Soooo if Claude ignores the CLAUDE.md, how do you get it to listen to instructions?

I've used Rapp to make an R CLI before and its lovely! #rstats

👇🏽 THIS! 👇🏽 I have a 95% rejection rate with Claude 😅 It's exhausting! But you gotta draw boundaries early and often!

Getting absolutely thrashed by Kubernetes for the past 3 days.

Answering my own question: The following are newly added in R-devel for dealing with the deprecation of ATTRIB() as a public API call: * R_getAttribCount() * R_getAttribNames() * R_mapAttrib() See devel docs: cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/... #RStats

If you are using AI the right way, it should make your job harder, not easier.

I'm really finding myself more and more on the anti-Claude team. So much of my time lately has been dedicated to undoing Claude-coded implementations.

"Its about the journey, not the destination" I whisper to myself on the brink of madness in R #rstats

So very exciting and well deserved!

{arcgislayers} + {calcite} + {mapgl} 🗺️ read the data from ArcGIS Online, create the UI with Calcite, visualize with MapGL. #rstats #spatial #gischat

Using the R-ArcGIS Bridge to run R routines inside your ArcGIS app.

I get to flex #rstats up on this bad larry shortly. Not terrified at all. Call me Mr. 💩👖

I built a GitHub issue classifier for Apache Arrow issue language using {ellmer} - super simple and almost 100% accuracy. Blog post: niccrane.com/posts/llm-issue-triage/ #rstats #ai #llms

Today I woke up at 5:30 thinking it's only one hour less than normal. Foiled again by DST! Time to ban it!

I think the focus of training AI models to be "autonomous" has made them so much less useful for me. I want them to be an assistant. I want them to be the person that I can't afford to hire.

{calcite} v1.0.0 is out 🎉 Oh and {mapgl} has esri-basemap support now 👀 Try it out with calcite::open_example("page-sidebar-penguins") 🤖 using Claude? Feed it calcite context! r.esri.com/calcite/llms... A release post coming soon.... #rstats

Suggest + rlang::check_installed() is a powerhouse

Hetzner costs went up $100+ since last month 😭 stupid AI eating up all the RAM

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

kibbles vs. petfood.frames

Gotta learn the weaknesses of inferior languages so you are better equipped to convert people to the One True Language

In one day, bash, perl, sql, r, yaml, quarto, csv. I draw the line at python!

tests failing? no they're not—`skip_on_cran()` #rstats

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

Jeremy Horne, organizer of the Birmingham (UK) R User Group recently spoke with the R Consortium about rebuilding Birmingham’s R community as an inclusive space for learning and collaboration r-consortium.org/posts/jeremy... #rstats #opensource #community

Long overdue!!!

#tidymodels now has its very first cheatsheet! "Preprocessing data with {recipes}" is now available in Web and PDF versions here: rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets/... #rstats #posit #rstudio

Happy baba Marta, folks ❤️🤍🌸

Hate when tests fail and they catch a bug and I wasn’t actually perfect

"it's failing silently" .... no claude. the problem is you bby 😘

that was too easy 👀

I'm "data.table was right all along" but also still "i'll never use data.table because i can't comprehend the syntax"

Next step....getting {calcite} to work with {mapgl} 👆🏼 it already does, i just need to make an example :P New release coming in the next week or so! github.com/r-arcgis/cal... #rstats

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...

Ask and you shall receive!! {arcgis} + {mapgl} working cleanly!

New in R's mapgl: native support for Esri basemap styles! Build your maps and apps in R & Shiny, display your data over your favorite Esri styles that you use in ArcGIS Pro / Online. Just grab your ArcGIS API token and use `esri_style()` for dozens of choices.

This is our very best value for a live event. You don't want to miss this, #rstats, especially if you are in public health or clinical data roles.

This #rstats project coming together really nicely. We've now got build profiles, assertions, dev dependencies, bug fixes, performance improvements, and more. github.com/devOpifex/bu...

There is realistically no choice to be made -- that was in like 1992 While we're doing counterfactuals, the other important constraint is what R-core's various employers would have tolerated in the 1990s.

shouts out @eli-daniels.bsky.social for making this fix! 🐇 R is a great gateway to Rust 🦀 #rstats

A vent 🗣️ on R's use of the GPL license. There's a balance ⚖️ of protecting the developers / language and supporting the users of the language. I don't think the GPL quite strikes that. josiah.rs/posts/gpl-co... #rstats

When using Claude in Positron's terminal `cmd + enter` and `shift + enter` don't create a new line. Is there a way to enable that? #rstats

🚨 extendr CRAN compliance help 🚨 Want to dip your toes in R's C API? Rf_isFrame() needs a backport! Would love a community member to help with this PR! I'm **swamped**! I can provide guidance via GH comments and PR :) #rstats #rust github.com/extendr/exte...

In honor of the Alysa Liu winning the Olympics yesterday and repping The Bay™—everyone do the Thizzle dance open.spotify.com/track/7sUwXk...

Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats. US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley More info: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... #DDJ #JournalismJobs

#Rtistry #RStats 🎨

I joined Matt Forrest on the "Spatial Stack" podcast's latest episode. We discussed the importance of open data; why I use R for my geospatial work; why I'm enthusiastic about AI; and more. Watch / listen here: