DEVONthink Agent: a CLI tool with RAG-enhanced search

I am excited to introduce a new R package called flownet providing high-performance tools for transport modeling—network processing, route enumeration, and traffic assignment in R. As of now, the package implements the Path-Sized Logit (PSL) model (Ben-Akiva and Bierlaire, 1999)—a powerful and well-established method for stochastic traffic assignment accounting …

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smooth v4.4.0

2026-02-09

Great news, everyone! smooth package for R version 4.4.0 is now on CRAN. Why is this a great news? Let me explain! On this page: What’s new? Evaluation Setup Results What’s next? Here is what’s new since 4.3.0: First, I have worked on tuning the initialisation in adam() in …

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Bye, Hex Stickers

2026-02-09

As one small sign of moving towards minimalism, I decided not to make a hex sticker for the litedown package when I started writing it in 2024. To be precise, I didn’t want to make a sticker image (PNG or SVG). I did make sticker-like ASCII art for the package, which you can find in the README file. It may look ugly (especially on Windows), but it’s tiny: only 55 bytes in total. I didn’t need to use any image editing software, and it only took me a few minutes to make.

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Navigating CRAN's Reverse Dependency Check Logs

2026-02-09

Note: This post is unlikely to be useful for most people, so please feel free to skip it unless you maintain an R package that has a lot of reverse dependencies.

The number of reverse dependencies of the knitr package (and rmarkdown) reached 10,000 a couple of years ago, about which I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, it’s great that so many packages depend on knitr and rmarkdown; on the other hand, it means checking reverse dependencies is becoming more and more …