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Nic Crane

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Independent R consultant. Apache Arrow PMC Member & #rstats 📦 maintainer. Arrow course launching early 2026: https://big-data-r.thinkific.com/ More of my stuff at https://niccrane.com/

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Posit @posit.co · 1d

🚀 The 4th edition of the Posit AI Newsletter is out!

This biweekly, bite-sized update by @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com covers Claude Sonnet 4.5, OpenAI investments, situational awareness, and more.

Read the full issue here: posit.co/blog/2025-10...

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously cool stuff from @shikokuchuo.net on mirai+ellmer+shiny+httr2 with otel for telemetry at Shiny in Production!

You can use it to improve the performance of your Shiny apps by getting really granular information about it what's going on!

#rstats

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 2d

A delightfully concise history of #rstats from @colinfay.bsky.social at Shiny in Production 🔥

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I needed a hobby that doesn't require good weather, and have kinda fallen in love with having something I can get so nerdy about that doesn't involve tech. Every new thing I learn about music theory is like 🤯

Hope you're well, and I look forward to catching up this week!

Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 3d

That's exciting!

Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no, what have I started?!!

Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 4d

Piano lesson was awesome this afternoon & reminded me of why it's way more fun as an adult - my teacher is on board with my goal of "learning stuff to play that my friends & I can sing along to when drinking" and was very enthusiastic when I sheepishly admitted I've been learning Mr Brightside! 🎹🥳 🍸

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 4d

Just added Air to the Arrow CI jobs 🪂

It's an R formatter written in Rust, and so fast I genuinely had a "wtf?!" moment the first time I used it.

Would love to see a similar linter; if I had the time, I'd love to try building one - need to get acquainted with tree-sitters one day! 🌳

#rstats

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 4d

Loooove this post by @veerle.hypebright.nl on Shiny and LLMs! 🤖

shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

⚡️ Handle requests asynchronously so multiple users don't block each other
⚡️ Provide visual feedback when components are loading
⚡️ Catch errors & display user-friendly messages

#rstats #llms #shiny

Shiny - Build Your First LLM App with Shiny for Python or R

Shiny is a package that makes it easy to create interactive web apps using R and Python.

shiny.posit.co

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 9d

🤩 My code produced when using LLMs to work on #rstats code got waaaaay better after I read this blog post by @simonpcouch.com on his Claude setup!

www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-07...

How I’m using Claude Code to write R code | Simon P. Couch – Simon P. Couch

www.simonpcouch.com

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 9d

Apache Arrow will be 10 soon! 🥳

At the Arrow summit, PMC chair @enpiar.bsky.social reflects on the keys to longevity:

⭐ Social components are as important as the technical
⭐ Build relationships with other projects & make newcomers feel welcome & empowered
⭐ Culture is what makes the difference

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 11d

At #positconf, it was the Pacman rule, and at #pydata Paris, it's the camembert rule! 😁🤣

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 14d

Fiiiine, if you insist!

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Charlotte Hadley (she/her) @charliejhadley.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve just received permission to make a PR against a repo I’ve been dreaming of making for EIGHT YEARS.

I couldn’t be happier. And it’s all thanks to @niccrane.bsky.social

More details at Shiny in Production 😄

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Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 14d

Collaborative effort, I'm just good at impulsively emailing people with other people's ideas! 🤣 Yay teamwork! Looking forward to co-presenting our htmlwidgets delight and LLM horrors 😁

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 17d

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