Mastodawn

I've written up a how-to for using arf and {terminalgraphics} in R.nvim. Glad I did. I discovered a few gotchas that I'd forgotten and now have them recorded and cleaned up my nvim config files at the same time.

So, now you can have the IDE console experience in R.nvim AND the graphics baked in, no X11 or {httpgd} windows to fuss with. The only catch is you have to use Kitty or Wezterm for your terminal emulator.

https://adamhsparks.netlify.app/2026/03/10/further-enhancing-r-nvim-with-arf-and-terminalgraphics/ cc @jimbob

#RStats #Neovim #RNvim

Further Enhancing R.nvim with Arf and {terminalgraphics}

How I Ended Up Using Neovim for R I never really imagined I’d be a Neovim user, but here I am. My first encounter with vi was back in the early 90s during an undergraduate computing course. We used elm as our email client, and writing a message launched vi. I could not make sense of it. When I repeated the course (yes, I failed it the first time), we switched to Pine, whose editor, similar to nano, felt far more intuitive.

Adam H. Sparks

Jan van der Laan Mar 3

Our paper on the effect of isolation (a #segregation measure) on the language proficiency of children has just been published. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2026.101138. #networkscience

Jan van der Laan Mar 1

Hugh Mar 1

Last night I went to a 70th birthday party and ended up sitting next to Frank.

Frank used to work as a computer programmer, because this was the 1970s to 90s and people had normal job titles that described real things, instead of "full stack orchestration engineer" or "solutions architect".

Anyway Frank's employer was the Victorian Attorney General's department. He wrote, updated and maintained in-house software for managing the court system, trial documentation managements and so on using low level languages.

The point of this post is that there was nothing special about this period of history that made it possible for government departments to write and maintain their own software to solve their own problems then but not now.

The complete lack of any in-house capacity to do this kind of thing is a political choice. Frank is a reminder of that.

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Jan van der Laan Feb 22

@leonardof @emmatyping Comparing works fine in #Rstats (in Dutch it is apples and pears)

Jan van der Laan Feb 13

I am stupid. Created a cover for a booklet, but the spine is on the wrong side. A well, now the booklet will have a fancy back cover.

#linoprint #bookbinding

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Jan van der Laan Feb 12

@steveroyle @eddelbuettel Talking from experience (as a receiver of pull requests and issues): no response in 11 days does not mean anything.

I tend to work in bursts on my packages (correlated with me using them) and with other work a pull request sometimes ends up at the bottom of the 'should respond to' heap. Also because I want to have proper look at it before responding. Personally I am fine with and appreciate a reminder.

Jan van der Laan Feb 12

"Crime. “Crime.” “Crime!” It is a conceptual delivery system for an unhappy life of fear. "

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-your-ring-camera-with-a-claw