I've been keeping an eye on this since I first heard about it, and it looks like it now works! duckdb has a dplyr extension which can be installed - use dplyr code to slice and dice data within a duckdb session.

https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/dplyr

Shoutouts to the author @mrchypark and to @DSLC for their 'DuckDB in Action' book club.

#RStats Rainy Day Dev Diary

Progress on {zap} - bespoke serialization infrastructure for R

Writing to file a 255-level factor with 10% NAs. N = 10000 random values

* faster than writing uncompressed 'saveRDS()'
* more compressed than saveRDS('xz') (just by a smidge!)
* 10x faster than writing saveRDS(xz)

@joyce

The US media is too cowardly to cover the [Hands off!] protests for fear of Trump.

I assume you mean on broadcast TV. I get my news on the web, not on TV. Here is what I found:

Fox News isn't covering. USA Today says there are thousands, not hundreds of thousands. Washington Post, NBC, and New York Times, are completely mute. However CBS and ABC have stories. PBS is full throated on the spot with live feeds. CNN has below the fold (10 stories+ down) coverage. Axios, AP, and Reuters are covering prominently. Local Los Angeles affiliate television websites are also following.

#boostingIsSharing

#USPol #Politics #Protests#HandsOff #News #Author #Writer #WritersOfMastodon #Journalism #writing community

mirai users get a free upgrade by updating to the latest nanonext 1.5.1 on CRAN.

You can now return a (resolved) mirai from a mirai 😜

```
> m <- mirai::mirai(
mirai::call_mirai(mirai::mirai("mirai"))
)
> m[]
< mirai [$data] >

> m$data
< mirai [$data] >

> m$data$data
[1] "mirai"
```
#rstats

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨

It's a lightweight #rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. #dataviz

This is a massive release!
@gmcd & @vincentab
worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. I also helped a bit with spine/mosaic and ridge plotts.

Check it out!

grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/