*technically* the "Lower 48" doesn't include D.C.

Behold, ye vibers! The promise land (the docs) await you!

Don't trust everything Claude tells you!

Vibe check! How we doin'? Good? Good!

quick problem-solving note about loops and ggplot2 www.tjmahr.com/notes/2026-0...

i have two fixes for you. 1) use aes(bill_len, m[, !! i]) to force evaluation of i to its value. do that only in the aes() part. or 2) use ggplotGrob(gg) or patchwork::wrap_ggplot_grob(ggplotGrob(gg)) on the plot to forced it to be built

I feel like #rstats is actually doing well re: "Maintainers need help finding out who’s downstream of them, talking to those people before things break". I know that R core uses CRAN pkgs basically as tests and pkg maintainers *have* to grapple with rev dep breakage before release.

Why can't I do this 😭 #rstats

Yet again bamboozled by ggplot2's lazy eval...This is my white whale in R 🐋 10 years in and i still have no idea how to plot multiple ggplots

Is there a flavor of Claude that is an "assistant?" The shift towards "autonomous" has ruined claude for me :(

resisting the urge to respond "what if we just remove commas from the language" on the R-devel thread about how trailing commas should be handled

How do we get fenced divs into the commonmark spec?

📣 Last day for @rconsortium.bsky.social grant submissions! My (unofficial) Tips: - Small scoped R 📦 (or improvement) / tool - ~6 - 12 month duration - 3-7k ask is the sweet spot Spend 45-60 mins with your thoughts to write a proposal! r-consortium.org/all-projects... #rstats

A cool looking job opening at the NY times! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti... #rstats

That 12Mb hex sticker is the winner (the single largest PNG among all R packages on CRAN). With enough memory, it can be optimized to a few hundred Kb (lossless).

We're working on supporting **condition** objects in extendr. If you're a 🦀 #rust **and** #rstats 🐇 dev, would love your input on this new feature! github.com/extendr/exte...

I could really use a "💩 i hate about Claude" venting group

Happy #EarthDay from Esri! For more than 3 decades, the Esri Conservation Program has provided technology and training assistance to conservation professionals around the globe. If you are interested in applying, visit www.esri.com/en-us/indust... #gischat 🌍 🌏 🌎

R-Consortium grant submission deadline May 1st! My (very unofficial and not-endorsed) recommendation is: - targeted and clearly scoped proposal - Short and concise (maybe a list, chart, table etc) - Milestones across ~6-8 months - ~5k-ish USD #rstats r-consortium.org/all-projects...

{hypertext} 1.2.0 is out on CRAN. we've added support for trailing commas in tags. quite a small feature but makes for great UX. check it out: github.com/sigflux/hype... #rstats

extendr v0.9.0 is release! 🚀 (hopefully) our last until v1.0.0! Improved DX 👨🏻‍💻 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙙𝙚 included! - `anyhow` support out of the box - deprecates `rextendr::document()` use {devtools} only! - use std trait implementations instead of custom methods #rstats #rust extendr.rs/blog/posts/2...

`ollama pull qwen3.5:9b` from the cafe wifi and now i feel evil

I've been using gh pr-review to help with claude assisted PR review. Workflow: - I provide detailed comments in GH PR review - Have claude review them - Claude gets everything entirely wrong - I do it myself. Still extremely useful! github.com/agynio/gh-pr... #claude

In case you aren't aware, TinyTeX has started offering binaries for ARM and musl-based Linux since last month: yihui.org/en/2026/03/t... Enjoy the extra 5 minutes saved! BTW, I didn't know musl/Alpine Linux before. While working on TinyTeX binary for it, I was intrigued and also quite impressed.

ok so my ex yc vp is vv go go on ai rn bc he is in an sv vc gc or we -- my em is in on it w/ ai as an os to do ui qa in ci -- so tl dr ig im tl of ai ui qa ?? rn ai ui qa v1 is cc in an hv vm on my pc on gh pr xd

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 1 April of Tomáš Kalibera, a valuable member of the R Core Team for close to 10 years, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time.

Seattle is the only city I’ve lived in where I have to wait hours for coffee shops to open up. It’s 8am, why aren’t you selling coffee?

Me after a visit to Renton.

I donated a smol amount. Will you? Also, CRISPR is awesome.

🤖 🚨 "No x. No y. Just z." 👈🏼 tell-tale sign a clanker wrote your blog

Nifty

The Huff model is the classic algorithm in retail spatial analysis - and you can now use it in R. Predict: - Which store a customer is likely to visit - Sales potential per location - How new stores reshape the competitive landscape Learn more: walker-data.com/spop...

I guess easter reincarnated {ggvis} as {gglite} #rstats

The examples are just ridic. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/examp... Hardest going soft launch ever.

✨ CRAN non-API 📦 package checks via GitHub action and {plumber} API 👨🏻‍🔧 Changes keep coming left and right and I can't keep up! github.com/JosiahParry/... #rstats

Hey #rstats -- does anyone have a good example of how to serialize a struct from a 3rd-party rust crate using extendr to make it available from R?

update: if the struct implements serde's deserialize, you can use extendr_api::serializer::to_robj to return an Robj

Regular (increasingly regular) reminder that CONGRESS CAN STOP THIS AT PRECISELY ANY MOMENT OF THEIR CHOOSING They are the first branch. God forbid they act like it

Invoke the 25th Amendment.

As a user, I love it when #RStats functions feel like they know what I meant, even when I'm a bit sloppy. If it's looking for TRUE and I send in "true" from a variable somewhere upstream, often that's close enough... But not always. That's why I made {stbl} stbl.wrangle.zone. v0.3.0 is on CRAN today

Her favorite thing is warm laundry.

Manual review of the packages and the automated audits (for example cran machines run ftrace to see what a package install scripts are doing), specific guidelines around downloading stuff in package code etc. But it remains that package signing is getting worked on r-consortium.org/posts/sovere...

If they’re doing install_github, sure. But the advantage of CRAN over npm is precisely that it’s well curated

Anyone have macbook pro keyboard cover recommendations? I got GhostCover and its not bad! BUT it requires a fair bit more hrumph per keystroke

Come to @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social and take my Intro to Rust + Extendr workshop ORRRR contribute to base R your call! I'll only be offended if you don't come! /s #rstats

Python package developers, what does your documentation workflow look like? Sphinx feels incredibly clunky but maybe I'm doing it wrong? #Rstats devs are spoiled by usethis, devtools, and pkgdown

Any #julia devs able to point me the right direction for checking package status? ❤️💚💜 github.com/JuliaLang/Pk...

"Why learning R is a good career move." Good summary of #rstats goodness. www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/why-lea...

btw, its not an em-dash that the 🤖 write. It's an en-dash. So continue to use your em-dashes however you feel—its the " – " that the clankers use.

📦 arrow-extendr: github.com/extendr/arro... 👆🏼i always forget the repo