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posit.co
Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition.

Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python.

Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...
September 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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posit.co
Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl!

In Part 2, “Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response”, we get hands-on with LLM-powered apps. This guide is for #Python & #RStats users who want to go beyond the basics.

Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...
September 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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jhelvy.bsky.social
Excited to announce that our paper with @pingfanhu.bsky.social and Bogdan Bunea on our #rstats package {surveydown} is now published in @plosone.org

The paper compares the benefits of using a code-based approach to survey design, leveraging #quarto and #shiny

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
surveydown: An open-source, markdown-based platform for programmable and reproducible surveys
This paper introduces the surveydown survey platform. With surveydown, researchers can create surveys that are programmable and reproducible using markdown and R code, leveraging the Quarto publicatio...
journals.plos.org
August 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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weare.rladies.org
Looking for a local #rladies chapter? We're in 57 countries :)
r-community.github.io/user-groups/...
R-ladies community webpage showing world map with 206 chapters, 91104 members, and 57 countries.
August 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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weare.rladies.org
In this video I walk you through how I use janitor to get those annoying cleaning and counting jobs done fast.

youtu.be/VvXElkQ_Y8w

What is your favorite `janitor` function?
janitor package
Three super useful functions from janitor to fix variable names, remove empty columns, and count things
youtu.be
August 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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weare.rladies.org
In this quick demo, I show you how to use replace_with_na() from the `naniar` package to replace more than one unexpected value in more than one column in a single line of code.

youtu.be/99L5j45Hkec
naniar package
YouTube video by Jenny Richmond
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August 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ivelasq3.bsky.social
I had a great time presenting a #useR2025 workshop with @statsteph.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on "Complex Survey Data Analysis"!

If you'd like to check out the materials, we cover survey design, descriptive analysis, statistical testing, & more: tidy-survey-r.github.io/user-2025-su...

#RStats
August 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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bigbookofr.com
APIs for social scientists: A collaborative review by Paul C. Bauer, Camille Landesvatter and many others
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/api.html#apis-for-social-scientists-a-collaborative-review
August 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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juliasilge.com
My @user-conf.bsky.social virtual talk, a first look at Positron for #rstats folks, posted while I was asleep 😴 but you can catch it here:
youtu.be/aKSrptGegeo?...
A first look at Positron - Julia Silge
YouTube video by useR! Conference
youtu.be
August 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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dataconf.ai
📊 Want to level up your R modeling skills? Max Kuhn’s Machine Learning in R workshop is an intro to tidymodels, covering data prep, resampling, tuning & evaluation using real workflows!

📍Aug 25 in NYC or online
🎟️ & info: dataconf.ai/nyc

#RStats #Tidymodels #MachineLearning @topepo.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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hadley.nz
🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....
ellmer 0.3.0
The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.
www.tidyverse.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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bigbookofr.com
Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R by Stephanie A. Zimmer, Rebecca J. Powell and Isabella C. Velásquez
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/social%20science.html#exploring-complex-survey-data-analysis-using-r
July 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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simisani.bsky.social
🌟 Just posted:
A fantastic talk from @liomys.mx 💜 on how R users can harness the power of #LLMs!

Hosted by R-Ladies Gaborone 🌍
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/0WsF4XcIhYI
📚Inspired by his website guide: luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

#RStats #LLMs #RLadies #DataScience
R-Ladies Gaborone (English) - LLM Tools in the R Space with Luis D Verde Aggregoitia
YouTube video by R-Ladies Global
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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simonpcouch.com
vitals, an R package for LLM evaluation, is now on #rstats CRAN!🧸 Specifically aimed at folks building with ellmer, the package will help you engineer prompts, choose models, and measure cost/latency/performance rigorously.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/06...
Introducing vitals, a toolkit for evaluating LLM products in R
The first release of vitals, a package for large language model evaluation in R, just made it to CRAN.
www.tidyverse.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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posit.co
Thrilled to share Drew Coughlin's project! Build LLM-powered Shiny dashboards with Posit's multilingual querychat. 🤖

It lets LLMs understand your data privately and converts plain language to SQL. Drew's ultra-runner app is a great demo!

Check it out: posit.co/blog/race-st...

#RStats #Python
June 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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alexstockdale.bsky.social
Introducing sumvar for R. A package to rapidly summarise and visualise variables with one-line commands, bringing the brilliant tab and sum functions from stata, to R. Install it from cran using install.packages(“sumvar”). #rstats

alstockdale.github.io/sumvar/
Summarise Continuous and Categorical Variables, Check for Duplicates and Missing Data
The sumvar package quickly explores continuous and categorical variables. sumvar aims to bring the ease and simplicity of the "sum" and "tab" functions from stata, to R.
alstockdale.github.io
June 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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bartlettje.bsky.social
My conference roadshow is running workshops on creating open educational materials. In preparation, I've recorded a walkthrough of creating your own online book using Quarto and Github pages. The walkthrough is available on Youtube: youtu.be/Hbixs7ACvvw?...
Creating Online Books using Quarto and Github Pages
YouTube video by James Bartlett
youtu.be
June 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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rfortherestofus.com
Tired of manually styling PDFs, HTML docs, and Shiny apps to fit your brand? Join Garrick Aden-Buie on R for the Rest of Us podcast to learn about brand.yml—a single YAML file for consistent styling.

🎧 Watch the episode and demo: buff.ly/Ybu6rF9

#rstats #DataViz
June 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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rfortherestofus.com
This week on What's New in R, we're featuring:
✅ Blog post by Frank Aragona explaining how to translate Markdown files using R
✅ An exploration of Quarto for book creation by Stephen Turner
✅ Tutorial on creating animated population pyramids by Peter Ellis

Read the issue: buff.ly/7t6J8PO

#rstats
June 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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rladies-bot.bsky.social
📝 "Understanding the native R pipe |>"

👤 Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social)

📖 Master R's native pipe! Learn how it differs from magrittr's pipe and avoid common pitfalls.

🔗 https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/understanding-the-r-pipe/

#rladies#rstats#oldiebutgoodie#explanation
April 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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rfortherestofus.com
Ever had a Quarto document where code looks great in HTML but not in Word, or vice versa? I faced this with tables. In this video, I share a trick for conditionally executing code in Quarto, ideal for documents that need to be exported to different formats.

buff.ly/P7fUMY6

#rstats
June 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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dariia.bsky.social
❗️Our next workshop will be on June 13th, 6 pm CEST, on Using LLMs with ellmer by @hadley.nz!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
June 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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hadley.nz
Want to easily use LLMs from R? ellmer 0.2.0 provides:

• Batch & parallel processing
• A universal parameter interface
• Cost tracking
• Support for Mistral, Hugging Face, & Portkey

And much more! Read all about it at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats
ellmer 0.2.0
ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with `parallel_chat()` and `batch_chat()`. A new `params()` ...
www.tidyverse.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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shikokuchuo.net
We're super focused on bringing the latest capabilities to the #Rstats open source community. The acquaint MCP server uses the same event-driven async and modern communications layer as mirai.r-lib.org.
simonpcouch.com Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · May 28
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/
May 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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jenrichmondphd.bsky.social
You can’t learn #rstats just by reading books or watching videos of other people writing R code. You will learn faster if you find some data that you are curious about and use your new coding skills to answer a question about it.

How to find fun data to play with....
How to find fun data
Learn about 3 different ways to find datasets to play with
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM