🎉 chatterbox TTS is now an R package! Thanks to Chris English for all the testing and @dfalbel.bsky.social for teaching me about garbage collection in torch! 🙏 #rstats

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New CRAN package chatterbox with initial version 0.2.1 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=chatterbox

Just published a new blogpost on torch for #rstats updates: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

We just released a blog post about something I'm very excited about: Great Docs. Post is in the *new* Posit Open Source site: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... Great Docs is a #python pkg for creating beautiful Python package websites. We make it easy to use but also give you lots of options.

Introducing Great Docs: Beautiful Documentation for Python Packages

Great Docs is a new documentation site generator for Python packages. It auto-discovers your API, builds a modern site with Quarto, and ships with LLM-friendly features and one-command deployment.

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We just released raghilda to PyPi. Raghilda is a framework for building RAG systems in #python. See the release blogpost: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

RAG with raghilda

An introduction to building retrieval-augmented generation systems with raghilda.

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This was really nice to watch #rstats :) Fun application of attention models. Also nice to see torch used for such important work! youtu.be/0Zra1WYoiOM?...

Keynote #2 R in the AI Era Leveraging Modern Technologies in Practice - Simon Urbanek

YouTube video by useR! Conference

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luz v0.5.1 is now on #rstats CRAN. Just a small bug fix related to forwarding `predict` parameters to the model. I also added a new Variational Autoencoder example to our examples gallery: mlverse.github.io/luz/articles...

As an #rstats dev, I never expected writing a PR to ipykernel :) github.com/ipython/ipyk... It's now running for everyone with ipykernel >= 7.1

Refer to kernel laucnhing thread instead of assuming the main thread by dfalbel · Pull Request #1455 · ipython/ipykernel

This PR proposes a patch to address the issue described in #1438 (comment) With this, we no longer asssume that the IPykernel app starts from the main thread. Instead, we keep a reference to the la...

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Just made a nice website for mosaicr. A small #rstats htmlwidget package that allows using @idl.uw.edu Mosaic data visualization framework from R. The real power comes when embedding Mosaic plots within Shiny apps. See examples and docs in dfalbel.github.io/mosaicr/

tiny ( <400loc) implementation of Gemma3 270M using torch for #rstats github.com/mlverse/minh... Includes support for loading weights from hugging face hub.

minhub/R/gemma3.R at main · mlverse/minhub

Minimal implementation of Deep Learning models. Contribute to mlverse/minhub development by creating an account on GitHub.

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tok is back on CRAN! tok is @hf.co tokenizers for #rstats. It uses the same Rust libray as the python interface. It's pretty fast and fully compatible with tokenizers.json available on hub. See the release notes: github.com/mlverse/tok/...

Release v0.2.0 · mlverse/tok

Updated upstream tokenizers to 0.20.3 Update extendr-api to 0.8.1

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Dev 📦 alert! {lang} translates R help on-the-fly using your local LLM! It also overrides the `?` so you can easily access the translated docs and have them displayed on your IDE's help pane github.com/mlverse/lang #rstats #llm #ollama

Excited and grateful that R-Universe is R Consortium's newest top-level project! This means sustained support for @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy's platform for discovery and publishing of #rstats packages. Hats off to @jeroenooms.bsky.social for his leadership! ropensci.org/blog/2024/12...

R-Universe Named R Consortium Top-Level Project

We're excited to announce R-Universe has been named the R-Consortium's newest Top-Level Project.

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torch for #rstats has reached 500 GitHub stars :)

📦 usethis 3.1.0 📦 is released. `use_vignette()` and `use_article()` can now help you initiate a Quarto (.qmd) vignette or article. #rstats usethis.r-lib.org/news/index.h...

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This includes a bug fix that makes #rstats torch at least 2x faster on Linux CPU's, and possibly even more for other workflows.

Daniel Falbel@dfalbel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Finally merged support for LibTorch 2.5 into #rstats torch main! github.com/mlverse/torc...

Finally merged support for LibTorch 2.5 into #rstats torch main! github.com/mlverse/torc...

Libtorch 2.5.1 by dfalbel · Pull Request #1204 · mlverse/torch

Add support for LibTorch 2.5.1 TODO: Update Libtorch M1 builds - and patch the allocator Regenerate R level wrappers Figure out pre-built binaries for x86_64 macOS Drop unsupported CUDA from C...

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Just posted a Stack Overflow question! First one in a couple years. Do people still use it? stackoverflow.com/q/79171784/3...

MKL and openBLAS interactions - a question about linking

I'm using a binary (R) that dynamically links to a generic version of BLAS, for instance (and in a lot of cases) this is openBLAS. Now, inside R, I'm dynamically loading another shared library (lib...

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S7 is really nice! I've exploring it in the micrograd package, a minimal implementation of an automatic differentiation engine (think torch's autograd) built from scratch in R: github.com/dfalbel/micr...

GitHub - dfalbel/micrograd: Micro Autograd Engine

Micro Autograd Engine. Contribute to dfalbel/micrograd development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 2y ago

S7 0.2.0 is now on CRAN, thanks primarily to the hard work of @t-kalinowski.bsky.social. S7 is a collaborative effort to supersede S3 and S4 and you can read all about it (and what's new in 0.2.0) at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/11... #rstats

Our #PositConf2024 talk(s) on Positron are now available on YouTube! It was really special to get to introduce this new project to folks ❤️ and I'm excited this is broadly available now. Take a look if you are curious about our new IDE: youtu.be/8uRcB34Hhsw

Introducing Positron, a new data science IDE - posit conf 2024

YouTube video by Posit PBC

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