February news! 📨 #RStats 📜 Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility 🎉 New rOpenSci Champion(a|e)s Program cohort 🤝 @mpadge is now Software Review Lead (Former lead @noamross#rstatsbecame director last year) 🎙️ “This is Tech Talks” episode with […]

By request: Simulate random street walks 🚶‍♂️ in #rstats #shiny! Pick any city, set bounding box + walks to visualize paths via #OpenStreetMap 🗺️. (Note: paths may be problematic!) 💻 Code: github.com/coatless-shi...

The amazing #RStats CRAN team demonstrating that they (exponentially!) scale

@trainspiration.bsky.social I like your claim about no one living more than 1/2mile from a station. Let me know if you need tools to measure that. My urbananalyst.city platform measures distances to schools, and distances to transport are all in there, just not exposed at the moment.

[blog] Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package 🙏 Discover the {allcontributors} package in this post by its maintainer @mpadge ✨ In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we encourage all developers of packages both within rOpenSci and beyond to acknowledge contributions wherever and whenever […]

New @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy blog post about my allcontributors package ropensci.org/blog/2024/11... - a great way to give thanks to all contributions to your open-source software projects.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

How people describe themselves is so endlessly fascinating. If that's all there is to this bluesky thing, then maybe that's enough. A fabulous example: "Vegetarian studying cows". Nice one @solivaz.bsky.social

What do y'all think of my first-cut attempt at "Good enough practices for language model packages"? It's intended to apply to open source software, and possibly to help guide adaptation of @rOpenSci's software review process. docs.ropensci.org/pkgmatch/art...

👍 for that. And now we archers get to say, Hey, it's what Steam is built in, and so should you