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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 8d

✨ Check out {cli} - an R package for beautiful command-line interfaces!

Use it to add headings, alerts, lists, progress bars & more, with built-in colors and themes. Perfect for making console output clear and stylish.

🔗 github.com/r-lib/cli

#rstats #RPackage #cli

GitHub - r-lib/cli: Tools for making beautiful & useful command line interfaces

Tools for making beautiful & useful command line interfaces - r-lib/cli

github.com

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 8d

Just a friendly warning. Such functionality still have -experimental- tag so it might change in next versions.

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 8d

I have read that you can combine {renv} with {rig}, but I have not tried it myself
forum.posit.co/t/state-of-t...

State-of-the-art for reproducible R projects

Using pak when installing an renv lock file does not really change anything, apart from potentially making the process faster thanks to concurrency. What is your goal? To recreate an environment fro...

forum.posit.co

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 22d

Come work with us!

In two week's time, application deadlines close for eight fully funded #PhD positions who will be working together on understanding and mitigating global change impacts and feedbacks from mountains:

cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio...

cmt.w.uib.no

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 13d

I am using a similar approach but calling the variable 'verbose' (default FALSE). I hope it is less confusing for other users as turning it to TRUE will start printing A LOT of information about the internal processes.

Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 15d

This is hilarious🤣
With education in Ecology and NOT Computer Science, I know this feeling very personally

Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 15d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

anniemueller.com

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 20d

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 23d

Now I know!

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 24d

Agree, @bigbookofr.com is a must follow for any #Rstats person!

Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 24d

I’m going to have to stop following @bigbookofr.com… they post nonstop and ALL of the books are ones I want to read. My reading list is getting toooooo long from them alone! 🤣😂

But for real, thanks for all the recos!

#rstats

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 24d

Let's goooo! The very first in-person meeting of my newly founded Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology!
Small step for humankind, huge step for me🤯
LR: Natalie Hanusova, Bryan Novio, me
(neither of the PhD students have BluSky to tag them😅)
#LoQE #proud #PhD #supervisor

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EcoEvoRxiv @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 26d

Fossils for Future: the billion-dollar case for paleontology’s digital infrastructure
DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2D...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 26d

Have the students report in which way the generative AI was used is a cool move.

Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 26d

Teaching data science, data visualization, or programming is getting quite challenging when LLMs are so good at these tasks. I strongly feel students still need to do things themselves. But how do we make them do this, and not just take the AI shortcut?

blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/teaching-d...

Teaching data visualization in the time of generative AI

If students want to cheat with AI, the least I can do is make them own up to it.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 26d

Teaching data science, data visualization, or programming is getting quite challenging when LLMs are so good at these tasks. I strongly feel students still need to do things themselves. But how do we make them do this, and not just take the AI shortcut?

blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/teaching-d...

Teaching data visualization in the time of generative AI

If students want to cheat with AI, the least I can do is make them own up to it.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 27d

This has so many goodies!!!
Can't wait to find time to try these😄

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 28d

Minimal techno🎧. I have also taught myself over the years that whenever this music is playing, I will concentrate and only work

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Matthew Russell @matteomics.bsky.social · 28d

Also there is this:
quarto.org/docs/authori...
You can put a section into a named div, then put it somewhere later in doc. I use it for papers where journals want method sections after discussion. Could put every section in a named div, then just rearrange the shortcodes calling them.

contents: Rearrange content in your documents – Quarto

quarto.org

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Chris Kenny, PhD @chriskenny.bsky.social · Sep 7

One super useful #rstats package: pushoverr (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...)

Send push notifications to your phone or computer from R with: `pushover(message = ‘your code is done’)`

@pushover.net has a 30 day free trial and then a one time $5 charge for a perpetual license.

pushoverr: Send Push Notifications using 'Pushover'

Send push notifications to mobile devices or the desktop using 'Pushover' <<a href="https://pushover.net" target="_top">https://pushover.net</a>>. These notifications can display things such as ...

cran.r-project.org

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Kylie Ainslie, PhD @kylieainslie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Instead of doing what I should be doing, I procrastinated by updating the "About" page of my website with a scrollytelling career timeline, some fun stats, and a card grid of hobbies! It's amazing what you can do with @quarto.org!

kylieainslie.github.io/about.html

#rstats #AcademicSky

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ok, my buddies and I were ALL ABUZZ as we read about #nanonext last night 👀 Have you seen it?! Data exchange between R and Python made way more accessible? I have questions!! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

#databs #rstats #python

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wow! This seems cool! But what about reproducibility? Do I have to mow set up BOTH python and R environments running at the same time to reproduce results? (As the data exchange happens only in memory)

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Eline Rentier @elinerentier.bsky.social · Sep 3

New R-package alert! 🚨

With tabs it has never been easier to reconstruct altitudinal shifts of biogeographical systems over time. Whether in the ocean 🏝️, shallow seas 🪸 or mountains ⛰️; tabs can project spatial configurations shaped by climatic conditions.
➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Sep 3

That is beautiful 😍!!! Any chance to share the code?

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Sep 3

An interview with me (only in Czech, but google Translate for the rescue!)

Magazín UK Forum @ukforum.cuni.cz · Sep 3

💡 Nápady, které se osvědčily ve světě, se snaží šířit i u nás. Nechte se strhnout vědeckým nadšením @ondrejmottl.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social @unikarlova.cuni.cz 🚀
📌 www.ukforum.cz/rubriky/veda...

Raději se šťourám v datech než v mraveništích

Srší nápady, energií a elánem rozhýbávat leckdy zatuhlý aparát akademického světa. Vychází i ze zkušeností, které získal jako postdoktorand v Norsku. Ondřej Mottl vede Laboratoř kvantitativní ekologie...

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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · Sep 2

I love how all of this is personal preference and still if I look at the "wrong" convention, I got very uneasy feeling🫠

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 2

I really love trailing commas. You often never know how many args you need when you start, and it makes it easier to incrementally add to it. Think all DEVs should support where they can #rstats

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