David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/08/2026something tells me that your line will end up to be better 😄 100
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/08/2026The 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 1121
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 13/07/2026Added `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... 040
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 10/07/2026A 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 1437
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 10/06/2026We 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 1276
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 06/05/2026Experimental #rstats package similar to asciicast to write terminal gifs. Check it out: https:// github.com/schochastics/vhsR 0132
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 05/08/2025If you are in need of memorable/human readable uuids, may I suggest {{dexid}}, an #rstats package that creates ids from adjectives and pokemons? 😀 1223
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 06/06/2025We 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 1232
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/06/2025Super 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.eur-consortium.orgR Consortium Awards First Round of 2025 ISC Grants – R ConsortiumThe R Consortium’s Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) is proud to announce the first round of 2025 grant recipients. These seven projects are receiving support to enhance and expand the capabilit... 2255
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 29/04/2025#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 🙈 110
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/04/2025Merging an 8 year old PR must be some sort of record 😅 github.com/igraph/rigra... @gvegayon.bsky.social sorry it took so long 😀 241
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 28/03/2025yieks sorry that got eaten by the char limit: github.com/cynkra/rchro... 011
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 28/03/2025New 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. 160
Reposted by David SchochMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 18/03/2025New 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... #RStatsblog.cynkra.comSetting up igraph for success in the next decade – cynkra blog 093
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 10/03/2025It 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...blog.schochastics.netA practical benchmark of duckplyr – schochastics - all things RA blog about RStats by David Schoch 2183
Reposted by David SchochMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 28/02/2025If 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.netr.igraph.orgImproving igraph interface: current deprecations 063
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 18/02/2025Not 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 052
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 13/02/2025@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... 082
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 12/02/2025Here 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... 13014
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 31/01/2025Continuing 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...blog.schochastics.netCreating data frames in Rust for R – schochastics - all things RA blog about RStats by David Schoch 020
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 30/01/2025Getting 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...blog.schochastics.netRust in R beyond vectors – schochastics - all things RA blog about RStats by David Schoch 0168
Reposted by David SchochGeorge G. Vega Yon @gvegayon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Hey, #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.socialmedia.tenor.coma cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer on a couch .ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer on a couch . 123
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 01/01/2025New Year, new career. Yesterday was my last day as an academic. Now it is time for the "Real World". 270
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 09/12/2024Last year December I created my first #QuartoPub dashboard for a "GitHub Wrapped". Still works like a charm 😁 #rstats github.com/schochastics... 030
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 08/12/2024#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 071
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/12/2024Me leaving has nothing to do with the position I had, but just with academia in general. I am tired of it. Now it is time for a completely new chapter and I am super excited that this new chapter is gonna be full time #rstats at cynkra 😍 (2/2) 170
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/12/2024Not 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)hidden-professionals.deSenior Researcher & Team Lead for Transparent Social Analytics and Open ScienceGESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association. Starting as soon as po... 12010
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 03/12/2024Starting #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...) 130
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 19/11/2024The #QuartoPub extension to add "share on social media" buttons now also supports bluesky 🎉 #rstats link: github.com/schochastics...github.comGitHub - schochastics/quarto-social-share: Quarto Extension that adds buttons to share on social mediaQuarto Extension that adds buttons to share on social media - schochastics/quarto-social-share 030
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 18/11/2024I 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... 030
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 29/10/2024Hello #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... 2516
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 04/04/2024Excited 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/ 042
Reposted by David SchochThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28/02/2024ggraph 2.2.0 is out🎉🎉 Now with stronger support for spatial networks and various edge bundling techniques #rstatsdata-imaginist.comData Imaginist - A bunch of giraffes, all bundled upggraph 2.2.0 has been released. This was definitely not supposed to be a feature release, yet here we are… 03210
David Schoch @schochastics.net · 07/12/2023Let some science communication be my first post here: New paper out on my evergreen topic network centrality with @termehs.bsky.social We assess how tough it is to reliably explain correlations among indices. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #networkscience 031
![R code that shows the linter implemented in vellum:
vl_scene(4, 2, dpi = 96, bg = "white") |>
draw(text_grob(
"n = 120",
x = 0.1,
y = 0.9,
gp = vl_gpar(fontsize = 2.5),
name = "n_label"
)) |>
draw(points_grob(2.4, 0.5, name = "stray_point")) |>
draw(text_grob(
"watermark",
gp = vl_gpar(fontsize = 22, col = "#F2F2F2"),
name = "watermark"
)) |>
vl_lint()
#> 3 lint findings (3 warnings):
#> ✖ [low_contrast] watermark: contrast 1.4:1 against its backdrop - below 3:1
#> ✖ [offscreen] stray_point: drawn entirely outside the page - check the
#> coordinates or the scale
#> ✖ [tiny_text] n_label: 3.3 px tall - below the 7 px legibility floor](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sv2aevfp7olu6ch7wq2nmgmi/bafkreidusmjdogeqrttxazp5kv263kmzmyb5g6wmwvxthbrg5lalwlv37u)
![AdventOfCode Day 03 Solution with RStats
input <- paste0(readLines("input03.txt"), collapse = "")
mul <- `*`
mul_str <- unlist(stringr::str_extract_all(input, "mul\\([0-9]+,[0-9]+\\)"))
sum(vapply(mul_str, \(x) eval(parse(text = x)), numeric(1)))
input <- paste0("do()", input, "don't()")
matches <- paste0(stringr::str_extract_all(input, "(?<=do\\(\\))(.*?)(?=don't\\(\\))")[[1]], collapse = "")
mul_str <- unlist(stringr::str_extract_all(matches, "mul\\([0-9]+,[0-9]+\\)"))
sum(vapply(mul_str, \(x) eval(parse(text = x)), numeric(1)))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sv2aevfp7olu6ch7wq2nmgmi/bafkreibtnhwlphoe6mtwxdq7hpisi4zj2nss3lyorrqcwo7lvzzvnxunuy)
