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Read and Play Digital Music (MIDI) in R using the fluidsynth package

A new package with bindings to libfluidsynth to read and synthesize midi files in R

Help make waywiser better! User requests wanted

The package waywiser maintained by Mike Mahoney provides ergonomic methods for assessing spatial models. Assessing predictive models of spatial data can be challenging, both because these models are typically built for extrapolating outside the original region represented by training data and due to potential spatially structured errors, with “hot spots” of higher than expected error clustered geographically due to spatial structure in the underlying data. The waywiser package tries to make it easier, providing methods for assessing models fit to spatial data, including approaches for measuring the spatial structure of model errors, assessing model predictions at multiple spatial scales, and evaluating where predictions can be made safely....

Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages

We recently introduced a new paragraph to the development version of our dev guide Provide a way for users to opt out of verbosity, preferably at the package level: make message creation dependent on an environment variable or option (like “usethis.quiet” in the usethis package), rather than on a function parameter. The control of messages could be on several levels (“none, “inform”, “debug”) rather than logical (no messages at all / all messages)....

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