Glad I was made aware of this, I already have a working VSCode/Positron extension specific to {targets} so I can perform static analysis, navigate, debug, add static pipeline autocomplete, and generally make sense of my giant targets pipelines much more easily🥳 #RStats

I did a very small exploration of the reproducibility of google gemini images: hadley.github.io/bananarama/a.... Setting a seed makes the image _mostly_ reproducible but there's still a lot of variation.

@masalmon.eu has written up a great post on the downstream effects of tree-sitter-r! - Air, for formatting - Jarl, for linting - Positron's R support, for completions and more - GitHub Search for R It's been very cool to see all the ways this one project has been used to enhance #rstats!

📦 {hexsession} is now: - On CRAN - 400x faster Create interactive html tiles (or static snapshots) of images or package logos for presentations, websites, or just for fun #rstats hexsession.liomys.mx

I had a great time talking about dplyr 1.2.0 with @rladiesrome.bsky.social! Thank you for having me 🧡 ✏️ Slides: ivelasq-dplyr-1-2-0.share.connect.posit.cloud#/title-slide 📹 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF... 🕸️ Materials: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/dplyr-1... Enjoy the new #RStats release 🧑‍🔧

We're spinning up new book clubs at DSLC.io, and a great facilitator wants help choosing which book to lead a cohort through next. Please see the poll in the reply! #dataBS #RStats #Quarto #RShiny

so posit::conf... who's going? other cool data conferences on your list this year? maybe this is the year i see more of you guys out in the wild 👀

One more R coding skill for the pile: tidy-r. It includes all the cool new functions of dplyr 1.2! It also hooks into the r-btw MCP server for live docs, or falls back to R help when it's not available. You can install it in one line. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/tidy-r-skill

When it comes to #Python type checkers and LSPs, we had a lot of options for what to bundle in Positron, our data science IDE! 🤯 Read through how we evaluated Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban, and what we ended up deciding to use by default: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

I built a Quarto extension that adds accessibility features to Reveal.js presentations: keyboard nav, screen reader support, dyslexia-friendly fonts, high contrast, slide change visual/audio cue and more. Feedback more than welcome. github.com/mcanouil/qua... #Quarto #RevealJS #Accessibility

We've released the first version of our tabpfn #rstats package to CRAN. This is an interface to the Python #TabPFN package. tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... The model is a pre-trained deep learning model that has performed exceedingly well on every data set I've tested it on.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

ggdogs already exists: r-charts.com/miscellaneou...

Pretty dang rad way for us to kick off Spring Quarter!!! Thanks, @hadley.nz , for making the trek to SLO and giving a wonderful talk and thoughtful answers to our questions! 🥰 And thanks to the @calpolyslo.bsky.social Noyce School of Applied Computing for sponsoring this great event!

There’s some cool recent research on this phenomenon! It turns out vision language models excel at image benchmarks *even when the actual images aren’t provided,* because the answers are implicit in the questions! arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

New (mostly vibe coded) package to generate slide images using Gemini in a (mostly) reproducible way: hadley.github.io/bananarama/ I made this to scratch a personal itch; please let me know if you also find it useful #rstats

Well, hello there, #rstats! Can I interest you in an R Dev Day? R Dev Day @ useR! 2026, Warsaw, Poland, Fri 10 July user2026.r-project.org/additional/r... Deadline: Fri 24 April R Project Sprint 2026, Birmingham, UK, Tue 1 - Thu 3 Sept contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sp... Deadline: Fri 8 May

After a stellar Posit internal work week, I'm feeling inspired to get back on Bluesky! My first question - Posit is trying to figure out what to do with this website: education.rstudio.com It's older and hasn't been maintained, but it is still very valuable.

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Cleaning data may not be sexy... or exciting... or enjoyable... or lucrative... or respected... or rewarded... or recognized... but at least it's... sorry, what were we talking about?

I took the contents of my workshop at RainbowR on the topic of LLMs in R & made it into a course! It's about {ellmer}, and I spent soo long agonising over how to sell it, I gave up & instead released it under a "Pay What You Want" model 😅😂 #rstats #llms #ai www.aifordatapeople.com/courses/llms...

Experimenting with Luma for an R Community Calendar. If anyone is running an event, and wants to take part in this project, please get in touch #rstats luma.com/R_User_Commu...

In exploring ways to use AI agents to help write R code I found that it was hard to extract profiling information in a way that they could interact with easily. Presenting {debrief}!! provides text-based summaries and analysis tools for {profvis} profiling output github.com/r-lib/debrief #rstats

#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.5.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/4)

A personal and professional goal of mine is to always be using and developing tools that Claude doesn’t know about yet by default

Join us for “Working Smarter in R” 💜 📅 Apr 22 ⏰ 6–7 BST / 11–12 PDT A global panel sharing tips on workflows, data cleaning, debugging & more in R. Featuring: @nrennie.bsky.social, Pao C., @meghansharris.bsky.social, Soraya C., @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @cghlewis.bsky.social #RStats #RLadies

Let’s talk ✨constructive friction✨ in educational design! Yes, many students adopt AI as a rational response to assessment where thinking isn’t required for success @wonkhe.bsky.social But let’s talk about cases where friction makes something hard to do, and the by-product is learning! 🧵

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

This is awesome! Somehow my life is enriched knowing that @hadley.nz ‘s first ever post from 2002 was about improving base R plotting aesthetics *including* the now famous light grey background There’s an Easter egg if I ever saw one!

1/ Hot take: deep learning is overkill for 90% of bioinformatics problems. I've watched teams spend months building neural networks that get outperformed by XGBoost trained in an afternoon. Here's why simpler models keep winning.

Anyone else spoiled by R's pkgdown and find python's mkdocs or sphinx a bit tedious and config-heavy. Check out @richmeister.bsky.social 's awesome new {great-docs} as a batteries-included alternative to spin up an effective docs site in <15 min! 1/n 🧵 github.com/posit-dev/gr...

Our list of 2026 #rstats and #python summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Exactly. This has been its position from the start because it knew this is where we wound up. You are the prime mover! Own the output!

Wondering why Astral joined OpenAI? We recently hosted Charlie Marsh from Astral on The Test Set, where he discussed how AI agents were already reshaping Astral’s roadmap. If you want to hear where his head was at before the news broke, check out the episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noxo...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It’s difficult to come by joy these days, this puts a smile on my face.

Six months from today, YOU could be joining us at posit::conf! A topic I plan to explore is how we best borrow ideas from across different fields (from DS to DE, team-of-one to enterprise, etc.) Ironically, that's also one of the magical things about the conf 1/2

Some of the test cases for the native LaTeX math expression parser and renderer I've been working on for textshaping which will soon bring native math equation rendering to #rstats and marquee

There are not enough animals in zoom meetings, what the heck. "I'm sorry about my cat-" what? NO! More cat! Work can wait. "Sorry, my dog is barking-" WHY ISN'T THE DOG HERE WITH US?

I'm over the moon excited to the release of 0.5.0 of orbital 🛰️ This release adds full support for boosted tree, faster creation of orbital objects, optimization of execution! We can finally reliably predict with a xgboost model from a database! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... #rstats #tidymodels

In this edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter, we share about new LLM features in RStudio, some vibe checks on the new GPT 5.4 / Qwen3.5 / Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite releases, and an overview of the Anthropic / Pentagon saga. Read it here: posit.co/blog/2026-03...

Can this be a solution? |>

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Using Quarto to write (and typeset) a book.

I built a GitHub issue classifier for Apache Arrow issue language using {ellmer} - super simple and almost 100% accuracy. Blog post: niccrane.com/posts/llm-issue-triage/ #rstats #ai #llms

"Can we just, like, dispense with that?" Phillip Cloud on why he wants his coding agents emotionless and task-focused. No cheerleading. No surfing metaphors. Just work. Listen on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/26Tr...) and Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...).

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...