The latest updates to the rayverse bring new meaning to smoothing out the rough edges of your next 3-D visualization, the momentum of DuckDB continues with the MotherDuck data warehouse, and the role nanoparquet plays to bring the benefits of parquet to small data sets.
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* This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
* Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement Mapping
* Joining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDuck
* nanoparquet 0.3.0
* Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W26
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