Michael Gicheru
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Michael Gicheru
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Reposted by Michael Gicheru
I’m not aware of an Arrow or Parquet format, but there is the ONNX format (see onnx.ai). Depending on the model, you could try Posit’s orbital project, which translates your model to SQL (see here orbital.tidymodels.org).
ONNX | Home
onnx.ai
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This looks great!
October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Got a 10 minute video for you. The dots really clicked for me after watching this.

youtu.be/oIMFZf5dUFA?...
Demystifying . . . (dots): R package dev fundamentals
YouTube video by Josiah Parry
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ah, was mistaken then. Base R's `file.choose()` is probably the next best thing. Or `choose.files()` for multiple files and much more customisable.
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October 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I think it's the same? The rstudioapi package is largely compatible with positron
September 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
To remove the need to use them, you could use the {janitor} package to clean your variable/column names. For example:

```
library(janitor)
x <- data.frame("Month Name" = 1:12) |> clean_names()
```

This should turn the column name to month_name and allow you to refer to it without quotes.
September 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
You typically don't need those while working with R. I think it comes up because of how you are creating/reading in variable/column names eg from excel. The names probably have spaces in them hence the need to use ' or " or `. You can totally work with them as is but R does not play well with them
September 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Would you consider having literate programming a first class feature? Scripts with special comments could be compiled into a pdf/html etc?

Otherwise, looks really good!
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Thank you! I'll add it to the list!
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Thank you so much, this is helpful!

I am trying to improve upon a package that primarily uses matrices. But it's limited by the two-dimensional nature of them, and arrays seem like the natural step up.
August 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Ok found a solution. Turns out scales::label_number(style_negative = "parents") does this.
Note to future self: read the documentation of functions!!
April 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM