Jenny Bryan

My virtual talk, a first look at #Positron for #rstats folks, posted while I was asleep 😴 but you can catch it here:

https://youtu.be/aKSrptGegeo?si=rTOSqhejk3DqspNc

Add criteria: vscode, quarto, renv by jennybc · Pull Request #130 · r-lib/here Closes #128 Closes #80

The here package does *not* look only for an `.Rproj` file (which is what it means for a folder to be an RStudio Project). It also picks up on other signals, such as a `.here` file, a `DESCRIPTION` file, a `.git/` directory, etc.

And soon there will be even more criteria! github.com/r-lib/here/p...

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If you attend *ONE* Data Science Hangout this year, make it this week's hangout with JENNY BRYAN. Trust me ✨

Thursday, July 31st at 9AM PT / 12PM ET - a casual conversation with Jenny powered by YOUR questions. Feel free to lurk or hop in the chat. #rstats #databs

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Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio.

Read the blog to learn more: posit.co/blog/a-quick...

related: we asked people to type in their dietary restrictions at last year's tidyverse dev day and ... we will not being doing that in future 🙅‍♀️

Highlighted text in a screenshot: "As a result this database contained at least 250 spellings of Chihuahua. Even with the best tools available, data this messy can't be saved."

this reminds me of an anecdote in "The Quartz guide to bad data"

the dog licensing database for Cook County, IL contained >250 spellings for "chihuahua"! (I'm not even sure how that's possible but 🤷‍♀️)

github.com/Quartz/bad-d...

I seriously recommend reading the comments on this one. An incredible collection of annoying website sign-in behaviours.

Tidyverse developer day 2025 Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

We're happy to announce that there will be another #rstats Tidy Development Day after the 2025 posit::conf in Atlanta!

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

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Plan your perfect conference with Sam Parmar's Agenda Chat Bot, powered by #RStats shinychat, ellmer, and ragnar.

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what about the password boxes you can't paste into? I also want vengeance on those people

Hmmm, the target audience is definitely folks at (or wanting to cross) the border between wet and dry lab work. If you were prepared for all the use cases to be biology, yes the content is generally applicable. You'd have to really look at past and future schedules to decide if fit is OK.

RaukR is an #rstats summer school (~1.5 weeks) I've taught at a few times. Highly recommended for content (of course I'm biased 😁), smooth organization, and an amazing location (Visby 🏰 on the island of Gotland in Sweden 🇸🇪). Intrigued? Sign up to get notified when RaukR 2026 opens for registration.

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Ever wonder how the #tidyverse came to be? 🤔

#TheTestSet's first episode features @hadley.nz on his accidental empire of #RStats packages, bear encounters, and more!

Stream it at thetestset.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts.

#DataAnalytics #PodcastLaunch

it warms my 💙 to see sheet_relocate() put to such good use

Deep thought of the morning ☕🤔
Custom LLM instructions will usher in a golden age for contributor docs.
Now there's a whole new level of motivation to create these and actually keep them current.

apparently I've shaken it off so thoroughly that I don't remember it! did I embarrass myself due to poor French skills? 😬

I'm excited to go to #useR this year and will be offering a half-day tutorial on Positron with @juliasilge.com. I just realized the last in-person #useR I attended was 2019 in Toulouse 😅 I hope to see lots of #RStats folks in August 😎

that was a pretty amusing mindset for watching that video 😁

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

this is the constant dilemma re: whether to provide a default

kind of like the blessing/curse of:

test_that("multiplication works", {
expect_equal(2 * 2, 4)
})

which makes its way into a surprising number of CRAN packages

usethis/R/github_token.R at ecf0c3ad0173753d9bafae7eef86c63e92801c87 · r-lib/usethis Set up commonly used 📦 components. Contribute to r-lib/usethis development by creating an account on GitHub.

hey I recognize that description 🤣

github.com/r-lib/usethi...

Two days until the Tongs Election

Yeah, you technically enter the US in the Vancouver airport. So if you were denied entry to the US, it happens in Vancouver and you could walk back out of the airport into Canada. As opposed to being shipped to, say, El Salvador.

www.reddit.com/r/immigratio...

I just speed watched the talk. It has actually aged pretty well. The main innovation that's really important is the double curly braces a.k.a. embracing operator {{ }} is a newer and better approach to enquo() + !!.

YouTube video by Posit PBC Jenny Bryan | Lazy evaluation | RStudio (2019)

First, thanks for the kind words!

Second, I gave a talk on this at rstudio conf in 2019: youtu.be/2BXPLnLMTYo?...

But 2019 is a very long time ago! So you'd have to really keep in mind that the tooling, best practices, and mindset have undoubtedly advanced since then. But maybe still helpful-ish?

This is killing me too 😅 because, of course, I'm like "use_github() fills that in for you!". I realize that doesn't help after the fact, though.

Hopefully the US will experience a similar about face in future 🤞

(Reminder: Color conventions are the opposite of those in US. Red is more like Democrat, blue is more like Republican.)

how hard can it be?

any day that I need that package is, by definition, a bad day but at least the name makes me laugh 😅

We're delighted to announce Jonathan McPherson – software architect at Posit – as keynote speaker at posit::conf(2025)!

If you're curious about how thoughtful design principles can improve the data science tools you use, you won't want to miss this!

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