Episode 232 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🏆 Rousseeuw Prize for R! @r-foundation.bsky.social 🎉 Celebrating package maintainers @yabellini.bsky.social @ropensci.org 🤖 10 AI tips @smachlis.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats #databs

Interviewing pro tip: even if you have wired the LLM in using voice to text and have it listening to the call, I can still tell if you are reading off the screen when you talk to me. jfc, kids.

Episode 230 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🚧 Caution after R updates @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 🧹 Refactoring with Jarl @frick.ws @masalmon.eu 👃 Test smells @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats

Episode 229 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 💻 Building a computer in R (Gus Lipkin) @landeranalytics.com 📇 Toolbars in #shiny cards @enelson5.bsky.social 🧠 Async with memory @shikokuchuo.net h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats

Episode 228 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📄Quarto on GitLab @nrennie.bsky.social 🛠️Functions over Idioms @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 📦{muttest} @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏 #rstats

Wrote a little something that I’ve been thinking about / working on for the last couple of months. IMO, securing your agentic AI tool(s) unlocks your ability to run fast (safely) with them. blog.ketchbrookanalytics.com/posts/2026-0...

Episode 225 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... ✨ {shiny.webawesome} (M.B. Anand) 📊 {ggplot2} hidden gems @nrennie.bsky.social 📃 Typst support in {knitr} @yihui.org h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & the wacky curator 😆 #RStats #databs

Episode 224 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📦 {logrittr} (Guillaume Pressiat) 🌌 Universes of seeds @andrew.heiss.phd h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats #databs

Yay, @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are back! Their absence made it feel like there wasn't much news out of #RStats in the last month or so 🙃

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

Episode 222 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤔 Choosing LLMs with vitals @smachlis.bsky.social 👀 Pick a license (VP Nagraj) 📍 Git commits, mark your stitches @masalmon.eu h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏 #rstats #databs

Episode 221 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📰 Submissions WG successes and new plans @rconsortium.bsky.social 🕸️ Viewing nested lists @yihui.org h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats #databs

Man I really need to go back and watch this show again

It’s called R

Coffee & @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com to start the day… it’s a good Wednesday

Live look in at my code somehow not throwing any errors in prod

nanonext 1.8.0 is out - R now has a streaming HTTP/WebSocket server with bundled TLS. Runs alongside Shiny in the same process. We're already using it at Posit to explore new real-time capabilities. #Rstats #tidyverse tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/nanonext-1-8-0/

Can’t wait for this! 😁

Episode 220 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🎙️ @emilyriederer.bsky.social on Test Set @posit.co 💪 Git for data workflows @fgazzelloni.bsky.social @rladiesrome.bsky.social 🏗️ libdplyr @mrchypark.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏 #RStats #databs

"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall! More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

Episode 219 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 📊 LLM Plot Interpretations @sara-altman.bsky.social @simonpcouch.com 🌎 Soil flux @phytobio.me & John Zobitz 🏎 futurize @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats #databs

Episode 218 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤖 Semi-automating 200 PRs @davisvaughan.bsky.social 📈 Accessible Line Charts @nrennie.bsky.social h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏 #RStats #databs

A new year of R Weekly Highlights begins with episode 217! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤝 Polyglot to pluralism @emilyriederer.bsky.social 📚 RAG knowledge store setup @jumpingrivers.com 📦 tinyshinyserver (Lars Bernhardsson) h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏 #rstats #databs

Announcing Risk 2026 (Feb 18–19) - 2-day, 100% online For anyone using R to measure, report, or mitigate risk (finance, insurance, healthcare, climate, cybersecurity, supply chain, etc.). Keynote: JD Long, author of R Cookbook. Tickets $25/$50/$70. rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website #rstats

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Pushed a bug fix to {migrate} for all of the risk analytics folks out there 🚀

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...

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

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 🙏