Debugging in R is often missed in #rstats curriculums, but it is a minimal investment with huge workflow gains.🐞 Hope you can join us! 🤗

Very excited to share this: rOpenSci's co-working with @pipinghotdata.com! Next week, come and join us to share tips and tricks to debug your R code!

Coworking and Office Hours next week! 🍪 Theme: Debugging in #RStats 🐞 Tuesday July 7th 16:00 UTC Join @pipinghotdata.com and @yabellini.bsky.social General coworking Read up on debugging in R Cowork independently Chat with Shannon and other attendees! 🔗 ropensci.org/events/cowor...

Watcher - meet the R community! ```r install.packages("watcher") ``` Tell us how you end up using it - open a discussion show-and-tell at r-lib/watcher! Catch you at useR! 2026 in Warsaw next week!!! #RStats #Rshiny opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

If you create slides in #Quarto, or WANT to, you should really attend @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's upcoming 2-hour slidecrafting workshop. I don't think anyone in the data world has created more reavealjs-friendly slide stuff lately than Emil. ABSOLUTELY DO IT. #rstats #databs pos.it/slide-wrkshp

Had the privilege of competing in the #hyrox NYC women's relay with 3 other working moms and we are still in disbelief that we came in 3rd in our age group. So proud of this team for putting in the work and exceeding expectations 🥹

New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats

We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

#rstats check it out 👏👏👏 the recent {renv} updates are incredible 🤩 thank you @kevinushey.bsky.social ❤️🙏🎉

Ever come back to an #rstats project and…it just doesn’t work anymore? Or struggle to keep up with all the latest R packages & tools, much less integrate them into your code? Keeping R workflows up-to-date can feel daunting - but luckily, @rladiessb.bsky.social has some thoughts ⤵️

Hello, all! 👋 I'm Danielle, and I’m truly stoked to be this week’s rotating curator 🥳 💫 A brief intro: I am a marine scientist at @emlab.ucsb.edu, where I use #rstats to research and support the sustainable use of ocean resources 🌊 🐟

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

Found the neat new library tegaki that provides handwriting animation for any font, and wrapped it to be used in quarto with ease github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Whipped up a fun little quarto revealjs extension. Add fun little iOS styled messages with full fragment support github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

This, and more, in ropensci.org/blog/2026/04...

R-Ladies Philly 🔔 is partnering with the Free Library of Philadelphia and we are thrilled for our upcoming in-person series! Hope to see you there! 🤗 💜 #rstats #rladies

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...

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...

Today is the last day to apply for an Opportunity Scholarship for posit::conf(2026)! Our Opportunity Scholarship provides travel, lodging, & registration to attend posit::conf for underrepresented groups in data science. Learn more & apply by midnight tonight: posit.co/blog/apply-t...

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

This is fantastic news! Heather is such a positive force in the #rstats community and is doing vital work for the long-term sustainability of R and its community.

I am so happy for this announcement!! Heather is such an incredible community partner and deeply knowledgeable of base R. This is great news for R core and the broader R community. 🎉❤️🙌🤩 #rstats

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.

Hi, I’m this week’s curator, Josi! I‘m a PhD student in statistical genetics 🧬 and use #RStats to do #SEM. I dabble in #DataViz and recently wrote my first #Rpackage. My hobbies are reading #Fantasy books 📚 and #maximalism. You may catch me at a conference matching my outfit to my poster 🤓🧜🏽‍♀️ #rladies

New Git exercises in the #RStats package {saperlipopette}, about using the history! ❌ I want to find which commit deleted a file/line! 🏷️ On ancestry references 🤨 I want to find who added a specific line! 📂 What did the project looked like at a certain version? docs.ropensci.org/saperlipopet...

"GitHub Actions is a product designed by a committee that has never once asked “but is it delightful?” and it shows." www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...

Stop playing "diagnostics ping-pong" with your users 🏓 Wrote about why every R package wrapping external tools needs a sitrep() function — with real examples from meetupr and freesurfer. #RStats https://drmo.site/F5gVjR

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community" user2026.r-project.org #rstats #useR2026

I just posted my first question/answer on stackoverflow about rearranging some of the variables in a dataframe alphabetically whilst leaving the others where they are using R Would you have done something different? Let me know! #Rstats #EpiSky

Issue 25 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Make Your Open Data More Useable @collin-schwantes.bsky.social ➡️ PIDs 101 - Webinar @sparcopen.bsky.social ➡️ Cleaning Medical Data with R @pipinghotdata.com ➡️ Lab Manual Template @martonkovacs.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Fixing `tools::toTitleCase()` so it doesn't incorrectly capitalise conjunctions. Team includes @pipinghotdata.com and @reikookamoto.bsky.social. bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi...

Here's one that many people will notice and appreciate - improving the CSS for the R manuals. Team including @emitanaka.org @fontikar.bsky.social, Pao Corrales, Jayani Lakshika and Toni Price. github.com/r-devel/r-de...

Adding missing information to bibliographic entries github.com/r-devel/r-de... With @fontikar.bsky.social and others

Not all contributions need to touch R or C code. There have been some impactful improvements to R documentation and manuals. Linking R manuals to help pages (with @statsrhian.bsky.social and Claire Welsh) github.com/r-devel/r-de...

Fixing a bug in the `text()` function. @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy uses this one as an example of how to fix a bug in the R Dev Container in her talk for #LatinR last week. The talk covers other aspects of contributing to R too. hturner.github.io/LatinR2025/

The ability to specify colours with a 3-digit hex (e.g. "#12A" as equivalent to "#1122AA"). It was the first patch I was involved with, so it's especially dear to me! It's also makes changes to C code. github.com/r-devel/r-pr... With @oberman.bsky.social @malcolmbarrett.malco.io @gws.phd

Today I'm talking about contributing to base R 💻 Are you curious about how to improve the language we love, at its core? This is a thread for you! #RStats

We're looking at cars in Qatar for #TidyTuesday this week - "an international and modern version of the now-ancient `mtcars`" data! 📊 ➡️ 9 ways to visualise the distribution of a variable Thanks to @andrew.heiss.phd for curating this week's dataset! #RStats #DataViz

I got to hear a sneak peek of Stephanie’s keynote, and it was so good! Definitely recommend watching if you work on teams adopting or transitioning to #RStats.

Yes, ChatGPT can help you write #rstats code, but so can this old Wiki I created with example code used for common data wrangling needs. Who knows, you might find some gems in there.🤷‍♀️ github.com/Cghlewis/dat...

My talk from posit::conf 2025 is now online! 🎉 It's about my early experiments in using LLMs to be more productive; what went well, what didn't, & what I learned, in the hope it can be useful to other people experimenting with AI workflows 🧪 🤖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nhD... #rstats #llms #ai

R-Ladies Philly 🔔 is thrilled to host ✨Casey Aguilar-Gervase✨ to speak about "Design of Everyday Shiny Apps" on Tuesday, Dec 9! #rstats #rladies www.meetup.com/rladies-phil...

If you, like me, can't remember all the Sass variables when creating #quarto #revealjs slides. I found a semi hacky way to help myself here. Using code snippets in VS Code & Positron allow us to get pretty good completion in our style sheets slidecrafting-book.com/miscellaneou...

I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats

This gives a fantastic framing of how to think about reproducibility (it's a spectrum) and how to use renv with intention. Highly recommend, even if you're not using renv, to get a better understanding of how to live in peace as R and package versions advance 🕊️ #rstats

The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉 I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩 youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?... Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...

Our data science team is hiring for a summer 2026 undergraduate intern! Applications close Friday, Nov 14. #rstats msk.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MSKCC_Career...

R-Ladies Philly 🔔 is delighted to welcome ✨ Alex Velez✨ on Tuesday, Oct 28 for a lunch & learn discussion on "From data to story"! Hope you can join us 🤗 #rstats #rladies 💜 www.meetup.com/rladies-phil...

There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness. youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4