#rstats and #emacs fediverse: anyone using emacs as an IDE for R/Python data science? I'm considering giving it a try as a replacement for RStudio/Positron/VSCode. A quick search led me to doom emacs and ess package... I do understand that the investment is significant initially but it seems it can pay off in the long run. So I'm wondering if others have gone down this path and how you deal with graphics, inspecting environments, literate programming (I'm thinking Quarto), etc..

@rstats #rstats: what are you using to parse INI files?

#rstats: Has anyone ever created a bash script to sanitize file permissions on an R project?

#rstats: Just noticed ggplot2 online docs support AI prompting! AI, AI everywhere! :D

US friends: A banner with the text "This repository is under review for potential modification in compliance with Administration directives." is all over NIH websites... what?

#rstats: Has anyone ever tried to implement hyperreal infinitesimals in R vectors (e.g., with the vctrs package)?

#rstats: Is there any write-up about meta-packages, e.g. tidyverse? When/why create them? How does that play out with CRAN? Is there any other convenient approach to group packages for installation and/or coordinated development?

@coolbutuseless I just discovered your insitu package!! That is beautiful. Have you considered submitting to CRAN? btw: Is it possible to subset a vector by reference? I mean, if the data being selected is contiguous, could we get a new vector that is a simple wrapper around the pointer for that piece of data?

#rstats: @gaborcsardi Do you have any R code lying around that detects the OS and architecture? I have a feeling that one or more packages in r-lib do this...