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by georgestagg 5mo ago
In principle, yes, that’s the idea! However I will say we have focused mainly on the grammar and using DuckDB for reading from local files for this alpha release, so I expect there may be some bugs around connecting to remote databases stil
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by georgestagg 5mo ago
Currently our only writer module is for vegalite, the output is a vegalite spec (JSON). Tools already exist to render this kind of output to an interactive chart, SVG, PNG, etc. with their own controls for sizing and the like. Our ggsql Jup
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by georgestagg 5mo ago
ggsql has the concept of a "reader", which can be thought of as the way ggsql interfaces with a SQL database. It handles the connection to the database and generating the correct dialect of SQL for that database. As an alpha, we s
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by georgestagg 10mo ago
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
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by georgestagg 10mo ago
You can, yes: https://shinylive.io/r/examples/
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by georgestagg 1y ago
If you’re at all interested in segmented displays Posy’s YouTube video about them is pure gold: https://youtu.be/RTB5XhjbgZA
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by georgestagg 1y ago
For those who haven’t seen it before, Jones Forth is a wonderful implementation written in literate programming style. It’s well worth reading through, even if you don’t know any assembly. [1] https://github.com/nornagon&#x2
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by georgestagg 1y ago
Here’s a ggplot2 example: https://webr.sh/#code=eJxtkLFOwzAQhsWapzh5ckSUpEgsSBkY2RAVrN...
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by georgestagg 1y ago
There’s a simplified example here: https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/tree/main/src/examples/eval
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by georgestagg 2y ago
I like how the rules to the right of the headings react to the page width and how many lines are used.
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by georgestagg 2y ago
WebAssembly is generally most useful when you want to write high performance web applications using languages like C, C++ or Rust. WebAssembly sits in the background quietly powering the web-based versions of products like Adobe Photoshop,
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by georgestagg 2y ago
I’ll definitely be trying out more of LFortran in the future. For this post I really wanted to go deeper into the approach we’ve taken with flang, but I can see that LFortran is also a very strong choice here for running Fortran on Wasm.
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by georgestagg 2y ago
Thanks! There’s a series of books I really like, The Theoretical Minimum[1], that also takes that kind of approach but for teaching physics. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theoretical_Minimum
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Fortran on WebAssembly(gws.phd)
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