Today is my last day as RoCur and this will be my last thread (Saturday is a family day). This has been a blast! Thanks @rladies.org 😊 Let's stay connected! @ellakaye.co.uk ellakaye.co.uk A summary of the main things I've talked about this week🧵

It would be a pity to not to use the opportunity of being the RoCur to shamelessly promote some #RStats packages 📦 that I have developed 😆 They're all useful for me. Perhaps they'll be useful for you too. I'd love to hear about packages you've developed - please share in the replies. A thread 🧵

This is a thread about Forwards, the R Foundation task-force on women and other under-represented groups. We work on accessibility, community, conferences, on-ramps, social media, surveys, and teaching. forwards.github.io

I know that "What's your favourite R package?" threads are a fairly common RoCur occurrence. I want to know your favourite **functions** (both base R and in packages). Mine are the `browse_*` family from {usethis}, to visit important project-related web pages. usethis.r-lib.org/reference/br...

What luck that this announcement relating to R contribution landed the week that I'm RoCur! I am unbelievably excited to be part of this team, working with many wonderful people on the sustainability of the language and community we love ❤️

Hello! I'm back to talk about R community. This is a thread about @rainbowr.org, a community for LGBTQ+ folks who code in R 🌈 I know previous RoCurs have talked about rainbowR, but as the co-founder and co-lead of the community, I can't not write this thread! rainbowr.org

I'll be back again tomorrow talking about the R community, in particular Forwards and rainbowR. See you then!

One final contributing to base R post from me today, sharing a blog post from Rhian on her experience of participating in an R Dev Day. rhian.rbind.io/posts/2025-1... @statsrhian.bsky.social #RStats

I can't talk about contributing to base R without mentioning my favourite R-thing I've ever done, adding the `penguins` dataset to R >4.5.0 🐧 After a journey from Antartica to PLOS ONE to the {palmerpenguins} package, what a joy to help the penguins march into R, immediately available to everyone!

Do you have questions about contributing to base R? Ask them in the replies here and I'll do my best to answer.

Have you contributed to base R? If so, share your work in the replies (I tagged a few folks in the previous thread, but there are many others I missed, or don't know about).

When tracking down bugs in base R code, you may well find yourself coming across some C. Don't know any C? No worries! I've got you covered with "C for R Users". The recording from R-Ladies Philly covers a live demo using the R Dev Container. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mQC... #RStats

After a bit of a technical interruption yesterday, I'm now back with more contributing to base R content. In this thread I want to highlight improvements to R that have been made by R contributors, often the result of work at R Dev Days. It shows what's possible for us to do! #RStats

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

Hello 👋 I'm Ella and I'm thrilled to be the R-Ladies RoCur this week. I look forward to engaging with you about my favourite R topics, both about code and community.

This week’s #RLadies curator is @ellakaye.co.uk 🎉

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?