Alexander Severinsen
alexsever.bsky.social
Alexander Severinsen
@alexsever.bsky.social
Data scientist @ Frigi.
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Creating polished PDFs from Quarto can be challenging.

At @claritydatastudio.com, we now use Typst for high-quality, branded reports.

@joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I have created a detailed walkthrough to show you how we do it.

Learn more: buff.ly/hRuUEqR

#rstats
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html
October 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The @maprva.org surveillance map, ported to #Rstats using mapgl, osmdata, sf, and dplyr.

gist.github.com/mhpob/17782b...

Not 1:1 in terms of Ultra/Mapbox GL JS -> R, but pretty close!
Original query: overpass-ultra.us#query=url%3A...

cc @mackaszechno.bsky.social @kylewalker.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition.

Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python.

Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...
September 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...
July 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Really enjoyed speaking to Cascadia R Conference today! Materials from my talk are at rfortherestofus.com/cascadia2025. #rstats
David Keyes @dgkeyes.com is giving an excellent keynote presentation about "25 Ways to Use R" at the Cascadia R Conference @cascadiarconf.bsky.social at OHSU @ohsunews.bsky.social in Portland, OR. R isn't just for stats! #R #Rstats #coding
June 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#rstats
I recently needed a Py lib in a R Shiny app (in a Docker container). Magical to use reticulate and uv to make this work! Later, I restarted the container - no code changes. App crashed. Why? uv had silently installed the latest version of a Py lib. What’s the best practice to prevent this?
June 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Chapter 7: Coordinate Reference Systems 🧭📐🌐

This chapter explains how to work with coordinate reference systems (CRSs) in R. Learn how to reproject vector and raster data, and understand how CRS choices affect spatial analysis.

🔗 r.geocompx.org/reproj-geo-d...

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx
June 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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We are delighted to announce mirai 2.3.0 for advanced async computing in #RStats!

Mirai allows event-driven async in Shiny & parallel processing in purrr.

This release brings improvements in serialization & distributed computing. Read more from @shikokuchuo.net: shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir...
shikokuchuo{net}: mirai 2.3.0
Advancing Async Computing in R
shikokuchuo.net
June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats
Posit
We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
posit.co
June 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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The @mapbox.com Standard Satellite style gives you a stunning 3D globe out of the box that you can use to build your maps and apps.

If you are an R user, this is all you need to get started:

library(mapgl)
mapboxgl(style = mapbox_style("standard-satellite"))

Try it out!

#rstats
May 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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New blog post: Spatial Machine Learning with tidymodels 🌍🧠📦

This post shows how to apply the tidymodels framework to spatial data workflows in R. Part 3 in a series about #sml.

🔗 geocompx.org/post/2025/sm...

#rstats #rspatial #tidymodels #gischat
May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer
Fonts in R
Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity
www.tidyverse.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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On the blog: side-by-side synced maps, comparison maps in Shiny, and much more in the latest release of {mapgl}.

Read the post: walker-data.com/posts/mapgl-...

#rstats #gis #datascience
April 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Being able to cancel and restart slow-running jobs in shiny with {mirai} is a bit of a game-changer #rstats Full app in alt text / gist.github.com/simon-smart8... with a method for updating progress too
April 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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It is now possible to easily pass data from and to Python and #RStats by serializing to json (but you can still convert more complex objects using rxp_py2r() and rxp_r2py() which uses {reticulate} under the hood for conversion)
April 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Yesterday, I was just reading a Hacker News comment about R’s annoying all-or-nothing namespacing, and then R 4.5.0 comes out with `use()`!

Import just what you need:

use(“dplyr”, c(“mutate”, “summarize))

#RStats
New version of R is out!

Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more.

📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

#rstats #Rprogramming #opensource
What's new in R 4.5.0?
Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.
www.jumpingrivers.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Introducing chores, a package that uses LLMs to help with repetitive, hard-to-automate coding tasks!

Manage prompts as markdown, select a chore, and let LLMs handle your tedious #RStats work.

@simonpcouch.com introduces chores and shows how it cuts roxygen2 boilerplate: posit.co/blog/introdu...
April 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Just wanted to thank all of your #rstats folks that have used and promoted my elevatr 📦(github.com/usepa/elevatr)! It is currently the fourth most starred USEPA repository on GitHub! I am humbled.

And stay tuned for some future updates!
GitHub - USEPA/elevatr: An R package for accessing elevation data
An R package for accessing elevation data. Contribute to USEPA/elevatr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
After an hour of nonsensical discussions with ChatGPT it finally understands how to make me right when I am wrong 😅 #rstats
March 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast released the second episode of its new series, “DuckDB in Research”.

In this episode, Daniël ten Wolde talks about his research on integrating SQL/PGQ into DuckDB, and the resulting DuckPGQ community extension.

open.spotify.com/episode/3e3u...
Daniël ten Wolde | DuckPGQ: A graph extension supporting SQL/PGQ
Disseminate: The Computer Science Research Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Mastering Software Development in R by Roger D. Peng, Sean Kross and Brooke Anderson
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/r%20programming.html#mastering-software-development-in-r
March 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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webR is AMAZING!?! I'm running these interactive examples in a revealjs presentation all in the browser! Absolutely endless possibilities being able to write in Svelte, create UI like I normally would but have #rstats running for students to play with. Thats ggplot in the browser omg. #dataviz
March 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
March 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM