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:
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Now I just need someone to write an equivalent extension for my desk, which suffers the same problem 😉
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.
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#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
(specifically, that happens when you run the last line in a target in VS Code/Positron)
With the tarborist extension, I can override the default next-line behavior when I'm in a valid target call, and thus move the cursor to a more sane position (and not jump down to the bottom of a long pipeline)
1/2 Case in point: I use {targets} iteratively when doing analyses in #RStats, but it can result in some annoying behaviors, like:
list(
tar_target(name = , command = {
read.csv("data.csv") <- run this command and...
}),
...
...
...
) | <- cursor ends up here, at bottom 😡
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!])
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水芳巖秀
芝逕雲堤
松鶴清越
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)😃
Screenshot of the announcement by Simon Urbanek regarding Tomáš Kalibera’s untimely passing. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalibera on 1 April, a valuable member of the R core team for close to 10 years and a good friend, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools aimed at aiding package authors to make their packages more reliable, and was instrumental in modernizing the Windows build of R. He was an active member of CRAN and the R community, providing help to package authors, and he was the most prolific writer on the R core blog. He will be remembered for his profound contributions to R by millions of users. He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time. Respectfully, Simon Urbanek
RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.
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The Stakes and Districts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
screenshot of targets pipeline in Positron IDE with background color indicating size/runtime of target
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
An office with old wood furniture, maps on the walls, an old glass front bookcase full of books, rocks and Late Pleistocene wood on the desk, and strange arched windows near floor level.
View back into a corner of the same office, a bookcase full of spiral bound field-trip guidebooks and reports, two soil monoliths, and maps in tubes.
View of one of the arched windows, a soil monolith, and part of the wood desk, plus a bulletin board with pictures and stickers on it.
No, actually this is the nerdiest room in the world, and unfortunately I have to move out in less than two months.
immaculate vibes, the large old wooden table reminds me of my desk in grad school (cleaner, though), and the slivers of window arches make me think I'd be working in an attic office that is unlikely to be disturbed
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
2/2 *as long as you're okay building a custom version of Positron from source with a completely new ConsoleLinkProvider API😜
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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
brb, gonna make it 3D😀
screenshot of tarborist hover panel
screenshot of tarborist file picker with target depth provided
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
Definitely. RStudio is certainly more polished and focused, especially for data tasks. This was the first non-programming, data-centric feature of Positron I felt was an actual improvement on RStudio
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
screenshot of R code
Nothing says "tar_make()" error like Mac OS Classic's Sosumi.wav!
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#RStats
