Reposted by Daniel Falbeltroy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🎉 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 072
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Just published a new blogpost on torch for #rstats updates: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...opensource.posit.cotorch Ecosystem UpdatesAn overview of recent updates across the torch ecosystem. 0213
Reposted by Daniel FalbelRichard Iannone @richmeister.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We 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.opensource.posit.coIntroducing Great Docs: Beautiful Documentation for Python PackagesGreat 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. 24215
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We 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...opensource.posit.coRAG with raghildaAn introduction to building retrieval-augmented generation systems with raghilda. 1185
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025This was really nice to watch #rstats :) Fun application of attention models. Also nice to see torch used for such important work! youtu.be/0Zra1WYoiOM?...youtu.beKeynote #2 R in the AI Era Leveraging Modern Technologies in Practice - Simon UrbanekYouTube video by useR! Conference 080
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 30/10/2025luz 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...mlverse.github.ioExamples 1102
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025As an #rstats dev, I never expected writing a PR to ipykernel :) github.com/ipython/ipyk... It's now running for everyone with ipykernel >= 7.1github.comRefer to kernel laucnhing thread instead of assuming the main thread by dfalbel · Pull Request #1455 · ipython/ipykernelThis 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... 080
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025It has many limitations: - no dynamic shapes - hardcoded weights But it should be possible to greatly improve this in the future. 110
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Where `resnet18_stablehlo.mlir` is a model exported with: 120
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The motivation for it comes from working on inegrating Apple embedding atlas into ragnar: github.com/tidyverse/ra... We ended up using the python package, but we could have used a #rstats / JS only solution if we had some nice mosaic integration.github.comEmbedding Atlas by dfalbel · Pull Request #124 · tidyverse/ragnarAdd support for visualizing the store using embedding-atlas 010
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Just 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/dfalbel.github.ioScalable, Interactive Data VisualizationProduce scalable, interactive data visualization using the Mosaic framework. 1101
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Yep! We have some work in github.com/r-xla It's a long term project though. Theoretically it's already possible to create a graph in jax , export it to stablehlo and ecute it in R with no python dep.github.comr-xlar-xla has 6 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. 130
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025tiny ( <400loc) implementation of Gemma3 270M using torch for #rstats github.com/mlverse/minh... Includes support for loading weights from hugging face hub.github.comminhub/R/gemma3.R at main · mlverse/minhubMinimal implementation of Deep Learning models. Contribute to mlverse/minhub development by creating an account on GitHub. 092
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025tok 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/...github.comRelease v0.2.0 · mlverse/tokUpdated upstream tokenizers to 0.20.3 Update extendr-api to 0.8.1 0103
Reposted by Daniel FalbelEdgar @theotheredgar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Dev 📦 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 #ollamagithub.comGitHub - mlverse/lang: Uses LLMs to translate R help docs on the flyUses LLMs to translate R help docs on the fly. Contribute to mlverse/lang development by creating an account on GitHub. 0186
Reposted by Daniel FalbelNoam Ross @noamross.net · 03/12/2024Excited 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...ropensci.orgR-Universe Named R Consortium Top-Level ProjectWe're excited to announce R-Universe has been named the R-Consortium's newest Top-Level Project. 07628
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Happy to help making it work on MPS. It should just work if you create a tensor on the MPS device, using eg: torch_randn(10,10, device="mps") 100
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024torch for #rstats has reached 500 GitHub stars :) 4464
Reposted by Daniel FalbelJenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024📦 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...usethis.r-lib.orgChangelog 311531
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This is only happens on Linux when using the CPU. But many workflows involve transforming data on the CPU before executing the model on the GPU, so this fix should improve performance of most torch programs running on Linux! 120
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024But LibTorch is really optimized to work with Intel MKL, and indeed statically links to a version of MKL for faster math kernels, but we were not using it leaving a lot of performance on the table. 110
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The problem was that previous versions of torch would use whatever BLAS library R is configured to use (which in most system will be a single threaded BLAS, and if you had some fun configuring R, it could be OpenBLAS. 100
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This includes a bug fix that makes #rstats torch at least 2x faster on Linux CPU's, and possibly even more for other workflows. 140
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Finally merged support for LibTorch 2.5 into #rstats torch main! github.com/mlverse/torc...github.comLibtorch 2.5.1 by dfalbel · Pull Request #1204 · mlverse/torchAdd 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... 180
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Nice! Wrapping the bucket with a CDN, such as CloudFront, should also make downloads faster, due to regional caching and other optimizations that CDN's do. It also allows you to decouple the storage location from how things are distributed, so it gives you freedom to change storage structures later. 010
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I know nothing about nix, but how do folks download from the cache later? In general using a CloudFront distribution instead of directly accessing the bucket will reduce a lot the egress costs. 100
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024After long investigation, I still don't understand what is really happening and what's wrong, but... The fix turned out being quite simple. Just had to add the RTLD_DEEPBIND flag when opening the dynamic library 🤷♂️ github.com/mlverse/torc... 000
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Just posted a Stack Overflow question! First one in a couple years. Do people still use it? stackoverflow.com/q/79171784/3...stackoverflow.comMKL and openBLAS interactions - a question about linkingI'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... 110
Daniel Falbel @dfalbel.bsky.social · 07/11/2024S7 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.comGitHub - dfalbel/micrograd: Micro Autograd EngineMicro Autograd Engine. Contribute to dfalbel/micrograd development by creating an account on GitHub. 0143
Reposted by Daniel FalbelJulia Silge @juliasilge.com · 31/10/2024Our #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/8uRcB34Hhswyoutu.beIntroducing Positron, a new data science IDE - posit conf 2024YouTube video by Posit PBC 67130
