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Russell Shean
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Independent freelance consultant |
data scientist | data engineer | software developer

#rstats #python #pydata #bash #databs #azure python tools for #powerbi

DMs about freelance projects, collaborations, or just to chat welcome 😁
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rshean.bsky.social
Excited (and a little nervous!) to share that I'll be giving a talk for @dariia.bsky.social's Workshops for Ukraine series about a #python package I'm working on to create #PowerBI dashboards with python instead of Power BI Desktop. #databs #pydata #dataviz #datavis

sites.google.com/view/dariia-...
Screenshot of the talk announcement. To read the text, please visit the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.sj6g2dwadp0k
March 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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nhsrcommunity.bsky.social
☕ Coffee and Coding ☕

Do you have an interesting piece of code/work to showcase, an opportunity for collaboration or a code dilemma you would like help with?

We would love to hear from you at Coffee and Coding – join the NHS-R Community Slack for more info (postcard.nhsrcommunity.com)!

#rstats
NHS-R Community
postcard.nhsrcommunity.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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yoshemitzu.bsky.social
This is a great primer on Audrey Tang and pluralism. YouTube link to the doc is downthread.
radxchange.bsky.social RadicalxChange Foundation @radxchange.bsky.social · Mar 10
Good Enough Ancestor is out now! Learn the story of Audrey Tang ( @audreyt.org ) as she reflects on democracy in Taiwan and around the globe. www.combinationsmag.com/good-enough-...
Close-up photo of a Taiwanese woman's face with long, dark, straight hair holding three lit incense sticks.
March 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Reposted by Russell Shean
posit.co
Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆

Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...

Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python
February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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user-conf.bsky.social
UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025.
Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025

useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

user2025.r-project.org/call
#RStats
Call for Submissions – useR! 2025
user2025.r-project.org
February 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
rshean.bsky.social
For Windows
This assumes no admin rights, if you have admin rights there are more options: superuser.com/a/1026940

1. Find your #Rstats executable
2. Create a new folder
3. Inside folder add a batch script to launch R with --no-save arg
4. Add folder to path

gist: gist.github.com/Russell-Shea...
FIRST HALF Here are some commands you can run in command prompt to 1. create a new folder called "my_custom_bin" 2. create a batch script inside "my_custom_bin" with the following: @echo off "C:/Program Files/R/R-4.4.2/bin/r.exe" --no-save These commands could be run individually in a command prompt window or as a batch script. These steps could also be done manually. Code is available as gist in link above. SECOND HALF Here are some commands you can run in command prompt to 1. create a new powershell script 2. execute the powershell script to add "my_custom_bin" to the path These commands should be run after the commands in the first screenshot. They could be run individually in a command prompt window or combined with the first screenshot as a batch script. The powershell script could also be run directly in powershell..... You can add to the path manually by going to "edit environmental variables for your account" in control panel, then edit "Path" under user variables and then add the full path to "my_custom_bin" After you're finished setting all this up, any time you type "R" in a terminal, windows will search the path, find the R.bat file in "my_custom_bin" and execute the batch script. The batch script will launch R with the --no-save option enabled. This may not work if R is already on your path?
January 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
rshean.bsky.social
Ha! I figured out how to disable the "save workspace image ?" prompt when exiting #Rstats from a terminal

Here's how I did it (in Ubuntu; I'm going to solve windows cmd tomorrow at work)

Details in alt text!
credit to this blog that I shamelessly copied from: www.r-bloggers.com/2009/03/r-ti...
To open and edit the bash profile file with nano, enter this command in a terminal: nano ~/.bashrc Add this to the file: alias R='R --no-save' To save (Ctrl + O is what ^O means) Ctrl + O To exit nano Ctrl + X Restart the terminal for the change to take effect. The option in the alt text assumes that R is already on your path as "R". The option in the image/blog link is probably safer because it checks the bin for R, but it's also waaay more typing :D .
January 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
rshean.bsky.social
Thanks @edenian-prince.bsky.social for inviting to help make this closeread...and for doing most of the work 😅

It's really cool how leaflet maps can be embedded directly into the html. Next time I want to try shinylive or something to embed a shiny instead of just using an iframe like we did here.
edenian-prince.bsky.social edenian-prince.bsky.social @edenian-prince.bsky.social · Jan 5
So excited! I submitted a quarto site for the closeread competition. It's a Quarto website that uses closeread (scrollytelling) and parallax effects to tell a story about bigfoot sightings data. note - it doesn't work well on mobile:(

edenian-prince.github.io/bigfoot-clos...
#quartopub #rstats
pnw bigfoot sightings
edenian-prince.github.io
January 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM