Mike Thomas

Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social
🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl

And a favorite segment returns 😅

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs

Issue 2025-W39 Highlights Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at…

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🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

Hoping so for your sake, too! Best of luck!

that would be nice, right?

When rates fell to < 3% in 2021, I tried to refinance and they told me to call back in 2024 once I had 3 years of tax returns. Of course by then rates had come right back up to where I was already at...

GitHub - ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev: Development environment for Quarto PDF reports Development environment for Quarto PDF reports. Contribute to ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev development by creating an account on GitHub.

Finally got around to converting my LaTeX-based Dev Container setup to Typst.

Docker image is huge (> 4GB) but it renders so fast 🥲

github.com/ketchbrookan...

Better have those full 3 years of tax returns before you can even get a conversation 🙃

Issue 2025-W34 Highlights In episode 210 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast: The Positron IDE has officially been released after two years of intense development, and we share what…

Episode 210 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🎉 Positron officially arrives! @posit.co
🛠️ shinytesters @ashbaldry.bsky.social
🤔 Parameters in Shiny URL (Mauricio "Pachá" Vargas)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @colinfay.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

GitHub Outage == Free Vacation Day

Issue 2025-W31 Highlights In episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights we learn ways you can pinpoint just what is slowing down your R code, a novel framing for testing your next plumber…

Episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏎️ Speed testing @kellybodwin.com
🪄 Testing Plumber APIs from R (Jakub Sobolewski)
📊 Recreating NY Times chart with ggplot2 (Spencer Schien)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

#RStats

Should we resurrect it?? 😬

I don’t think so 😢

So many people around the world discovered what Apache Airflow is, and not for the right reasons 😅

Issue 2025-W28 Highlights It's been far too long since our last episode of R Weekly Highlights, but we are finally back with episode 207! In this episode we learn about novel ways…

Episode 207 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
🛠️ Generating Quarto syntax (Danielle Navarro)
🤔 Behavior-Driven Development @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social
🔍 Dive()ing into the Hunt @milesmcbain.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

Issue 2025-W21 Highlights Have you wanted a chance to rewrite your own history? With Git, you certainly can! We learn that and other amazing tips to supercharge your version control…

Episode 205 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📜 Good Git History @maellesalmon.bsky.social (SLCRUG)
📦 dockViewR @davidgranjon.bsky.social (Cynkra)
🕵️ Mock them all (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

Introducing {shinyfa}: Analyze Large Shiny App Codebases Faster with This R Package | Daly Analytics Discover {shinyfa}, a new R package designed to improve developer experience by analyzing and summarizing the structure of large Shiny applications. Perfect for consultants, teams, and contributors wo...

📦 I’m excited to share a new #rstats package I’ve been working on: {shinyfa} built to help folks working on large or unfamiliar #rshiny apps ✨

The package scans your app folders and extracts out details on render*(), reactive() and input$ to a dataframe!

📖 www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/shinyfa...

Issue 2025-W19 Highlights Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels suite,…

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🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social
➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you for this project, Dirk! We use it every day!

Issue 2025-W18 Highlights In this episode of R Weekly Highlights we hear from industry experts on how they choose a programming language for their projects, a big boost to the use…

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🤔 Choosing a programming language @jperkel.bsky.social
✨ Shiny with Copilot (Piotr Pasza Storożenko) @appsilon.bsky.social
🏫 Journey to learning R (Bruno Ponne)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats

Instant SQL is HERE
#INSTANTSQL

You know you're in trouble when the Tableau Community forum's top answer to your question (on something that should be completely straightforward to do in any BI tool) begins with "Just make a small Python script with a cron job..."

#databs

Issue 2025-W15 Highlights In this episode of R Weekly Highlights: We have a six-month follow-up perspective from an early Positron user, how the current landscape of AI tools…

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🛠 Positron joys & pains @drmowinckels.io
🏫 Learning Tidyverse with AI @minecr.bsky.social
📈 Observable for R users @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

#rstats

Home Learn R, R tutorials, R resources, blog posts and the latest updates about the statistical programming R language.

The latest #Rweekly issue is out!
Positron, Tidyverse + AI, Observable (another post by @nrennie.bsky.social in the newsletter highlights!)
#Rstats #reading
rweekly.org

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Issue 2025-W14 Highlights By some minor miracle (even on April Fools) the R Weekly Highlights podcast has made it to episode 200! We go "virtual" shopping for LLM-powered text…

A podcasting achievement unlocked: Episode 200 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛒 Text analysis & prediction with {mall} @camlivio.bsky.social @posit.co
📊 Guide to gradients @jamesgoldie.dev

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

YouTube video by CBS Sports Golazo Incredible Gio Reyna Dribble Though 5 Mexican Defenders | USA v. Mexico | CBS Sports Golazo

I’m just gonna leave this here…

youtu.be/L7VjqyQh1PE?...

@usmnt.ussoccer.com

#usmnt

Issue 2025-W12 Highlights Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscripts,…

Episode 199 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📑 Multilingual Quarto @ivelasq3.bsky.social
🐢 {ellmer} for science (seascapes models)
⚕️ 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map in R (Niamh Mimnagh)

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

Introducing the DuckDB Local UI, the easiest way to explore local data files with DuckDB. Built in close partnership with @duckdb.org for the community.

duckdb -ui

Learn more:
duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

Issue 2025-W11 Highlights Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power of…

Episode 198 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🌐 Unique documentation for your R package (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)
📉 LaTeX typesetting on graphs with {xdivr} (Paul Murrell)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

As an alternative to AWS, consider digital ocean. Works great for cloud computing.

Classically trained pianist here. The correct answer is A flat and it’s not even close.