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Everyday ggplot2 extension 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 6d

Join us to hear the {ggiraph} story from @davidgohel.bsky.social at the #ggplot2 extenders meetup next Wedsnesday! #rstats 📊

extenders: bit.ly/ggplot2exten...
sign up: bit.ly/join-gg-exte...

ggplot2 extenders meetup questionnaire

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19h

Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org

(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Plot showing the percent decrease in the number of polling places in a handful of US states after the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder SCOTUS ruling, with Arizona seeing a 22% decrease in voting locations. The title and subtitle use nicer typography and have keywords colored in reddish pink to match the plot

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 1d

Although this blog post doesn’t cover tidylog, it is a good review for anyone just getting started with merging or appending in #rstats.

cghlewis.com/blog/joins/

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 1d

There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness.

youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4

Explore literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer

YouTube video by Julia Silge

youtu.be

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 2d

Missing Values were dropped;
Mean Imputation was applied;
Data available on request;
Code available on request;

#rstats

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 2d

Coming up next month, register now!

R+AI 2025 - Nov 12-13

Keynote: Joe Cheng, CTO @ Posit

Talk: “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research”

Register now!
rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

#rstats #AI #DataScience
@posit.co @jcheng5.bsky.social

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Terry Christiani 👋 @terrychristiani.bsky.social · 4d

It is here!!! So very excited to bring this #rstats event to life! I hope you will join us for this conference and help us make this first one a success. Get your ticket and get ready for some community created education for R+AI!

R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 4d

R+AI 2025 • Nov 12–13 • Online • Low-cost

Skip the hype. See how R + AI works in production!

Keynote: Joe Cheng (Posit) on focused, reliable LLMs for data science

Actionable R+AI sessions. Students from $25.

Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

#rstats @posit.co @jcheng5.bsky.social

R+AI 2025 • Nov 12–13 • Online • Low-cost

Keynote: Joe Cheng (Posit) on focused, reliable LLMs for data science.

Actionable R+AI sessions. Students from $25.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 4d

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

Me saying "hey it's github copilot chat in my positron"

Automatically generated dplyr code that matches the filtering and arranging that I did by clicking on columns in the data viewer

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 4d

Not currently. And I think it would be hard to get all the details right.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 5d

I made a new quarto revealjs template based on Pechakucha, a presentation format where you have 20 slides that auto-advances after 20 seconds. Once started you will not be able to stop it. And it will make sure you have 20 slides whether you like it or not

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

GitHub - EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-revealjs-pechakucha: pechakucha slides in quarto revealjs

pechakucha slides in quarto revealjs. Contribute to EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-revealjs-pechakucha development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

I’m economically Bayesian but socially frequentist

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 5d

TRY DOING THAT IN GGPLOT2!!

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 6d

I'm a big fan of this idea! I need to write a blog post on this, but bslib + brand.yml + pkgdown's light switch is a killer combo for branded pkgdown sites with light/dark themes.

The {btw} site is a good example posit-dev.github.io/btw/
All the magic is in _pkgdown.yml github.com/posit-dev/bt...

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 11d

The myth of meritocracy inspires the implicit assumption that someone’s degree of success reflects their level of competence and skill.

I think that this is one of the most toxic myths of our time.

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 14d

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in!

#rstats

ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.

www.tidyverse.org

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