#rstats whisper Release
~18x speedup by fixing things that shouldn’t have been broken in the first place: a pipeline object, SDPA, hard coded constants.
Plus multilingual support and per-word/token timestamps now.
rformat 0.1.0 is on CRAN. Base R-inspired code formatter built on utils::getParseData(), R's built-in AST. One Import: Rcpp, so it's lightning fast.
install.packages("rformat")
rformat::rformat_file("my_script.R")
#tinyverse #rstats
Here's a quick guide to setting up an R LSP for Claude Code in #rstats: christophertkenny.com/posts/2026-0...
Note that it uses the `languageserver` package at the moment, since I don't believe ark is exposed for a standalone mode yet.
years of base #rstats meant I had no problem reading this
I just hate tibbles so much.
(don't @ me)
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
When I was writing code by hand, unit tests felt close to useless because I knew precisely what every line of code was doing.
When Claude can generate 20k LOC before breakfast, test driven development becomes very necessary.
Happy Friday!
Thanks #CRAN!
> some have LLM help visible in the GitHub contributors list
Guilty! 😅🤣🤖
Did I have the ability to do these projects without AI? Yes.
Did I have the time to do these projects without AI? No.
bsky.app/profile/troy...
For our recent package releases, I’ve been using a lightweight, AI-friendly R workflow built around `littler` and 4 new tinyverse-inspired development packages we released today!
#rstats #tinyverse #ClaudeCode
cornball.ai/posts/tinyve...
If you haven't noticed, I've been using #claudecode to port AI (and related) projects we've long had in the queue.
For any #rstats weekend warriors out there who want come join us in porting Moltbot/ClawdCode/OpenClaw to R, we're pretty far already:
github.com/cornball-ai/...
Code
Shiny: github.com/cornball-ai/...
tts.api: github.com/cornball-ai/...
chatterbox: github.com/cornball-ai/...
This week’s project: a full text-to-speech stack in R.
Native R torch implementation (chatterbox), API routing (tts.api), Docker containers, and a Shiny app (cornfab).
Pick your backend, generate speech.
Write-up:
cornball.ai/posts/text-t...
#rstats #chatterbox #qwen3-tts
Repo creation gotcha: `gh repo create` doesn't auto-watch repos like the web UI does. After creating repos via CLI, manually watch them:
gh auth refresh -s notifications # One-time: add scope
gh api -X PUT repos/OWNER/REPO/subscription -f subscribed=true
#ClaudeCode #GitHub #rstats
And here's the overly functional sidequest to the whisper sidequest, a shiny app for STT.
You can use my torch-based whisper package, the C++ based audio.whisper package, the OpenAI api, or an OpenAi-compatible container.
Now with streaming transcriptions!
github.com/cornball-ai/...
Buried the lede yesterday: OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text model now runs natively in R via torch.
Local inference, CRAN-bound (🤞)
Blog + packages:
cornball.ai/posts/speech...
#rstats
Delivered:
bsky.app/profile/troy...
Last week I said stay tuned. Here's a slice of what I've been up to.
Added streaming to the app while writing this post. Finished right before Claude Code went down 😅
cornball.ai/posts/speech...
This has not been my experience at all. Although I am one of those #baseR and #tinyverse partisans...
Last spring, chatGPT was terrible and Claude was decent with #rstats. This winter, Claude Code has been 🤯
Many fun side-quests that would've taken 2-3 weeks are done in an hour.
More on this soon
How so?
That would be an image to image task and you can use the img2img() function to test it out. Be sure to play with the prompts and parameters.
"R #language is making a comeback" – Tiobe
#RStats
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4102696/r-language-is-making-a-comeback-tiobe.html
Starts tomorrow morning!
Register now! (free)
My talk on diffuseR will be Friday
Not sure if it’s ollama supported but heard good things about this… could just be my former colleagues drinking the Kool Aid but hopefully not
huggingface.co/ibm-granite/...
Been saying this for decades, and _actually meant it_. There is so much sanity checking done in a package that it absolutely certainly unquestionably is the correct container to assemble #Rstats code in.
#rstats #python fortune!
"Suffice to say it takes a certain lack of empathy for your fellow human to design a language where whitespace bugs are a thing."
~Claus Wilke, 2025 blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
#rstats Well worth reading.
Programming languages for statistical computing and graphics show provide the shortest path between an idea in your head and result on your screen or in your paper
TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live!
Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!
Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
#rstats #AI
