OK #rstats team - explaining to new #rstats users a nice way to drop the first and last values of a vector is surprisingly tricky - something like this still feels a bit involved to new users, I'm curious what folks would use to teach? This feels a bit much:

```r
slice_middle <- function(x){ […]

Ursula Franklin—technology thinker, physicist, metallurgist, Quaker, and committed pacifist—is one of the people whose work I return to the most when things are bad.

I *tried* to write about her great short checklist for making decisions about technology and I ended up writing a whole post […]

🚨 After years of development, the new version of #rstats tmap (4) is now available on CRAN! 🎉 Huge thanks to author Martijn Tennekes and all contributors.

🔧 Install: `install.packages("tmap")`
📚 Vignettes: https://buff.ly/4aAYNbq
📖 Book Chapter: https://buff.ly/43TokaF

#maps #tmap #rspatial

Introducing {mp4encoder} - an H.264/mp4 encoder for #rstats written in R itself!

https://github.com/coolbutuseless/mp4encoder

Features:
* Fast encoding e.g. 700fps for 800x600 native rasters
* Images may be RGB arrays or native rasters
* mp4 videos can be […]

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#rstats #positconf2025 is open for talk submissions!

I'm considering submitting any of the following titles:

* Intersections in real time
* The campaign for real time
* WTF?

https://posit.co/blog/speak-at-posit-conf-2025/

{greta.gam} is now on CRAN!

{greta.gam} is another addition to the {greta} universe, that lets you use {mgcv}’s smoother functions and formula syntax to define smooth terms for use in a {greta} model. You can then define your own likelihood to complete the model […]

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There's a bug somewhere in the #rstats x11() device in Mac.

When rendering a few thousand frames to the device, it slows to a crawl.

Possibly a memory leak. Unknown if this is R, X11, xquartz or macOS's fault.

We've now released the #rstats package, {geotargets}, version 0.2.0!

Thanks to @LeafyEricScott for making this release possible!

In this release {geotargets} can now do dynamic branching over a raster, which is quite awesome. See https://www.njtierney.com/post/2024/11/27/geotargets-0-2-0/ for […]

{isocubes} update - pkg for rendering voxels as isometric cubes

Option added to set outline color to fill color to remove an internal R rendering artefact

The default black outline is great for emphasising the cubes. However, if the outline colour is set to […]

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I do a lot of interactive debugging in RStudio, I'm wondering if there is already a keyboard shortcut to set "debugonce" to the function that my cursor is on?

It seems like I could put something together based on @milesmcbain 's outstanding {fnmate] package […]

Super stoked to announce that {greta} version 0.5.0 is now on CRAN! Thank you to Nick Golding for making this release happen, and for his continued support, I learnt a lot!

Some features I'm really excited about:

- Now uses Tensorflow 2.0 (which involved a heavy refactor of internals)
- […]

trying to make a diagram of the cast of characters in the terminal and so far it's very chaotic

How can Microsoft Teams be so terrible at putting code in code blocks? If sharing code between code fences, when you copy it, it copies the text and then removes literally all line breaks so when you paste the code it puts it ALL ONTO A SINGLE LINE. Am I going crazy? Is there a solution to this […]