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...

Meet our R-Ladies Melb VP Daidai (danyangdai.bsky.social)! She's a third-year PhD candidate using #RStats for data wrangling, visualisation, reproducible reporting, and Shiny apps: her go-to packages are #tidyverse and #rmarkdown! #RLadiesMelbourne #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Still time to register for THIS WEDNESDAY! Discover how Git and GitHub make coding collaborative, organised, and fearless. 💻✨ 📅 09 May 🕒 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...

I was today years old when I discovered the {memes} R package—you can make your own #memes right from R! 🤯😂 #RStats #DataHumour 🔗 Read more about the package here:

Meet our R-Ladies Melb President ‪Dionne: @dionnecargy.bsky.social‬! They're a whiz at epidemiology and population genetics. Her favourite #RStats packages are #tidyverse, #poppr and #shiny.fluent! Ask them anything! #RLadiesMelbourne #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

Did you know that there are currently over 1,000,000 R packages across CRAN and GitHub? 🤔 #RCoding #RLadiesMelbourne #DataScience

Ever feel lost in version chaos or endless file exchanges? Discover how Git and GitHub make coding collaborative, organised, and fearless. 💻✨ 📅 09 May 🕒 5:30-6pm: in-person networking & refreshments 🕒 6-7:30pm: workshop 📍 DiUS 3/31 Queen St or Online 🔗 Sign up:

🚨Hurry - places going fast! 🚨 🎓 Join us for a free, in-person workshop on the Practicalities of Research Data Management. 📊 Open exclusively to staff and students of the University of Melbourne and its affiliated organisations, this is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your research skills.

Connect Cloud is the fastest way for R & Python teams to deploy data apps + docs. And now, Connect Cloud has org-level features like SSO, role-based access control (RBAC), GitHub-based continuous deployment, and flexible sharing options. 📽️See it all in action: posit.co/webinar/conn...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: We refuse to reinforce systems of oppression and exclusion. If you agree, take my grandmother’s advice. Put your money where your mouth is 🫶🏾 Donate: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

👩‍💻 We’re hiring! Lê Cao Lab at Uni Melbourne @mig-unimelb.bsky.social needs an R dev to power the next-gen of mixOmics 🚀 Love #RStats, #Bioconductor & multi-omics? Help expand mixOmics, run workshops & publish cutting-edge methods. Apply: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex...

So glad to have @emitanaka.org and @nimahejazi.org join our editorial board for @ropensci.org's software peer review! They’ll help ensure rigorous, friendly, open peer review for software in statistics and data science. ropensci.org/blog/2025/06... #rstats

Ever feel lost in version chaos or endless file exchanges? Discover how Git and GitHub make coding collaborative, organised, and fearless. 💻✨ 📅 09 May 🕒 5:30-6pm: in-person networking & refreshments 🕒 6-7:30pm: workshop 📍 DiUS 3/31 Queen St or Online 🔗 Sign up:

@kcharniga.bsky.social's talk is next week! Sign up now!

It's #TidyTuesday y'all! Show us what you made on our Slack at https://dslc.io#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #RustLang #DataViz #DataScience #DataAnalytics #data #tidyverse #DataBS