Frank Hull

i love data, me too meme

yaml12 is all you need

they're a 10 but they don't like tibbles

tabioka
tabbouleh
rutabaga
tabbymodels
tabasco
orangetabby
tabtab

I like how you are thinking. My late night root vegetable search history has gone wild this week.

I was also trying recipes, vetiver, or other 'foundation' ideas around cuneiform & quipu.

have a lot of "a data frame, a tsibble, & a tribble" jokes for this week

The kuzco package from @frankiethull.bsky.social made the January 2026 Top 40 CRAN #RStats packages by @revojoe.bsky.social! Congratulations, Frank, on such a great package ❤️🦙

rworks.dev/posts/januar...

GitHub - frankiethull/iltm: iLTM: Integrated Large Tabular Model with R iLTM: Integrated Large Tabular Model with R. Contribute to frankiethull/iltm development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/frankiethull...

screenshot contains text saying "Frank Hull and his team at ACES oversee 1,000+ production models to forecast everything from 25-year price scenarios to next-hour demand. By leveraging Posit Team and Positron, they deliver the quantified risk scenarios—like 105°F summer heatwaves or 2°F winter nights—that ensure cities and counties never run short on power."

Oh sweet, check out this Monthly Roundup from Posit 👀

It mentions my team & we really like regression 😅

more info: posit.co/about/custom...

GitHub - AI-sandbox/iLTM: iLTM: Integrated Large Tabular Model iLTM: Integrated Large Tabular Model. Contribute to AI-sandbox/iLTM development by creating an account on GitHub.

todo list: github.com/AI-sandbox/i...

what a great event! I'm still unpacking all the information shared 🤯

@rconsortium.bsky.social is putting together some awesome conferences & would highly recommend attending these!

"tabular foundation model" in particular like TabPFN. Basically a parsnip extension for TFMs, ICLs, & LDMs you may hear them called. But if you don't know about them yet that makes sense too. There are a handful of newer transformer models for tabular data released in the latter half of 2025 to now

list of recent working projects including: TabDPT, LimiX, TabICL, ConTextTab, Orion, Mitra, nanoTabPFN

great, now we need a unified tabular foundation model interface in R

i wonder what the library name would be 🤔

picture of person crying, i should probably go debug this

Feb. update to the LLM+R guide 💪

8 new packages including:
code review, predictive modeling, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, HuggingFace integration, Gemini CLI companion, a CLI coding agent written in R🤯 ,and more!

available in English 🇱🇷 and Spanish 🇲🇽
luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
#rstats

I'm very grateful that Luis maintains this guide. Very much recommend to those who haven't poked around there before! #rstats

> `paste-1` <- \(...){as.factor(paste0(...))} > `paste-1`("ab", "c") [1] abc Levels: abc

yes, i love hyphens in function names

paste0 is all you need

Risk 2026 is this week, there's still plenty of time to register!

Full program here:

rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...

Computer screen showing Zoom event where JD Long is speaking, with coffee mug sitting in front of the screen.

Coffee & @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com to start the day… it’s a good Wednesday

Big shout out to @terrychristiani.bsky.social and team. Great conf.

mask removed from ggplot2 4.0.0 unveiling the true identity as ggplot3

🙌🏻

I'm looking forward to reading the book!

Thank you @frankiethull.bsky.social !! Much appreciated. Our book is almost finished and we dedicated a chapter to image analysis using local LLMs and it features kuzco 🎉

almost there, debugging the dataloader/training script 🤞🏻

GitHub - automl/nanoTabPFN: Lightweight and educational reimplementation of TabPFN https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.03634 Lightweight and educational reimplementation of TabPFN https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.03634 - automl/nanoTabPFN

this is pretty cool, might be the best place to start translating to a lilTabPFN in R

github.com/automl/nanoT...

My {sqlm} package is now on CRAN!

Use lm() syntax for linear modeling with databases.

#rstats

usrbinr.codeberg.page/sqlm/

arxiv.org/abs/2511.08667

tabpfn is all you need

tabpfn is all you need

h/t to users

hey I don't know everyone that uses this but I appreciate all the issues, suggestions, & help testing ahead of the CRAN release.

But I appreciate @meteakca.bsky.social in particular & award you a super user crown 👑 as you helped me think about documentation quite a bit