Look at how cool this is! 🌳Tarborist now tracks and tags invalidation (and potential invalidation) within your {targets} pipeline and actively updates as you work, so you can get a preview of what's actually going to run before you run tar_make()! #RStats GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

Make a mess of your {targets} pipeline over time? Spark joy and reorganize it with the VS Code/Positron ext. 🌳tarborist! Tarborist now has the ability to reorder your pipeline based on the graph's hierarchy, so the target order matches the underlying pipeline. github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

3D animated view of topography and irrigation ditches along Shell Creek in the Bighorn Basin. The ditches start at the stream channel where water is diverted, but have a gentler downvalley slope than the floodplain, so they are eventually far enough above the stream to irrigate fields on terraces.

double hyphen "emdash"--so you know it's not AI

me to the IDE every time I encounter a slight inconvenience or annoyance, now that I've written my first VS Code/Positron extension

his is such a good write up (and also validates the "just be bayesian" approach [you get all the shrinkage and extensions to differing number of observations per subject for free!]) haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...

I feel that most people underappreciate Local Gazetteers #地方志 for their artistic value. They often contain lots of beautifully drawn pictures and maps of natural and populated areas in the region. Check out some of these pictures from the 熱河志!

You want terminator pigs from the future? This is how you get terminator pigs from the future. (I have a #rayrender for almost everything)😃

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family. stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...

The Stakes and Districts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

new release of 🌳tarborist, the Positron pipeline helper for {targets}! v0.8.0 brings option runtime/size heat maps for targets: it will now tell you how large or how long (user-selectable) each target is in the pipeline! I've also added the size and runtime information to the hover. #RStats

No, actually this is the nerdiest room in the world, and unfortunately I have to move out in less than two months.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

1/2 Want dynamically-generated clickable links in the Positron console to your {targets} pipeline, across all your files, so you can immediately jump to an error or jump to a long-running target and inspect it? 🌳tarborist has your back!* #RStats #targets #tarborist

Where the McDonald's are.

We all kevin now

I released an update for 🌳tarborist last night! Along with bugfixes, this version brings more info on child nodes in the hover pane and DAG distance in the file picker! Most importantly, you can now hover over a target in your {targets} pipeline and get a link to jump right to it. #RStats #targets

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

One of my favorite genres of project/blog post is "The reason I did all this work is because someone was wrong on the internet and I needed to definitively prove it" "Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii" bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/p...

Alright, Positron's data viewer has me sold—this is legitimately better than RStudio. The nice continuous/ordinal histograms and missing value percentages are actually quite helpful and have already replaced a lot of ... |> pull() |> hist() type workflows I used to use #RStats

Nothing says "tar_make()" error like Mac OS Classic's Sosumi.wav! archive.org/details/maco... #RStats

🌳tarborist has been updated with lots of new features! I've now added support for downstream targets in parameterized quarto reports, updated the target hover info with lots of information (time since last updated!), added better debugging, and more* GH: github.com/tylermorganw... #RStats

Just like Starbucks and Dunkin', even the rayverse is getting on the Protein-everything bandwagon :) #RStats #raymolecule #rayverse

This was fun. A small page to track all the new R tooling that is popping up. #rstats novica.github.io/r-devs/

I updated the VS Code/Positron #RStats extension🌳tarborist last night to v0.3.0, which introduces a user setting to declare custom simple target factories (of the form name/command) and have them parsed by the extension. Install via OpenVSX (right in Positron) GH: github.com/tylermorganw...

Starlink Satellites.

The Population of Sweden.

Nancy 4/4/26 … Olivia Jaimes part 7, the epic conclusion

When prose is written by AI and that is not disclosed up front, it's not just a waste of your time—it's a sign the AI word-herder thinks you're too dumb to notice their subterfuge. When this situation occurs: 🛑 Stop reading immediately 👻 Ghost the page 🔌 Unplug your computer 🪃 look, a boomerang

The Population of the United States.

Making #rstats portable on #macOS has been the community's Sisyphean boulder since 2009. Now, download a tar.gz, extract, run from: github.com/portable-r/p... Signed, notarized, 4.3.0 - 4.5.3. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Introducing 🌳tarborist: a VS Code extension providing tree-sitter powered static analysis of {targets} pipelines with target info on hover, tar_map() autocompletion, cycle detection, and upstream/downstream info/links #RStats Github: github.com/tylermorganw... OpenVSX: open-vsx.org/vscode/item?...

Glad I was made aware of this, I already have a working VSCode/Positron extension specific to {targets} so I can perform static analysis, navigate, debug, add static pipeline autocomplete, and generally make sense of my giant targets pipelines much more easily🥳 #RStats

The Population of California.

The Population of Florida.

I’ve gone on the full journey from scripts, to this (whole pipeline in one RMD, no caching) to running into real problems (+30 minutes for small analysis changes), then to bespoke invalidated caching scripts*, and finally landing on {targets}. *writing my own worse version of {targets} #RStats

#rstats #dataviz A new kid on the dataviz block is the predictions plot, showing how predictors in lm()/glm() contribute to the predicted response. A novel and useful idea! TAS: doi.org/10.1080/0003... Implemented in the {classmap} package.

JUMPSCARE! #RStats

I wanted to create a maze using #TidyTuesday 2026 w10 data about π digits at first but ended up having fun with #rayshader Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT... #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫 #RStats #rayshader #rayverse

An important question from my latest blog post: "It would be nice to have a clean, customizable environment map that gives us that pristine golden-hour light without any real-world interlopers. Is this a realistic goal–or is it just a pie in the sky dream?" #RStats #skymodelr #rayverse

And here's the hex logo! #RStats #skymodelr #rayverse

1/5‼️Gigantic new #rayverse update + blog post! Introducing {skymodelr}: render 3D scenes in #RStats with realistically-lit skies 🌇 at a given location, using just a latitude, longitude, and a time. Blog: www.tylermw.com/posts/rayver... Github: github.com/tylermorganw... Site: www.skymodelr.com

You should try {targets}, they say... It will make your workflow more organised, they say... (joking aside, {targets} is an amazing package!!! I am super happy to be using it on my projects) #Rstats #targets

Insane story—in a good way. Extremely tenacious aussie uses ChatGPT to figure out how to treat his dogs cancer with a custom mRNA vaccine immunotherapy. Imagine if THIS was the story about saving dogs we got at the superbowl. www.theaustralian.com.au/business%2Ft...

A fair coin "knows" π. Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π. Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay. Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io #Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.