This was really nice to watch #rstats :) Fun application of attention models. Also nice to see torch used for such important work! youtu.be/0Zra1WYoiOM?...

luz v0.5.1 is now on #rstats CRAN. Just a small bug fix related to forwarding `predict` parameters to the model. I also added a new Variational Autoencoder example to our examples gallery: mlverse.github.io/luz/articles...

As an #rstats dev, I never expected writing a PR to ipykernel :) github.com/ipython/ipyk... It's now running for everyone with ipykernel >= 7.1

Just made a nice website for mosaicr. A small #rstats htmlwidget package that allows using
@idl.uw.edu Mosaic data visualization framework from R.

The real power comes when embedding Mosaic plots within Shiny apps. See examples and docs in

dfalbel.github.io/mosaicr/

tiny ( <400loc) implementation of Gemma3 270M using torch for #rstats

github.com/mlverse/minh...

Includes support for loading weights from hugging face hub.

tok is back on CRAN! tok is @hf.co tokenizers for #rstats. It uses the same Rust libray as the python interface. It's pretty fast and fully compatible with tokenizers.json available on hub.

See the release notes:

github.com/mlverse/tok/...

Dev 📦 alert! {lang} translates R help on-the-fly using your local LLM! It also overrides the `?` so you can easily access the translated docs and have them displayed on your IDE's help pane github.com/mlverse/lang #rstats #llm #ollama

Excited and grateful that R-Universe is R Consortium's newest top-level project! This means sustained support for @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy's platform for discovery and publishing of #rstats packages. Hats off to @jeroenooms.bsky.social for his leadership!

ropensci.org/blog/2024/12...

torch for #rstats has reached 500 GitHub stars :)

📦 usethis 3.1.0 📦 is released. `use_vignette()` and `use_article()` can now help you initiate a Quarto (.qmd) vignette or article. #rstats

usethis.r-lib.org/news/index.h...

This includes a bug fix that makes #rstats torch at least 2x faster on Linux CPU's, and possibly even more for other workflows.

Finally merged support for LibTorch 2.5 into #rstats torch main! github.com/mlverse/torc...

Just posted a Stack Overflow question! First one in a couple years. Do people still use it? stackoverflow.com/q/79171784/3...

S7 is really nice! I've exploring it in the micrograd package, a minimal implementation of an automatic differentiation engine (think torch's autograd) built from scratch in R: github.com/dfalbel/micr...

Our #PositConf2024 talk(s) on Positron are now available on YouTube! It was really special to get to introduce this new project to folks ❤️ and I'm excited this is broadly available now.

Take a look if you are curious about our new IDE:
youtu.be/8uRcB34Hhsw