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New post: Schotter Plots in R
https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/04/17/schotter-plots-in-r/
in which I reproduce a famous plot in R based on translating some Python code, itself translated from ALGOL
#aRtistry #rstats
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I've been keeping an eye on this since I first heard about it, and it looks like it now works! duckdb has a dplyr extension which can be installed - use dplyr code to slice and dice data within a duckdb session.
https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/dplyr
Shoutouts to the author @mrchyp
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About half way through @daroczig's #useR talk recording on {logger}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8ulz4MVm0
I was admiring how extensible it was and it struck me that it was a good fit for sending logged errors via {ntfy} - I got a working proof of concept running in next to no time and now you
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@andrew made a vastly superior parallel search across seed values (via mirai) I was scanning in this post (10 years ago) https://jcarroll.com.au/2016/05/30/seed/ and now I can find (the first of) these two magic numbers in a mere 16s
Andrew's post: https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/04/13/seeds-p
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New post: Schotter Plots in R
https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/04/17/schotter-plots-in-r/
in which I reproduce a famous plot in R based on translating some Python code, itself translated from ALGOL
#aRtistry #rstats
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Hazel https://hazel.org/ is very cool - tooltips used to probe intermediate states of functions. I know of the breakerofchains package for R, but is there one that adds this sort of overlay to a compatible editor (e.g. VSCode/positron)?
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Ooh, that's satisfying
I've been keeping an eye on this since I first heard about it, and it looks like it now works! duckdb has a dplyr extension which can be installed - use dplyr code to slice and dice data within a duckdb session.
https://duckdb.org/communit…
I don't immediately see them on fedi, but Guillaume Pressiat wrote an excellent follow-up to my Schotter post, adding in a polar coordinates element
https://guillaumepressiat.github.io/blog/2026/04/drawing-pictures-scico
(discovered from m…
Probably not quite fully accurate, but I was surprised on seeing the name when reading something that detailed the Thirty Years' War
@andrew made a vastly superior parallel search across seed values (via mirai) I was scanning in this post (10 years ago) https://jcarroll.com.au/2016/05/30/seed/ and now I can find (the first of) these two magic numbers in a mere 16s
Andre…
R/Pharma 2026 call for speakers is open until (approx) 02 May and we're once again running an APAC track for those not in America/Europe timezones.
Some of last year's sessions are available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/rinpharma
We'…
#rstats hivemind - is this a bug or a working-as-expected inconsistency?
nargs() gives different results when called via a wrapper compared to when called directly.
I need to wrap a function from a published package which (perhaps regretta…
Unlikely to be quite up to the standards of @baptnz but I'm very much enjoying a slow tea experience. Some simple jasmine Yin Hao this time.
Original: https://www.oglaf.com/labyrinth/
About half way through @daroczig's #useR talk recording on {logger}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8ulz4MVm0
I was admiring how extensible it was and it struck me that it was a good fit for sending logged errors via {ntfy} - I got a wo…
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