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R and Python developer, Data Scientist #rstats #python https://chrisbrownlie.com

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Hey #rstats if you're following me for @rconsortium.bsky.social news, you can go straight to the source now! We're on Bluesky! We'll be leaving that other place in September.

23.07.2025 00:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-07-18) Two introductions tot eh {ragnar} package for RAG in R; experiences with Claude Code for R dev; faceting {tinyplot} plots; the new {httr2} version, and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ•บ

- latest Claude Code thoughts ๐Ÿค– @simonpcouch.com
- faceted {tinyplot}s ๐Ÿ“Š @ereinbergs.bsky.social
- {httr2} v1.2.0 ๐ŸŽฏ @posit.co @hadley.nz
- RAG with {ragnar}+{ellmer} โš’๏ธ @stephenturner.us @smachlis.bsky.social

this and more below ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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18.07.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-07-11) Generating Quarto documents from R code; free monthly webinars for R users; the exciting new addition to {purrr}; the first R+AI conference, and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ’ฅ
- parallel {purrr} โธ๏ธ @shikokuchuo.net @hadley.nz @davisvaughan.bsky.social
- Quarto from code ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ @djnavarro.net
- R+AI conf proposals ๐ŸŽค @terrychristiani.bsky.social
- free monthly webinars ๐ŸŽ“ @jumpingrivers.com

and more below! ๐Ÿ’ซ

#data #news
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11.07.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-07-04) Positron's first stable release; contributing to base R with C; {zap} for efficient serialisation/compression; transpiling to Fortran with {quickr}, and more!

this week in #rstats ๐ŸŽ†
- {quickr} Fortran transpiling ๐Ÿ’จ@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
- Positron out of beta ๐ŸŽ‚ @posit.co
- C for R users ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป @rladies.org @ellakaye.co.uk
- {zap} for efficient serialising โšก @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

and more!๐Ÿ‘‡
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04.07.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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This week in R (2025-06-27) The latest in asynchronous programming in R, from two big frameworks; file-opening helpers; specialised spatial ML; Quarto presentation tips, and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ•บ
- spatialML pkgs ๐ŸŒ @jakubnowosad.com
- {futureverse} ๐Ÿ”ฎ @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social
- file-opening code ๐Ÿ“‚ @masalmon.eu
- {mirai} ๐Ÿš… @shikokuchuo.net
- Quarto speaker notes ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ @rfortherestofus.com

this and more below! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

#news #quarto #data

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27.06.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
This week in R (2025-06-20) How to go from R to Python; the latest on {duckplyr} in the tidyverse; Shiny in Production announcements; a new avian dataset package and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ˜Ž
- OLS in R ๐Ÿ“ˆ @thomvolker.bsky.social
- new bird data pkg ๐Ÿฆ @jasminedaly.bsky.social
- R -> Python ๐Ÿ @marcdotson.com
- {duckplyr} joins the tidyverse ๐Ÿฆ† @masalmon.eu
- Shiny in Production news ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ @jumpingrivers.com

and more below! โœจ

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20.06.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An introduction to Python for R users โ€“ Occasional Divergences This introduction to Python assumes you know R, which is used as an analogy to explain Python for data analysis.

There are a lot of introductions to Python, but this one is mine. It includes a walkthrough of using uv for environment management, Polars for data wrangling, seaborn.objects for visualization, and scikit-learn for modeling. #rstats #python #pydata

14.06.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 55    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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This week in R (2025-06-13) Learn all about brand.yml; all you need to know about testing Shiny apps; a new version of Air has been released; an intro to the {datapasta} package and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ’ฅ

- Air formatter v0.7.0 ๐Ÿ›ซ @davisvaughan.bsky.social @lionelhenry.bsky.social
- intro to the {datapasta} package ๐Ÿ @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social
- testing Shiny apps ๐Ÿงช
- learn brand.yml โ„ข๏ธ @rfortherestofus.com @grrrck.xyz

and more below ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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13.06.2025 11:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-05-30) Testing Claude 4 on R coding; the new {acquaint} package for MCP servers in R; {kuzco} for easy computer vision; spatial ML with {tidymodels}, and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ•บ

lots of AI-related news, an update on everything rOpenSci, some spatial machine learning, and a relatively rare base R functionโ€ฆ๐Ÿ‘€
@simonpcouch.com @posit.co @jakubnowosad.com @ropensci.org @frankiethull.bsky.social

check it out below! ๐Ÿ’ฅ

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30.05.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-05-23) Shiny security vulnerabilities; custom ggplot2 themes; the new superfast R formatter; Github Codespaces for teaching; Shiny in Production announcement and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ’ฅ
- custom ggplot2 themes ๐ŸŽจ @mansthulin.bsky.social
- Air R formatter ๐Ÿ’จ @yosky.bsky.social
- teach R with Github Codespaces ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ @mickael.canouil.fr
- Shiny in Production workshops ๐Ÿ“ฃ @jumpingrivers.com
- secure shiny ๐Ÿ”

and more below! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
#data

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23.05.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-05-16) Using fonts in R; virtual posit::conf(2025); wireframing shiny apps; multi-language pipelines with {rixpress}; plumber APIs in production with Caddy; and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ’ฅ
- all about fonts ๐Ÿ” 
- {rixpress} multi-language pipelines ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ”ง @brodriguesco.bsky.social
- virtual posit::conf(2025) ๐Ÿ’ป @posit.co
- {plumber} + Caddy in prod ๐ŸŽฏ
- shinydraw for wireframing ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ

this and more below! ๐Ÿ’จ

#news #data #programming

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16.05.2025 09:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yuhuuu ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ˜ thank you so much for the mention!
And I take the opportunity to advertise SORTEE super quarto series this month: events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

09.05.2025 10:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-05-09) A new version of the most popular IDE; more LLM benchmarking with {vitals}; a look at VSCode for R+Python development; learn about Scrollytelling; and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ”ฅ

- new RStudio release ๐Ÿ†• @posit.co
- upcoming Quarto Scrollytelling meetup ๐Ÿ“– @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
- new Gemini 2.5 Pro vs R coding ๐Ÿค– @simonpcouch.com
- VSCode for R+Python dev โš–๏ธ @rworks.bsky.social

and more ๐ŸŽ‰

#news #datascience

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09.05.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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This week in R (2025-05-01) Deep dive into R-Python interoperability; getting the most out of Positron IDE; spatial ML in R comparisons; evidence supporting DuckDB & R usage, and more!

this week in #rstats โœจ
- Positron tips & tricks ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ @albertrapp.bsky.social
- DuckDB+R=๐Ÿ”ฅ @amolborkar.bsky.social @duckdb.org
- Comparing spatial ML in R ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ @jakubnowosad.com
- Why R & Python are friends ๐Ÿค

this and more below! ๐Ÿƒ

#news #data #python

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02.05.2025 10:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-04-25) Spatial data + DuckDB combo; learn about LLMs from {ellmer}s creator; supercharge your Quarto presentations; using SQLite from R; and much more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ”ฅ
- Quarto Reveal.js tabsets and PDFs โœจ @mickael.canouil.fr
- SQLite in R ๐Ÿ’ฝ @kenkoonwong.bsky.social
- {ellmer} Workshop for Ukraine ๐Ÿค– @hadley.nz
- new DuckDB {duckspatial} pkg ๐Ÿฆ†

and more! โœจ

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25.04.2025 10:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-04-18) Summarising cycling routes with AI in R; assessing LLM performance on R coding tasks; route planning with Valhalla in R; managing RStudio addins, and much more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ”ฅ
- assessing GPT4.1 โš–๏ธ @simonpcouch.com
- a new R pkg for route optimisation ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ
- managing Rstudio addins โž•
- using {ellmer} to analyse cycling routes๐Ÿšฒ

and more below! โœจ
#ai #ellmer #llm #news

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18.04.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Semantic Branch Names Semantic Branch Names. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

its a naming convention I've seen called 'semantic branch naming' although there are other names/variations - there are some explanations of common prefixes at gist.github.com/seunggabi/87... and gist.github.com/joshbuchea/6...

17.04.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Return linter โ€” return_linter This linter checks functions' return() expressions.

I think you can use {lintr}s return_linter with return_style="explicit"? lintr.r-lib.org/reference/re...

17.04.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-04-11) What's new in R 4.5.0; how to learn R with genAI; creating AI-powered interactive maps in shiny; the future of web API development in R; and more!

this week in #rstats:
- R 4.5.0 is here! ๐ŸŽ
- intro to {chores} ๐Ÿฆพ @simonpcouch.com
- AI+shiny+maps=cool ๐ŸŒŽ @kylewalker.bsky.social
- the future of {plumber}(2) ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ @thomasp85.com
- learning R with AI help ๐Ÿซ @minecr.bsky.social

this and more below! ๐Ÿฅณ
#news

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11.04.2025 11:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-04-04) How good is Gemini at R?; a new way to integrate Docker to your R work; Observable JS for R devs; getting the most out of DuckDB; R package QA, and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ”ฅ
- evaluating LLMs in R ๐Ÿงช @simonpcouch.com
- Observable JS for R users ๐Ÿ“Š @nrennie.bsky.social
- a new Docker pkg for R ๐Ÿณ @coatless.bsky.social
- using duckdb & duckplyr ๐Ÿฆ† @rorylawless.com
- R pkg risk & QA ๐Ÿšง @jumpingrivers.com

and more! ๐Ÿฅณ

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04.04.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for the mention! ๐Ÿ˜

02.04.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-03-28) Claude Code for R package dev; {mall} for LLM-based data processing; new {multideploy} package for managing many Github repos; a new UI package for R and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿค
- ๐Ÿค– @simonpcouch.com on Claude for R dev
- ๐Ÿ‘€ {mall} pkg for LLM-based wrangling
- ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธnew UI pkg from @davidgranjon.bsky.social
- ๐Ÿ™ the latest @coatless.bsky.social pkg for managing many Github repos

and more below! ๐ŸŒ€
#news #data #programming

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28.03.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Discover thousands of collaborative articles on 2500+ skills Discover 100 collaborative articles on domains such as Marketing, Public Administration, and Healthcare. Our expertly curated collection combines AI-generated content with insights and advice from ind...

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ”ฅ
- ๐Ÿง™ {rixpress}, the latest Nix-wizardry pkg @brodriguesco.bsky.social
- ๐Ÿฆ™ @frankiethull.bsky.social creative new R-based game
- ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ a data viz comp you can still enter
- ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ Positron/pkg dev tutorial by @juliasilge.com

and more!โœจ

#data #news
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21.03.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our bilingual Quarto docs is in "This Week in R"! Thanks for the shout out, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!

Blog post here: posit.co/blog/creatin...

14.03.2025 13:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No problem thanks for writing it! The grouped tabs functionality looks super useful ๐Ÿ˜

14.03.2025 13:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-03-14) Clash of the titans with {dplyr} vs {data.table}; making docs accessible to R & Python users alike; a Shiny in Production announcement; and some pkgdown tips!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿ˜Ž
- ๐ŸฅŠ {dplyr} vs {data.table} @albertrapp.bsky.social
- โ€ผ๏ธ Bilingual Quarto docs @posit.co @ivelasq3.bsky.social
- โฐ Shiny in Production deadline extension @jumpingrivers.com
- ๐ŸŽจ {pkgdown} enhancement tips

and more below!
#news #data #python

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14.03.2025 10:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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This week in R (2025-03-07) Useful shell commands; calls for grant proposals; a lightweight JSON database; variable naming conventions; improvements to the {reticulate} package and more!

this week in #rstats ๐Ÿคฉ

- variable naming conventions๐ŸŒน
- useful R shell scripts @jemu.name ๐Ÿ“‘
- a new JSON db pkg ๐Ÿ“
- the latest {reticulate} features ๐Ÿ
- 2025 ISC Grant proposals @ R-consortium ๐Ÿ’ธ

this and more below! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

#coding #data #programming #news

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07.03.2025 10:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-02-28) A brand new superfast R formatter; a new version of R; whats new in tidymodels?; useR! deadline extension; get to know {rix}; introducing {ellmer} and more!

this week in #rstats:
- R 4.4.3 released today! ๐ŸŽ
- Air: the new superfast R formatter @davisvaughan.bsky.social ๐Ÿ’จ
- upcoming {rix}/Nix webinar @brodriguesco.bsky.social ๐Ÿ“ฆ
- intro to {ellmer} LLM pkg @posit.co ๐Ÿค–
- tidymodels Q1 2025 update ๐Ÿ“Š

and more! โœจ

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28.02.2025 11:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week in R (2025-02-21) Learn more about the world of LLM tools in R; see how an LLM project gets started and evolves; take a peek under the Shiny source code; and much more!

This week in #rstats ๐Ÿ”ฅ

- using R to analyse NASA data ๐Ÿš€
- a guide to LLM tools in R ๐Ÿค–
- R Shiny options() and how to use them โœจ
- an example LLM-based app project in R and how it has progressed ๐Ÿ“–

this and more at the link below! ๐ŸŽ‰

#news #data #llm #ai

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21.02.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A tower at Duke university looms in the background. Ominous despite the brightly lit day.

A tower at Duke university looms in the background. Ominous despite the brightly lit day.

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats

17.02.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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