"R #language is making a comeback" – Tiobe #RStats https://www.infoworld.com/article/4102696/r-language-is-making-a-comeback-tiobe.html

Starts tomorrow morning! Register now! (free) My talk on diffuseR will be Friday

Been saying this for decades, and _actually meant it_. There is so much sanity checking done in a package that it absolutely certainly unquestionably is the correct container to assemble #Rstats code in.

#rstats #python fortune! "Suffice to say it takes a certain lack of empathy for your fellow human to design a language where whitespace bugs are a thing." ~Claus Wilke, 2025 blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...

#rstats Well worth reading. Programming languages for statistical computing and graphics show provide the shortest path between an idea in your head and result on your screen or in your paper

TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live! Highlights: • Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane • Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica) • Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R • Many, many more! Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats #AI

I'm excited to share side::kick(), an experimental open-source coding agent for RStudio built entirely in R. It can interact with your files, communicate with your active #rstats session, and run code. Check it out: github.com/simonpcouch/...

🚀 The @rconsortium.bsky.social's inaugural R+AI Conference is next week! I’ll be presenting diffuseR — bringing Stable Diffusion to R natively (no Python, no reticulate… just {torch} and vibes 😎). 🔗 Talk abstract: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... 💻 Project repo: github.com/cornball-ai/...

Hey there, #rstats! The R+AI schedule has been announced So, head on over, check out the schedule & register for our first R+AI event - 100% online w/ 3 ticket price categories - Pro, Non-Profit or Academic, & Student! See y'all on November 12th and 13th. 😀 rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

I'm often amazed at how much typing I've saved myself by using `dput(names())` when working with #RStats. I wrote about this back in 2024, and I was reminded about it's utility again today: www.collinberke.com/til/posts/20...

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

🤖 Big update to the LLMs + R guide > 10 packages added plus other tools and interested reads luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/ As usual, all the content is available in English and Spanish. #rstats

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/ #RStats bookmark from old twitter

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Hilarious watching the Python folks getting attacked with the same dumb talking points that they used against R a decade ago. Reminds me of when they pushed Jupyter notebooks over markdown in an IDE, then turned around and claimed only R users would use a notebook 😭

Intriguing new package `edgemodelr` offering llama.cpp / ggml for #Rstats for local model deployment. Quite tiny too with no dependencies besides #Rcpp. cran.r-project.org/package=edge...

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe [Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac] Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).

Installing a new OS on an old 13" ultrabook. Which distro should I try? 1. Ubuntu 25.04 2. Debian 13 3. NixOS 25.05 4. Omarchy 2.0

Somebody had to try it: linear algebra on an OLAP and an OLTP database in R factbased.blogspot.com/2023/02/larg... Much older approach with even a proposed patch to GNUR (not required anymore with ALTREP) RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL arxiv.org/abs/0909.1766 #rstats

Hello there, #rstats, I know y'all are enjoying the last weeks of summer and I am just reminding you that the deadline for submissions for the @rconsortium.bsky.social #R+AI conference is September 5th. Please take a moment and share your proposal with us! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

¡Nueva fecha para enviar tu trabajo! Tenés tiempo hasta el 25 de agosto para enviar tu resumen. Recordá que podés presentarlo en español, inglés o portugués. Sumate a #LatinR2025, del 1 al 5 de diciembre, virtual y gratuito. Conocé más sobre la convocatoria en: latinr.org/blog/es/2025...

Several ppl sent me this extraordinary chart crime. Thank you I love it

Every time I see people project consciousness onto AI (which has been done since the dumbest auto-response chat bots imaginable) I am reminded of the eight-second long Jeff Winger pencil speech from Community. youtu.be/z906aLyP5fg?...

Wow. I was sent a 5GB csv file which I just converted to RDS. It's now 400 MB Not bad, #rstats...

Just noticed that #Rcpp now tops 100 million downloads per the (known downward-biased subset of CRAN mirrors served via the CDN set up by posit and excluding all other mirrors). github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp

Claude writes #rstats code like it's python. It loves for loops and seems incapable of understanding vectorized operations, matrix math, etc. It ignores all the efficient ways of doing things in R. Great for simple tasks, but I'm running into limits.

If Rstudio would allow people to execute Python in a Python interpreter (without reticulate) using the same keyboard shortcuts afforded to .R and .sh files (ctrl+enter) this plot would go to the moon

Quick follow-up to diffuseR: Here are the export scripts I used to create the TorchScript files 🔧 Fair warning - they're a bit rough around the edges, but I wanted to make them available for anyone who wants to export their own models. github.com/cornball-ai/...

#rstats Stoked to say that a new release of {tinyplot} is available on CRAN and R-universe. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/ Grab it with: ```{r} install.packages("tinyplot") ``` A quick 🧵 showcasing some new features...

🎨 Excited to release diffuseR - an R implementation of the diffusers library! ✨ txt2img and img2img generation 🚀 No Python dependencies 📦 SDXL & SD2.1 models. More coming soon! What will you create? #RStats #AI

Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in R. Register for in-person and virtual events: user2025.r-project.org/register useR! 2025 will be held Friday, August 8th to Sunday, August 10th at Duke University. #RStats

Thanks to the input-leap devs who fixed the Windows support that I couldn't get working on barrier!

The problem with #rstats is portability. Shit like `df$x` has to be converted to `df€x` in Europe and `df£x` in the UK but nobody talks about this.

Just ran sudo apt install r-base-core on my two-year old Pixel 7a phone with Android 15 now providing a native (Debian) terminal. Interesting times. Installed R 4.2.2 from Debian bookworm. Could be worse. #rstats #android linux.slashdot.org/story/25/03/...

I'm amazed how simple #rstats stuff can completely amaze others I was teaching python users R today and I was shocked that they were impressed the most with lm() and that you can do linear regression in 1-2 lines of code We couldn't get beyond that in the training. Such an interesting experience.

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

{text} is an #RStats 📦 for “analyzing natural language with transformers from HuggingFace.” It aims to offer both a “point solution” for generating word embeddings and “end-to-end” #AI with functions like textClassify(), textGeneration(), and textTranslate(). By @oscarkjell.bsky.social #GenAI

This is excellent advice for everyone! But especially for my Bluesky LLM bots!

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

There are R packages for the Bluesky API too! atrrr: jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/ by @jbgruber.bsky.social & others bskyr: christophertkenny.com/bskyr/ by @chriskenny.bsky.social #RStats 📦 #Bluesky 📌

I just found @chriskenny.bsky.social 's #rstats package bskyr which allows you to post directly to bluesky from R. It should be easy to integrate with the Mastodon R package (rtoot) to allow simultaneous posting to both platforms.