Post by @dgkf@fosstodon.org

2025-09-02 14:15 UTC

The R Consortium’s grant cycle is rolling around (Deadline October 1st). Of course, if you have a burning idea this is the opportunity to pitch it. If you don’t and you’re an avid R developer looking to get paid for open source work, then I’d gladly support you in carrying some of my projects over the finish line 🧵 #rlang #rstats

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@dgkf@fosstodon.org 2025-09-02 14:19

If you’ve longed for more intuitive debugging in R and aren’t satisfied with having these behaviors tied to IDEs like Positron and RStudio, then I encourage you to take a look at {debugadapter}. This project is in the “strong proof of concept” phase, but life has gotten too busy for me to wrap it up. Unlike {ark}’s debugger, which is wrapped in a Jupyter kernel, this project is straight R. It works for any IDE that uses the protocol. https://codeberg.org/dgkf/debugadapter

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@dgkf@fosstodon.org 2025-09-02 15:07

And a couple other areas that I think need some love in the R ecosystem, for those looking for grant inspiration: - Package “features” https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/810 - S7 traits and cleaner mutable S7 objects via extension package https://github.com/RConsortium/S7/issues/34 - Ages ago I wrote a runtime type checker, {typewriter}. These days I think there’s more value in writing a static type checker that checks a package at build time. https://github.com/dgkf/typewriter

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