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R-Ladies Melbourne
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A local chapter of @rladies.org & a registered non-profit, R-Ladies Melbourne Inc. promotes gender #diversity & #inclusivity in the R community #Rstats! 🐨🇦🇺

Website: https://r-ladiesmelbourne.github.io/
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/rladiesmelbourne
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We had our 2024-25 AGM today and we would love to announce our leadership for 2025-26 R-Ladies+ Melbourne: 🥳
- President: @dionnecargy.bsky.social
- Vice-President: @danyangdai.bsky.social
- Secretary: Sehrish Kanwal
- Treasurer: Kathleen Zeglinski
We look forward to hosting some great events!
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**Just 2 in-person tickets left at this event, a wait list is available!**

📢 R Dev Day @ Australia
🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov

Registration deadline: Sun 16 Nov

https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-oz-25/

Attend this free event to collaborate on […]
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September 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Thank you everyone to joined us last night at our event with @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 💜

We learned so much about the conception & growth of R Dev Days and how #RLadies have contributed!

Sign up for R Dev Day in Melb now!
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#rstats #WomeninSTEM
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
📣 ‼️ This week we’re hosting Dr Heather Turner! 📣 ‼️

She’ll share insights from R Dev Days, collaborative efforts contributing to #Rstats, documentation, translations & more, including great work from the R-Ladies community!

🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO
📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm
📍 Monash City Campus
R-Ladies at R Dev Days with Dr Heather Turner, Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
Rladies Melbourne will be hosting Dr Heather Turner who is a leading R developer and statistician with over two decades of experience. **R-Ladies at R Dev Days** Under my
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Wrap up the ABACBS Conference 2025 with us at the BioCAsia × R-Ladies Melbourne Networking Event! 🎉 An evening of connection, community & conversation before the BioCAsia workshops kick off.
📅 Wed 26 Nov 2025
🕓 After ABACBS Closing (~4:30 pm)
📍Malt Shovel Taphouse
💸 Free
Register: buff.ly/fxoH0VT
Networking Event Registration
networking
biocasia2025.bioconductor.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just discovered this gem from R-Ladies Ottawa and wow, what a game-changer for our quarto slides preparations! 🙌 The clarity & structure are exactly what we needed. Huge thanks to the Melissa Van Bussel for sharing this💡

buff.ly/fI5RKVU

#Rladies #DataScience #QuartoSlides #GitHubActions
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Excited to host Dr Heather Turner, leading #RStats developer & statistician! 🎉

She’ll share insights from #RDevDays: collaborative events where contributors, including women & gender minorities, work on base #R, dashboards & more.

🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO
📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm
📍 TBA
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Starting right now !!! Join us to celebrate our 9th birthday with SSA! #rstats #rladies
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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This was supposed to be a quiet release, so I can refer to it in my upcoming talk, and I wasn't expecting many likes for this article. Thank you for your interest ☺️

A summary to come out when the paper is hopefully accepted 🤞
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Join us tomorrow for a drink and a chat with SSA Victoria at Father's Office! Be there by 5pm to make it for Happy Hour 🍻💜
October 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Just over 24 hours to go! 🎉 Join us for an exciting R-Ladies+ panel on The People, Purpose & Power of R-Ladies+. See thread below to be part of it!
October 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Join us tomorrow for the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science conference in a panel "More Than Code: The People, Purpose, and Power of R-Ladies+" with Dionne & Felicia (Melb), Kristy & Giorgia (Syd), organised by Hunna Watson!

🔗 www.idwsds.org
🕓 12-1pm AEDT

#rstats #rladies
IDWSDS
Thriving in Your Environment
www.idwsds.org
October 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🎮 Did you know you can make video games in R?

The {nessy} package lets you create NES-style Shiny apps and deploy them just like any other Shiny app. Who said R is only for stats? 🚀

#RStats #Shiny #RLang #DataScience #VideoGames
October 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
📱✨ 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…
cran.r-project.org
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🎲 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
October 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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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October 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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
October 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
✨ 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
September 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
✨ 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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September 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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
books.ropensci.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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 :) 💜
August 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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
July 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
🎉 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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July 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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
July 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM