Sorry I'm a few years late to the party, but I'm here finally! :) yihui.org/en/2026/01/h... Thank you all so much for your generous support over the past two years!

If it weren't for claude I would never write a UI test ever.

Mobilize the Guard.

Learn a lot from this package -- it was my first class based package and I used the S7 class which I enjoyed it alot. Big shout out to @djnavarro.net and @josiah.rs for their respective blog write ups on S7 -- while I'm not expert, it helped me to get going!

{b32} is now on CRAN! Super speed base32 encoding & decoding compatible with tidyverse {blob} package (still 0️⃣ dependencies!) #rstats cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

sqlit is hands down the best SQL database TUI I've encountered, yet! Blows harlequin out of the water! github.com/Maxteabag/sq... #databs

Following an Rcpp question 'how do I share an object / external pointer' between #Rstats and #Python, I cooked up a simple 'stopwatch' example in two repos with two packages: github.com/eddelbuettel... github.com/eddelbuettel... The Python side is on PyPi, shall I send the R side to CRAN?

I love "structured output" as a way of extracting data from text as data frame. 🎯 Image shows using the {ellmer} package and how using type_array(type_object(...)) automatically returns a data frame in R 🔧 {ellmer} website: ellmer.tidyverse.org #rstats #llms #ai #datascience

#r2u PSA: I added a 'rustup' invocation to the build containers so (current) `cargo` and `rustc` are present. If your Rust-using #Rstats package is on CRAN, it will be in #r2u as a (completely dependency-resolved) .deb binary that installs in seconds. #r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

extendr has crossed 1 MILLION 🎉 CRAN package downloads! Using Rust 🦀 with R is cool (and easy!) I swear! Do you have a package we're not tracking yet? #rust #rstats github.com/extendr/awes...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.

extendr has crossed 1 MILLION 🎉 CRAN package downloads! Using Rust 🦀 with R is cool (and easy!) I swear! Do you have a package we're not tracking yet? #rust #rstats github.com/extendr/awes...

Anyone have prompt tips for Claude / AI cli tools to make sure they don't jump to writing hundreds of lines of code without first coming up with an overarching design? I'm finding that the models have been increasingly eager to jump into solving everything all at once

On the long history of this kind of relationship to the state in the Black community: under the mailbox, “We don't dial 911”

Qwen Code is a nice Claude alternative btw—good if you find yourself going over your session limit....😅 qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-do...

The governor of my home state has basically abandoned my friends and family to fend for themselves.

What's the best way to work with a *local* Ollama model from R #rstats? Is it {ollamar}? Use case: I have a local MCP server I want to use with a small LLM thats not claude code github.com/hauselin/oll...

👇🏼my favorite JSON parsing package just got an update! #rstats If you’re still using jsonlite for parsing youre leaving a TON of performance gains on the table

learning kubernetes Through the Fire and Flames and boy oh boy is there so much going on!

I've spent this weekend trying to use Claude developing with #rstats and my takeaway is that it is atrocious 🥺 Claude is quite good with #rust, though! R? oh man...

We just published a JOSIS paper on what spatial data science languages have in common and what they still need. Insights from across the R, Python & Julia ecosystems. URL: doi.org/10.5311/JOSI... #SpatialDataScience #GISchat #OpenSource #RSpatial #GeoPython #JuliaGeo

Rust ↔️ R wrapper is 60 lines of code!!! This is a **super simple** example for those who want to dip their toes in! (Yes, Claude can write extendr!) #rstats

Base32 encoding for R! In the exceedingly rare circumstance you need it! #rstats #rust github.com/extendr/b32

It would take naught but a handful of republican senators to end all of this.

where(everything()): me after my wife is so very kind and cleans my office as a surprise #rstats

they're in my neighborhood now...

rv is a new declarative command-line package manager for the R programming language written in Rust. Being declarative, I've found it to be far-and-away better at dependency resolution than any of the other package managers … Using rv in a container

The algorithms themselves have a blazing-fast Rust backend, so you can solve and iterate on problems quickly. And they are adapted from seminal papers in the field and the PySAL group's cutting-edge research in spatial optimization.

Excited to see another extendr-powered spatial package in the #rstats ecosystem! <3 Want to dip your toes in Rust for R devs? Check out our "Rust for R Developers" and @me with any questions 🐇 extendr.rs/intro-rust/

*sighs deeply while logging into the first meeting in 2.5 weeks*

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

In any case, impeach his ass.

This is impeachable, right? Right?

Age and inertia, mostly. 'f.xyz' not S3 method for f and class 'xyz' objects fell from favour at some point, but 't.test', 'read.table', etc already existed and were in widespread use.

Given the chance, Claude will gaslight you into thinking your bug is something entirely different to maximize the number of tokens he munches

I have officially replaced str_detect() with grep() although a bit annoying that you put the pattern first then the object

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉 Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars. Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry

anyone else panicking over xgboost releasing a cran update last week that broke their legacy saved models? just lost like eight hours of my life strugglebussing a fix, it was awful, the code I used to fix it was awful, and i hate everything. might write about it later as therapy/closure #rstats

roxytest? (Never used) mikldk.github.io/roxytest/art...

I don't know anything about it, but I came across this `#' @tests` format the other day: github.com/ShixiangWang...

Are there any R packages that let us write tests in the R/myfile.R directly rather than in tests/testthat? I would write more tests if I could... #rstats

Say hello to josiah.rs 👋🏼 New website just dropped 🎉 Built with Zola & Tailwind #rstats

User authentication coming to {arcgis} soon! Have user's sign in via ArcGIS Online and have tailored experiences. Powered by {shinyOAuth2}. #rstats #gischat

R, Rust, Geospatial "AI", and laughs with @fransvandunne.com and Diego of @ixpantia.com on their Podcast @datalatam.bsky.social It was a blast! Thanks for having me. open.spotify.com/episode/6C5L... #rstats #gischat #rust

🔥 {torchgnn} 🕸️ is a WIP implementation of Graph Neural Networks in R. - GCN - GCN (generalized) - GraphSAGE - Aggregators Development based on personal needs, ofc :) #rstats github.com/JosiahParry/...

Any examples of fitting a graph convolution network in {torch} or {luz} folks are aware of? #rstats

Miss y'all! <3 This youtube comment simultaneously broke my heart 💔 and filled it. Being off socials has been good for the mental and productivity, though. Hope to share more about it in the coming months :) #rstats

@eddelbuettel.com where can one find which packages are served by r2u? I can't seem to find a listing at eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/