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Chris Brownlie @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com · Jul 18
this week in #rstats 🕺

- latest Claude Code thoughts 🤖 @simonpcouch.com
- faceted {tinyplot}s 📊 @ereinbergs.bsky.social
- {httr2} v1.2.0 🎯 @posit.co @hadley.nz
- RAG with {ragnar}+{ellmer} ⚒️ @stephenturner.us @smachlis.bsky.social

this and more below 😎

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This week in R (2025-07-18)
Two introductions tot eh {ragnar} package for RAG in R; experiences with Claude Code for R dev; faceting {tinyplot} plots; the new {httr2} version, and more!
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Reposted by Chris Brownlie
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Hey #rstats if you're following me for @rconsortium.bsky.social news, you can go straight to the source now! We're on Bluesky! We'll be leaving that other place in September.
July 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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this week in #rstats 🕺

- latest Claude Code thoughts 🤖 @simonpcouch.com
- faceted {tinyplot}s 📊 @ereinbergs.bsky.social
- {httr2} v1.2.0 🎯 @posit.co @hadley.nz
- RAG with {ragnar}+{ellmer} ⚒️ @stephenturner.us @smachlis.bsky.social

this and more below 😎

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This week in R (2025-07-18)
Two introductions tot eh {ragnar} package for RAG in R; experiences with Claude Code for R dev; faceting {tinyplot} plots; the new {httr2} version, and more!
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July 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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this week in #rstats 💥
- parallel {purrr} ⏸️ @shikokuchuo.net @hadley.nz @davisvaughan.bsky.social
- Quarto from code 🛠️ @djnavarro.net
- R+AI conf proposals 🎤 @terrychristiani.bsky.social
- free monthly webinars 🎓 @jumpingrivers.com

and more below! 💫

#data #news
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This week in R (2025-07-11)
Generating Quarto documents from R code; free monthly webinars for R users; the exciting new addition to {purrr}; the first R+AI conference, and more!
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July 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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this week in #rstats 🎆
- {quickr} Fortran transpiling 💨@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
- Positron out of beta 🎂 @posit.co
- C for R users 👩‍💻 @rladies.org @ellakaye.co.uk
- {zap} for efficient serialising ⚡ @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

and more!👇
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This week in R (2025-07-04)
Positron's first stable release; contributing to base R with C; {zap} for efficient serialisation/compression; transpiling to Fortran with {quickr}, and more!
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July 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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this week in #rstats 🕺
- spatialML pkgs 🌐 @jakubnowosad.com
- {futureverse} 🔮 @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social
- file-opening code 📂 @masalmon.eu
- {mirai} 🚅 @shikokuchuo.net
- Quarto speaker notes 🗣️ @rfortherestofus.com

this and more below! 🔥

#news #quarto #data

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This week in R (2025-06-27)
The latest in asynchronous programming in R, from two big frameworks; file-opening helpers; specialised spatial ML; Quarto presentation tips, and more!
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June 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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this week in #rstats 😎
- OLS in R 📈 @thomvolker.bsky.social
- new bird data pkg 🐦 @jasminedaly.bsky.social
- R -> Python 🐍 @marcdotson.com
- {duckplyr} joins the tidyverse 🦆 @masalmon.eu
- Shiny in Production news 🗣️ @jumpingrivers.com

and more below! ✨

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This week in R (2025-06-20)
How to go from R to Python; the latest on {duckplyr} in the tidyverse; Shiny in Production announcements; a new avian dataset package and more!
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June 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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There are a lot of introductions to Python, but this one is mine. It includes a walkthrough of using uv for environment management, Polars for data wrangling, seaborn.objects for visualization, and scikit-learn for modeling. #rstats #python #pydata
An introduction to Python for R users – Occasional Divergences
This introduction to Python assumes you know R, which is used as an analogy to explain Python for data analysis.
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June 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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this week in #rstats 💥

- Air formatter v0.7.0 🛫 @davisvaughan.bsky.social @lionelhenry.bsky.social
- intro to the {datapasta} package 🍝 @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social
- testing Shiny apps 🧪
- learn brand.yml ™️ @rfortherestofus.com @grrrck.xyz

and more below 🔥

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This week in R (2025-06-13)
Learn all about brand.yml; all you need to know about testing Shiny apps; a new version of Air has been released; an intro to the {datapasta} package and more!
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June 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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this week in #rstats 🕺

lots of AI-related news, an update on everything rOpenSci, some spatial machine learning, and a relatively rare base R function…👀
@simonpcouch.com @posit.co @jakubnowosad.com @ropensci.org @frankiethull.bsky.social

check it out below! 💥

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This week in R (2025-05-30)
Testing Claude 4 on R coding; the new {acquaint} package for MCP servers in R; {kuzco} for easy computer vision; spatial ML with {tidymodels}, and more!
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May 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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this week in #rstats 💥
- custom ggplot2 themes 🎨 @mansthulin.bsky.social
- Air R formatter 💨 @yosky.bsky.social
- teach R with Github Codespaces 👨‍🏫 @mickael.canouil.fr
- Shiny in Production workshops 📣 @jumpingrivers.com
- secure shiny 🔐

and more below! 🔥
#data

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This week in R (2025-05-23)
Shiny security vulnerabilities; custom ggplot2 themes; the new superfast R formatter; Github Codespaces for teaching; Shiny in Production announcement and more!
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May 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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this week in #rstats 💥
- all about fonts 🔠
- {rixpress} multi-language pipelines 👨‍🔧 @brodriguesco.bsky.social
- virtual posit::conf(2025) 💻 @posit.co
- {plumber} + Caddy in prod 🎯
- shinydraw for wireframing 🖌️

this and more below! 💨

#news #data #programming

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This week in R (2025-05-16)
Using fonts in R; virtual posit::conf(2025); wireframing shiny apps; multi-language pipelines with {rixpress}; plumber APIs in production with Caddy; and more!
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May 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Yuhuuu 🥳😍 thank you so much for the mention!
And I take the opportunity to advertise SORTEE super quarto series this month: events.humanitix.com/sortee-works...
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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this week in #rstats 🔥

- new RStudio release 🆕 @posit.co
- upcoming Quarto Scrollytelling meetup 📖 @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
- new Gemini 2.5 Pro vs R coding 🤖 @simonpcouch.com
- VSCode for R+Python dev ⚖️ @rworks.bsky.social

and more 🎉

#news #datascience

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This week in R (2025-05-09)
A new version of the most popular IDE; more LLM benchmarking with {vitals}; a look at VSCode for R+Python development; learn about Scrollytelling; and more!
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May 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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this week in #rstats ✨
- Positron tips & tricks 🖥️ @albertrapp.bsky.social
- DuckDB+R=🔥 @amolborkar.bsky.social @duckdb.org
- Comparing spatial ML in R 🗺️ @jakubnowosad.com
- Why R & Python are friends 🤝

this and more below! 🏃

#news #data #python

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This week in R (2025-05-01)
Deep dive into R-Python interoperability; getting the most out of Positron IDE; spatial ML in R comparisons; evidence supporting DuckDB & R usage, and more!
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May 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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this week in #rstats 🔥
- Quarto Reveal.js tabsets and PDFs ✨ @mickael.canouil.fr
- SQLite in R 💽 @kenkoonwong.bsky.social
- {ellmer} Workshop for Ukraine 🤖 @hadley.nz
- new DuckDB {duckspatial} pkg 🦆

and more! ✨

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This week in R (2025-04-25)
Spatial data + DuckDB combo; learn about LLMs from {ellmer}s creator; supercharge your Quarto presentations; using SQLite from R; and much more!
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April 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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this week in #rstats 🔥
- assessing GPT4.1 ⚖️ @simonpcouch.com
- a new R pkg for route optimisation 🗺️
- managing Rstudio addins ➕
- using {ellmer} to analyse cycling routes🚲

and more below! ✨
#ai #ellmer #llm #news

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This week in R (2025-04-18)
Summarising cycling routes with AI in R; assessing LLM performance on R coding tasks; route planning with Valhalla in R; managing RStudio addins, and much more!
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April 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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this week in #rstats:
- R 4.5.0 is here! 🎁
- intro to {chores} 🦾 @simonpcouch.com
- AI+shiny+maps=cool 🌎 @kylewalker.bsky.social
- the future of {plumber}(2) 🛠️ @thomasp85.com
- learning R with AI help 🏫 @minecr.bsky.social

this and more below! 🥳
#news

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This week in R (2025-04-11)
What's new in R 4.5.0; how to learn R with genAI; creating AI-powered interactive maps in shiny; the future of web API development in R; and more!
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April 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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this week in #rstats 🔥
- evaluating LLMs in R 🧪 @simonpcouch.com
- Observable JS for R users 📊 @nrennie.bsky.social
- a new Docker pkg for R 🐳 @coatless.bsky.social
- using duckdb & duckplyr 🦆 @rorylawless.com
- R pkg risk & QA 🚧 @jumpingrivers.com

and more! 🥳

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This week in R (2025-04-04)
How good is Gemini at R?; a new way to integrate Docker to your R work; Observable JS for R devs; getting the most out of DuckDB; R package QA, and more!
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April 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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this week in #rstats 🤝
- 🤖 @simonpcouch.com on Claude for R dev
- 👀 {mall} pkg for LLM-based wrangling
- 🦸‍♂️new UI pkg from @davidgranjon.bsky.social
- 🐙 the latest @coatless.bsky.social pkg for managing many Github repos

and more below! 🌀
#news #data #programming

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This week in R (2025-03-28)
Claude Code for R package dev; {mall} for LLM-based data processing; new {multideploy} package for managing many Github repos; a new UI package for R and more!
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March 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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this week in #rstats 🔥
- 🧙 {rixpress}, the latest Nix-wizardry pkg @brodriguesco.bsky.social
- 🦙 @frankiethull.bsky.social creative new R-based game
- 🖌️ a data viz comp you can still enter
- 🧑‍🏫 Positron/pkg dev tutorial by @juliasilge.com

and more!✨

#data #news
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March 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Our bilingual Quarto docs is in "This Week in R"! Thanks for the shout out, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!

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March 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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this week in #rstats 😎
- 🥊 {dplyr} vs {data.table} @albertrapp.bsky.social
- ‼️ Bilingual Quarto docs @posit.co @ivelasq3.bsky.social
- ⏰ Shiny in Production deadline extension @jumpingrivers.com
- 🎨 {pkgdown} enhancement tips

and more below!
#news #data #python

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This week in R (2025-03-14)
Clash of the titans with {dplyr} vs {data.table}; making docs accessible to R & Python users alike; a Shiny in Production announcement; and some pkgdown tips!
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March 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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this week in #rstats 🤩

- variable naming conventions🌹
- useful R shell scripts @jemu.name 📑
- a new JSON db pkg 📁
- the latest {reticulate} features 🐍
- 2025 ISC Grant proposals @ R-consortium 💸

this and more below! 🔥

#coding #data #programming #news

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This week in R (2025-03-07)
Useful shell commands; calls for grant proposals; a lightweight JSON database; variable naming conventions; improvements to the {reticulate} package and more!
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March 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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this week in #rstats:
- R 4.4.3 released today! 🎁
- Air: the new superfast R formatter @davisvaughan.bsky.social 💨
- upcoming {rix}/Nix webinar @brodriguesco.bsky.social 📦
- intro to {ellmer} LLM pkg @posit.co 🤖
- tidymodels Q1 2025 update 📊

and more! ✨

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This week in R (2025-02-28)
A brand new superfast R formatter; a new version of R; whats new in tidymodels?; useR! deadline extension; get to know {rix}; introducing {ellmer} and more!
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February 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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This week in #rstats 🔥

- using R to analyse NASA data 🚀
- a guide to LLM tools in R 🤖
- R Shiny options() and how to use them ✨
- an example LLM-based app project in R and how it has progressed 📖

this and more at the link below! 🎉

#news #data #llm #ai

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This week in R (2025-02-21)
Learn more about the world of LLM tools in R; see how an LLM project gets started and evolves; take a peek under the Shiny source code; and much more!
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February 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM