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Terry Christiani 👋 @terrychristiani.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hey #rstats if you're following me for @rconsortium.bsky.social news, you can go straight to the source now! We're on Bluesky! We'll be leaving that other place in September.

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jul 18

this week in #rstats 🕺

- latest Claude Code thoughts 🤖 @simonpcouch.com
- faceted {tinyplot}s 📊 @ereinbergs.bsky.social
- {httr2} v1.2.0 🎯 @posit.co @hadley.nz
- RAG with {ragnar}+{ellmer} ⚒️ @stephenturner.us @smachlis.bsky.social

this and more below 😎

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This week in R (2025-07-18)

Two introductions tot eh {ragnar} package for RAG in R; experiences with Claude Code for R dev; faceting {tinyplot} plots; the new {httr2} version, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jul 11

this week in #rstats 💥
- parallel {purrr} ⏸️ @shikokuchuo.net @hadley.nz @davisvaughan.bsky.social
- Quarto from code 🛠️ @djnavarro.net
- R+AI conf proposals 🎤 @terrychristiani.bsky.social
- free monthly webinars 🎓 @jumpingrivers.com

and more below! 💫

#data #news
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This week in R (2025-07-11)

Generating Quarto documents from R code; free monthly webinars for R users; the exciting new addition to {purrr}; the first R+AI conference, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jul 4

this week in #rstats 🎆
- {quickr} Fortran transpiling 💨@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
- Positron out of beta 🎂 @posit.co
- C for R users 👩‍💻 @rladies.org @ellakaye.co.uk
- {zap} for efficient serialising ⚡ @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

and more!👇
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This week in R (2025-07-04)

Positron's first stable release; contributing to base R with C; {zap} for efficient serialisation/compression; transpiling to Fortran with {quickr}, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jun 27

this week in #rstats 🕺
- spatialML pkgs 🌐 @jakubnowosad.com
- {futureverse} 🔮 @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social
- file-opening code 📂 @masalmon.eu
- {mirai} 🚅 @shikokuchuo.net
- Quarto speaker notes 🗣️ @rfortherestofus.com

this and more below! 🔥

#news #quarto #data

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This week in R (2025-06-27)

The latest in asynchronous programming in R, from two big frameworks; file-opening helpers; specialised spatial ML; Quarto presentation tips, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jun 20

this week in #rstats 😎
- OLS in R 📈 @thomvolker.bsky.social
- new bird data pkg 🐦 @jasminedaly.bsky.social
- R -> Python 🐍 @marcdotson.com
- {duckplyr} joins the tidyverse 🦆 @masalmon.eu
- Shiny in Production news 🗣️ @jumpingrivers.com

and more below! ✨

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This week in R (2025-06-20)

How to go from R to Python; the latest on {duckplyr} in the tidyverse; Shiny in Production announcements; a new avian dataset package and more!

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Marc Dotson @marcdotson.com · Jun 14

There are a lot of introductions to Python, but this one is mine. It includes a walkthrough of using uv for environment management, Polars for data wrangling, seaborn.objects for visualization, and scikit-learn for modeling. #rstats #python #pydata

An introduction to Python for R users – Occasional Divergences

This introduction to Python assumes you know R, which is used as an analogy to explain Python for data analysis.

occasionaldivergences.com

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jun 13

this week in #rstats 💥

- Air formatter v0.7.0 🛫 @davisvaughan.bsky.social @lionelhenry.bsky.social
- intro to the {datapasta} package 🍝 @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social
- testing Shiny apps 🧪
- learn brand.yml ™️ @rfortherestofus.com @grrrck.xyz

and more below 🔥

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This week in R (2025-06-13)

Learn all about brand.yml; all you need to know about testing Shiny apps; a new version of Air has been released; an intro to the {datapasta} package and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · May 30

this week in #rstats 🕺

lots of AI-related news, an update on everything rOpenSci, some spatial machine learning, and a relatively rare base R function…👀
@simonpcouch.com @posit.co @jakubnowosad.com @ropensci.org @frankiethull.bsky.social

check it out below! 💥

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This week in R (2025-05-30)

Testing Claude 4 on R coding; the new {acquaint} package for MCP servers in R; {kuzco} for easy computer vision; spatial ML with {tidymodels}, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · May 23

this week in #rstats 💥
- custom ggplot2 themes 🎨 @mansthulin.bsky.social
- Air R formatter 💨 @yosky.bsky.social
- teach R with Github Codespaces 👨‍🏫 @mickael.canouil.fr
- Shiny in Production workshops 📣 @jumpingrivers.com
- secure shiny 🔐

and more below! 🔥
#data

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This week in R (2025-05-23)

Shiny security vulnerabilities; custom ggplot2 themes; the new superfast R formatter; Github Codespaces for teaching; Shiny in Production announcement and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · May 16

this week in #rstats 💥
- all about fonts 🔠
- {rixpress} multi-language pipelines 👨‍🔧 @brodriguesco.bsky.social
- virtual posit::conf(2025) 💻 @posit.co
- {plumber} + Caddy in prod 🎯
- shinydraw for wireframing 🖌️

this and more below! 💨

#news #data #programming

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This week in R (2025-05-16)

Using fonts in R; virtual posit::conf(2025); wireframing shiny apps; multi-language pipelines with {rixpress}; plumber APIs in production with Caddy; and more!

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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · May 9

Yuhuuu 🥳😍 thank you so much for the mention!
And I take the opportunity to advertise SORTEE super quarto series this month: events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · May 9

this week in #rstats 🔥

- new RStudio release 🆕 @posit.co
- upcoming Quarto Scrollytelling meetup 📖 @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
- new Gemini 2.5 Pro vs R coding 🤖 @simonpcouch.com
- VSCode for R+Python dev ⚖️ @rworks.bsky.social

and more 🎉

#news #datascience

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This week in R (2025-05-09)

A new version of the most popular IDE; more LLM benchmarking with {vitals}; a look at VSCode for R+Python development; learn about Scrollytelling; and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · May 2

this week in #rstats ✨
- Positron tips & tricks 🖥️ @albertrapp.bsky.social
- DuckDB+R=🔥 @amolborkar.bsky.social @duckdb.org
- Comparing spatial ML in R 🗺️ @jakubnowosad.com
- Why R & Python are friends 🤝

this and more below! 🏃

#news #data #python

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This week in R (2025-05-01)

Deep dive into R-Python interoperability; getting the most out of Positron IDE; spatial ML in R comparisons; evidence supporting DuckDB & R usage, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 25

this week in #rstats 🔥
- Quarto Reveal.js tabsets and PDFs ✨ @mickael.canouil.fr
- SQLite in R 💽 @kenkoonwong.bsky.social
- {ellmer} Workshop for Ukraine 🤖 @hadley.nz
- new DuckDB {duckspatial} pkg 🦆

and more! ✨

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This week in R (2025-04-25)

Spatial data + DuckDB combo; learn about LLMs from {ellmer}s creator; supercharge your Quarto presentations; using SQLite from R; and much more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 18

this week in #rstats 🔥
- assessing GPT4.1 ⚖️ @simonpcouch.com
- a new R pkg for route optimisation 🗺️
- managing Rstudio addins ➕
- using {ellmer} to analyse cycling routes🚲

and more below! ✨
#ai #ellmer #llm #news

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This week in R (2025-04-18)

Summarising cycling routes with AI in R; assessing LLM performance on R coding tasks; route planning with Valhalla in R; managing RStudio addins, and much more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 17

its a naming convention I've seen called 'semantic branch naming' although there are other names/variations - there are some explanations of common prefixes at gist.github.com/seunggabi/87... and gist.github.com/joshbuchea/6...

Semantic Branch Names

Semantic Branch Names. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 17

I think you can use {lintr}s return_linter with return_style="explicit"? lintr.r-lib.org/reference/re...

Return linter — return_linter

This linter checks functions' return() expressions.

lintr.r-lib.org

Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 11

this week in #rstats:
- R 4.5.0 is here! 🎁
- intro to {chores} 🦾 @simonpcouch.com
- AI+shiny+maps=cool 🌎 @kylewalker.bsky.social
- the future of {plumber}(2) 🛠️ @thomasp85.com
- learning R with AI help 🏫 @minecr.bsky.social

this and more below! 🥳
#news

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This week in R (2025-04-11)

What's new in R 4.5.0; how to learn R with genAI; creating AI-powered interactive maps in shiny; the future of web API development in R; and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 4

this week in #rstats 🔥
- evaluating LLMs in R 🧪 @simonpcouch.com
- Observable JS for R users 📊 @nrennie.bsky.social
- a new Docker pkg for R 🐳 @coatless.bsky.social
- using duckdb & duckplyr 🦆 @rorylawless.com
- R pkg risk & QA 🚧 @jumpingrivers.com

and more! 🥳

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This week in R (2025-04-04)

How good is Gemini at R?; a new way to integrate Docker to your R work; Observable JS for R devs; getting the most out of DuckDB; R package QA, and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Apr 2

Thanks for the mention! 😁

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Mar 28

this week in #rstats 🤝
- 🤖 @simonpcouch.com on Claude for R dev
- 👀 {mall} pkg for LLM-based wrangling
- 🦸‍♂️new UI pkg from @davidgranjon.bsky.social
- 🐙 the latest @coatless.bsky.social pkg for managing many Github repos

and more below! 🌀
#news #data #programming

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This week in R (2025-03-28)

Claude Code for R package dev; {mall} for LLM-based data processing; new {multideploy} package for managing many Github repos; a new UI package for R and more!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Mar 21

this week in #rstats 🔥
- 🧙 {rixpress}, the latest Nix-wizardry pkg @brodriguesco.bsky.social
- 🦙 @frankiethull.bsky.social creative new R-based game
- 🖌️ a data viz comp you can still enter
- 🧑‍🏫 Positron/pkg dev tutorial by @juliasilge.com

and more!✨

#data #news
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Posit @posit.co · Mar 14

Our bilingual Quarto docs is in "This Week in R"! Thanks for the shout out, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!

Blog post here: posit.co/blog/creatin...

Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Mar 14

this week in #rstats 😎
- 🥊 {dplyr} vs {data.table} @albertrapp.bsky.social
- ‼️ Bilingual Quarto docs @posit.co @ivelasq3.bsky.social
- ⏰ Shiny in Production deadline extension @jumpingrivers.com
- 🎨 {pkgdown} enhancement tips

and more below!
#news #data #python

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This week in R (2025-03-14)

Clash of the titans with {dplyr} vs {data.table}; making docs accessible to R & Python users alike; a Shiny in Production announcement; and some pkgdown tips!

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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Mar 14

No problem thanks for writing it! The grouped tabs functionality looks super useful 😁

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