Gabor Csardi
@gaborcsardi.org
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Software Engineer at Posit, PBC
https://fosstodon.org/@gaborcsardi
https://github.com/gaborcsardi
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James Balamuta
13 days ago
Every message is parsed, threaded, and indexed. You can browse threads, see who replied to whom, and actually follow conversations that shaped the language. Here's a recent R-SIG-Mac thread about macOS 26:
r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com/lists/r-sig-...
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Max kuhn
15 days ago
Our list of 2026
#rstats
and
#python
summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...
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2026 Posit Internships
Posit is sponsoring four summer internship positions in 2026.
https://tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03/2026-internships/
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Szabolcs Panyi
17 days ago
🤯You can't make this up: amid Kremlin meddling in Hungary's election, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly sends Putin's former interpreter Daria Boyarskaya – sanctioned by Poland, detained by Lithuania – on an election observation mission to Budapest. More in my newsletter:
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Kieran Healy
27 days ago
Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.
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Using Quarto to Write a Book
I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted a c...
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2026/03/09/using-quarto-to-write-a-book/
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Posit
about 2 months ago
The newest edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Read a roundup of major
#RStats
&
#Python
updates: ggplot2 4.0.0, dplyr 1.2.0, ellmer 0.4.0, Positron native Jupyter Notebook support , and more. 🎟️ Plus, registration for posit::conf(2026) is officially OPEN! Find it here:
posit.co/blog/posit-g...
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posit::glimpse() Newsletter – February 2026 - Posit
This edition covers major updates from Posit, including new versions of ggplot2, ellmer, and dplyr.
https://posit.co/blog/posit-glimpse-newsletter-february-2026/
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James Balamuta
about 2 months ago
Uh-oh, these might be the droids you're looking for... The number one request after every webRios demo was Android support. Early stage, but we have a working R console inside a native Android view.
#rstats
#webr
#android
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Tomasz Kalinowski
about 2 months ago
I’m happy to announce Rapp v0.3.0 — a package that makes it easy to build and share polished CLI applications written in R. Read more:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
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Rapp 0.3.0
Rapp is an R front-end (like Rscript) that turns simple scripts into polished CLIs, with automatic argument parsing, generated help, and support for commands and installable launchers.
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/rapp-0-3-0/
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"The core of the library is written in C. However, major modern languages like C++, Java, and C# are not supported." :D Gem from a rejection for a paper on a project I no longer work on.
about 2 months ago
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
3 months ago
This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Flávia E. Rius
3 months ago
I won't miss this one!
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍
3 months ago
This is a very cool way to learn something and support Ukraine! 🇺🇦
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Stephen Turner
3 months ago
poisonfrogs: Color Palettes Inspired by Neotropical Poison Frogs
laurenoconnelllab.github.io/poisonfrogs/
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ
3 months ago
My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment Link:
https://drmo.site/8ny3eU
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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ
3 months ago
Day 23: cli - Beautiful Command Line Interfaces Create user-friendly messages and progress indicators. Pro Tip: Use semantic markup like {.fn function_name} and {.val value} for consistent formatting. Resources: cli.r-lib.org
#RpackageAdvent2025
#rstats
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
4 months ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 8 , 6 pm CET titled Inference for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package in R by
@mberesewicz.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
5 months ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on Dec 11 6 pm CET titled A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Simulation in R by
@damiepak.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Stephen Turner
5 months ago
I'm doing a workshop on R package development with Positron on Jan 15 2026. Register for the virtual workshop here:
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
I'll cover devtools, usethis, testthat, covr, and a few AI tools along the way to help.
#Rstats
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Jeremy Allen
5 months ago
In which use cases does
#RStats
excel for you compared to other languages? If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
5 months ago
This workshop is tomorrow, don’t miss your chance to register! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Andrew Heiss
5 months ago
woohoo this was super easy to do for course website Nº2
#QuartoPub
- now I'm finally in compliance with Georgia rules PDF:
datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/PMAP-8551-HE...
Site:
datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com
Code:
github.com/andrewheiss/...
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
6 months ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 16th, 6 pm CEST titled Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics in R& Stan by
@jamesbland.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Anne Applebaum
7 months ago
The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled | The New Disney | LUBACH
YouTube video by LUBACH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX-BQAjeE
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We Are R-Ladies
6 months ago
Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Isabella
@ivelasq3.bsky.social
, formerly a data analyst, now at
@posit.co
, and your curator this week! There’s always something new in
#RStats
. I'll be sharing: ✨ Favorite R packages + workflows ✨ News + tools you might have missed ✨
#PositConf2025
recaps ✨ A decade of R memes 🎉
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Nic Crane
7 months ago
I'm considering writing a proposal for R Consortium ISC funding to write a free & open source book on LLMs/AI in R. Advice out there is scattered between different resources. Wondering if this is something the wider
#rstats
community would be interested in, & what folks would like to see in there?
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Nick Tierney
7 months ago
Hey
#rstats
friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at
#WOMBAT2025
! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at:
wombat2025.numbat.space
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Hadley Wickham
8 months ago
We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...
. Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta
#rstats
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Tidyverse developer day 2025
Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/tdd-2025/
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Blas M. Benito
8 months ago
In case you didn't know: You can run your package unit tests with {testthat} in parallel with two simple steps (see
testthat.r-lib.org/articles/par...
): tldr: 1. Add `Config/testthat/parallel: true` to DESCRIPTION. 2. Add `TESTTHAT_CPUS=8` to your .Renviron and restart R.
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Jon Harmon (he/him/his)
8 months ago
Hello
#dataBS
(& especially
#TidyTuesday
) fam! I'm trying to organize a thing to help me keep TidyTuesday running smoothly, but first I need to get a bit of a runway. Every week I curate a TT dataset, and it's wearing me down. Please see
github.com/rfordatascie...
for some ways you can help!
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
8 months ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on August 28th, 6 pm CEST, on Efficient R by
@selina-b.bsky.social
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Posit
8 months ago
Ever wonder how an actuary becomes a data science educator? 🤔 Tune into the latest episode of The Test Set with
@minecr.bsky.social
. We discuss everything from her
#RStats
journey to her use of LLMs to give students feedback on their code. Listen:
thetestset.co
, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
8 months ago
#AcademicLife
in Ukraine: preparing for lectures at night during a massive missile attack on Kyiv in an overcrowded underground station
#EconSky
#UkrainianView
#RStats
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daniel:// stenberg://
8 months ago
Making libcurl work in webassembly
https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/
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Making libcurl work in webassembly
We explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy.
https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
8 months ago
This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
9 months ago
This workshop is tomorrow, so don't miss your chance to register! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
add a skeleton here at some point
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
10 months ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on June 20th, 6 pm CEST, on Building fully reproducible DS env for R and
#Python
with Nix, rix, rixpress by
@brodriguesco.bsky.social
! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Hadley Wickham
10 months ago
Happy 18th birthday ggplot2!
#rstats
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
10 months ago
Just 3 days left until this workshop, so don't miss your chance to register! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters.
10 months ago
finally learnt how to use to {cli} spinner bars thanks to
@djnavarro.net
blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-0...
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Pretty little CLIs – Notes from a data witch
How to make a gorgeous command line interface in R using the cli package. Somewhere along the way I accidentally learned about ANSI control codes, which strikes me as unfortunate
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-04-18_pretty-little-clis/
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
10 months ago
Hi
#rstats
! Does anyone know of any good free online self-paced comprehensive R video courses for complete beginners? Ideally, with interactive exercises that would be automatically checked, and the ability to gain certificates. Thanks!
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June Choe
10 months ago
Excited to share a new
#rstats
project: ggplot2 layer explorer
#shiny
app! My latest experiment in demystifying ggplot2 internals gives you interactive control over the rendering pipeline. I hope this helps make the internals more accessible and, most importantly, fun! 😄
github.com/yjunechoe/gg...
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Hadley Wickham
10 months ago
At Posit, we love
@typst.app
: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development:
posit.co/blog/posit-a...
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Posit
We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
https://posit.co/blog/posit-and-typst/
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Nicola Rennie
10 months ago
For this week's
#TidyTuesday
, we're looking at Dungeons and Dragons monsters! 📊 Obviously had to make a small multiple alignment chart 🔍 Magnified version to show labels ❓ Radar charts: the chaotic evil of chart types alignment?
#RStats
#DataViz
#ggplot2
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
11 months ago
❗️Our next workshop will be on May 29th, 6 pm CEST, on surveydown:An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys by
@jhelvy.bsky.social
! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky
#EconSky
#RStats
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Julia Evans
11 months ago
I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works
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John Burn-Murdoch
11 months ago
Really looking forward to today’s data visualisation class, where I’ll be going behind the scenes to walk through the little design decisions that can transform a chart. Free to watch for anyone interested:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-...
(Recording will be available later)
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Designing for impact with John Burn-Murdoch
In our second session, we'll go over what it takes to create an impactful chart
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-for-impact-with-john-burn-murdoch-tickets-1335265457929?aff=JBM
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna
11 months ago
An upd report on our workshops for Ukraine series on
#RStats
,
#Python
& more. So far, we have raised >96k euro & the workshops have been attended by > 4300 ppl! 👇you can find more info on how you can help & a detailed report. All info on workshops:
bit.ly/3wBeY4S
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Simon Smart
11 months ago
I'm delivering a Workshop for Ukraine on 5 June about {shinyscholar}
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
a template for creating reproducible shiny apps for complex analyses in
#rstats
. More info and sign up here:
sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
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Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine
Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)
https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.svl2ujruwf92
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