest post from @ratfactor@mastodon.art
Perhaps you saw the post series "Python is not a great language for data science"... well, here's
Haskell IS a Great Language for Data Science
https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/12/05/haskell-is-a-great-language-for-data-science/
I've been keeping an eye on this since I first heard about it, and it looks like it now works! duckdb has a dplyr extension which can be installed - use dplyr code to slice and dice data within a duckdb session.
https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/dplyr
Shoutouts to the author @mrchypark@mastodon.social and to @DSLC@fosstodon.org for their 'DuckDB in Action' book club.
A bit of a long shot, but in the spirit of #fedihire I'm on the lookout for opportunities to contribute to R tooling. If your org could use some help developing or productionising an R package or some prototype R code, managing data access via databases or APIs, or translating between languages, drop me a line and let's discuss. Worldwide timezones supported. My services are listed here: http://jcarroll.click/services and I'm available to start immediately.
The latest issue of @rweekly@fosstodon.org is now live!
https://rweekly.org/2026-W14.html
Highlights:
- 📊 Introducing ggauto: automating better charts by @nrennie@fosstodon.org
- 🤖 Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code by @stephenturner.us
- ☕ Using science to find the best decaf by @gdeejay.bsky.social
As always, thanks for your contributions - keep them coming! Add your R blog to our RSS feed list, or submit a PR on GitHub linking to a post
R/Pharma 2026 call for speakers is open until (approx) 02 May and we're once again running an APAC track for those not in America/Europe timezones.
Some of last year's sessions are available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/rinpharma
We're interested to hear from people involved with R and Pharma, but also adjacent languages and industries.
Submit a proposal: https://sessionize.com/rpharma-2026/
Ooh, that's satisfying
@baptnz@piaille.fr opted not to remake chicken.pdf then?
