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Public Servant, #rstats coder
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I'm excited to share side::kick(), an experimental open-source coding agent for RStudio built entirely in R. It can interact with your files, communicate with your active #rstats session, and run code.

Check it out: github.com/simonpcouch/...
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Macs have a GPU to do fast matrix operations.
Statistics involves lots of matrix operations.
R is a language for statistics...
hughjonesd.github.io/Rmlx
#Rstats #mlx @rstats.bsky.social
R Interface to Apple's MLX library for GPU-accelerated arrays
An R interface to Apple's MLX library, allowing array operations on Apple Silicon GPUs and CPUs. Features include shared memory between the chips, CUDA support, lazy evaluation and automatic different...
hughjonesd.github.io
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space).

Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp...
Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/

🧵
August 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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{ralger} #rstats package looks like an absolute game changer in the task of web scraping for people with very occasional need in this rather nerdy task 🤩
Instead of drilling manually through cached HTML, one can use intuitively named functions that just do it ✨
🔗 feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/
July 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Ever needed to recode a variable based on whether it matches something in a named list? Have you ever used rlang's `!!!` operator? It's pretty dang cool. I feel like {rlang} is so cool, but so enigmatic 😂 #rstats

Here's a pic & gist (bc it's frustrating to not be able to copy/paste the pic) #databs
June 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Cascadia R Conf is tomorrow! I'll be giving the keynote: Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R. #rstats

You can still register for the virtual conference: cascadiarconf.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Sanokaa Fazer kun haluatte sotaa. Ostakaa Kolmen kaverin jäätelöä, maistuukin paremmalta. yle.fi/a/74-2016370...
Hyökkäyssodan neljäs jäätelökesä alkaa – suomalaisjäätelöiden takana yhä Venäjällä toimiva suuryhtiö
Suomalaiset kauppaketjut ja Fazer eivät ole vaihtamassa jäätelönvalmistajaa, vaikka vaihtoehto olisi olemassa.
yle.fi
June 5, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer
Fonts in R
Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity
www.tidyverse.org
May 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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How will Trump’s trade war affect global CO2 emissions and energy? Initial thoughts.
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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En voi äänestää puolueita, jotka suhmuroivat tänään lykätääkseen suhmuroinnin tuomaa mainehaittaa kunnallisvaaleissa. Varsinkaan jos aikovat väittää, ettei kyse olisi suhmuroinnista
April 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I find the lack of empathy among #dataviz practitioners a bit disturbing. Many of you know of my suffering this time of year, when the Portuguese Homeland Security Report is published, full of pages like this. And yet no one ever offered me temporary asylum to minimize the impact. It's unforgivable.
April 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My US-based colleagues, FYI:

Finnish Research Council is about to announce a special call to fund researchers abroad to relocate to Finland.

By all means this is not intended to lure you into moving to Finland, it just happens to be planned right now by pure chance.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The EU should completely ban X. It is not a social media platform but an mechanism to bring down democracies.

www.politico.eu/article/musk...
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 22, 2025 at 6:11 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

www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...
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!
www.linkedin.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
February 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Meet gander, a chat interface for R data scientists🪿

gander automatically incorporates context from your #rstats environment and surrounding code and can be used with any model supported by ellmer in either RStudio or Positron.

Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/gander/
January 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Lahjoitettaisiinko tänä(kin) vuonna raketteihin varatut rahat @yourfinnishfriends.org kautta Ukrainaan?

Kuka mukana?
December 28, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.

Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?

So, I visualized it myself!
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
The day 1 of the #adventofcode. 25 daily fun programming puzzles. Try it here adventofcode.com/2024

Here is my #rstats solution.
December 1, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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It's pretty impressive how R ecosystem continues to advanced even in the last 4 years.

The {epoxy} package released by @grrrck.xyz shows we take the already impressive {glue} package and super charge it with:
1) inline markup code
2) autocomplete
3) vectorize

www.garrickadenbuie.com/project/epoxy/
{epoxy} – Garrick Aden-Buie
Extra-strength glue for scripts, reports, and apps
www.garrickadenbuie.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Toisen maailmansodan aikaan Suomesta lähetettiin juutalaisia Saksaan murhattavaksi kansanmurhassa.

Nyt meidän eduskunnasta lähtee uusnatsi Israeliin kehumaan heitä siitä, miten hienoa kansanmurhaa tekevät.

Historia on aika vitun outoa.
November 21, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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Bluesky OGs welcoming the twitter exodus.
November 16, 2024 at 2:43 PM