Here is the ad from Ontario that made Little Donnie Trump wet his pants.

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This came across my radar. AI for RStudio? #rstats

www.lotas.ai

Hello #rstats, I'm searching for work opportunities and wanted to put out a friendly inquiry. My work has focused on shiny and package development, github.com/nteetor/. I would appreciate any advice or leads and I am happy to talk more. Thank you!

Introducing acquaint, an R package that turns your R sessions into a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This allows MCP-enabled tools like Claude Desktop and Claude Code to run #rstats code _in your active R sessions_ to explore objects, read documentation, etc.

posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

I cannot fully reveal my confidential strategy for investing in the Trump era, but the first half is "Buy low".

It was a cold day in America. And more is coming. Let's be ready.

Recycling is the opiate of the middle class. #plastic #pollution

ellmer (formerly known as elmer) is now on CRAN! ellmer makes it easy to chat with LLM models from a variety of providers and includes support for streaming responses, tool calling and structured data extraction: ellmer.tidyverse.org #rstats

Are you an #rstats person struggling with an uncooperative covariance matrix? I was. I tried the `cov.shink` function of the {corpcor} package and got a very noticeable improvement in my models. Recommended. #positive #definite

On paper, the new S7 tools for object-oriented programming in #rstats sound great. Can anyone comment on their experience using S7? I haven't seen any discussion about it. I use R6 often, and S7 looks even better. (And, BTW, many thanks to @hadley.nz for spearheading the S7 project!)