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Chris Newton
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#RStats #Python #QGIS #RSpatial #SQL 🌐💻📊🐕| Environment and climate🌦🌿🦔|
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Any #rspatial / #tmap folks know how to do linebreaks in legend titles in 'View' mode in {tmap} v4 and care to help a fella out? I'm probably missing something obvious but equivalent methods I used to use in v3 aren't working for me... (reprex in alt text)
library(tmap) library(htmltools) tmap_mode("view") # Single line legend, \n has no effect tm_shape(World) + tm_polygons( fill = "pop_est", fill.legend = tm_legend( title = "Long title for\npopulation estimate" ) ) # Single line legend title showing HTML tags tm_shape(World) + tm_polygons( fill = "pop_est", fill.legend = tm_legend( title = paste0( "Long title for", br("population estimate") ) ) )
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme.

#rstats #python #ripdavidlynch
David Lynch (RIP) meme variation where in a conversation with fellow filmmaker Jason Barlow, David Lynch said, "Python feels like soldering; R feels like painting." When Barlow asks him to "Elaborate on that," Lynch smiles and says, "No."
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
There are many ways to mark the start of Autumn, but “when the cat starts using her little cat igloo again” is my new favourite.

#catsofmastodon
Poorly lit* photo in which you can just about see a sleeping grey and white cat’s face through the hole in a “cat igloo” type cat bed. *Poorly lit as I didn’t want to bother her!
September 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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#bleptember / Metal Gear Mousesquirrel
A grey and white cat lying at the top of the stairs with the end of her little pink tongue poking out of her mouth. A grey and white cat crouching on some carpet with a red exclamation mark above her head, as she spots a toy mousesquirrel hiding behind a doorstop.
September 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Debugging SSIS jobs which failed after a bank holiday weekend is… not my favourite way to start the working week?

(meme is only partially relevant as I am _not_ good at it)

#SSIS #sqlserver #aaaargh
Scene from season 1 of True Detective: Rust Cohle: Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. Martin Hart: If that long. Rust Cohle: Yeah, so be careful what you get good at.
August 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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When you brush the cat’s belly you have to sing the belly brushing song; it’s mandatory.

#catsofmastodon
A grey and white elderly cat rolling around on the floor with their eyes closed, enjoying being brushed.
August 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Happy #InternationalCatDay to all who celebrate. Willow has recommended me some reading.

#catsofmastodon
A grey elder cat with white paws looking studiously at a copy of Zazie Todd’s book “Purr: The Science of Making Your Cat Happy”.
August 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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I am really liking introducing pointblank into more workflows - I find when using sf objects though, I need to drop the geometry prior to the test, otherwise an `Assigned data `geom` must be compatible with existing data` error is thrown. Doubtless revealing my […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
la_human_pop <- sf::read_sf( "some-polygons", layer = "layer" ) |> left_join( latest_pop_data, # from nomis API by = "join_field" ) |> # Check join has worked / # API has returned pop estimate for each LA pointblank::col_vals_not_null( human_population, preconditions = function(x) st_drop_geometry(x) )
July 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Dealing with an intimidating to-do list today, but at least I have an excellent soundtrack. RIP Ozzy.

#blacksabbath
A small Fostex speaker with Black Sabbath’s first 5 albums on CD stacked on top. #RIPOzzy
July 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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My partner and I adopted 17 year old Willow the cat at the weekend, and it’s so nice to see her starting to feel a little more at home.

#catsofmastodon
A grey and white elderly cat lying on a rug and looking relatively content - apart from being in need of a bit of a brush from spending a couple of days hiding under a sofabed for the most part!
June 12, 2025 at 10:51 AM
cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Hmm so this seems to work for my purposes at least:
library(stringr) a_string <-  "Héllð\u000f" a_string |>      str_extract_all("\\P{Cc}", simplify = TRUE) |>      str_flatten()
June 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM