The danger of spending a large amount of time with text rendering is that you either go insane or come out on the other side with an unrealistic expectation that you can understand and solve anything... In slightly related news the next version of plumber2 will have support for authentication

I've been dipping my toes in package development for #lua, #python, and #bash and #rstats friends -- let me tell you I didn't realize how good we have it with {devtools} , {usethis}, and the rich supportive rstats community

I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`. It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.

Visual do-ever of the plumber2 site plumber2.posit.co I really should adopt the logo colours for all my pkgdown sites

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in! #rstats

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

Quote with your yellow art 💛

New art/acustic installation at home. Made with #rstats

ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉 Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process! 📅 Friday, Oct 3rd 🕐 3pm Eastern 📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package. The blog post will tell you more #rstats

New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstats

posit::conf(2025) kicks off TOMORROW, and we are fully in launch mode. 🎒 Pack the essentials. 📲 Download the app. 📍 Check the schedule. Whether you’re flying to ATL or logging in from home, the countdown is officially ON. Let’s make it unforgettable. 💥 #PositConf2025

And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

In the recent npm supply chain attack, DuckDB's Node.js and Wasm packages were compromised with malware. We have investigated the issue, deprecated the affected packages and released new versions. We have released a security advisory that contains our full postmortem: github.com/duckdb/duckd...

I'll be running a brand new workshop with @teunbrand.bsky.social for anyone who wants to make sure they are getting the most out of the constant development in ggplot2 and its ecosystem. Hope to see you there

Level up your data science skills this September at posit::conf(2025)! Learn to tell a better story with data in our "Data Talks" or "Mastering Data Visualization with ggplot2" workshops. Join us! Register now: posit.co/conference/ 📅 Sept 16–18 | Atlanta #RStats #ggplot2 #PositConf2025 #DataViz

Want to learn to write fast R code—and support Ukraine while doing it? Join my workshop Thursday, August 28th 6-8 pm CEST! We’ll cover profiling & benchmarking, and take a tour of fast packages like data.table, collapse, Rcpp and more... With plenty of code examples & hands-on practice! #rstats

I’ve always thought this character was a caricature, but history is catching up arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

New art by Rikke Darling (rikkedarling.com/en) hanging proudly on our wall

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

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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

Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps. Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai. pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr") purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/

@thomasp85.com's meeting is tomorrow! 🔥 Learn about marquee with Thomas' and his amazing journey as super-extender and ggplot2 developer/maintainer (It's a chance to celebrate #ggplot2 at 18 if you also couldn't make it to the in-person festivities 🥹🙃) #rstats

The benefit of living in Denmark is that I can take ggplot2 out to a bar to celebrate

📊🔥 Next Thursday 3pm Eastern, Thomas Lin Pedersen joins the #ggplot2 extenders virtual meetup to talk {marquee} and more! Don't miss this event! -> ggplot2-extenders.github.io/ggplot-exten... -> Please leave your contact info... Or first learn more about @thomasp85.com www.data-imaginist.com/about

TOMORROW IS A BIG #DSHANGOUT! We have 2 featured leaders, & they're both keynote speakers at #positconf2025 😍 Thurs May 29 @ 12pm ET meet: 👋🏼 Kieran Healy, professor of sociology at Duke 👋🏼 Jonathan McPherson, software architect at Posit 📆 Add to your calendar @ pos.it/dsh #databs #rstats #python

Prepping a presentation of marquee for the ggextenders group My examples always ends up being horrible dataviz advice...🙈

Not amazing?

mirai - minimalist async framework for #RStats - released as an 'r-lib' package. Blog post: Advancing Async Computing in R. shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir... mirai provides event-driven async for #RShiny and parallel processing for purrr #tidyverse. Really excited to be working on this at Posit!

Now imagine the confluence of variable fonts and the CoreFoundation API... The pit of despair once again evolves

Variable fonts just feels way more complicated than it should, which is how you know it’s a real font technology

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