Dirk Eddelbuettel’s Tweets

Jan 22

Lecture slides for my 'Data Science Programming Methods' course STAT 447 from this Fall 2021 at U of Illinois are now accessible via stat447.com covering shell (incl sed/awk), markdown, git(hub), sql, lots of #Rstats up to packaging, and Docker. Enjoy!

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Minor reminder: We often make pre-releases of #Rcpp, #RcppArmadillo, ... available in the rcpp-drat repo. If you want to see what will come to CRAN and #Rstats (eventually) please install and test. I run these locally all the time too without woes. rcppcore.github.io/drat/

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Jul 30

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Jul 29

How it started (circa 1994): Lars Wirzenius (in a popular book draft): "200mb should be enough disk space for a complete Linux installation." (per my memory) How it's going: The current

@rstudio

.deb (for

@Ubuntu

jammy) takes 546 mb. (And ~ twice the size of chrome).

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ - Chandler Carruth...

Jul 28

New this week is #carbonLang as new direction / extension for #Cpp. Talk + disc by

@chandlerc1024

are very good. For hybrid #Rstats/C++ folks some parallels on 'continuity + backwards comp' vs 'breaking and new stuff'. No single dominating choice either.

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CppNorth Twitter: https://twitter.com/cppnorthCppNorth Website: https://cppnorth.ca/---Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++Project details: http...

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Chandler Carruth

@chandlerc1024

Jul 19

Really excited we've been able to start sharing our experimental work on #CarbonLang with the wider C++ community. That said, I'd suggest folks read up on the docs and maaaybe wait for our announcement keynote and Q&A from #CppNorth before leaping to too many assumptions. =]

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Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

@blelbach

· Jul 19

Carbon, a successor language to C++ was announced at @CppNorth today by @chandlerc1024. I'm very excited about this project's potential. You can learn more about Carbon and get involved on GitHub. github.com/carbon-languag

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R-hub

@rhub_

Jul 18

Now the Linux builders are also back online. 🎉

R-hub

@rhub_

Jul 18

The Windows builders are back up now. Linux is coming soon.

Made dinner for

and myself.

Hey

and

it has been a week since the gentle poke, and over two weeks since RHub turned off Windows and Linux builds. The silence is a little deafening. Nothing? Really? #rstats #concerned

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· Jul 8

Any news on this, @rhub_ ? twitter.com/rhub_/status/1…

This was just wonderful. First half with full orchester lead by

@gabrielkahane

, second half usual small band. Both parts are extraordinary. Watched the second part (from 58m onwards) three times since... As a former German + French resident (and tax payer): Danke + Merci

@ARTEen

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Andrew Bird

@andrewbird

· Jul 12

Live tonight from Lyon at @fourviere on @ARTEconcertFR stream: youtu.be/WPZjTjIb5eU

Julia Eddelbuettel

@julia_edd

she’s a 10 but she only codes in STATA

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> gaussfact() The monster group is scared of Gauss. > gaussfact() Gauss doesn't do Lagrange multiplers - for him there are no constraints! > gaussfact() Gauss can colour any map using only one colour. > gaussfact() Gauss once constructed the set of all sets in his head. >

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One R Package a Day

@RLangPackage

· Jul 14

gaussfacts - Display a random fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss based the on collection curated by Mike Cavers via the <gaussfacts.com> site. #rstats github.com/eddelbuettel/g

This is epic. And it reminds of my first week at work as a fresh-out-of-grad-school quant (some 25 yrs ago) where this grizzled corporate bond trader (and a legend in Canadian Fixed Income) leans over and just barks in my direction: "hey, cost center". Ah, the memories.

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sisyphus bar and grill

@itunpredictable

· Jul 13

without a doubt, at every startup I've worked at, the first bizops hire is the beginning of the end. it's the biggest possible signal to get the fuck out of there, because in 2 months some kid is going to be asking you to fill out an OKR spreadsheet emcap.com/thoughts/bizop

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Jul 13

Also, updating 'leaf' (or 'near-leaf') packages with no (or few) reverse dependencies is still the best at CRAN: Seven minutes net. #ThankYouCRAN #RStats It is of course also worth the occassional weekly wait (as for Rcpp), or test discussion. Quality matters, and CRAN rules.

rfoaas 2.3.3 on CRAN: New upstream, six new accessors A RESTful interface for R to the excellent

@FOAAS

service dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/07/13 #rstats

Today's `r2u` example: installing `imputeTS` in one step, ten seconds (!!) for fifty-ish total packages, and without any BLAS/LAPACK hickups as the

@StackOverflow

question below experienced. Still rocks hard😀 stackoverflow.com/questions/7296 #rstats #r2u

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Jul 12

Achievement unlocked: A package of mine has been meme-ified in Spanish. Per Google Translates, my `anytime` package helped simplify / be an alternate for a tutorial on how to survice Ex#%l date messes. Really glad it was of help. I use it all the myself too. #rstats

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Sergio Garcia Mora

@sergiogarciamor

· Jul 12

Hice un tutorial sobre cómo corregir los campos de fechas en Excel en #rstats que siempre es un bardo y armé un lindo post (ponele) para compartir con la comunidad de #rstats_es y del @club_rrhh rpubs.com/Data4HR/cargar

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Jul 12

A simpler solution may be to run `update.packages()` daily (or close to it) and to trust both CRAN on the examplary work they do, and stick with packages that won't break you. There. That "just worked" for me for 25 years with #RStats. These days I even get binaries via r2u.

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Pat Schloss

@PatSchloss

· Jul 12

I have a bad habit of not paying attention to the version of packages I'm using in #Rstats. Then I'm surprised if a package is updated and things break. Want to know how to keep better track of your packages and their versions? Watch the latest Code Club youtu.be/yc7ZB4F_dc0

Jul 12

New quick `r2u` demo: spawned by the SO question below showing how to install package `raster` plus all its dependencies as binaries in one quick command that run in under 20 seconds. #rstats #rspatial stackoverflow.com/a/72946019/143

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: Any news on the R Hub Builder status? It is a key service for the #Rstats community and one of you high-profile activies. The complete silence is a little worrysome. Can we get an update?

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plm nosuggests by zeileis · Pull Request #4 · bcallaway11/BMisc

· Jul 8

Any news on this, @rhub_ ? twitter.com/rhub_/status/1…

PSA:

is a saint. We both noticed yesterday that #Rstats package `BMisc` moved off CRAN for a minor issue ("Suggests not tested) which pulled more packages off with it. But as the man never sleeps here is his extra-clean PR to update `BMisc`:

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Package BMisc was archived on CRAN because it uses plm in some examples unconditionally. Thus, if plm is not available these examples fail with an error. To address this problem I've added a sh...

Jul 9

Rcpp 1.0.9 on CRAN: Regular Updates Seamless R and C++ Integration dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/07/09 #rcpp #rstats

Jul 8

This works outside of

@Docker

too: it is "warp speed" (nice choice of words I may borrow some more) for *any*

@Ubuntu

-based #RStats deployment. Laptop. Server. Cloud. Whatever. Timed install of #tidyverse + #shiny (plus helpers) + #Seurat + more earlier today: under one minute.

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Péter Sólymos

@psolymos

· Jul 8

Notice that I am using the eddelbuettel/r2u based image by @eddelbuettel that brings previously unimaginable warp speed to the docker build process. github.com/eddelbuettel/r

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Péter Sólymos

@psolymos

Jul 8

Notice that I am using the eddelbuettel/r2u based image by

GitHub - eddelbuettel/r2u: CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries

that brings previously unimaginable warp speed to the docker build process.

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CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries. Contribute to eddelbuettel/r2u development by creating an account on GitHub.

Any news on this,

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· Jun 29

Hi all, unfortunately we temporarily need to stop our Windows and Linux builders, to sort out some billing issues. Hopefully we'll be able to turn them back on soon. We'll tweet here once we have more information.

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Tammy Duckworth

@SenDuckworth

Jul 6

Retweet if you believe we need a nationwide ban on assault weapons.

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Roger Bivand

@RogerBivand

Jul 6

A PhD-level course in spatial data analysis will be held 14-18 November 2022 in Bergen, Norway. If interested, see: stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-si for links and details.

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Neil Steinberg

@NeilSteinberg

Jul 4

Next time anyone talks about arming teachers, remember that today a guy waltzed into downtown Highland Park, shot more than 30 people, and then waltzed out. An entire armed police all around couldn't stop him. Heck, they still can't even find him.

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Chapeau bas to

for great work on 'r2u'. Install time of packages down to 2/3 minutes. #Rstats #Rspatial

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Christian Gebhard

@c_gebhard

· Jul 3

Replying to @BrandonEffDub and @rstudio

Have you tried 'r2u' by @eddelbuettel ? It provides prebuilt packages for ubuntu, which should speed up install significantly. dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/05/2

Replying to

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Have you tried 'r2u' by

Solveig Gold Is Proud to Be the Wife of a ‘Canceled’ Princeton Professor

? It provides prebuilt packages for ubuntu, which should speed up install significantly. dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/05/2

Dear

, May I inquire what the flaming hell this is, please? As a subscriber, do I get a refund?

nytimes.com

But she also wants to be known as more. At dinner with the aspiring public intellectual and her “cabal.”

As former

graduate student (though it was then called #GREQAM /

@EHESS_fr

) I fully endorse this picture, and miss the Veille Charite you get to be at for the conference. I only wish you were there to teach #Rstats instead 😉

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Jeffrey Wooldridge

@jmwooldridge

· Jul 1

The view from breakfast.

Jun 30

The #Rstats blog is moving to a more proper address so time to update RSS reader settings and subscriptions.

blog.r-project.org

The R Blog

What the ban on Russia’s gold imports means for its increasingly isolated economy.

keyser soze

@KeyserSozeBro1

Jun 28

FREE ARTICLE for followers. A very good brief explainer on how good mining countries use gold mining to prop central bank reserves & sovereign currency crosses (vs US dollar, yuan & euro). That financial toolware is now gone for Russia. via

@NYTimes

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The move by the United States, Britain and others builds on steps to cut off Russia from the international financial system.

Nihilist Data Scientist

@nihilist_ds

Jun 27

Don't feel too bad if you aren't using the latest hot #datascience tools. The people using them now and telling you how awesome they are probably aren't using them correctly. #rstats #pydata

Jun 26

The corrolary is of course a hypothetical question "but Dirk, can't you just rely on the `pip install` ?" to which my usual answer is to slowly walk about and mumble something something xkcd 1987 something ... and to quietly thank $deity for `apt`.

One the nicest things about open source is reading about yet another nice tool (example below), then checking the repo README and realizing ... that it is just an `apt install` away. So a big big Thank You! to fellow distro maintainers for making all of our lifes easier.

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Lobsters

@lobsters

· Jun 26

iredis: A Terminal Client for Redis with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting lobste.rs/s/5vafkr #databases #linux github.com/laixintao/ired