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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎨 Excited to release diffuseR
- an R implementation of the diffusers library!
✨ txt2img and img2img generation
🚀 No Python dependencies
📦 SDXL & SD2.1 models. More coming soon!
What will you create? #RStats #AI

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 20h

#rstats

The two buttons meme, the first button reads "answering emails", the second one reads "playing with experimental R packages"

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 5d

Syncthing is open source
syncthing.net

Syncthing

syncthing.net

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domi @domi.zip · 13d

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

2 skeletons, on left with veins, arteries, lymph nodes as they are in the body; on right with them being represented as straight cables like in the arranged neatly next to each other like in a server room

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Luis D. Verde Arregoitia @liomys.mx · 12d

🤖 Big update to the LLMs + R guide

> 10 packages added plus other tools and interested reads

luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

As usual, all the content is available in English and Spanish.
#rstats

screenshot of the guide's news section with the following updates:
### Latest updates (September 2025):

#### R packages
- `contextR`, conversational memory for LLM workflows
- `kbretrieveR` for working with AWS Knowledge Bases
- The R Language Analysis Suite (text,talk & topics)
- `LLMR`, a general interface
- `myownrobs`, AI coding agent for RStudio
- `air`, an AI coding helper
- Format and complete few-shot prompts with `promptr`
- LLM-powered chatting in Shiny with `shinychat` and `querychat`

#### Other tools and extensions
- Databot, an EDA assistant for Positron
- R instructions for Cursor Users

#### Helpful reads
- ellmer deep dive - Howard Baik
- On hallucinations - Cosima Meyer
- LLM workshop materials from posit::conf 2025

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Dr. U @transport-talk.bsky.social · 13d

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/

#RStats bookmark from old twitter

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 15d

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 15d

Hilarious watching the Python folks getting attacked with the same dumb talking points that they used against R a decade ago.
Reminds me of when they pushed Jupyter notebooks over markdown in an IDE, then turned around and claimed only R users would use a notebook 😭

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 16d

Intriguing new package `edgemodelr` offering llama.cpp / ggml for #Rstats for local model deployment. Quite tiny too with no dependencies besides #Rcpp.

cran.r-project.org/package=edge...

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Emily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 24d

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages

jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

If all the world were a monorepo

The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance

jtibs.substack.com

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · Sep 7

By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11

shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe

[Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac]

Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Aug 29

Working off of NixOS due to @brodriguesco.bsky.social evangelism... Liking it so far!

troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Aug 26

Installing a new OS on an old 13" ultrabook.
Which distro should I try?
1. Ubuntu 25.04
2. Debian 13
3. NixOS 25.05
4. Omarchy 2.0

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SMT @pp0196.bsky.social · Aug 20

Somebody had to try it: linear algebra on an OLAP and an OLTP database in R
factbased.blogspot.com/2023/02/larg...

Much older approach with even a proposed patch to GNUR (not required anymore with ALTREP)

RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL
arxiv.org/abs/0909.1766
#rstats

Large Matrix Multiplication: DuckDB vs. SQLite

On my laptop with 16 GB RAM, I would like to perform a matrix-vector multiplication with a sparse matrix of around 10 million columns ...

factbased.blogspot.com

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Terry Christiani 👋 @terrychristiani.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hello there, #rstats, I know y'all are enjoying the last weeks of summer and I am just reminding you that the deadline for submissions for the @rconsortium.bsky.social #R+AI conference is September 5th. Please take a moment and share your proposal with us!
rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

Call for Proposals – R+AI 2025

rconsortium.github.io

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LatinR Conf @latinrconf.bsky.social · Aug 13

¡Nueva fecha para enviar tu trabajo! Tenés tiempo hasta el 25 de agosto para enviar tu resumen. Recordá que podés presentarlo en español, inglés o portugués.

Sumate a #LatinR2025, del 1 al 5 de diciembre, virtual y gratuito. Conocé más sobre la convocatoria en: latinr.org/blog/es/2025...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Aug 7

Several ppl sent me this extraordinary chart crime. Thank you I love it

A chart showing median home price (in $100,000 increments) from 1967 to 2021 with a trend on same y-axis for "real weekly wages". The home price trend goes up. The weekly wages trend is flat at what appears to be zero, because weekly wages are small in terms of $100,000.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Jul 29

Every time I see people project consciousness onto AI (which has been done since the dumbest auto-response chat bots imaginable) I am reminded of the eight-second long Jeff Winger pencil speech from Community.
youtu.be/z906aLyP5fg?...

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Jul 24

Base R all day
Verbs and pipes and non standard evaluation that breaks writing your own functions doesn’t help beginners

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Jul 23

Ross Ihaka, co-creator of #Rstats, reflects on growing up Maori 🌿 in rural New Zealand 🇳🇿 and how he discovered his passion for data

youtu.be/LY3FOLZ_Zpk?...

Extended interview with Ross Ihaka, co-founder of the R programming language

YouTube video by Te Ao with Moana

youtu.be

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Giles @gdeejay.bsky.social · Jul 23

Wow.

I was sent a 5GB csv file which I just converted to RDS.

It's now 400 MB

Not bad, #rstats...

a man in a polka dot shirt is holding a blue coffee mug

Alt: a man in a polka dot shirt is holding a blue coffee mug

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Jul 13

It will be

troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Jul 13

Will the ai conference be virtual?

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · Jun 26

Just noticed that #Rcpp now tops 100 million downloads per the (known downward-biased subset of CRAN mirrors served via the CDN set up by posit and excluding all other mirrors).

github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp

Image of download counter for Rcpp showing just over 100 million downloads (via a counter that covers the CDN but excludes all other CRAN mirrors)

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John Paul Helveston @jhelvy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Claude writes #rstats code like it's python. It loves for loops and seems incapable of understanding vectorized operations, matrix math, etc. It ignores all the efficient ways of doing things in R. Great for simple tasks, but I'm running into limits.

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Jun 22

I work in Ubuntu and greatly prefer Py containers to venv. For an Rstudio-like experience with those requirements, I’ve been very happy with the Geany IDE and having it emulate Rstudio keyboard shortcuts. Very light weight. Not perfect, but most of what I do is R so I stick with Rstudio.