I'm excited to share side::kick(), an experimental open-source coding agent for RStudio built entirely in R. It can interact with your files, communicate with your active #rstats session, and run code. Check it out: github.com/simonpcouch/...

Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations. Statistics involves lots of matrix operations. R is a language for statistics... hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx #Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social

Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space). Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp... Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/ 🧵

{ralger} #rstats package looks like an absolute game changer in the task of web scraping for people with very occasional need in this rather nerdy task 🤩 Instead of drilling manually through cached HTML, one can use intuitively named functions that just do it ✨ 🔗 feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/

Ever needed to recode a variable based on whether it matches something in a named list? Have you ever used rlang's `!!!` operator? It's pretty dang cool. I feel like {rlang} is so cool, but so enigmatic 😂 #rstats Here's a pic & gist (bc it's frustrating to not be able to copy/paste the pic) #databs

Cascadia R Conf is tomorrow! I'll be giving the keynote: Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R. #rstats You can still register for the virtual conference: cascadiarconf.com

Sanokaa Fazer kun haluatte sotaa. Ostakaa Kolmen kaverin jäätelöä, maistuukin paremmalta. yle.fi/a/74-2016370...

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

How will Trump’s trade war affect global CO2 emissions and energy? Initial thoughts.

En voi äänestää puolueita, jotka suhmuroivat tänään lykätääkseen suhmuroinnin tuomaa mainehaittaa kunnallisvaaleissa. Varsinkaan jos aikovat väittää, ettei kyse olisi suhmuroinnista

I find the lack of empathy among #dataviz practitioners a bit disturbing. Many of you know of my suffering this time of year, when the Portuguese Homeland Security Report is published, full of pages like this. And yet no one ever offered me temporary asylum to minimize the impact. It's unforgivable.

My US-based colleagues, FYI: Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland. By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.

The EU should completely ban X. It is not a social media platform but an mechanism to bring down democracies. www.politico.eu/article/musk...

this week in #rstats 😎 - 🥊 {dplyr} vs {data.table} @albertrapp.bsky.social - ‼️ Bilingual Quarto docs @posit.co @ivelasq3.bsky.social - ⏰ Shiny in Production deadline extension @jumpingrivers.com - 🎨 {pkgdown} enhancement tips and more below! #news #data #python www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

Meet gander, a chat interface for R data scientists🪿 gander automatically incorporates context from your #rstats environment and surrounding code and can be used with any model supported by ellmer in either RStudio or Positron. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

Lahjoitettaisiinko tänä(kin) vuonna raketteihin varatut rahat @yourfinnishfriends.org kautta Ukrainaan? Kuka mukana?

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

The day 1 of the #adventofcode. 25 daily fun programming puzzles. Try it here adventofcode.com/2024 Here is my #rstats solution.

It's pretty impressive how R ecosystem continues to advanced even in the last 4 years. The {epoxy} package released by @grrrck.xyz shows we take the already impressive {glue} package and super charge it with: 1) inline markup code 2) autocomplete 3) vectorize www.garrickadenbuie.com/project/epoxy/

Toisen maailmansodan aikaan Suomesta lähetettiin juutalaisia Saksaan murhattavaksi kansanmurhassa. Nyt meidän eduskunnasta lähtee uusnatsi Israeliin kehumaan heitä siitä, miten hienoa kansanmurhaa tekevät. Historia on aika vitun outoa.

Bluesky OGs welcoming the twitter exodus.