a5R 0.4.0 is on CRAN 🎉 .
- a5_polygon_to_cells() and a5_linestring_to_cells(); index polygons and great-circle lines to A5 cells.
- a5_grid() is deprecated; reach for a5_polygon_to_cells() instead which is ~2x faster.
belian-earth.github.io/a5R/index.html
#rstats #rspatial #a5geo
Hugh
I have no problem considering consciousness in terms of LLMs, it's obvious - small robot consc., the thing is a gradation, well illustrated by Daniel Dennett and co. The problem is thinking it's all or nothing. It's not "a brain", it's powerful, not powerful enough for the illusion we fly in, yet
The global carbon system has been running on unpaid labour.
Chloé Naomi Swickard on permanence, the ICVCM Permanence Trust, and why solving permanence alone won't finance nature at scale.
belian.earth/news/icvcm-p...
New paper in Current Biology: liana cutting accelerated canopy recovery in logged tropical forest three times faster than tree planting, at one tenth of the cost. From 24 years of the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, Sabah, Borneo.
belian.earth/news/liana-c...
mdsumner
belian.earth
belian.earth
R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats
The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.
» arrow-extendr « now supports geoarrow 🌏
Use geoarrow types from anywhere in your 🦀 Rust-powered R packages 🐇📦
👈🏼 Centroid using geoarrow + extendr
👉🏼 called from R compared to {sf}
#rust #rstats
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:
github.com/ropensci/tar...
And try out the primary fork here:
github.com/tylermorganw...
#RStats
We've been working to make mori better - 0.2.1 is now on CRAN!
Share R objects across processes with zero copies using shared memory + ALTREP. Supports mirai and all parallel frameworks.
New: `prune_shared()` cleans orphaned regions, cleaner errors.
github.com/shikokuchuo/...
#Rstats #Tidyverse
New: Zarr support in deck.gl-raster! Here's a GPU-driven animation of Zarr temperature forecasts, fully client-side, no server involved.
developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...
Josiah
Tyler Morgan-Wall
Charlie Gao
Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM.
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
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