I loved discussing "Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction" with @simisani.bsky.social & R-Ladies Gaborone! Check out the recording and materials: 📹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fOQ... 📝 ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/positro... I hope this intro is better than the one between my three cats 😹

My week as the WeAreRLadies curator is coming to an end. I hope you enjoyed following along. You can find me @cwick.co.nz where I've finally broken my Bluesky silence...😆

Email: "hey I’m XXX at XXX, your Github came up top 1% JavaScript devs" Me: Java what? 😆

Can you spot the difference? If you've wondered how to get those pretty previews when you share your Quarto websites on social, you need to enable `open-graph`. Docs: quarto.org/docs/website...

I find it really easy to get bogged down in problems that are right on the edge of my expertise. This week it was TeX... And I gave up... I have to remind myself, putting a problem aside, isn't failing, it's recognizing where your time and energy is best spent.

I'll be running a free, online workshop at @rinpharma.bsky.social on Nov 3rd! If you've never built an #RStats package before, or if you want to learn some tips to make better packages, come along to build a package together! 📦 ⏰ 10am EST / 3pm GMT #RPharma

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

Come hang with me Nov 5th 12PM ET! We'll be chatting with Isabel Zimmerman & Davis Vaughan from Posit about our favorite #Positron settings. New to to the IDE? Come learn! If you're super familiar & have tricks of your own to show, come share! #databs #rstats #python events.zoom.us/ev/AnxRH-OLd...

This is a great way to contribute to the #rstats and #TidyTuesday communities!

It took me far too long to figure out how to do the same in RStudio: must use tabs (not spaces); remember the function is called `sample()`, not `rsample()` 🤦‍♀️; convince myself that a random draw from 0:999999 really is the same as "6 random Base-10 digits" Snippet: gist.github.com/cwickham/c40...

How about a Positron (or VS Code) snippet that picks a random number for your seed? Example snippet: gist.github.com/cwickham/820... Snippets: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

Also a reminder of me forgetting which account I'm posting from 🤦‍♀️

Been there. It's even worse for your self-esteem when you discover old code you wrote that used said function.

The best I've managed is to use citations as usual, then edit a CSL file to make the style you would normally see in the "References" section, the style you get inline. Code example: github.com/cwickham/ref... Preview: cwickham.github.io/references/

If you've ever added a new row to a tribble() that has thrown on your careful indentation that lined up all the columns...

I didn't make it to useR! this year, so I love that talks are coming out on YouTube. I also really enjoy seeing people using R for their "outside of work" interests.

My first time joining #tidytuesday was a lot of fun! Here is the figure I have created showing different types of meteorological measurements across the UK. Thanks to the @metoffice.gov.uk for the data! Code is available here: github.com/josefinabern... #rladies #tidyverse #rstats

One of my favorite aspects of the R community is the hex sticker culture. To this day one of my proudest #rstats contributions was artwork for two: purrr and forcats

If you haven't got a website and want to give #quarto a go, the first video in my "Quarto Websites" series with @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social could be a good place to start: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7r2... More resources in 🧵

If you are ever wondering if a site you are visiting was made with #quarto, open up your browser's developer tools and look for a meta tag like: <meta name="generator" content="quarto-1.9.8">

Quarto 1.8 (quarto.org/docs/blog/po...) includes an updated version of Bootstrap icons, so it's easier to add a link to your Bluesky profile from a #quarto website. Anywhere you can put the `icon` option (like in sidebar and navbar tools, footers, and about links), use `bluesky`

One thing I love about Quarto is how many #rladies are using it to build their websites! I'll drop a few examples below. Who else is using Quarto for their website? Share a link - I genuinely love discovering new sites and promise I'll visit!

Hi, I'm Charlotte Wickham and I'm your @weare.rladies.org curator for this week! I'm a developer educator at @posit.co where I work on the @quarto.org team. Before Posit, I worked at @oregonstate.edu where I taught stats, data science and, of course, #rstats.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @cwick.co.nz!

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!

The International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science (IDWSDS) Conference is approaching soon! ⭐️ When? October 14th! ⭐️ Where? Online! ⭐️ How much? Completely Free! Sign up now to stay updated about the program and learn about networking opportunities. www.idwsds.org

That’s a wrap for my week! 💜 It’s been a pleasure sharing R posts with you. Let me know if you try rig, pak, bslib, or conflicted! There’s always more happening, I’m sure we’ll cross paths again soon ✨ I may or may not be up in the air! Stay in touch: 🦋 @ivelasq3.bsky.social 🕸️ ivelasq.rbind.io

Big congrats to @statsteph.bsky.social and the team at RTI! Excited to see Chromy’s PPS sequential method in action. 🎉 #rstats

If you are an #rstats user in the greater SLC area, join us IN PERSON next Tues, Sept 30 for some networking and data science chat! We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉 www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

"A Gentle Introduction to Open Science" I love this post by Steffi LaZerte on @ropensci.org. Gentle indeed, and pragmatic. ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...

Congratulations, @joscelinrocha.com!

And the answer is…!

Data Elixir is one of my favorite newsletters. Love it when they share #RStats resources! And now they're on Bluesky! 🦋💙

When's an #RStats movie coming to the silver screen?

Friday afternoon poll! 📰 Each new R release gets its name from which comic strip? 1️⃣ Garfield 2️⃣ Calvin and Hobbes 3️⃣ The Far Side 4️⃣ Peanuts 📊 Show results

HELLO FROM BOSTON:

ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉 Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process! 📅 Friday, Oct 3rd 🕐 3pm Eastern 📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

Visualization + simulation! Very cool, @darakhshann.bsky.social !!

Thanks @cghlewis.bsky.social for the #rstats tip !! The rainbow indentation looks sooooo cool 🤩

ggplotly is such a great package! I bet it was a great time, @rladiesmelb.bsky.social! Learn more about the package: plotly.com/ggplot2/

🚀 NEXT WEEK! Apply for an R Consortium Technical Grant by Oct 1, 2025. Grants fund projects that strengthen the #rstats ecosystem. Example: volcalc — streamlining chemical volatility research - r-consortium.org/posts/unlock... Details + apply: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #opensource

I would code 500 lines And I would code 500 more Just to be the one who coded 1,000 lines instead of writing function at_your_doh_oh_or() duh-duh-duh-duht-duh 🙃🤪🤣 #rstats @rladies-bot.bsky.social @rladies.org

Have you ever started working in Python and then felt... stuck? Check out @juliasilge.com's recommendations from her talk, "How I got unstuck with Python", at posit::conf(2025)! The recording will be on the Posit YouTube channel soon 🤗 Slides: juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...

I just refound this classic meme 😂

A little bit of self-promotion, I @ivelasq3.bsky.social will be giving a talk on Positron for RStudio Users! Hoping to share some perspectives, extensions, and other tips in case you're interested in exploring Positron. Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to @ijlyttle.bsky.social and @3mmarand.bsky.social 🌈 #rstats

Want to manage multiple R versions without pain? 🧰 The rig (R Installation Manager) tool makes installing, removing, and switching between #RStats versions simple; works across macOS, Windows, and Linux. 🔧 github.com/r-lib/rig

You can search and filter Bluesky posts with the hashtags #Positconf2025, #Positconf25 and/or #Positconf in my Shiny app: apps.machlis.com/shiny/positc... posit::conf(2025) is @posit.co 's data science conference that took place in Atlanta & virtually last week, with a focus on #RStats & #Python