Emil Hvitfeldt

Yes I am

i could technically also try to run the code, however I didn't see a need give it that idea. The results I have been seen are good enough

it can find them from the file name and fig-label

thank you! you will still need to manually edit them, but is is definitely helpful

Adding alt text to figures in quarto with Claude Code Alt text is a very important thing to make sure you do right when making websites. Using AI agents such as Claude Code can help with a lot of the heavy lifting.

Wrote a new blogpost on how to use Claude Code to help generate alt text in quarto projects.

alt text is very valuable and should always be a priority, AI agents help you get 90% of the way there!
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A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

choosing a starter also changes something else (your rivals pokemon) but your choice of fossil only changes you. I think, haven't played kanto in a while

GitHub - rstudio/hex-stickers: RStudio hex stickers RStudio hex stickers. Contribute to rstudio/hex-stickers development by creating an account on GitHub.

We have been using stickerApp lately github.com/rstudio/hex-...

hi 👋 we always appreciate and read feedback! we would love if some of these problems could be raised as issues in their respective repositories. Wanna say {infer} and {tune}?

I'm personally not a big fan of R6 for user-facing code. But I agree with the overarching point. Many R package design decisions are based on what object systems are in place

The newest version of quarto revealjs roughnotation extension now integrated with Quarto Wizard for amazing autocomplete thanks to @mickael.canouil.fr

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Claude Code: Setting up ast-grep with R support If you are using a coding agent such as Claude Code, then you can get so much out of it by using CLI tools.

I have found that one big way of improving how coding agents like Claude Code works is by giving it access to tools it can use well. ast-grep is one such tool.

In this blog post I show how you can set up ast-grep to work with R

emilhvitfeldt.com/post/ast-gre...

Can't wait to hang out!

2. Install the diagram extension in a Quarto project. Create a new Quarto project. From the terminal, run this to install the diagram extension: quarto install extension pandoc-ext/diagram 3. Tell your document to use the extension. Add this to the YAML header of a Quarto document: filters: - diagram 4. Add a .tikz block to your document. Add a tikz code block to your document like this: ```{.tikz} \begin{tikzpicture}[>={stealth}] \node (x) at (0,0) {$X_{t}$}; \node (y) at (2,0) {$Y_{t + 1}$}; \node (z) at (1,1) {$Z$}; \path[->] (z) edge (x); \path[->] (z) edge (y); \path[->] (x) edge (y); \end{tikzpicture} ``` 5. Render! Render the document to PDF and you should see a diagram. Render it to HTML or .docx or Typst and it should use inkscape to convert it to SVG. Magic.

New blog post! After years of annoying shenanigans, I discovered that nowadays it's *really* straightforward to get tikz diagrams in #QuartoPub to automatically turn into SVGs in HTML, docx, and Typst! Install Inkscape, install a Quarto extension, and you're done. www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/02...

#rstats 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" scheduled for March 11. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.) This should be the wrap-up release for the 4.5 series.

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one day I will get magic move to work in quarto! i have failed many times, but one day it will happen

shiki-magic-move.netlify.app

Calling all #quarto users!
If you are making some slides, what has caused you to reach for powerpoint/keynote/google slides instead of making them with quarto?

Worse idea Thursday: Zoom plugin that detects when you're about to sneeze/cough and auto-unmutes you for 3s.

I love R for everything statistics, but I've always been a little jealous of statisticians using SPSS Complex Samples or SAS SURVEYSELECT to design their samples.

So I decided to build samplyr, a tidy and pipe-friendly grammar for survey sampling design in #rstats.

dickoa.gitlab.io/samplyr/inde...

we need a really good title: “So He Says He Works in AI…”

I will die if someone leaks the horrid typos I send to AI models

depends on which one you are referring to, feaz is going pretty good right now

Surprise I wrote another quarto revealjs extension. Now giving you more fragments to use!

Easy to use fragments with conventional syntax. Works on headers, whole slides and on a letter-by-letter basis

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I whipped up a little VS Code / Positron extension with a couple of helpers. "quarto-helpers" can be installed from the marketplace, Includes but is not limited to:

- Sass variable completion
- Fragment Autocomplete
- Absolute Position Autocomplete

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#quarto #positron

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I should stop writing T
and just spell out TRUE

#RStats

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"nobody is talking about" and "no one is telling you" are always followed by the least interesting insights

I'm not surprised about this one bit. But why wasn't it advertised as remote controlled taxis to begin with?

I will! I have something new to show too 😀