The experimental graphical framework vellum knows where grobs land before they are actually drawn to a device. One interesting side effect is that one can actually lint graphics without drawing them! #Rstats 📦: github.com/r-vellum/vellum

Added `mark_image()` to vellumplot to support images as marks. The immediate use case was to show how extraordinary predictable the World Cup semis were this year. #rstats #worldCup 📦 github.com/r-vellum/vel...

A side project I've been working on is public now: vellumverse, an #Rstats graphics stack built on a Rust backend. vellum sits where grid does but renders in Rust. vellumplot is the grammar on top and vellumwidget turns any plot into an interactive widget. Feedback welcome ☺️ github.com/r-vellum

We are currently working on the igraph 3.0.0 release which will bring big changes to the #rstats package! One that just landed on GitHub is a new, modern printing method that uses cli 🙂 Check it out at github.com/igraph/rigraph

Experimental #rstats package similar to asciicast to write terminal gifs. Check it out: https:// github.com/schochastics/vhsR

If you are in need of memorable/human readable uuids, may I suggest {{dexid}}, an #rstats package that creates ids from adjectives and pokemons? 😀

We are currently developing a new interactive network viz package based on the JS engine G6. So many cool features to come! Checkout the current status on github github.com/cynkra/g6r #rstats

Super grateful to have received an R Consortium grant to keep working on improving igraph! Our goal is to work on the interface between the c core and the r package. To date it is still too tedious to integrate new features seamlessly. r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats cc @masalmon.eu

#Rstats hivemind: what is the correct way for a plumber API to read/write parquet files? I did not get `parser_parquet()` to work properly (and would rather have nanoparquet anyway) so this kind of works but I am unsure if thats ok 🙈

Merging an 8 year old PR must be some sort of record 😅 github.com/igraph/rigra... @gvegayon.bsky.social sorry it took so long 😀

New version of rchroma is now available! The #Rstats pkg wraps the API of ChromaDB, an open-source AI-native database that makes it easy to store, search, and retrieve vector embeddings alongside metadata. Perfect for building RAGs! It is now much easier to run the container and save db tables.

New post on the cynkra blog with @schochastics.net & Kirill Müller "Setting up igraph for success in the next decade" ✨ Thanks to the R Consortium for supporting this project! blog.cynkra.com/posts/2025-0... #RStats

It is not a rigorous benchmark, but I was curious on how #duckdb duckplyr compares to other data wrangling packages in #Rstats. Turns out, it is pretty pretty fast 🚀. blog post: blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

If you're an #RStats {igraph} user, please update your codebase according to deprecation messages. We try to make changes for the best. 😉 r.igraph.org/articles/cur... cc @schochastics.net

Not sure if this already exist, but I created a #quartopub filter which adds a domain preview to each link in a quarto html document. Might come in handy for accessibility. 📦 github.com/schochastics... #rstats

@christophsax.bsky.social and I wrote an #rstats package for ChromaDB which is now available on CRAN🎉🎉🎉 ChromaDB is an open-source vector database designed for efficient similarity search—great for working with LLM applications like RAGs! 📦 github.com/cynkra/rchro...

Here is the result of one of my last academic endeavors: Paperwizard, an #rstats package to extract readable content (such as news articles) from webpages using Readability.js 📦 github.com/schochastics... 📝 blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

Continuing the #Rust exploration in #RStats. Of course there is (r)polars to work with data frames in Rust but I was interested in how to create data frames "from scratch". Thanks to macros, it is actually pretty simple🙂 blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

Getting back on the #Rust train and how to use it in #RStats. Currently I am trying to understand how to work with non-vector inputs and returns. I wrote down some experiments in a blog post blog.schochastics.net/posts/2025-0...

Hey, #sna ppl! Submit your abstracts to Sunbelt 2025's "Tools and Data for Social Network Analysis" in Paris sunbelt2025.org (by Feb 20). We look for demos, sharing dev experiences, case studies, intros to SNA datasets, and more! @schochastics.net @franktakes.bsky.social @zpneal.bsky.social

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New Year, new career. Yesterday was my last day as an academic. Now it is time for the "Real World".

Last year December I created my first #QuartoPub dashboard for a "GitHub Wrapped". Still works like a charm 😁 #rstats github.com/schochastics...

#AdventofCode Day 07 in #Rstats Yes this was again solvable with eval parse. Was that efficient? hell no! but doing left to right execution by inserting parentheses in a string is a 9000IQ move, I'd say

#AdventofCode Day 04 in #Rstats

Not sure how many #academics are following me here, but here is a great opportunity to lead an awesome team of people in CSS at GESIS. This is actually my position, because I will be leaving academia at the end of the year (1/2)

Starting #AdventOfCode on Day 03 with #RStats 🙂 I think it took me like a second to scream EVAL PARSE!!! One of my favorite concepts in R 😆 (my solutions can be found here: github.com/schochastics...)

The #QuartoPub extension to add "share on social media" buttons now also supports bluesky 🎉 #rstats link: github.com/schochastics...

I tried to get a hang gt for so long and now I finally sat down and did it. It always felt cumbersome to me but I have to say it is quite easy to use once you get into it #Rstats 📜 writeup blog.schochastics.net/posts/2024-1...

Hello #rstats, giving this side another try🤗. To kick it off, here is a great fashion item. A t shirt made out of more than 2000 hexstickers 😅 here is the making of and how you can make one yourself: blog.schochastics.net/posts/2024-1...

Excited to announce the book project "R 4 Social Network Analysis". @termehs.bsky.social and I decided to write an open access introductory book for conducting Social Network Analysis in #Rstats. Blog Post: blog.schochastics.net/posts/2024-0... book (WIP): schochastics.github.io/R4SNA/