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Building a #Shiny app with #RStats to track real-time train arrivals at my local station was satisfying and did the job I wanted.
But getting a small touchscreen to have it all run locally on an unused #RaspberryPi makes it *unspeakably* enjoyable.
I made a useful toy!
🥳 I’m excited to share that I have a new essay published in a collection on Durrell, Heresy, and Heterotopia. 🎉
To celebrate, please enjoy this blog post introducing the work, sharing some of the figures… and yes, even offering a few corrections. 🙈
@michcampbell If your data set were bigger, you’d probably also see it for Europium (Eu) and Terbium (Tb) 😄.
In the meantime, I’ve found that adding a space is sufficient to get around the bug. In your code, you can modify labs(title = el…) to something like this:
labs(title = paste0(el, “ “) …etc
@koantig @michcampbell Thanks for checking! I see the problem in Positron version 2025.07.0 build 204, R 4.5.0, ggplot2 3.5.2, macOS 15.4.1.
With all else the same, I don’t see it in RStudio 2025.05.0 build 496, nor do I see it in R 4.5.0 GUI 1.81.
@michcampbell To add to the confusion of it all, I see different things in different IDEs. In Positron, the code I screenshotted above seems to always be a problem.
library(ggplot2)
simple_plot <- function(title){
mtcars |>
ggplot(aes(x = disp, y = mpg)) +
geom_point() +
labs(title = title)
}
simple_plot("Fe")
simple_plot("Sr")
*Only with these two character strings* as far as I’ve tested, whichever I call first will also display for the second. And this only happens in Positron, not in RStudio, where I have the same package versions installed.
@michcampbell The problem seems to come before ggsave or lapply. I see similar behavior with this simpler code. The title "Fe" gets replaced with "Sr" 🤷♂️ #RStats
Edit: The problem doesn’t persist in a new session. So hard to debug! 🫠
