Announcing updates to the #RStats torch ecosystem! 🔥

• torch 0.17.0: No global CUDA system installations required
• torchvision 0.9.0: New computer vision architectures
• Built-in dataset cataloging and better memory management

Learn more: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-30_torch-ecosystem-updates-2026/

‼️New #rayrender on CRAN! v0.41.3 brings screenspace text and lines (so you can annotate in 3D independent of lighting and orientation), improves CSG performance, and adds a new “space heater” functionality 😋! That’s right: set `deferred_render = TRUE` and your render will never end—no more render countdown! Explore your scene to your hearts content, and when you’ve got the perfect shot, start the render!

#RStats #rayverse

PSA: The #rstats "newbies" queue is up at 180 packages. A possible record?

Run `ciw.r --newbies --lines 200 --max 200` on the command-line (with pagination at 200), or `ciw::ciw("newbies", max_age=200)` from R (with #data.table pagination printing).

See https://cran.r-project.org/package=ciw for more.

💜 Gracias a quienes enviaron propuestas a #LatinR 2026. Animarse a compartir tu trabajo ya es ganar. #RStats

Pronto novedades del programa: más keynotes, tutoriales, charlas y otras actividades.

Para quienes enviaron propuestas, nuestro comité científico empezará el proceso de revisión e informaremos los resultados a mediados de julio.

¡Nos vemos en Medellín! 🇨🇴

Most teams are validating far more than they need to.

Take an R package with 500 functions. The average team uses about 5.

Most validation tools require you to check all 500. Every time.

Litmus changes that. Validate only what you use.

jumpingrivers.com/litmus/

#RStats #PackageValidation #GxP #Litmus

I just discovered a package in #R to read and write #C3D #motioncapture files. Thanks to Simon Nolte and the team from @Sporthochschule ! This will help so many people in #biomechanics and #movementscience. Having this tool will hopefully encourage researchers in the field to use #FOSS instead of proprietary software and foster #FairData and #OpenScience.

:rstats:Documentation:
https://docs.ropensci.org/c3dr/articles/c3dr.html

#PhD #rstats #sportscience #mocap #Bewegungswissenschaft #Sportwissenschaft