Two crazy dudes that did: ✅ R Dev Day at #RSEcon2025 ✅ tidyverse Dev Day at #positconf2025 a week later My patches and PRs need more work but @shikokuchuo.net got so much done 💪

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ivelasq3.bsky.social!

The Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is under threat of closure, with tenured faculty facing dismissal. This is a small but globally impactful department. Please consider writing a letter of support. Your voice could make a real difference.

This package has data that can be used instead of nycflights13 to teach joins, and also to look at temporal trends and draw maps. It has to coolest hexsticker vahdatjavad.github.io/ecotourism/ and cute creatures: mantarays, gouldian finches, glow worms and orchids

The equivalent of the Bechdel test for a tech-ish event is “is there a line for the womens bathroom?” and #positconf just passed with flying colours 😅

The #rstats community, generally and specifically at conf, is THE number one reason why I keep using R. It’s like nothing I’ve experienced with other languages I’ve used, and it is POWERFUL.

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

After 7.5 years in development (on-and-off), I am beyond excited to announce the release of the #RStats {pregnancy} package for tracking dates and medications in pregnancy and fertility treatment! There's a lightning talk about it at #PositConf2025 at 1pm EDT today. ellakaye.github.io/pregnancy

📣 HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! Drum roll please 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Introducing Positron, a free code editor built specifically for data science. Learn more about what you can do with Positron: posit.co/blog/positro...

Dream job - research software engineer, in one of the most beautiful parts of the world

Find me at posit::conf to get -> - a very tiny sticker (the smallest at the conf?? we'll have to see) - a keynote about believing in open science so hard you create the missing evidence about technology work + thriving - a research-backed code review anxiety workbook #positconf2025

New #rstats blog post: Deep Dive into ellmer: Part 2. I explore the source code behind ellmer's tool calling functionality: www.howardbaik.com/posts/deep-d... Thanks to @hadley.nz, @grrrck.xyz, @atheriel.bsky.social, others for 🐘ellmer🐘!

Landed in Atlanta for posit::conf(2025)! ✈️ Excited to catch up with old friends & meet new ones! I also have consulting capacity available for 2026; if you'd like to talk about working together, get in touch. Also on lookout for collabs; main focuses: 1. Arrow / Parquet / DuckDB 2. LLMs in R

New blog post! Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot? In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions. #rstats

My course about birding & creative code is also secretly (shhhh) a course about critical data thinking. Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation. Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me? jerthorp.me/learning 🪶📊🎨

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...

I hope no one is tired of seeing adorable #pawsitconf posts full of cute pets and punny talk titles, because @trevinflickinger.com helped his THREE dogs submit talks 😭 JUST LOOK AT THEM #rstats #python #databs #positconf2025

ggplot2 4.0.0 is out and the new `paper`, `ink`, `accent` theme variables look super cool! Just pick 2-3 colors 🎨 to make your plots look great! I'm excited to hook this up to brand.yml 😉

I’m excited for #PositConf2025 next week! Can’t wait to talk to y’all! I wanna hear what you are working on, and always happy to talk about what I have been up to. Especially keen to talk to people that have tried orbital about your experience. Also bringing special edition kittymodels stickers

I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower. Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...

🎯 Play to Win at posit::conf(2025) Earn points for showing up, joining in, and geeking out. Then cash them in for limited-edition Posit swag. It’s fun. It’s free. It’s happening. Are you game? 🎟️ posit.co/conference #RStats #PositConf2025 #Python

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

I might be biased (cat-biased?), but this #pawsitconf submission is just too cuuuuuute 🥹 Thank you for sharing Fennec's talk with us, @cecibaldoni.bsky.social ✨ This is truly getting me pumped for conf in the most adorable way possible 🐈 #rstats #python #databs

In a week (9/17), I'll be giving a talk at PositConf about WebR/Pyodide for teaching. Curious about how to use R and Python in the browser effectively for teaching? Come learn about how we use it for teaching intro courses at the Fred Hutch Data Science Lab! #datascience #teaching #rstats #python

{otel} + #rstats is becoming a crazy partnership. This project has driven me to use/write {promises} in ways that makes my 🧠 ache 😅. The reward is worth it! See you at #PositConf2025 where I'll talk about this in more detail

bigrquery 1.6.0 is now on CRAN. Big feature is that it now uses bigrquerystorage (by Bruno Tremblay) if installed, which should make your downloads way way faster! #rstats

#rstats #Stats & #Baseball fans can rejoice! Version 13.0.0 of the Lahman package is now on #CRAN. This updates all the data tables through the 2024 season. 🔗 cdalzell.github.io/Lahman/

🚀 #rJavaEnv #rstats (helper for 100+ Java-dependent packages ) is about to get its biggest update yet. Just in time for ~10k downloads, Java 25 release, and its CRAN bday! 👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav... New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.

🎉 We added a Virtual Day to posit::conf(2025)! 🗓️ Tues, Sept 16 = talks, trivia, & hangouts. AMA with @richmeister.bsky.social & more. Also? Discord is open to all! Come join us. 🔗 Event portal: pos.it/conf-event-p... 🔗 Virtual Day info: posit.co/blog/posit-c... #positconf2025 #rstats #python

🚀 We’re excited to share the first edition of the Posit AI Newsletter! Curated by Posit’s Sara Altman and Simon Couch, this biweekly newsletter keeps you up to speed with what’s happening in the AI world, both at Posit and beyond. 📫 Read the first issue: posit.co/blog/2025-08...

At @okfn.bsky.social we are looking for a short-term R Developer. The work is exciting and important, advancing a humanitarian mission! Apply or share with others!

tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #RStats #tidyverse

Saw a post from an influencer telling followers to "stop using R for anything -- use Python like a normal person" As a 10+ year R & Python user, the irony is that 2025 is the best time EVER to be using R. Here's why:

Introducing Databot: an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis in #Python and #RStats! A research preview in Positron, Databot is a tireless pair programmer to help you explore data. Learn more about this tool and our philosophy behind it: 🤖 posit.co/blog/introdu... ⚠️ posit.co/blog/databot...

odbc 1.6.2 is now on #rstats CRAN! A good few QOL improvements, especially for Databricks and Snowflake users: github.com/r-dbi/odbc/r...

Finally got Glimpse out focused on what the Posit open source team has been up to. Turns out its quite a bit! posit.co/blog/posit-g... I continue to be happy with the approach we (Posit) are taking with LLMs and AI. Too impactful to ignore but focus on useful and safe as much as possible.

Extra day of virtual fun added to posit::conf(2025)! Join us on Sept 16 for a full day of virtual talks and activities. P.S. The conference Discord is now open to all. Come hang out! 🔗 Login for Discord instructions: pos.it/conf-event-portal 🔗 Learn about Virtual Day: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

In working on an eval for an experimental tidymodels AI assistant, I realized that today's frontier LLMs know much more about #rstats tidymodels than I thought. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-08...

Do you like cleaning data? According to @rdpeng.org, it was a big part of a data scientist's job 10 years ago, and he misses it! On the latest Test Set, Roger discusses changes in the field and what to focus on now that AI is taking over rote tasks. Listen: thetestset.co, Spotify, Apple Podcasts

Are there more baby names #rstats data packages than the ones I know about? - US `babynames` by @hadley.nz hadley.github.io/babynames/ - `ozbabynames` by @robjhyndman.com pkg.robjhyndman.com/ozbabynames - `nzbabynames` by @emilyandthelime.bsky.social ekothe.github.io/nzbabynames/

My dear #databs, what is conf season for if not unhinged good times? NOW ACCEPTING PAW-POSALS FOR PAWSIT CONF 😂 Challenge: get a cute pic of your pet (w/ #posit, #rstats, #Python merch/stickers if you can!) + submit a funny talk name. Pet puns heavily encouraged! Submit: forms.gle/CDm9kmWw7uLF...

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats

On September 3 I'm giving a talk for the Boston Python User Group, called "A Future of Data Science" www.meetup.com/bostonpython... This is a talk from posit::conf last year, updated with new data and the experience of an interesting year.

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

In case you didn't know: You can run your package unit tests with {testthat} in parallel with two simple steps (see testthat.r-lib.org/articles/par...): tldr: 1. Add `Config/testthat/parallel: true` to DESCRIPTION. 2. Add `TESTTHAT_CPUS=8` to your .Renviron and restart R. #rstats

Want to learn to write fast R code—and support Ukraine while doing it? Join my workshop Thursday, August 28th 6-8 pm CEST! We’ll cover profiling & benchmarking, and take a tour of fast packages like data.table, collapse, Rcpp and more... With plenty of code examples & hands-on practice! #rstats

¿Qué es un left join? Es una operación muy útil para unir o cruzar datos! En este tutorial te lo explico con frutas 🍇 animales 🐈 y uso irregular de licencias médicas por parte de funcionarios públicos 😬 bastianolea.rbind.io/blog/left_jo... #rstats

Hello #dataBS (& especially #TidyTuesday) fam! I'm trying to organize a thing to help me keep TidyTuesday running smoothly, but first I need to get a bit of a runway. Every week I curate a TT dataset, and it's wearing me down. Please see github.com/rfordatascie... for some ways you can help! #RStats

Dev and deploy require of diff skills. @getdbt.com bridges the gap for #data pipelines, but what about MLOps? I explored how @posit.co {orbital} + dbt delivers "good enough" zero-infra MLOps for batch model scoring in database from python or #rstats models www.emilyriederer.com/post/orbital... 1/