I made an R Package

and it’s on CRAN

This is a bit of an odd post. This time, I don’t present my crazy interesting opinion about something in the digital social world. Instead, I show some of my work with a bit of pride.

R is my native programming language (yes, I know some say it’s not a programming language). I started using R in 2002 (seriously). Remember the #R icon with the red dot? It probably landed there when one of the developers had a little fight with paint half an hour before release of 0.3.1. Anyhow, I must be among the 1% longest-time R-users in the world, but for some or another reason, I never came to publish a package.

Only now I realize that this dot is not red, but Pink!

Why is this my first package?

R-users as old a me certainly remember clicking on “install package” in the silly Windows interface (I still used a mouse in 2002), and getting a little scroll-list of 37 packages. I think this made me think for myself: who do I think I am to contribute a package? This must be something for very important people.

Well, I spent 23 years *not spamming* the R community with my handcrafted functions. Even if I made figure functions that were almost as nice as the figure here on the right. (for n00bs, this was on the R home page for many years) They all I just felt too trivial to add this list of very important packages. I did contribute to other packages, but never wrote my own.

Now, in 2025, there are almost 23,000 R packages, so I thought: Who am I do *not* add a package too! I am not going into details about the package here. If you care about analyses of #power and #sample #size you will be interested in reading the package webpage.

Fancy name, fancy logo

However, I honestly really think powergrid is a solid package, because:

• It does not depend on any other packages, aside from base R
• It has plenty of great examples
• It makes a job that can be hard easier
• It is highly generic
• It is written with love for R
• The code and examples use =, not <-. Because that’s better.

In 2002, packages did not have pretentious logo’s yet, but here we are. A logo with a little memory pixel of the old days.

Thanks R, we had a lot of fun together in the past 23 years!

Sometimes trivia can be a lot of fun
On this page the size, the actual size of Wikipedia is calculated is calculated.

It is 24 GB compressed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASize_of_Wikipedia?wprov=sfla1

See the true size of a country compared to another country…

https://thetruesize.com

Fancy a reminder of how digital photo tech has advanced over the years? How about the amount of storage our digital photos take compared with 20 years ago?
#digitalphotography
#decades
#chart
#storage
#size

Mercator Misconceptions - Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries [Especially In High Latitudes]
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/ <-- shared technical article
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https://equal-earth.com/ <-- shared Equal Earth map projection details [the poster’s recommended global projection for many use cases]
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[note the ‘true’ size of high latitude landmasses like Greenland and Canada (and Russia as well); note also that the Mercator Projection was not / is not a ‘tool of colonialism’, geopolitics or the like, it was/is ‘simply’ a very clever projection to aid in marine navigation]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #projection #Greenland #Canada #Russia #size #landarea #projection #mapprojection #JustSayNoToGallPeters #equalarea #Mercator #marine #nautical #navigation #spheroid #globe #area #shape #direction #equalearth #Africa #rhomb #rhomblines

@vincedmonroy

How to tell a dick joke without actually telling a dick joke.

Just for fun today, coffee shop window, coffee sizes in Dublin Ireland #dublin #ireland #coffee #coffeeshop #size #sizematters #photography

I was looking at a size chart for swimwear, and for my ‘typical’ size it indicated a 31.9” bust with a 42.9” hip. Is it just me, or does that seem really odd to anyone else? A 11 inch difference?

Definitely none of their sizes will fit me
#clothing #size #swimsuit

#Surgeongeneral declares #gunviolence a #publichealth crisis

#Firearm #violence is officially a public health crisis in the U.S. — Surgeon General Vivek #Murthy says so. In a new advisory published on Tuesday, Murthy calls attention to the #health toll of #gun violence, describing the #size of the #crisis while laying out a roadmap of #research and #policyinterventions to #curb its effects.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/25/gun-violence-public-health-crisis-surgeon-general-declaration/

Seneca
279 bytes

h=128::_::?'⁶1⁶c'
k=0for i=1,50,7do
for s=0,6,i/220do
k+=1z=h-i
p=-(t()/(2+i/15)+s)%6x=p<2and i or z
a=p<1and i or z
y=p<1and h or i
b=p<2and i or h
c=p>1 and p<2 and i==8and 12or 6
if(p<3)p=p%1r=1-p?("cruelty springs from weakness ")[31-k%31],r*x+p*a-1,r*y+p*b,c
end
end
goto _

New Maps Reveal the Individual Brain Changes Linked to Different Mental Illnesses
https://scitechdaily.com/new-maps-reveal-the-individual-brain-changes-linked-to-different-mental-illnesses/ #brain #MentalIllness #imaging #size #connectivity #circuits

This is page 1 of a 4 page comic that I was commissioned to make! High res version and the CLIP file available on Patreon! Page 2 is going live there later tonight/early tomorrow morning!

Size

From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#size
#VaclavSmil

Hi, there's #nostupidquestions right?
I have a #selfhosted #wordpress #blog. Is there a #plugin I can use so that all my #pictures #size adjust to the #screensizes of my visitors? Currently pictures in the content column go into the sidebar, which is quite annoying to be honest. Any help would be appreciated, I have no idea what to do! #wordpresshelp #wordpresstips #compatibility #help #codinghelp