Online #rstats conference Feb 25-26 is *free* for everyone. Almost all the speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ and many are members of the rainbowR community 🌈 Sessions include a 2-hour "Intro to R" and closing keynote on Claude Code from @hadley.nz 🧠 16:00 UTC or 11am Eastern ⏰

If you've been thinking about submitting a talk for posit::conf(2026), but you're a little nervous about the process, I have the ~15 min video for you! youtu.be/aKN8qlLjld4 @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social & I stayed late on the #DSHangout to answer some Qs, & two veteran conf-talkers shared their exp

Plz @hadley.nz 💀

I really hope that this comes to pass

I built an R package that turns Shiny apps into UIs that render directly inside Claude Desktop or ChatGPT. It's called shinymcp. Drop-downs, plots, tables all inline in the chat. github.com/jameshwade/shinymcp

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the current pace of change in technology. A useful counterpoint: There are STILL organizations using ArcMap for their GIS even though ArcGIS Pro has been out for over a decade. Technology moves fast; capacity for adoption, not always.

When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.

maybe my favorite all time correlation

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Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource. www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...

So much great advice in this thread!

A succinct and useful list of rules for teaching data science, including some of my favourites: "teach with real data" and "have students do projects". #databs #datasky

Secret club meets tmrw. Stay late after the Hangout. (Bring your Qs abt submitting talks for posit::conf(2026)! @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social and I will spill the beans. I mean, we'll help. Probably! Seriously, though, see you tomorrow 😂 conf talks can be transformative!! #databs #rstats #python

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

I'll be teaching a short intro to Shiny workshop for @rladiesremote.bsky.social on February 17! Registration details are below, or you can register by going here: meetu.ps/e/PQt4g/ypHs... #shiny #rstats #databs

Folks, have you been overwhelmed by ~All This~ and wanting a gentle compassionate space to think about agentic coding?? Good news: if you're in SF & have free time tomorrow afternoon you can come hang out with me and @anthrocypher.bsky.social in a popup casual learning event ❤️ luma.com/rdw3dq4h

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Exciting update for #Jupyter and Notebook centric users in #Positron ! posit.co/blog/announc... #PositronIDE #PyData #DataBS

Can anyone suggest a good guides for using lab notebooks? (Like the traditional pen and paper bench scientist ones, not computational). Like I want to know what you're expected to write down, how you capture and transform the really important stuff, how you refer back to them etc etc

In this week's newsletter, @simonpcouch.com and I share some interesting tidbits from Claude's constitution, an estimate of the electricity use of coding agents, and an update on our plot interpretation work.

📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ

You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize. But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.

Quarto code annotations in Typst?! 😏 (And fancy code blocks) #Quarto #QuartoPub #Typst #TechnicalWriting #Teaching

Feedback from my previous attempts to speak genz includes “giving peak unc energy” and “just stop talking”.

This session will be bussin. Fact. No cap.

New article time! It's about self-defence against the fact that people seem to have lost their mind about LLMs and tech.

What if your dplyr pipelines ran on GPU? That's what I built with cuplyr! A CUDA-powered backend for #rstats data manipulation. Looking for testers and feedback! github.com/bbtheo/cuplyr

What Quarto extension would make your workflow easier? There are already almost 300 extensions browsable at m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... and installable via Quarto Wizard at m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/. Drop your ideas below. If there's enough interest, I might just build it. #Quarto #OpenSource

All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend. 1/3

Also looks like this research is supported by ggplot2 🤣

Hello, #rstats! Are you R + Arrow curious? Looking for ways to speed or scale your current analyses? Check out the webinar from @rconsortium.bsky.social with @niccrane.bsky.social !

The thing I admire about @emilyriederer.bsky.social is that she takes tacit knowledge about so many aspects of data science, statistics, and data engineering and makes it explicit. Really great podcast with her on the test set! overcast.fm/+ABQHd_PtRq4 #dataBS

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad. I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review. apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...

I’ve been thinking about how to find R packages by functionality when you don’t already know the package name. So over the holidays, Claude Code and I built The Warehouse: a functionality-first R package directory that helps you find packages by what they do. rwarehouse.netlify.app #rstats

I love this idea: duckdb.org/community_ex.... It translates dplyr syntax _inside_ of duckdb so you can mix it with regular SQL

ragnar 0.3.0 is now on CRAN! 🚀 An R toolkit for RAG from your docs: faster ingestion, better retrieval, Azure OpenAI + Snowflake embeddings, and MCP serving. tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01... #rstats #rag #ai

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastown

More on LLMs and plot interpretation: they do fine in normal conditions, but struggle when the plot conflicts strongly with their priors. @simonpcouch.com and I investigated why and what might help: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

Having some fun recreating images in ggplot with the help of magick. This was made with geom_ribbon and stitched together with magick::image_animate. #Rstats #dataviz

If you use #positron #rstats and #duckdb I'd love to know what you think of this: `duckdb-r-editor` a Positron extension for duckdb SQL code highlighting and completion within R files. github.com/belian-earth...

I feel so proud to have contributed in some way to this work (through ggplot2). It’s especially close to me because my mum has Alzheimer’s.

🍔 {bobsburgersR} v0.2.0 is here! 309 episodes across 16 seasons with TMDB ratings . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/projects/r_p... . #rstats | #r4ds | #BobsBurgers

We're hard at work on new AI tools for RStudio that will support EDA and we hope generally accelerate data science. If you're interested in trying them out, join the private beta waitlist for a sneak peek: posit.co/products/ai/ #rstats

indeed and to amplify this point LLMs really multiply your responsibilities to architecture and maintainability You need clear tidy boundaries, you need separated concerns and when refactors are so much more affordable you have no excuse not to impose tidiness and order as you determine need

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

I'm super excited to share the next version of plumber2 with all of you. Headlining this release is support for OpenTelemetry throughout the routing logic, build in authentication logic, and much improved performance. Try it out and report back! #rstats

Typst is used to create the official Swift reference. Check the repo for a great example on how to create long-form documentation with Typst.