Hannah Frick

Kelly stands in front of a alide that reads "expanding tidyclust"

In the frenzy of exciting #useR2025 talks, I forgot to mention that I also gave my talk. 😆

"Adding models to {tidyclust}", slides here: kbodwin.github.io/Talks-and-Pr...

PC: @healthandstats.bsky.social

I saw the hex wall, but they also brought back socks from useR in Australia! 🤩 #useR2025

I've been excited for @yabellini.bsky.social's #user2025 Keynote since it was announced!!!

Title slide does not disappoint. 🥰

Promotional banner for the R-Ladies Networking Event at useR! 2025. The event is scheduled for Friday, August 8 at 6:30 PM in Gross Hall Room 103 on the Duke University campus. The image features the useR! 2025 logo with a blue bull, the R-Ladies hex sticker, and a purple background showing tree branches and Duke Chapel in the distance.

Join us for the R-Ladies Networking Event at useR! 2025

Friday, August 8 at 6:30 PM | Gross Hall Room 103, Duke University.
Come say hi, meet members, discover local chapters, and explore how to get involved.
More details here: user2025.r-project.org/additional/r...

#useR2025 #rladies

A statement from the Royal Statistical Society on the dismissal of the Commissioner of Labor Statis

Following the dismissal of Erika McEntarfer as US Commissioner of Labor Statistics, we've released a statement of concern.

At a time of global economic uncertainty, we stress the importance of the independence of statistical institutions and the protection of the integrity of official statistics.

YouTube video by useR! Conference A first look at Positron - Julia Silge

It's the virtual day for useR! Some of the talks are already available, including this one: I always enjoy @juliasilge.com explaining things so if you are curious about the Positron IDE (it's out of beta now!), this is for you:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKSr... #rstats

GitHub - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats: The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2 The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2 - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats

Just discovered {ggcats} and yes, it does exactly what you think: adds cats to your ggplots. 🐈📈 Because sometimes your data visualisation needs a little more purr-sonality.

👉 github.com/R-CoderDotCo...

#RStats #ggplot2 #dataviz #catsinstats

The call for papers for LatinR 2025 (online) is now open! You can present in English, Spanish, or Portuguese 🗣️ #RStats latinr.org/en/blog/en/2...

Screenshot of title slides. Reads: Don't be dense! Embracing sparsity in tidymodels Emil Hvitfeldt Salt Lake City R Users Group

Slides from yesterdays talk "Don't be dense, embracing sparsity in tidymodels" are live if you are interested!

emilhvitfeldt.github.io/talk-slc-spa...

A little while ago I saw a really beautiful colour palette/colour science post. It was something to do with capturing pastel/water colours and transformations to the colourspace. I can't for the life of me remember what is was called, does anyone remember this? #rstats

After a month or so of not using Claude Code much to write R code, I recently returned to using the tool most days. Giving coding assistants the ability to peruse #rstats package documentation via MCP is so, so helpful: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-07...

Hi #RLadies! I’m Jesica, your curator this week! I’m super excited to be here and share this week with you! 💜
Based in Argentina 🧉, I’m a researcher working at the intersection of data, education, and open science. I use R for analyzing data, teaching, and (more recently) building tools.

Introducing vitals, a toolkit for evaluating LLM products in R The first release of vitals, a package for large language model evaluation in R, just made it to CRAN.

vitals, an R package for LLM evaluation, is now on #rstats CRAN!🧸 Specifically aimed at folks building with ellmer, the package will help you engineer prompts, choose models, and measure cost/latency/performance rigorously.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/06...

New post! How to open files, folders, websites in #RStats 📂

Featuring 👐
- base R functions
- {usethis} functions
- {cli}'s inline formatting
- IDE commands & shortcuts

masalmon.eu/2025/06/25/o...

Thanks @frick.ws for inspiration and reviewing! 🙏

It's remarkable that this is as needed as it is, but it is. A nice collection of practices.

Posit We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

At Posit, we love @typst.app:

⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model

So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...

#rstats

Schematic map of German ICE lines, labeled with speed and frequency.

Schematic map of Dutch IC lines, labeled with speed (only one line is fast) and frequency.

Schematic map of Swiss IC/ICE/TGV lines, labeled with speed (only the mountain base tunnels are fast) and frequency.

Schematic map of our Northeast Corridor proposal and existing off-corridor Amtrak lines, labeled with proposed speed and frequency; NEC speeds change many times as the line is full of medium-speed restrictions.

1. 🧵 on both German intercity rail and the TCP high-speed rail proposal, inspired by someone on Twitter asking @mattyglesias.bsky.social about how I'm addressing Deutsche Bahn's own problems with reliability. So, to start with, here are some schematics; NEC is what we propose, not current service.

Text: posit conf 2024 Virtual Tickets Available, Atlanta, September 16-18. A drawing outline of the Atlanta skyline and abstract cubes.

Registration for the posit::conf(2025) virtual experience is now open!

Join us virtually, Sept 16–18, and access live-streamed keynotes and 100+ talks, on-demand recordings, Q&A sessions, and our virtual networking platform.

Learn more in the blog post: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

#RStats #Python

With all my recent work on systemfonts I felt it was time it got a hex logo

Fonts in R Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash.

TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.

A word cloud of the most frequent terms in terminated NSF grant titles and abstracts, with words of different sizes, and different colors, with purple for the largest, red medium, and green small. "Black" stands out prominently in purple. In red, we see "climate", "student", "network", "justice", "identity", "teacher", and "undergraduate".

Curator: @noamross.net
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 18 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring National Science Foundation Grant Terminations under the Trump Administration!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-05-06

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Come for the detailed #PositConf2025 schedule, stay for the unpredictable rollercoaster of serious 🤓 and unhinged 🤪 session titles! #RStats #Python

recipes 1.3.0 This release brings changes for strings_as_factors, step_select(), step_dummy(), and step_impute_bag().

Happy to share that {recipes} has a new release with many new features and all known bugs exterminated!

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/04...
#rstats #tidymodels

Dummy variables, sparse vs dense Emil Hvitfeldt blog about R, slides and modeling

I wrote up a little blog post comparing the runtime and memory allocation of how we used to create dummy variables with the new sparse support I added in tidymodels

emilhvitfeldt.com/post/sparse-...
#rstats #tidymodels

I've just signed up! What a great opportunity to learn about using LLMs in #R with @hadley.nz, the creator of the {ellmer} #RStats 📦(and others, like ggplot2). Only $20 or €20! And you're supporting Ukraine!
June 13 online, 18:00 - 20:00 CET / noon to 2 pm ET
bit.ly/4jmEAJW #GenAI #Ukraine
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Headshot of Yanina Bellini Saibene who is a keynote speaker for useR! 2025, along with a quote from her.

@Yanina Bellini Saibene is a pillar of many R communities so we are thrilled she will be sharing her wisdom with us for her keynote. Yanina is a Professor at Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, rOpenSci Community Manager, and R-Ladies Project Lead.

user2025.r-project.org/register

#RStats #useR2025

Convert Files that Use palmerpenguins to Work with datasets From R 4.5.0, the datasets package includes the penguins and penguins_raw data sets popularised in the palmerpenguins package. basepenguins takes files that use the palmerpenguins package and converts...

R 4.5.0 is released and includes the `penguins` data popularised by {palmerpenguins} 📦! Some variable name changes means that scripts need editing to use the built-in datasets. The new {basepenguins} 📦 automates that! ellakaye.github.io/basepenguins #RStats

Want to work with me on the Shiny team at @posit.co alongside @jcheng5.bsky.social @winstonchang.bsky.social @schloerke.bsky.social @grrrck.xyz?

We're looking for another engineer, apply here posit.co/job-detail/?...

#rstats #rshiny #ShinyConf #python #pydata

For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:

Say hello to plumber2 🎉

plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

rsample 1.3.0 This release brings more flexibilty to the grouping of bootstrap confidence intervals. It also contains many contributions from the tidyverse developer day.

rsample 1.3.0 is on CRAN! This release contains a more flexible grouping for bootstrap confidence intervals as well as many tidy dev day contributions as general upkeep. #RStats

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/04...