Wannabe Rstats-fu

What Is The Maximum Integer(-ish) Number That R Can Safely Handle?

Rust

savvy

Recently, I released a new version of savvy, a simple R extension interface using Rust, with improvement about a conversion to usize. I found some trickiness during…

Use `rust-cache` GitHub Actions For R Package

Rust

GitHub Actions

This is a quick note about how to use the rust-cache action on a repository of an R package.

How To Use Winit With R (Or How To Run Winit On A Non-Main Thread)

Rust

savvy

The winit Rust crate is a cross-platform library about creating and managing windows. If you want to create some GUI with Rust, there are many options. Among these, winit is…

Introduction of Savvy, (Not Really) an Alternative to Extendr: Part 1

Rust

savvy

extendr

For this half a year, I’ve been working on re-inventing the wheel of extendr. Now, I’m happy to announce it reached a usable state at last!🎉

Don’t `panic!`, We Can Unwind On Rust

Rust

extendr

Three months ago, I wrote a blog post about R’s protection mechanism and stack unwinding. In the post, I said:

A Quick Note About How To Bundle Rust Crates For An R Package

Rust

extendr

Recently, CRAN published a document titled “Using Rust in CRAN packages” and it refers to my R package, string2path, as an example of bundling all the source codes of the…

Rust 1.70 And Build Failures On Windows

Rust

extendr

This is a quick notice for developers of R packages using Rust. I posted the same thing on the R-devel-package mailing list, so if you already read it, you don’t need to…

R, Rust, Protect, And Unwinding

Rust

extendr

In the recent half a year, I’ve been struggling to understand how the extendr framework works. One of the things I found is that it’s extremely hard to protect and unprotect…

Rust and the CRAN Repository Policy

Rust

extendr

One year ago, I succeeded to release an R package using Rust (string2path) on CRAN. After that, I wrote a blog post about how to use Rust in an R package, and I said

Writing A Configure Script For An R Package Using Rust

Rust

extendr

configure.win and configure

Unofficial Introduction To extendr (Appendix I): Setup GitHub Actions CI

Rust

extendr

Integrate R and Rust with extendr

Unofficial Introduction To extendr (2): Type Conversion Between R and Rust

Rust

extendr

Integrate R and Rust with extendr

gghighlight 0.3.2

gghighlight

ggplot2

R package

gghighlight 0.3.2 is on CRAN now!

Unofficial Introduction To extendr (1): Your First R Package With Rust

Rust

extendr

Integrate R and Rust with extendr.

Tips To Turn R Markdown Into Slidev Presentation

R Markdown

Slidev

Slidev is a tool to create slides from Markdown. This post is about some tips to use it in combination with R Markdown.

Some more notes about using Rust code in R packages

Rust

When I first tried to use Rust code within R package five years ago, it was like crawling in the dark and I wasted several days just to find I didn’t understand anything.…

gghighlight 0.2.0

gghighlight

ggplot2

R package

gghighlight 0.2.0 is released!

Enhancing gather() and spread() by Using “Bundled” data.frames

tidyr

tidy data

Last month, I tried to explain gather() and spread() by gt package (https://yutani.rbind.io/post/gather-and-spread-explained-by-gt/). But, after I implemented experimental…

A Survival Guide To Install rlang From GitHub On Windows

rlang

Windows

I don’t have any strong feelings about OSs. They are just tools. I had been a Mac user for 10+ years since I was 10, and now I’m using Windows for no reason. All OSs have…

gather() and spread() Explained By gt

tidyr

tidy data

gt

This is episode 0 of my long adventure to multi-spread and multi-gather (this is my homework I got at the tidyverse developer day…). This post might seem to introduce the…

A Tip to Debug ggplot2

package development

Since the tidyverse developer day is near, I share my very very secret technique to debug ggplot2. Though this is a very small thing, hope this helps someone a bit.

How To Convert A Human To Waves By Magick Package

ggplot2

magick

I saw this tweet about Mathematica last year, which naturally urged me to write the R version of this code.

Quote While the Promise Is Hot!

tidyeval

tidyverse

Suppose we want to quote x when x is not NULL. The naive implementation would be like below. Here, y is for comparison. Do you understand why x and y are quoted differently?

geom_sf_text() and geom_sf_label() Are Coming!

tidyverse

ggplot2

ggplot2 v3.1.0 will be released soon (hopefully), so let me do a spoiler about a small feature I implemented, geom_sf_label() and geom_sf_text().

Double dispatch of S3 method

R internal

When I tried to define an S3 class that contains multiple ggplot objects, I’ve faced the lessor-know mechanism of S3 method dispatch, double dispatch.

Plot geom_sf() On OpenStreetMap Tiles

ggplot2

GIS

mapview is a very nice package to explore an sf object. It can overlay sf object on the map images:

Anatomy of gghighlight

gghighlight

ggplot2

I’m overhauling my gghighlight package toward the upcoming release of ggplot2 2.3.0. I think I will introduce about the new gghighlight() soon, but before that, I want to…

An Example Usage of ggplot_add()

gghighlight

ggplot2

R package

A generic function ggplot_add() was added to ggplot2 by this PR: