📦🗺️ 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘥𝘬𝘦𝘺𝘳 is now on CRAN!

1️⃣ Convert QuadKeys to 𝘴𝘧 dfs
2️⃣ Transform 𝘴𝘧 dfs to rasters
3️⃣ Process Fb/Meta human mobility QuadKey files → rasters
📄 http://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06500
Thanks to #ForeSITE for the feedback 🙌🏾
#rstats #CRAN #rspatial

New article in "Nature" quoting @noamross and many others (including me): "Stay safe from online hate with these five tips" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00681-4 (apologies for the paywall but very glad to see it published)

🎉 My blog post, "Ten Reasons to Implement Code Management Practices Early in a Research Group," is out on the @softwaresaved.bsky.social blog!

Effective code management is crucial for #research. Discover ten key reasons why adopting it EARLY can benefit any project.

#OpenScience #ResearchSoftware

https://mastodon.social/@SoftwareSaved/114002112443411281

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

🤔🧑‍💻 How much training on computing skills should a new lab member get? How do we centralize data analysis from all group members? Defining code management for Dr. Stringhini's new lab at the School of Population and Public Health
@ubcmedicine
@ubc

https://stringhinilab.github.io/GitHubProceduresLab/ ✅

#openscience #reproducibility #github #rstats

I asked the data engineers who support my team what they thought about DuckDB. One of them said he had never heard of it and the others gave me crickets.

Is it only data scientists who are interested in this type of database innovation? I see enthusiasm for it all over my feed.
#DataScience #DuckDB

Years ago, in my early days of contributing to Python, I'd seen messages on mailing list that made me feel uncomfortable but I didn't feel brave enough to call it out. I brought it up privately to my mentor, and using his position in the team, he called it out and people apologized.

That's one of the things that stood out for me about mentorship. It's not just about teacher/student kind of thing. It's also moral support, using one's privilege for others who don't have it. (1/)

An experiment in mentoring maintainers. 👨‍🔬

> There’s a gap between making your first open source contributions, and then going on to pick up the role of a package maintainer.

If you’re e.g. a PyLady or a Django Girl (or … ) in the Django community and you want to get into package maintenance, do reach out.

https://noumenal.es/posts/mentoring-maintainers/6WB/

#PyLadies #DjangoGirls #DjangoMaintainers

(Updated the post with the link to the discussion group.)

For those that don't know, I help run a giant women in technology slack group (more than 10,000 members!)

It's not just open to software and computer folks, however much that's the main group.

If you're a woman in biotech, in industrial science, in manufacturing or engineering, any technical field or technical line of business, you're welcome to join. It's very big tent about 'tech' and 'woman' both.

HMU for an invite

Slides of the talk presented at BC Provincial Health Services Authority last week: https://fernandez-lab-wsu.github.io/geocovid-slides/slides.html#/title-slide

new sweatshirt, “rage against the machine learning”

New blog post by Hannes Mülheisen

duckplyr: dplyr powered by DuckDB

The post describes the new R package duckplyr, which translates the dplyr API to DuckDB’s execution engine.

Read more at https://duckdb.org/2024/04/02/duckplyr

The article about {quadkeyr} 🗺️, the R-package to convert Facebook mobility data into raster images, has been published in the @joss@fosstodon.org.Thanks, Øystein Sørensen for proofreading the manuscript 👉 https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06500

📦 [A package a day - Computing Infrastructure 3]

Today's Computing Infrastructure package is babelquarto

The goal is to render a Quarto multilingual project, book or website
🙏 Maintained by @maelle
📝 https://docs.ropensci.org/babelquarto/

Do you use this package? Tell us about it!
🗺️ https://discuss.ropensci.org/c/usecases/10

#APackageADay
#OSS
#RStats
@rstats

Thanks to @emilyriederer, @milesmcbain and the reviewers @mpaulacaldas and Vicent van Hees for their valuable comments and support during the review process.

🗺️{quadkeyr}, an R-package created with @piliffq 's lab that provides tools for converting #QuadKey-identified datasets into raster images and allows analyzing #Meta (#Facebook) #Mobility Data is now approved by @rOpenSci 👉https://github.com/ropensci/quadkeyr

This is a wonderful article about WebAssembly, webR, and more at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00725-1

In case anyone is wondering, when I was still working at Newcastle we did indeed improve assessing R (and Python) code in @numbas. The Numbas programming extension evaluates learner-submitted code in Pyodide and webR, running under #wasm: https://github.com/numbas/numbas-extension-programming

Do you like our multilingual Quarto book? 😎
https://devguide.ropensci.org/

Build yours using our tooling & guidance!

🌐 Translation guide https://translationguide.ropensci.org/

🌐 babelquarto package for rendering a multilingual Quarto book https://docs.ropensci.org/babelquarto/

🌐 babeldown package for automatic translation of Markdown-based content, using DeepL API https://docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/

#RStats

Groundwater resources of South America over shaded relief.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

#RStats debugging tip, actually not R-specific! If your code...

📜 is tracked by Git;
🐛 has a bug right now;
🗝️ used to work at an earlier point...

🔎 You can find out which commit introduced the bug by using Git bisect!
🔎 Then you inspect the commit changes and eliminate that bug.

Plugging 2 Git bisect resources:

📼 A clear demo by Jim Hester https://www.jimhester.com/post/2019-04-24-git-bisect/ h/t @mpadge

💻 This exercise in {saperlipopette} https://maelle.github.io/saperlipopette/reference/exo_bisect.html that I used myself today to practice. 😇