michaelchirico

coolbutuseless, 26 days ago to random

#RStats Help needed!

I want to email R-devel & get clarification on "Can we create custom connections in packages?"

I find the situation confusing because using the "Connections.h" is mentioned in R-exts manual - and so formally(?) part of the API

But this conflicts with the NOTE generated if you try to use "R_new_custom_connection()" which says it is "non-API"

Am I tilting at windmills? Poking the bear? HELP!

Edits/suggestions welcomed in the gist below.

https://gist.github.com/coolbutuseless/2b261e2f7f54206c1263fbca0e71ac64

#RStats

coolbutuseless, 1 month ago to random

A handy thing about having a local CRAN mirror is that I can zgrep across the repository looking for code examples :)

#RStats #LifeHack

michaelchirico, 1 month ago to random

Big congrats to the #rstats translation community! Next release will feature ~3,000 newly-translated messages, including completely new languages:

Arabic, Catalan, Hindi, Hungarian*

And big strides for other languages:

Spanish, Portugese, Mandarin

Wanna see R in your language? Head on over to Weblate 🎉

https://translate.rx.studio/projects/r-project/

*well, new-old-new-new

michaelchirico, 1 month ago to random

Friends don't let friends use Depends: #rstats

michaelchirico, 2 months ago to random

Am I hallucinating a nice inferno-style GitHub write-up on encodings in R by @gaborcsardi? I think @hadleywickham pointed me to it at some point 🤔

michaelchirico, 4 months ago to random

CRAN landing page really needs to list recursive SystemRequirements IMO -- i.e., all the SystemRequirements of packages in your Imports/Depends/LinkingTo (and so on recursively).

Would make it much easier to install a given package on fresh systems without iterating / autoconf messages getting lost in the stream #rstats

michaelchirico, 5 months ago to random

the end of an #rstats era!! congrats @healthandstats on taking over as the new CRAN maintainer of {data.table} with the release of 1.14.10! 🚀🚀🚀

A word of gratitude to Matt Dowle for his long stewardship of the package and best wishes as he moves into an advisory role. What monumental shoes us new maintainers of the package have to fill!

michaelchirico, 5 months ago to random

Hi #rstats! {lintr} is considering deprecating the extraction_operator_linter().

This linter blocks many usages of [ or $ to encourage using [[ instead. There are a few reasons for this, including avoiding partial matching.

However we're finding there are just a lot of false positives for the linter / cases where using [[ is really awkward as compared to $.

Do you use this linter? Have you found it particularly useful for your package/script? If so please let us know.

https://lintr.r-lib.org/reference/extraction_operator_linter.html

michaelchirico, 6 months ago to random

Another {lintr} 3.1.1 highlight #rstats: make_linter_from_xpath().

Really trying to make it as easy as possible to develop new linters -- now you "only" need to figure out the XPath for the lint you want and you're off! No more messy boilerplate.

I recently used this to help catalog all possible sites to use the new '%||%' within r-devel

https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/commit/5cf7f691458e7c537e54b046fdba5ef4fcd75777

That ad hoc linter is recorded here (too long for a single toot):

https://github.com/r-lib/lintr/issues/2246#issuecomment-1817747512

michaelchirico, 6 months ago to random

Highlighting the new '# nolint next' marker in {lintr} 3.1.1 #rstats

Often throwing '# nolint' at the end of a long line looks messy -- either it's hard to see, or worse it bumps the width of the line beyond whatever limit you've set for yourself!

'# nolint next' gets around this by putting the marker on the previous line, making it more obvious & less distracting.

h/t @barbone for suggesting this!