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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 19h

📱✨ Check out {pushoverr} — an R package for sending push notifications straight from your scripts! Perfect for alerts when jobs finish, results are ready, or plots are generated.

🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=pushoverr

#rstats #RPackage #DataScience

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…

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 2d

🎲 Want to add a little playfulness to your R sessions? Check out {fun}- a package full of classic games (Minesweeper, sliding puzzles, Gomoku) and quirky utilities all in R.

Try demo(package = "fun") to see what it can do!

🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=fun

#rstats #RPackage #UseR #FunWithR

The Comprehensive R Archive Network

cran.r-project.org

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 5d

Be sure to arrive on time to make it for happy hour 🍻

R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 5d

It's our 9th birthday and you're all invited to celebrate with us! 💜

We are partnering up with the Statistical Society of Australia to host a Social Night!

🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...
📅 Thu 16 Oct, 5-7pm
📌 Father's Office

#StatSocAus #rladies #stats #rstats

R-Ladies & SSA Melbourne Social Night: Happy 9th Birthday R-Ladies, Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup

**Happy 9th Birthday R-Ladies Melbourne 🎉** Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at a joint event with R-Ladies Melbourne and the Statistical Society of Austra

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know? R was developed by Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland in the early 1990s. It's a free #opensource language designed specifically for statistical computing & data analysis. Today it's a go-to tool for statisticians & data scientists!

#RStats #DataScience

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 7d

✨ 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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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 9d

Big news: R-Ladies Melbourne turns 9 on October 18th! 🥳💜

We’re so proud of this amazing community of R users, learners, and enthusiasts who have been building, sharing, and supporting each other since 2015.

Stay tuned: we’ll be celebrating soon! ✨

#RLadies #RStats #Melbourne

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for ✨ Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly with Dr. Kirsty McCann!

We loved seeing the community come together to explore interactive data viz. 🚀📊

#rstats #ggplot2 #ggplotly

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Sep 1

✨ Transform your ggplot2 plots into interactive stories! Join our workshop, Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, and make your data clickable and unforgettable.
🔗 Sign up: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...
📅 18 Sept
🕒 5:30-7:30pm (includes networking & food)
📍 DiUS

Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Transform your static R plots into interactive, engaging visual stories! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take pre-organised ggplot2 code and show you how to enhance it wit

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Aug 12

Tired of rerunning everything every time you change a line of code? 😩

The {targets} package automates your #Rstats workflow—only running what’s needed, tracking dependencies, keeping your analysis reproducible & efficient.

⏩ books.ropensci.org/targets/
#RStats #ReproducibleResearch #DataPipelines

The {targets} R package user manual

Will Landau

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Dr Dionne Argyropoulos @dionnecargy.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's THIS THURSDAY! Be sure to join us this week to meet up with other members of the #RLadiesMelb #Rstats community! We look forward to seeing you all there :) 💜

R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night!
Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies

📍 Father’s Office
🕕 August 14, 6pm
🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour!

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R-Ladies Social Night, Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at our first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you’ve been to one of our events in the past or you’re just starting out, this e

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 31

Missed a past R-Ladies Melbourne talk? We've got you covered! 🎥✨

Our video archive is packed with inspiring talks from past speakers—covering everything from R tips and packages to data science journeys & community insights.

Catch up here 👉 r-ladiesmelbourne.github.io/videos.html
#RLadies #RStats

Our Video Archive – R-Ladies Melbourne Inc.

Our 28-05-2025 meetup with Kathleen Zeglinski and Danyang Dai from R-Ladies Melbourne.

r-ladiesmelbourne.github.io

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night!
Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies

📍 Father’s Office
🕕 August 14, 6pm
🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour!

www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

R-Ladies Social Night, Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at our first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you’ve been to one of our events in the past or you’re just starting out, this e

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 29

No one asked for it, but the {BRRR} package is exactly what we didn’t know we needed.

From “yeaaahhhh boi” to Big Sean, DJ Khaled, and Big Shaq—{BRRR} lets you drop iconic sound bites straight from R. Because sometimes, your code deserves bars.

🔊 github.com/brooke-watso...
#RStats #BRRR #DataDrama

GitHub - brooke-watson/BRRR: Rap adlibs in R.

Rap adlibs in R. Contribute to brooke-watson/BRRR development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 27

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Lauren! A senior postdoc at WEHI, she uses #RStats #TidyModelling for disease research across humans and animals, with a special focus on #PlasmodiumVivax and #OneHealth approaches!

#CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience #InfectiousDisease

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · Jul 26

OMG I TRIED AIR. I TRIED IT & LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. @juliasilge.com recommended format on save, so I set up Air + format on save + auto save when focus leaves editor.

This might be the thing that gets me using #Positron for both #Rstats & Python (currently only using it for #Python) #databs

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tiddlydump.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social · Jul 25

Whatever you choose, 100% let them know about the Big Book of R.

There's a large, well-organized, link tree to gobs of free (usually) resources, and you can just pop into whichever ones you want to check the ToC or sample a chapter.

Let your skill and interests be your guide!

bigbookofr.com/

Big Book of R

Thanks for stopping by. If you’re like me, you can’t help but bookmark every R-related programming book you find in the hopes that one day you, or someone you know, might find it useful.

bigbookofr.com

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Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social · Jul 25

Friday #rstats #ggplot2 tip for anyone - like me - who’s spent hours trying to get the formatting of their exported plot right
📉🛠️🎨

David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · Jul 25

Something you might find helpful is ggview::canvas() for setting the in RStudio viewing pane to be in the proportions you intend to export in. So it should look the same as a saved figure.

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Jul 24

Hi #rstats #pydata & #julialang humans! 😊

I'm looking for an equivalent to the {styler} R package for Python (and perhaps Julia) in RStudio 🤔

Positron or VS Code users, what is your equivalent?

And are there style guides you like?

styler.r-lib.org

design.tidyverse.org

Non-Invasive Pretty Printing of R Code

Pretty-prints R code without changing the user's formatting intent.

styler.r-lib.org

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just discovered {ggcats} and yes, it does exactly what you think: adds cats to your ggplots. 🐈📈 Because sometimes your data visualisation needs a little more purr-sonality.

👉 github.com/R-CoderDotCo...

#RStats #ggplot2 #dataviz #catsinstats

GitHub - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats: The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2

The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2 - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats

github.com

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 22

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Mansi! A product-focused bioinformatician at Mass Dynamics, she uses #RStats—especially #dplyr & #ggplot2—for data processing and visualisation to power proteomics and drive data-driven healthcare innovation!

#CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · Jul 20

Need some wisdom while coding in R? Try the {fortunes} package — a collection of real quotes from the R community that are insightful, quirky & often hilarious.

Perfect for when your code won’t run and you need a philosophical break.
📦 dzchilds.github.io/eda-for-bio/...

#RStats #DataHumour

Chapter 8 Packages | APS 135: Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis with R

Course book for Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis with R (APS 135) in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

dzchilds.github.io

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · Jul 19

🎨 NEW: Quarto Preview Colour Extension v1.0.0!

✨ Inline colour previews (code and/or text)
✨ Hex, RGB, HSL, and HWB support
✨ Click to copy colour codes (HTML)
✨ HTML, LaTeX, Typst, DOCX & PPTX support

github.com/mcanouil/qua...

#Quarto #QuartoPub

GitHub - mcanouil/quarto-preview-colour: A Quarto extension to add preview colour as a coloured symbol next to colour code in HTML, PDF, Typst, Docx, Reveal.js, Beamer, and PowerPoint

A Quarto extension to add preview colour as a coloured symbol next to colour code in HTML, PDF, Typst, Docx, Reveal.js, Beamer, and PowerPoint - mcanouil/quarto-preview-colour

github.com

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Jul 20

For a book I'm writing I want to print text in colors. #rstats #quarto

This gist: gist.github.com/friendly/b2a... defines a colorize() function that can be used easily for HTML and LaTeX/PDF documents in .qmd and .rmd files.

Render text in color for Markdown / Quarto | Format refs to packages in inline text

Render text in color for Markdown / Quarto | Format refs to packages in inline text - colorize.R

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Jul 20

Highly recommend @albertrapp.bsky.social's YouTube channel 🥳

Building robust shiny apps using {golem} by @colinfay.bsky.social

golemverse.org
thinkr-open.github.io/golem/
engineering-shiny.org/golem.html

#RStats #RShiny #Shiny
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWJ...
3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/golem-star...

Golem is Must-Know Framework For R-Shiny (and here's how to use it)

YouTube video by Albert Rapp

www.youtube.com

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