Ian Lyttle
@ijlyttle.bsky.social
☕️ 📊 🐶 🔸 Protect Trans Kids 🔸 Black Lives Matter
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I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats
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this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
this dude helping his bro pick up his stick should be highlight of the night but our bloodthirsty sports media only feeds us conflict
this is the wildest thing I have heard in a while
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4...
Tomorrow Never Knows
YouTube video by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Bluegrass Band - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
this is the wildest thing I have heard in a while
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMz4...
asking for a favorite track is a trap...
for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
Released 33 years ago—Oct. 5-6, 1992. Share your favorite track in the comments!
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
asking for a favorite track is a trap...
for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
for me, this is less of an album, and more of an old friend: there when needed
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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
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
September 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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
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
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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
September 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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
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I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
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RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! 📬
After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference. #rstats
- AI Coding Assistants
- Spreadsheet formatting
- Creating R Data Packages
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference. #rstats
- AI Coding Assistants
- Spreadsheet formatting
- Creating R Data Packages
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 014
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! 📬
After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference. #rstats
- AI Coding Assistants
- Spreadsheet formatting
- Creating R Data Packages
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference. #rstats
- AI Coding Assistants
- Spreadsheet formatting
- Creating R Data Packages
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
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🕐 🤔 Timestamps and time zones can be confusing! 😵
💡 To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
💡 To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
Timestamp Issues
Timestamp With Time Zone Promotion Casts Working with time zones in SQL can be quite confusing at times. For example, when filtering to a date range, one might try the following query: SET timezone = ...
duckdb.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
🕐 🤔 Timestamps and time zones can be confusing! 😵
💡 To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
💡 To help you make sense of time zones in SQL, Richard Wesley wrote a short guide that covers some typical pitfalls: duckdb.org/docs/stable/...
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Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔
She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)
#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python
She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)
#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python
August 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Does Jenny Bryan #VibeCode? 🤔
She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)
#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python
She shared on the Hangout that she's been thankful that she gets to learn #rust and #typscript in the age of #AI and these are her thoughts on #LLM use. (We really need a #RubberDuck emoji 🦆)
#rstats #databs #VibeCoding #DSHangout #python
Really looking forward teaching again with @3mmarand.bsky.social: all sorts of good stuff, including:
🐝 getting started with functions
⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation
🏃♀️iterating over columns of data frames
🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr
Hope you can join us!
🐝 getting started with functions
⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation
🏃♀️iterating over columns of data frames
🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr
Hope you can join us!
There's always more to learn in R! Level up your skills at posit::conf(2025) with our workshops:
➡️ R User to Programmer with Emma Rand & Ian Lyttle
📦 Package Development with @jennybryan.bsky.social
👷 R in Production with @hadley.nz
🗓️ Sept 16–18 | 🔗 posit.co/conference/
#PositConf2025 #RStats
➡️ R User to Programmer with Emma Rand & Ian Lyttle
📦 Package Development with @jennybryan.bsky.social
👷 R in Production with @hadley.nz
🗓️ Sept 16–18 | 🔗 posit.co/conference/
#PositConf2025 #RStats
August 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Really looking forward teaching again with @3mmarand.bsky.social: all sorts of good stuff, including:
🐝 getting started with functions
⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation
🏃♀️iterating over columns of data frames
🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr
Hope you can join us!
🐝 getting started with functions
⚡️ writing functions with tidy evaluation
🏃♀️iterating over columns of data frames
🐈 intro to functional programming with purrr
Hope you can join us!
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This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
WKRP: Johnny Fever
www.awphooey.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
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this is my TS album drop 🤩
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this is my TS album drop 🤩
I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today.
I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
100% agree + #RStats WebR works in Notebooks 2.0 & Desktop!
I went into some detail abt Notebooks & Desktop this past week: dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/07/31/d...
I went into some detail abt Notebooks & Desktop this past week: dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/07/31/d...
August 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I have drifted from Observable lately, and I could use a distraction today.
I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
I've got my morning coffee, let's do this!
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At Posit, we love @typst.app:
⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model
So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...
#rstats
⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model
So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...
#rstats
Posit
We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
posit.co
June 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
At Posit, we love @typst.app:
⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model
So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...
#rstats
⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model
So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...
#rstats
Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...
Gotta See It: Connor McDavid Shows Off Sweet Moves to Bury Goal
YouTube video by SPORTSNET
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Connor McDavid in the elimination game against Dallas, 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ea...
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This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!
Remember that statistics alone aren't always data; they are descriptions of data.
One Simple Way to Get Better at Reading Data
Senior leaders are likely to be a consumer of statistics calculated by their direct reports to help them make informed decisions. While data are observed, the presenter decides which statistics are…
buff.ly
May 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is a fun piece on denominators to share with your friends, written with my @wakeforest.bsky.social colleague Jeff Camm!
Reposted by Ian Lyttle
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
May 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
(repeat to self) Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable... docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotc...
Common Gotchas — The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
docs.python-guide.org
May 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
(repeat to self) Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable, Python argument-defaults are mutable... docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotc...
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵
May 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵
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Reposted by Ian Lyttle
This is why I can't sleep at night...
www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...
www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...
From the dataengineering community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the dataengineering community
www.reddit.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is why I can't sleep at night...
www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...
www.reddit.com/r/dataengine...
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For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:
Say hello to plumber2 🎉
plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more
Say hello to plumber2 🎉
plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more
What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)
What the package does (one paragraph).
posit-dev.github.io
April 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:
Say hello to plumber2 🎉
plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more
Say hello to plumber2 🎉
plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more