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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 6h

One of my top five favorite #rstats blogs www.quantumjitter.com just published a new entry after almost a year of silence.

He does a really great job of authoring analysis with clear and clean code.

I've enjoyed his posting a lot and suggest you check him out!

Little Projects – Quantum Jitter

With the tidyverse and tidymodels at their

www.quantumjitter.com

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 21h

@tommytang.bsky.social has great resources in this area

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 1d

Ohh which ones

Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 1d

Do you play video games tooo

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 1d

@nutritionfactsorg.bsky.social

Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 1d

How do you put in vegan cheeses?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful time to switch to Linux. For most consumer uses cases this will be a seamless transition

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 2d

Lost my phone but excited to replace it with a @fairphone.com. no more big tech, no more monopolies.

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 3d

lost my cellphone. for whatever reason this feels immensely satisfying and liberating

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 4d

fixing all the bugs the AI vibe coded for me :(

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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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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 7d

I guess it works well for me so that’s why I’m bit confused to the issues but hopefully that works for you

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 7d

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Will this help you

snowquery: SQL Interface to 'Snowflake', 'Redshift', 'Postgres', 'SQLite', and 'DuckDB'

Run 'SQL' queries across 'Snowflake', 'Amazon Redshift', 'PostgreSQL', 'SQLite', and 'DuckDB' from R with a single function. Optionally stream and cache large query results to a local 'DuckDB' databas...

cran.r-project.org

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 7d

Hmm. For me it’s pretty straight forward at work. I need the snowflake driver and then I set up arguments in the odbc driver and then reference the driver name in the DBI argument. Do you have the snowflake driver on your computer ?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 7d

can you elaborate on the use case? eg. pull snowflake data into duckdb?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 8d

I completely forgot about this package!

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 8d

My kingdom, kernel level access and naming rights to my first born for a #rstats ockage that automatically inserts a comments between your functions of the number of rows before the join and after the join to help you catch errors

Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Mar 12

Similar to what Elizabeth said, first check to make sure there are no duplicates (janitor::get_dupes is one way in R). Then decide what type of join you want to do. Names will also need to be identical across datasets. I give several examples of how to join in R here: cghlewis.com/blog/joins/

Let's talk about joins | Crystal Lewis

An review of horizontal and vertical joins with examples from education research.

cghlewis.com

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for your perspective

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 9d

It turned me off from Nintendo which is shame because I’ve only ever bought Nintendo games / platforms. I was curious to your perspective and how we give the Nintendo the message

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 9d

Thoughts on Nintendos pricing strategy?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 10d

can this do quarto documents or text files?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 10d

So many customization options available with the {cli} package.

cli.r-lib.org/articles/sem...

Building a Semantic CLI

Build a command line interface from predefined elements. Focus on the content, and do not worry about the exact formatting.

cli.r-lib.org

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 10d

I guess without doing that what games can you play on it?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 11d

and i guess you can load steam OS or a different OS on there?

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @randvegan.bsky.social · 11d

if you want to support open source and fight against the greed of @nintendousa.bsky.social and others consider a @steamdeck.com ! super portable and easy to use. Current LCD version is 20% at a time whenever other console is raising their prices

store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

Steam Deck™

Steam Deck™ is the most powerful, full-featured gaming handheld in the world.

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