smach

simon, 9 months ago to random

Just sent out my latest Substack newsletter - https://simonw.substack.com/p/datasette-cloud-datasette-10a3-llm - and it genuinely took me less than a minute to compose and send it

Copy and paste is the most under-rated API!

Here's how my newsletter flow works: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/ - all of the work is done by this Observable Notebook: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/blog-to-newsletter

smach, 9 months ago to rstats

The {document} #rstats 📦 creates roxygen2-style documentation for functions that aren't (yet) part of an R package.

In the screenshot below, top left shows a test.R file with a function called test_function , including roxygen definitions. After running

d <- document("test.R")

I can use

?test_function

to read the help file as if it were part of a package.

By Andreas Dominik Cullmann

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/document/vignettes/Introduction_to_document.html

@rstats
#roxygen #roxygen2

smach, 9 months ago to rstats

The {duckdbfs} #rstats 📦 is “a simple wrapper around the duckdb package to facilitate working with the construction of a single lazy table (SQL connection) from a set of file paths, URLs, or S3 URIs.”
It creates a duckdb connection, ensures httpfs is installed if needed, and creates a VIEW using duckdb’s parquet_scan() or read_csv_auto(). “It then returns a dplyr::tbl() for the resulting view.” By @cboettig
https://cboettig.github.io/duckdbfs/
#DuckDB @rstats

smach, 9 months ago to rstats

The {dietaryindex} #rstats 📦 “provides user-friendly, streamlined methods for standardizing the compilation of dietary intake data into index-based dietary patterns,” allowing researchers to analyze how well subjects have adhered to various nutritional guidelines. Designed for epidemiologic and clinical studies, “promoting precision nutrition.” By James Jiada Zhan, PhD Student at Emory University, Nutrition and Health Sciences.
https://jamesjiadazhan.github.io/dietaryindex/
@rstats

augieray, 9 months ago to random

Is something broken with @Mastodon lately? I keep seeing replies in my Notifications feed, but I can't see to what they are replying. Frustrating not to be able to see threads of conversations.

jeffjarvis, 9 months ago to random

Growling at my TV: The problem is not loneliness among American young men--and not phones or games. It is racism among them. Let us not invent another trope to avoid talking about the actual pathology in our society.
Next Haass and Goldberg talk about getting people off phones and into houses of worship: the essence of conservative wishful nostalgia that ignores the role of the evangelical church as a major force of the fascism and racism in America today.

underdarkGIS, 9 months ago to opensource

Looks like the #foss4g2023 recordings are now starting to become available 🥳

Check out @foss4g's channel https://youtube.com/@FOSS4G if you want to catch up with the latest #opensource #gis developments

#gischat #geospatial #mapping #maps

hrbrmstr, 9 months ago to random

ZOMGOSH Colin Fay (I dunno Colin's 🐘 handle) is doing an EPIC series on #RStats WebR!!!

https://colinfay.me/calling-webr-from-expressjs/

https://colinfay.me/old-faithful-express-bootstrap-webr/

These are MUST READS if you do or want to do anything with WebR.

hdkarlsen, 9 months ago to random

The birdplace seems to stagnate, so I'm jumping ship. A short #introduction to me: I'm an associate professor of psychology in 🇳🇴 and work on personality psychology and psychometrics. Really just as an excuse to nerd out about R.

smach, 9 months ago to random

Sorry for the 'political' post, but there are times (like now) where I feel it's a moral imperitave to go on public record.

• Ordering officers to push children seeking safety into a river is a crime and should be prosecuted.
• Enslaving Black Americans did not teach them useful personal skills. That was a crime against humanity.

For those outside the US not up on news from Texas and Florida:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/border-trooper-migrants-wire-18205076.php

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418

DToher, 9 months ago to random

This is a piece with great tips on finding mastodon (or other Fediverse) content, especially if you are on a smaller, or even self-hosted instance.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3701292/6-ways-to-find-better-content-on-mastodon.html

@smach giving lots of practical advice!

hadleywickham, 9 months ago to random

If you're interested in the health of the #rstats community, a few stats for you: in the last week, RStudio was opened 3.5 million times (i.e. we logged that many checks for an update); in the last month, ~650k people visited a tidyverse website and ~65k people used posit.cloud; in the last year, >2 billion packages were downloaded.

smach, 10 months ago to mastodon

6 tips on how you - and everyone else - can see more interesting posts on Mastodon.

For ex., did you know you're probably not seeing all public posts with hashtags when you search? There are ways to see more!
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3701292/6-ways-to-find-better-content-on-mastodon.html

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonMigration #FediTips #InfoWorld
@feditips @mastodonmigration @feditips

caseynewton, 10 months ago to random

I realize this won't be a popular opinion around here. But of all the Twitter clones so far, Threads has the most juice. I wrote about why ➡️ https://www.platformer.news/p/five-reasons-threads-could-still

smach, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to rstats

The {progressr} #rstats 📦 “provides a minimal API for reporting progress updates in R. . . .What type of progress to signal is controlled by the developer. How these progress updates are rendered is controlled by the end user. For instance, some users may prefer visual feedback such as a horizontal progress bar in the terminal, whereas others may prefer auditory feedback.”
By @henrikbengtsson
https://progressr.futureverse.org/
@rstats

mekkaokereke, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

The fastest growing app will have the worst retention rates.

Imagine a world where all users are the same, regardless of social network. Imagine that if 1000 users start using a social app on day 1, that only:

• 900 of them will be using it on day 2
• 800 of them on day 7
• 600 of them on day 30
• 500 of them on day 365

Now imagine if network A hasn't grown in 5 years, but has 100MM users. Network B is doubling every 2 days, and is currently at 100MM users.

Which will have worse retention?

hrbrmstr, 10 months ago to random

Looks like there's going to be a rewrite of many "Data Science 101" courses. (images are all screen caps of chatgpt's new thingamabob). a cpl more in a reply to this post.

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hrbrmstr, 10 months ago to python

Before I go too far down the rabbit hole with this, I'm considering re-upping my "21 Recipes" Twitter book (https://rud.is/books/21-recipes/) for Bluesky.

This is the start: https://rud.is/books/21-recipes-bsky/

It uses R. but the R part just uses the Python {atproto} module, so it should be grokable by both Python & R folk.

Worth spending cycles on?

#rstats #python

smach, 10 months ago to rstats

The {theft} #rstats 📦 provides “user-friendly access to a structured analytical workflow for the extraction, analysis, and visualisation of time-series features.” By PhD student Trent Henderson.
https://hendersontrent.github.io/theft/articles/theft.html

@rstats

smach, 10 months ago to rstats

If you use RStudio to write R code but aren’t using code snippets, you may want to check them out. They can be a big timesaver!
I did a tutorial article & video a few years ago: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3396616/how-to-use-rstudio-code-snippets.html

#Rstats #RStudio #InfoWorld @rstats