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Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with an image of a cute orange kitten sniffing a hand

I loved discussing "Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction" with @simisani.bsky.social & R-Ladies Gaborone!

Check out the recording and materials:

📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fOQ...
📝 ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/positro...

I hope this intro is better than the one between my three cats 😹

This week, I'll be posting about #quarto, sharing interesting #rstats content from others, and answering your questions.

Hi, I'm Charlotte Wickham and I'm your @weare.rladies.org curator for this week!
I'm a developer educator at @posit.co where I work on the @quarto.org team. Before Posit, I worked at @oregonstate.edu where I taught stats, data science and, of course, #rstats.

Curator Charlotte Wickham, Developer Educator at at Posit PBC. They spend most of their time using and writing about Quarto, but R remains their go-to language for creating examples, managing repositories and files, and exploring and visualizing data whenever the opportunity arises.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @cwick.co.nz!

The International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science (IDWSDS) Conference is approaching soon!

⭐️ When? October 14th!
⭐️ Where? Online!
⭐️ How much? Completely Free!

Sign up now to stay updated about the program and learn about networking opportunities.

www.idwsds.org

Just over 24 hours to go! 🎉 Join us for an exciting R-Ladies+ panel on The People, Purpose & Power of R-Ladies+. See thread below to be part of it!

YouTube video by R-Ladies Global R-Ladies Gaborone (EN) - Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with Isabella Velásquez

🤔 Curious about Positron, the next-gen IDE from posit?

R-Ladies Gaborone with @ivelasq3.bsky.social 💜 from @posit.co for “Positron for RStudio Users.” takes us through Positron tour, tips & tools 🚀

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/2fOQzgkxi6g

💬 Join: meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

#RLadies #rstats #DataScience

Thanks @ivelasq3.bsky.social for the edutainment posts...I learnt so much!
Thank you again for the {vitals} package sticker I'd been trying to find at #positconf25 🤗.
I think I managed to find space for it on my laptop 💻 🙂 😅.

I'm glad you enjoyed the talk Nur..🤗💜

R-Ladies YouTube Video Feed

R-Ladies and its chapters share so many amazing recordings!

Interested in seeing what they are and how to watch them?

🔍 Check out the R-Ladies YouTube Video Feed
🔗 ivelasq.github.io/rladies-vide...

Made with flexdashboard + GitHub Actions!

🧑‍🏫 Tutorial here: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/automat...

Wrapped up my very first presentation at #positconf2025 🎤✨
Nerves, excitement, and so much joy.
What made it unforgettable was finally meeting people I’ve only known online until now.
Grateful for the community, connections, and the chance to share my work. 🚀

#RStats #DataScience #rladies

If you're interested in the website, it's drddatascience.com My blog is linked in there as well. I never thought to do a tutorial as to how I created it.

Perhaps you can demonstrate to us how you do that 😃.

Yes it will definitely be recorded.
Please try and attend while its happening, we would love to see you there.

Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?

This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)

#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies

Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT

www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

Alt text: Curator Isabella Velásquez, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Posit. Recently gave a workshop on survey analysis at the useR conference; is updating a book called Data Science in Education Using R.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

Please tell @simisani.bsky.social how cool her talk was since I can't do it in person! #positconf2025

Thank you so much 💜...please attend posit conf 2026 next year...

🤗

Join me #positconf2025 in the #ATL where I will be talking about,
"History repeats itself: What the Du Bois Challenge taught me about reproducing visualisations",

reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/p...

If you see me come say "Hi" 😃

Find out more :
posit.co/conference/
www.linkedin.com/company/posi...

At #RSECon25 at the University of Warwick!
I got to connect with three communities that mean so much to me:
💜 #RLadies
💻 Society of Research Software Engineering
📚 #TheCarpentries

And the countdown is on: #RSECon26 in Sheffield 🎉
Who else is planning to be there?

#Community

“Smiling group of 14 R-Ladies at R Dev Day, posing together in a meeting room with a whiteboard and chairs in the background.

R Developer Day at University of Warwick brought together R-Ladies from around the world 🌎.

Spaces like this remind us how powerful our global community is when we learn, collaborate and build together.

Thanks to Heather Turner for making this possible 💜

#RDevDay
#rladies

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Hello, all! My name is Morgana, and I am so honored to be this week's curator for the #rladies account here on Bluesky!

I have been an R user since 2017, and while I now dabble in Python, in my heart of hearts I'll always be an R girl :)

I'll my best to make it an interesting week, and thank you!

Curator Morgana Kinlan, Sr. Strategic Analyst at DeepSeas, LLC. They say, “I'm currently working on improving my visualization skills in R, and also working with language models”.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @morgana-kinlan.bsky.social 🎉

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Hope we'll be seeing these at posit conf 🤞🏽

Jenny Richmond, was an academic and research psychologist, and now figuring out the next career move. They say, "I have been doing lots of data visualisation and making websites in Quarto. I am a bit of a fan of TidyTuesday and have had a go at curating datasets which is really fun."

This week's #RLadies curator is @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social 🥳

Jesica Formoso, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) | MetaDocencia. They say, "I’m currently using R in my research on reading comprehension at CONICET and for survey analysis as Impact Measurement Lead at MetaDocencia, while also participating in the Forwards R Package Development Workshop summer school because I am starting to develop a package for Spanish readability assessment and this is new for me."

This week's #RLadies curator is @jformoso.bsky.social 🥳

🌟 This week I'm curating the @weare.rladies.org account! 💜
I’ll be sharing bits and pieces from the R world — things I find interesting, helpful, or just fun to think about.

Come say hi, share what you're up to, or just drop by for some good vibes! 🦄

#WeAreRLadies #RLadies #RStats

screenshot of a slide deck embedded in a website. the slide has a dog with five puppies

The slides and recording for my talk "LLMs in the R space" at the last R-Ladies Gaborone monthly meetup are now linked in the LLMs+guide luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/c...

Thanks again to @simisani.bsky.social, @rladies.org and all the attendees :)