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Hadley Wickham

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R, data, 🐕, 🍸, 🌈. He/him.

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 5d

The myth of meritocracy inspires the implicit assumption that someone’s degree of success reflects their level of competence and skill.

I think that this is one of the most toxic myths of our time.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 8d

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in!

#rstats

ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.

www.tidyverse.org

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

If you do it a million times you’ll save a whole minute!

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

If you’re not suffering, you’re doing it wrong

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

NEVER.

That’s the unwritten rule: if it’s REALLY PAINFUL make a subordinate do it 🤣

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

I was ACTUALLY thinking about this because we were talking about posit’s mission at the exec work week

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

Sometimes you make pain worse by flinching away from it and if you instead do it more regularly it feels much less bad (e.g. running R CMD check)

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

I hadn’t noticed that, but it’s certainly the vibe with these three.

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 6d

Three phrases that capture some of the tidyverse team culture:

Everybody takes out the trash

We suffer so users don’t have to

If it hurts, do it more often

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 6d

I was just reading www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a... !

A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

www.ribbonfarm.com

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Stefanie Butland @stefaniebutland.bsky.social · 6d

Come work with me and the best team!! We work openly, together, with kindness. We care about onboarding, and have the best team culture I've ever experienced.

Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!

connect – Openscapes

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Openscapes @openscapes.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Come work @openscapes.bsky.social ! We're looking for a NASA Openscapes Team Member to improve access & use of NASA suborbital data thru reproducible notebook clinics. Apply by October 26, 2025. Start December 2025.

Details including pay rate: openscapes.org/connect#work...
Please share!

connect – Openscapes

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 7d

Just learned: It's so easy to sort strings that are numbers in proper numerical order with the {stringr} #Rstats 📦's `str_sort()` function and numeric = TRUE!!
x <- c("8", "10", "1", "40")
str_sort(x, numeric = TRUE)
[1] "1" "8" "10" "40"

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 8d

Running an effective Code of Conduct committee is essential to building a welcome, inclusive community. But it's demanding, complex work to do well. So @ropensci.org's team is sharing our CoC management materials with an open license. We get better by learning from each other.

Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 8d

📝New blog post in @ropensci.org sharing with an open license the templates we use for our Code of Conduct Committee work.

We hope they are helpful for other groups and organizations.

ropensci.org/blog/2025/09...

rOpenSci Code of Conduct Committee Templates

rOpenSci has a stablish Code of Conduct Committee and process for their functioning. We use templates to support our work and we share these templates in this blog post.

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 8d

Not compared to the CoC one

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Posit @posit.co · 8d

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 8d

Untitled1 is the one true way

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WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · 9d

Cannot post. Too busy doing ggplot battles.

#RStats #WOMBAT2025
www.ggplotbattles.dev/challenges/v...

Screenshot of a website showing a ggplot2 plot that you need to replicate with code written on a text box (code blurred! no cheating!)

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 8d

github.com/tidyverse/gg... !

GitHub - tidyverse/ggbot2

Contribute to tidyverse/ggbot2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 16d

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

docs.google.com

Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 9d

I thought being practically useless disqualified a field of study from being a humanity

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Deepali Kank @deepalikank.in · 10d

I created these Truchet tiles in plotnine. Triangle mosaics with geom_polygon() and looping arc chains with geom_path().
Entry for the 2025 plotnine contest.
#DataViz #GenerativeArt #2025plotninecontest

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Posit @posit.co · 12d

🚀 The 3rd edition of the Posit AI Newsletter is out now!

Curated by @sara-altman.bsky.social and @simonpcouch.com, this biweekly newsletter keeps you up to speed with #AI.

This week: the #Claude degradation incident, posit::conf AI talks, and what "agents" actually are.

📬 posit.co/blog/2025-09...

A collection of hexagons, each containing a different icon. On the left are three outlined heads: two with glasses, one a robot. The hexagons include a mall, a bridge, a raccoon, a Viking, and a goose.

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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 12d

ggplot v4.0.0 is now out! 🎉

Join the release party on October 3rd with developer & maintainer @teunbrand.bsky.social and the ggplot2 extenders meetup to learn all about what's new and the change-making process!

📅 Friday, Oct 3rd
🕐 3pm Eastern
📋 Sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats

Release party for ggplot2 v4.0.0
Friday October 3rd, 3pm Eastern
Taylor Swift holding up an album

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 13d

New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report

An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.