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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Jul 09, 2026

What can you do when you combine the great spatial ecosystem in R (sf, terra + many others) with rayshader? The only limit is your imagination.😎 Modeled. Animated. And Rendered. Entirely in R. Rayshader 1.0 coming soon 😃 #RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · May 08, 2026

Replying to @StatistikkR@mastodon.social

@StatistikkR@mastodon.social It's less plotting in R and more plotting in R using one package in particular: rayshader :) Check it out here: www.rayshader.com

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · May 08, 2026

ggplot(ritual) +
geom_sf() +

theme_c̵̤͛̌̎̀͘t̶̡̨̯̝̼͗̂͒͊̀̾̇̾͜h̸̡̰͉̼̖͉̉u̶̡̗̮̜͍̠̯̙̍l̸̞̲̓̒̒̓̓̃̔h̶̛̖̣̲̩̖͉̠͍̬̄̔̊̽͜u̸̱͛̈̽̀̅() +

coord_noneuclidean()

#RStats #rayshader #rayrender

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · May 07, 2026

why would I get AI to write my documentation and examples, that's the best part.

#RStats #rayshader

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · May 05, 2026

Just released 🌳tarborist v0.15.0! Canceled targets have a little canceled icon next to them now.

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That's it. That's the update.👐

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · May 04, 2026

Replying to @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org

@jonocarroll you can separate out your components in {targets} as well if you create different files with sub-pipelines (lists of targets with assigned names), and source those files and add those lists to your main pipeline. I do that when my _targets.R file starts to get unwieldy.

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place

@yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place I know it's not the focus of the paper at all, but it bothers me that their refraction example is obviously a solid dielectric yet the interior vase is completely undistorted!

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 25, 2026

RE: @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org

I implemented a fork of {targets} which provides the necessary changes to support {mori} shared memory regions! Check out the discussion thread below to learn more about the implementation:

https://github.com/ropensci/targets/discussions/1584

And try out the primary fork here:
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/targets/tree/marshal-cache

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 23, 2026

RE: @shikokuchuo@fosstodon.org

This is really big (if it works!)—a big limitation for the use of R in simulation up to this point has been memory bloat. I’ve had to turn off parallel processing/reduce the number of workers many times in my {targets} workflows due to OOM errors. Hopefully this will solve that problem

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 22, 2026

Get in, kids! An ADSB storm is coming!

#RStats #rayshader #rayrender

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 21, 2026

Millions and millions of points...

#RStats #rayshader #rayrender

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 18, 2026

Look at how cool this is! 🌳Tarborist now tracks and tags invalidation (and potential invalidation) within your {targets} pipeline and actively updates as you work, so you can get a preview of what's actually going to run before you run tar_make()!

#RStats

GH:
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/tarborist

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 11, 2026

new release of 🌳tarborist, the Positron pipeline helper for {targets}! v0.8.0 brings option runtime/size heat maps for targets: it will now tell you how large or how long (user-selectable) each target is in the pipeline! I've also added the size and runtime information to the hover.

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Apr 03, 2026

Introducing 🌳tarborist: a VS Code extension providing tree-sitter powered static analysis of {targets} pipelines with target info on hover, tar_map() autocompletion, cycle detection, and upstream/downstream info/links #RStats

Github:
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/tarborist

OpenVSX:
https://open-vsx.org/vscode/item?itemName=tylermorganwall.tarborist

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Mar 20, 2026

Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫

#RStats #rayshader #rayverse

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Mar 17, 2026

1/5‼️Gigantic new #rayverse update + blog post! Introducing {skymodelr}: render 3D scenes in #RStats with realistically-lit skies at a given location, using just a latitude, longitude, and a time.

Blog:
https://www.tylermw.com/posts/rayverse/atmospheric-simulation-in-r.html

Github:
https://github.com/tylermorganwall/skymodelr

Site:
www.skymodelr.com

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Mar 10, 2026

There's plenty of discourse online about the value of GenAI for OSS, but I had a package fail to install on CRAN due to CRAN-specific config issues (not found on any rhub runners) and used GenAI to help develop a fix in under 24 hours, before a single BDR email came. Now that's progress 👍 #RStats

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Feb 05, 2026

Replying to @etiennebacher@mastodon.social

@etiennebacher@mastodon.social Nice!

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Jan 23, 2026

Ranking R function typing errors by the amount of whimsy they inspire:

1) libary: Ha, it's like I'm a toddler!
2) maen: Ha, it's like I'm Welsh!
3) liens: Ha, it's like I'm a banker!
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1000) dplyr::fitler: :blobcateyes:

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Oct 10, 2025

"Man, I really wish RStudio respected hierarchy in code-folded section headers... I wonder how easy it would be to..."

(inner voice: DON'T DO IT! IT'S NOT WORTH IT! JUST GET BACK TO WORK! THE YAK IS BEST LEFT UNSHORN!)

"... I'm gonna do it."

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Aug 02, 2025

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@jasminedaly@mastodon.cloud Thanks Jasmine!

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Aug 01, 2025

Replying to @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org

You can't see it in these compressed videos, but there are stars there too 😀

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Tyler Morgan-Wall @tylermorganwall@fosstodon.org · Aug 01, 2025

Using R to simulate the sky for the full day of July 30th, 2025 in Washington, DC

(hint at what's coming in the future for rayshader: give a lat, long, and time of day, and render an image with not only the exact sun orientation at that time, but a realistic simulation of the atmosphere as well🧑‍🍳 🤌)

#RStats #rayshader

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