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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

you'll never convince me it's not just a bit

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my favorite #rstats typo in a while witchCallingHandlers

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

thanks for doing your part to alleviate the DRAM shortage 🫡

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Added a few new types to my repo of R #rstats package metadata samples: github.com/MichaelChiri... - LLM artifacts like AGENTS.md - air.toml - .lintr - devcontainer what else am I missing? any repos I should track?

github.com

GitHub - MichaelChirico/r-ci-samples: Sample CI&metadata files from popular R package repos

Sample CI&metadata files from popular R package repos - MichaelChirico/r-ci-samples

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

?test_that uses "unit" and "test" seemingly interchangeably... The "skipping tests" vignette implies the expect* are "tests" since skip* doesn't strictly skip whole test_that() blocks

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

OK nomenclature check -- is it a test_that() unit and an expect_*() test? e.g. "this test_that() unit is too complicated, it has too many tests"? or is a unit the file which has tests consisting of expectations? cc @hadley.nz

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

terrible news. RIP & forever grateful for his contributions to open source 🙏🙏🙏

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

> barplot(.., orderH = *) for stacked bar plots allows to sort the stacks each according to size. oh that's nice

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

leave the population bomb in 1968 please

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Look under your tree! 🌲 🎁 There's a major #rstats #rdatatable release waiting! A tremendous thanks to all involved and especially those contributing to some major (performance-maintaining!!) rewrites around the non-API issue. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Major features include: - a TON of improvements around rolling functions - comment.char in fread() - cbindlist() and mergelist()

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Thanks also to the CRAN team and Luke for their patience+working with us to get it over the line.

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

indeed there is exactly one package here: cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/4.6.0/Other

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

well, they're both there at cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/PACKAGES one has Path: 4.6.0/Other, whatever that means 🧐

cran.rstudio.com

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

resolved by using filters=c('R_version', 'duplicates'), though I still don't understand where this 4.6.0 version comes from...

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

never seen that one before... any idea @eddelbuettel.com I don't see any indication Rcpp has ever required R 4.6

Two invocations of available.packages(), one with filters='duplicates', returning different R version requirements for Rcpp

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I took over as maintainer for {patrick} -- a {testthat} extension for running parameterized tests. we have a patch release adapting to {testthat} 3.3.0. h/t Hadley for the proactive fix! #rstats cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving, and happy {lintr} release day :) #rstats Lots, as usual: * native pipe enforcement by default * encourage %||% * discourage if (all.equal(...)) * exclude by glob in .lintr * loads of robustness fixes Thanks as ever for all contributions! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

cran.r-project.org

lintr: A 'Linter' for R Code

Checks adherence to a given style, syntax errors and possible semantic issues. Supports on the fly checking of R code edited with 'RStudio IDE', 'Emacs', 'Vim', 'Sublime Text', 'Atom' and 'Visual Stud...

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I have played all of those as a kid I think

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AVCX Classic @avcx.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

As we move toward our fall subscription drive, we hope you’ll consider supporting us in part bc we are an independent media company. No, crosswords are not as vital as journalism. But yes, all content that we consume matters, and it should be as free as possible from corporate control.

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

redistricting is good and just and I'll vote yes in the special election. But it's all deck chairs on the Titanic if we don't radically reform CA housing A S A P.

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

hi AM Stefani, constituent here reaching out to express my unequivocal support for SB 79. Looking forward to your 'Yes' vote!

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

someone's having a Mother's Day Weekend moment

mini Sutter home wine bottles found in the childrens' pool toy aisle

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

What're your favorite packages that are really difficult to type? I'll start, {RMySQL} and {org.Hs.eg.db}

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

one thing I got way wrong about the pandemic, I thought it would kill hookah bars for at least a generation

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

where are strawberries native to? 🍓 trick question! they are a French-made hybrid from the 18th century! (a mix of N & S American wild strawberries)

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

what a paragraph www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Outside of Seoul, children are largely phantom presences. There are a hundred and fifty-seven elementary schools that had no new enrollees scheduled for 2023. That year, the seaside village of Iwon-myeon recorded a single newborn. The entire town was garlanded with banners that congratulated the parents by name “on the birth of their lovely baby angel.” One village in Haenam, a county that encompasses the southern extremity of the Korean peninsula, last registered a birth during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

boomers churn through dish soap like you wouldn't believe

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

hatching a secret plan to only listen to current top 40 so that my kid rebels by listening to the music I actually like

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

the oracle park experience is really unrivaled. 10/10 sports experience

looking down from the 300 level above the first base line

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

had something similar happen in San Pedro de Atacama to the point where I DM'd a band member later and it wasn't him lol, very embarrassing

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thanks Indrajeet for taking the lead on this! {lintr} now published in JOSS

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

how many user testing sessions do you think they workshopped this "don't have the cards" thing at

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

WTF package debugging --> r-devel poasting --> Bugzilla patch cycle completed bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi...

bugs.r-project.org

18875 – NextMethod() duplicates positional arguments in the next method

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

how did I not know GitHub search accepts regex in the 'path' search!? game changer

Text: 'path:/[.]Rd$/'. The '/.../' is typical GitHub search lingo for 'regex: ...'. The '/.../' is also highlighted blue.

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

TFW you find a @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social thread from >12 years ago describing the extremely confusing behavior of NextMethod() you've just been banging your head against... stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...

stat.ethz.ch

[Rd] Do *not* pass '...' to NextMethod() - it'll do it for you; missing documentation, a bug or just me?

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

sending my out-of-state parents "u up" texts with pictures of their grandkid

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I'm a middle Millennial which means I'm old enough to have played the Emo Flash Game young enough not to have known who Conor Oberst was

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

TIL Dunkin has such a big presence in South Korea that they're back-exporting SK-local snacks to us

orange snack-sized popcorn back with some Korean writing and "Dunkin Green Onion Cream Cheese Popcorn"

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Michael Chirico @michaelchirico.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

ah, same thing greeted me first thing after a long vacation, no fun. contractor uncle gave a nice pro tip I didn't see on the few YouTubes i checked: add Vaseline to the seal to seat the tank more easily and keep it from drying out longer

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