Just discovered this gem from R-Ladies Ottawa and wow, what a game-changer for our quarto slides preparations! 🙌 The clarity & structure are exactly what we needed. Huge thanks to the Melissa Van Bussel for sharing this💡 buff.ly/fI5RKVU #Rladies #DataScience #QuartoSlides #GitHubActions

Excited to host Dr Heather Turner, leading #RStats developer & statistician! 🎉 She’ll share insights from #RDevDays: collaborative events where contributors, including women & gender minorities, work on base #R, dashboards & more. 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO 📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm 📍 TBA

Starting right now !!! Join us to celebrate our 9th birthday with SSA! #rstats #rladies

This was supposed to be a quiet release, so I can refer to it in my upcoming talk, and I wasn't expecting many likes for this article. Thank you for your interest ☺️ A summary to come out when the paper is hopefully accepted 🤞

Join us tomorrow for a drink and a chat with SSA Victoria at Father's Office! Be there by 5pm to make it for Happy Hour 🍻💜

Just over 24 hours to go! 🎉 Join us for an exciting R-Ladies+ panel on The People, Purpose & Power of R-Ladies+. See thread below to be part of it!

Join us tomorrow for the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science conference in a panel "More Than Code: The People, Purpose, and Power of R-Ladies+" with Dionne & Felicia (Melb), Kristy & Giorgia (Syd), organised by Hunna Watson! 🔗 www.idwsds.org 🕓 12-1pm AEDT #rstats #rladies

🎮 Did you know you can make video games in R? The {nessy} package lets you create NES-style Shiny apps and deploy them just like any other Shiny app. Who said R is only for stats? 🚀 #RStats #Shiny #RLang #DataScience #VideoGames

📱✨ Check out {pushoverr} — an R package for sending push notifications straight from your scripts! Perfect for alerts when jobs finish, results are ready, or plots are generated. 🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=pushoverr #rstats #RPackage #DataScience

🎲 Want to add a little playfulness to your R sessions? Check out {fun}- a package full of classic games (Minesweeper, sliding puzzles, Gomoku) and quirky utilities all in R. Try demo(package = "fun") to see what it can do! 🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=fun #rstats #RPackage #UseR #FunWithR

It's our 9th birthday and you're all invited to celebrate with us! 💜 We are partnering up with the Statistical Society of Australia to host a Social Night! 🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 📅 Thu 16 Oct, 5-7pm 📌 Father's Office #StatSocAus #rladies #stats #rstats

Did you know? R was developed by Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland in the early 1990s. It's a free #opensource language designed specifically for statistical computing & data analysis. Today it's a go-to tool for statisticians & data scientists! #RStats #DataScience

✨ Check out {cli} - an R package for beautiful command-line interfaces! Use it to add headings, alerts, lists, progress bars & more, with built-in colors and themes. Perfect for making console output clear and stylish. 🔗 github.com/r-lib/cli #rstats #RPackage #cli

Big news: R-Ladies Melbourne turns 9 on October 18th! 🥳💜 We’re so proud of this amazing community of R users, learners, and enthusiasts who have been building, sharing, and supporting each other since 2015. Stay tuned: we’ll be celebrating soon! ✨ #RLadies #RStats #Melbourne

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for ✨ Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly with Dr. Kirsty McCann! We loved seeing the community come together to explore interactive data viz. 🚀📊 #rstats #ggplot2 #ggplotly

✨ Transform your ggplot2 plots into interactive stories! Join our workshop, Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, and make your data clickable and unforgettable. 🔗 Sign up: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 📅 18 Sept 🕒 5:30-7:30pm (includes networking & food) 📍 DiUS

Tired of rerunning everything every time you change a line of code? 😩 The {targets} package automates your #Rstats workflow—only running what’s needed, tracking dependencies, keeping your analysis reproducible & efficient. ⏩ books.ropensci.org/targets/ #RStats #ReproducibleResearch #DataPipelines

It's THIS THURSDAY! Be sure to join us this week to meet up with other members of the #RLadiesMelb #Rstats community! We look forward to seeing you all there :) 💜

Missed a past R-Ladies Melbourne talk? We've got you covered! 🎥✨ Our video archive is packed with inspiring talks from past speakers—covering everything from R tips and packages to data science journeys & community insights. Catch up here 👉 r-ladiesmelbourne.github.io/videos.html #RLadies #RStats

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies 📍 Father’s Office 🕕 August 14, 6pm 🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour! www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

No one asked for it, but the {BRRR} package is exactly what we didn’t know we needed. From “yeaaahhhh boi” to Big Sean, DJ Khaled, and Big Shaq—{BRRR} lets you drop iconic sound bites straight from R. Because sometimes, your code deserves bars. 🔊 github.com/brooke-watso... #RStats #BRRR #DataDrama

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Lauren! A senior postdoc at WEHI, she uses #RStats #TidyModelling for disease research across humans and animals, with a special focus on #PlasmodiumVivax and #OneHealth approaches! #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience #InfectiousDisease

OMG I TRIED AIR. I TRIED IT & LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. @juliasilge.com recommended format on save, so I set up Air + format on save + auto save when focus leaves editor. This might be the thing that gets me using #Positron for both #Rstats & Python (currently only using it for #Python) #databs

Whatever you choose, 100% let them know about the Big Book of R. There's a large, well-organized, link tree to gobs of free (usually) resources, and you can just pop into whichever ones you want to check the ToC or sample a chapter. Let your skill and interests be your guide! bigbookofr.com/

Friday #rstats #ggplot2 tip for anyone - like me - who’s spent hours trying to get the formatting of their exported plot right 📉🛠️🎨

Hi #rstats #pydata & #julialang humans! 😊 I'm looking for an equivalent to the {styler} R package for Python (and perhaps Julia) in RStudio 🤔 Positron or VS Code users, what is your equivalent? And are there style guides you like? styler.r-lib.org design.tidyverse.org

Just discovered {ggcats} and yes, it does exactly what you think: adds cats to your ggplots. 🐈📈 Because sometimes your data visualisation needs a little more purr-sonality. 👉 github.com/R-CoderDotCo... #RStats #ggplot2 #dataviz #catsinstats

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Mansi! A product-focused bioinformatician at Mass Dynamics, she uses #RStats—especially #dplyr & #ggplot2—for data processing and visualisation to power proteomics and drive data-driven healthcare innovation! #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Need some wisdom while coding in R? Try the {fortunes} package — a collection of real quotes from the R community that are insightful, quirky & often hilarious. Perfect for when your code won’t run and you need a philosophical break. 📦 dzchilds.github.io/eda-for-bio/... #RStats #DataHumour

🎨 NEW: Quarto Preview Colour Extension v1.0.0! ✨ Inline colour previews (code and/or text) ✨ Hex, RGB, HSL, and HWB support ✨ Click to copy colour codes (HTML) ✨ HTML, LaTeX, Typst, DOCX & PPTX support github.com/mcanouil/qua... #Quarto #QuartoPub

For a book I'm writing I want to print text in colors. #rstats #quarto This gist: gist.github.com/friendly/b2a... defines a colorize() function that can be used easily for HTML and LaTeX/PDF documents in .qmd and .rmd files.

Highly recommend @albertrapp.bsky.social's YouTube channel 🥳 Building robust shiny apps using {golem} by @colinfay.bsky.social golemverse.org thinkr-open.github.io/golem/ engineering-shiny.org/golem.html #RStats #RShiny #Shiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWJ... 3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/golem-star...

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Caitlin: @caitbourke.bsky.social! She’s a post-doc researching malaria in Madagascar, using #RStats &#tidyverse for bioinformatics, visualisation & data analysis across transcriptomics, genomics, immunology & epidemiology! #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

R-Ladies Amsterdam now has a YouTube channel! Our first video is @cecibaldoni.bsky.social's excellent talk about how to use @quarto.org and Closeread for scrollytelling science. This talk was excellent! If you missed it, check it out now! youtu.be/ytKZ357Xtqw?... #rladies #rstats #scicomm

I used this for bundling up tidymodels docs, and it was really easy to use. It also made a huge difference in the LLM quality.

Ready to document your functions? Let’s talk roxygen2! This R package lets you write documentation in your functions' files using special comments. It’s what powers those very useful help files you see when you run ?function. 🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

We're looking for the next generation of bioinformaticians! On 5 August 2025, Melbourne Bioinformatics is hosting a free, in-person Open Afternoon to explore the University of Melbourne's Master of Science (Bioinformatics), where biology, computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics meet.

Ever wanted to add dramatic drum beats to your R workflow? 🥁 Enter {drumr}—because sometimes your analysis needs a soundtrack. 🎶 Add suspense, celebrate success, or just vibe while coding: 🔗 github.com/jamesmarther... #RStats #DataDrama #drumr

Meet our R-Ladies Melb secretary Dr Sehrish Kanwal! A senior bioinformatician at UMCCR, she uses #RStats for cancer genomics, clinical data analysis & visualisations with #ggplot2—while championing equity, mentorship & open science via #rOpenSci & #RLadiesMelb #CommitteeSpotlight #WomenInSTEM

Have you ever been transfixed by the colour palette of the Melbourne tram network? Well I have... so I made a package called {melbourne}! So far it includes a colour palette called "melb_trams()". More to come, stay tuned! 🔗 Check it out: github.com/dionnecargy/... #RStats #DataScience #Rcoding

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Kathleenl! She’s a post-doc at WEHI using #RStats for bioinformatics, data cleaning, and creating stunning visuals with her favourite package, #ggplot2! #RLadiesMelbourne #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Came across this beginner-friendly tutorial (from @rladiesmelb.bsky.social) for making a website using Quarto and then deploying it on GitHub: youtu.be/1RZ_TbL9quM?... #rstats

Thanks to everyone that joined us last night in person or online! We enjoyed Felicia's great analogy of how using #git can be like playing a game. If you have any suggestions on what types of events you'd like more of, please let us know in the comments/DM! #RStats #RLadies #DataScience

Come on over to DiUS, our presentation is starting in less than 30 mins! ✨ We look forward to meeting you!

Code acting up again? Take a moment to reset with the {praise} R package - sometimes a little encouragement goes a long way! 💻✨ #RStats 🔗 Read more about r-ladies' own R package here: github.com/rladies/praise

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Just 30 mins away until our next R-Ladies Sydney workshop! Hope to see you there 😀

Still time to register for TOMORROW! Discover how Git and GitHub make coding collaborative, organised, and fearless 💻✨ 📅 09 Jul 🕒 5:30-6pm: in-person networking & refreshments 🕒 6-7:30pm: presentation 📍 DiUS 3/31 Queen St or Online 🔗 Sign up: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...