Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R. I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

mutagen was started six (!!) years ago, and has taken a little while to get rolling. I admit I haven't contributed much beyond the hex 😅 we truly appreciate the highlight, @batoolmm.bsky.social, @mike-thomas.bsky.social, and @rpodcast.bsky.social! Check it out here: github.com/gvelasq/muta...

R the Software Engineering Way: Introduction and Chapter Zero https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/r_the_software_way_0 #rstats #datascience

Reposting a great opportunity to work with @john-coene.com at Opifex doing R/Javascript/Shiny work 👀 www.linkedin.com/posts/johnco...

Episode 215 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤖 AI Newsl @simonpcouch.com @sara-altman.bsky.social 🎙️ The Test Set @mchow.com @hadley.nz @wesmckinney.com 🤔 Haskell for DS @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social Sam Parmar 🙏 #RStats #databs

A milestone for #rstats: FDA expands accepted eCTD file formats for R packages, based on joint work between industry, FDA, and the R Consortium Submissions WG. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/expand... #fda #regulatory #clinicaltrials

New on CRAN: ffiec (0.1.3). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ffiec

The R Consortium is excited to announce James “JD” Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026, our new online event on using R for risk. Join us Feb 18–19, 2026! It's not just for insurance—if you use R in climate, healthcare, lots more... Details: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons... #rstats #risk

Episode 214 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🕵️ {mini007} multi-agents (Mohamed El Fodil Ihaddaden) 🏎️ Jarl @etiennebacher.bsky.social 🎨 {rbranding} (Willy Ray & Andrew Pulsipher) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #databs

R!sk 2026 is coming. Online event from R Consortium, Feb 18–19, 2026, for anyone using #rstats to model and manage risk. CFP open now: talks, lightning talks, panels, tutorials due Dec 7, 2025. Details + submission: rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #risk #datascience

Creating polished PDFs from Quarto can be challenging. At @claritydatastudio.com, we now use Typst for high-quality, branded reports. @joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I have created a detailed walkthrough to show you how we do it. Learn more: buff.ly/hRuUEqR #rstats

Momma, I made it 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=frxq...

Episode 213 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🏎️ Algorithm racing @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 📊 GenAI for data viz @nrennie.bsky.social 🏗️ Shiny apps with BDD @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏 #RStats #DataBS

Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social 🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social 🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl And a favorite segment returns 😅 h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #databs

Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org 🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social#markdown& Jon Carroll 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

Finally got around to converting my LaTeX-based Dev Container setup to Typst. Docker image is huge (> 4GB) but it renders so fast 🥲 github.com/ketchbrookan...

Episode 210 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🎉 Positron officially arrives! @posit.co 🛠️ shinytesters @ashbaldry.bsky.social 🤔 Parameters in Shiny URL (Mauricio "Pachá" Vargas) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @colinfay.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

GitHub Outage == Free Vacation Day

Episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🏎️ Speed testing @kellybodwin.com 🪄 Testing Plumber APIs from R (Jakub Sobolewski) 📊 Recreating NY Times chart with ggplot2 (Spencer Schien) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏 #RStats

So many people around the world discovered what Apache Airflow is, and not for the right reasons 😅

Episode 207 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🛠️ Generating Quarto syntax (Danielle Navarro) 🤔 Behavior-Driven Development @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social 🔍 Dive()ing into the Hunt @milesmcbain.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats

Episode 205 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📜 Good Git History @maellesalmon.bsky.social (SLCRUG) 📦 dockViewR @davidgranjon.bsky.social (Cynkra) 🕵️ Mock them all (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏 #RStats

📦 I’m excited to share a new #rstats package I’ve been working on: {shinyfa} built to help folks working on large or unfamiliar #rshiny apps ✨ The package scans your app folders and extracts out details on render*(), reactive() and input$ to a dataframe! 📖 www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/shinyfa...

Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social 📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social ➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

Episode 203 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤔 Choosing a programming language @jperkel.bsky.social ✨ Shiny with Copilot (Piotr Pasza Storożenko) @appsilon.bsky.social 🏫 Journey to learning R (Bruno Ponne) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏 #RStats

Instant SQL is HERE #INSTANTSQL

You know you're in trouble when the Tableau Community forum's top answer to your question (on something that should be completely straightforward to do in any BI tool) begins with "Just make a small Python script with a cron job..." #databs

Episode 201 of R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🛠 Positron joys & pains @drmowinckels.io 🏫 Learning Tidyverse with AI @minecr.bsky.social 📈 Observable for R users @nrennie.bsky.social h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏 #rstats

The latest #Rweekly issue is out! Positron, Tidyverse + AI, Observable (another post by @nrennie.bsky.social in the newsletter highlights!) #Rstats #reading rweekly.org

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

A podcasting achievement unlocked: Episode 200 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🛒 Text analysis & prediction with {mall} @camlivio.bsky.social @posit.co 📊 Guide to gradients @jamesgoldie.dev h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏 #RStats

I’m just gonna leave this here… youtu.be/L7VjqyQh1PE?... @usmnt.ussoccer.com #usmnt

Episode 199 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📑 Multilingual Quarto @ivelasq3.bsky.social 🐢 {ellmer} for science (seascapes models) ⚕️ 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map in R (Niamh Mimnagh) h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

Introducing the DuckDB Local UI, the easiest way to explore local data files with DuckDB. Built in close partnership with @duckdb.org for the community. duckdb -ui Learn more: duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

Episode 198 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🌐 Unique documentation for your R package (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR) 📉 LaTeX typesetting on graphs with {xdivr} (Paul Murrell) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

As an alternative to AWS, consider digital ocean. Works great for cloud computing.

Classically trained pianist here. The correct answer is A flat and it’s not even close.

Episode 197 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📦 {ellmer} on CRAN @hadley.nz 📜 RAG Prototyping @christophscheuch.bsky.social 📰 Closeread Contest Winners @posit.co Plus a recap of my appearance on @coderradio.bsky.social 608! h/t Sam Parmar 🙏 #rstats

Huge thanks to R Weekly & Sam Parmar for the shoutout, and a special thanks to @rpodcast.bsky.social for sharing on the podcast! We're honored and energized by the support. Check out the posts here: - {ellmer} on CRAN: posit.co/blog/announc... - Closeread Contest Winners: posit.co/blog/closere...

Got one of these today and it was awesome 📩 Time for me to pay it forward

If you’ve ever thought about emailing an OSS maintainer to thank them for a project, do it! It’s really lovely to get an email like that. ☺️

What advice do folks have for organising projects that will be deployed to production? How do you organise your directories? What do you do if you're deploying multiple "things" (e.g. an app and an api) from the same project?

Episode 196 of R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤔 CRAN holding R back? (Ari Lamstein) 📓 Lit review with LLMs (Seascape Models) 💤 Introduction to laziness @maellesalmon.bsky.social @drmowinckels.io @frick.ws h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

Episode 195 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📓 Monochrome visualisation @nrennie.bsky.social 🧹 Tidying census files @johnmackintosh.bsky.social 📱 Why Rlinguo? @colinfay.bsky.social h/t @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats

@datarescueproject.org We archived all of the publicly available datasets from HUD (Housing & Urban Development) earlier this week in a public AWS S3 bucket. We put together a repo that demonstrates how to download the datasets here: github.com/ketchbrookan... Is this helpful?

Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social

Great to see my Gapminder scrollytelling visualisation (built with #QuartoPub and Closeread) featured in R Weekly this week! #RStats #DataViz

In case you didn't make it to the very end of the episode, Ketchbrook Analytics is hiring for a DevOps Engineer consultant (part-time or full-time, preferably in North/South America or Europe) with experience in Docker/k8s/Azure to help manage our ShinyProxy environments.

Episode 194 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🪄 Experiments with LLM code assist @simonpcouch.com 📊 Gapminder and closeread @nrennie.bsky.social 🌏 Downloading Our World in Data (Kenneth Tay) h/t Jonathan Kitt & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #RStats

It probably goes without saying for most of you who follow me, but the extent to which the private sector relies on open government datasets is massive. Limiting access to data or taking data offline would have huge consequences for everyone from startups to large corporations.