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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 5d

I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!

What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com

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Event Time Announcer - Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic

Event Time Announcer shows time for Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic in locations all over the world. In Salt Lake City it happens on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 4:00:00 pm.

www.timeanddate.com

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 6h

It was! Should be up soon.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 12h

Great post by @andrew.heiss.phd on animating #rstats {dplyr} operations

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...

Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations | Andrew Heiss

Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data

www.andrewheiss.com

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing, thank you so much!

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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18h

I am learning how to make a regular old #rstats #shiny app into a "progressive web app"—one of those websites you can "install" on your phone or desktop and runs full-screen.

It is *not that hard*, but also very much not documented, so I feel like this is going to need to be a blog post eventually.

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 16h

#rstats what do folks do when converting from raster to terra with saved data objects? active bindings is a possibility

github.com/ropensci/gra...

interested in any perspectives, I don't want to change the entire way the package works (I'm not the maintainer, just toying with ideas)

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 18h

I'm going to be giving an #rstats talk about functions in about 45 minutes - it's online!

The talk is called: "Practical Functions: Practically Magic", but could potentially be retitled, "Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction".

Join at: www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 20h

A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Lots of iteration and mock up drawings in keynote. We were able to go through a local manufacturer in Australia to get a fully custom pattern through a knitting machine. Very neat.

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 1d

How cool is this?! Positron opens a HTML color picker when typing a HTML color in your script.

#RStats #dataviz

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 2d

mirai 2.5.1 released.

mirai.r-lib.org

This is a patch release, but brings a new synchronous mode: `daemons(sync = TRUE)` runs your code in the same process. This means you can now drop into a browser session *within* your mirai #rstats code!

p.s. amazing hex stickers made by someone @posit.co!!

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 1d

Hands down the UseR 2018 socks! A bit biased but @visnut.bsky.social and I designed them! Don’t have a photo handy, though. We also had a really good strong tote bag that is good for groceries.

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Eric Leung @erictleung.bsky.social · 1d

recently learned the sQuote() and dQuote() R functions

> cat("distinguish plain", sQuote("single"), "and", dQuote("double"), "quotes")
distinguish plain ‘single’ and “double” quotes
> cat("distinguish between 'single' and \"double\" quotes")
distinguish between 'single' and "double" quotes

#RStats

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Aug 27

🔍 Need to search for species in an area with a buffer? 🔵

Learn how to add a buffer in Python and see how to consider threatened species with obfuscated locations in a new ALA Labs post by Amanda Buyan & me 😀

labs.ala.org.au/posts/2025-0...

🧪🌏 #Python #matplotlib #geopandas #geospatial #quartopub

a map. An outline of Midwestern (a local government area in NSW, Australia) in black surrounded by a buffer zone in blue around it. Purple points (which are species observations) are speckled around the map

3 maps, each showing an black outline of Midwestern (a local government area in NSW, Australia) with a grid overlayed on each. Each map shows a purple dot representing a theoretical 'true' species location, and a yellow point representing the new point location due to generalisation (the process of making the location less precise). These three maps show 3 scenarios when a generalised point appears inside an area when its true location is outside, inside an area when its true location is inside, and outside an area when its true location is inside

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 2d

I'd like my ggplot to blend in to the background slide colour - I thought that setting background or paper to be transparent would solve this, but it doesn't seem to - am I going about this the right way? See an example here: github.com/njtierney/gg...

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that could be happening is their RStudio session could be storing session objects in .RData, which could be accumulating objects, and hogging all the RAM. You can turn this off in Tools > Global Options > Basic > Workspace. See qmd4sci.njtierney.com/rstudio.html for some recommendations.

3 RStudio, What and Why – Quarto for Scientists

For a scientific report to be completely credible, it must be reproducible. The full computational environment used to derive the results, including the data and code used for statistical analysis sho...

qmd4sci.njtierney.com

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 6d

Introducing {pmtiles}: an #rstats package to create, view, and interact with PMTiles.

PMTiles is one of the most exciting geospatial innovations in recent years. Map tiles are stored & served from a single file, making massive geospatial data visualization widely accessible.

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 7d

Cool blog (post) by @economictricks.bsky.social about Rs formula syntax
www.econometrics.blog/post/the-r-f...

Also check out @emitanaka.org‘s paper below
arxiv.org/pdf/1911.08628

#econsky #rstats

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 8d

That’s me asking a question that appears to be causing everyone else in the audience to have an existential crisis 🥲

Thanks #WOMBAT2025! I had a great time listening to cool speakers and meeting many nice, passionate and impressive people. See ya next time 👋
#rstats

WOMBAT 2025 @wombat.numbat.space · 8d

Thank you so much too all the speakers and participants. #WOMBAT2025 was lovely and we hope to have you for #WOMBAT2026!
We'll share the recordings on youtube, so follow us for news!

#RStats #DataScience

Closeup photo of someone asking a question.

Photo of people standing, eating and chatting.

Photo of four people playing table tennis.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 9d

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png.

There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful.

Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies.

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 7d

🎨 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

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

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

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 5d

R-Universe by @rOpenSci is an extremely useful project.

My latest R package, {pmtiles}, is not a good fit for CRAN as it bundles a pre-compiled Go library.

With R-Universe, I was able to get installable cross-platform binaries built in hours!

#rstats

walkerke.r-universe....

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SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · 4d

Very interesting blog on #Rstats debugging tools and techniques by Gábor Csárdi
blog.r-hub.io/2020/02/20/p...

Debugging: Signals and Subprocesses - R-hub blog

This is a short story about a non-trivial bug in the processx package, and how I fixed it. It is a good showcase of the some debugging tools. The bug processx is an R package to start and manage exter...

blog.r-hub.io

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 4d

Sorry for the spam #rstats #stats

But what are some best practices when using @zotero.org?

So far I‘ve just thrown everything into a single library (no groups etc) and used tags (inconsistently)…

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my!