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 🙏

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...