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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Jul 18

How come the best time to work is after 5pm?

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · May 18

Great. MCP and #rstats

simonpcouch.github.io/acquaint/

Model Context Protocol For Your R Session

The goal of acquaint is to enable LLM-enabled tools like Claude Code to learn about the R packages you have installed using the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) (MCP). Tools ...

simonpcouch.github.io

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Starclimber @starclimberle.bsky.social · Apr 12

This is the current book I am reading. What are you reading?

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Apr 15

Great book!

Reposted by Martin Stein

Thieving Fox @thievingfox.bsky.social · Apr 15

Great #rstats productivity package for us list workers:

github.com/feddelegrand...

GitHub - feddelegrand7/slash: Path-Based Access and Manipulation of Nested Lists 🪆🪆🪆

Path-Based Access and Manipulation of Nested Lists 🪆🪆🪆 - feddelegrand7/slash

github.com

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Apr 15

How good are the GPT 4.1 models at writing R code?

Great # blogpost rstats by Simon P. Couch
👇
www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-04...

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 31

Great Idea!

bensstats.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/r...

#rstats

RObservations #51: Download Kaggle Datasets into the R Console with {RKaggle}

I recently found some R code in the TidyTuesday repository which pulled data from Kaggle directly into the R console and I thought the idea was incredible! After looking around and seeing that ther…

bensstats.wordpress.com

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 26

Quickly and Neatly Summarize Data.

Summarytools 1.1 is out!

github.com/dcomtois/sum...

#rstats

GitHub - dcomtois/summarytools: R Package to Quickly and Neatly Summarize Data

R Package to Quickly and Neatly Summarize Data. Contribute to dcomtois/summarytools development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 24

Portugal zeigt den Weg mit einer 20% Flat Rate fuer Steuern fuer die ersten 5 Jahre.

Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 24

Sparklyr 1.9.0 is out.

- Adds new Java folder for Spark 4.0.0 with updated code
- Adds new JAR file to handle Spark 4+
- Updates to different spots in the R code to start handling version 4
- Removes JARs using Scala 2.11

github.com/sparklyr/spa...

#rstats #spark #distributedComputing

GitHub - sparklyr/sparklyr: R interface for Apache Spark

R interface for Apache Spark. Contribute to sparklyr/sparklyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · Mar 24

Week 8 of #DubBoisChallenge2025 by @datavizsociety.bsky.social using #rstats

Plate 26: Giving an alternative definition of "stacked bar plot" :)

Code: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 24

This dataset -> data.desi.lbl.gov/doc/releases... doesn't look like much.

But it is BIG, if you are into astrophysics.

This data can change the view of our universe.

#Desi #astrophysics #rstats

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 24

snazzieR: "Because your linear models deserve better than console output. A sleek color palette and kable styling to make your regression results look sharper than they are."

#rstats

cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

snazzieR: Chic and Sleek Functions for Beautiful Statisticians

Because your linear models deserve better than console output. A sleek color palette and kable styling to make your regression results look sharper than they are. See the package manual at <<a href...

cran.r-project.org

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 21

I love this!

#rstats #pipelines

Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · Mar 20

New #RStats X #Nix blog post: Announcing rixpress

brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...

build polyglott data science pipelines easily with R and Nix!

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 21

AlexNet source code -> github.com/computerhist...

#AI

github.com

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YouGot.Us @yougot.us · Mar 12

Do you have security concerns when deploying AI Agents?

You're not alone.

In a yougot.us survey from the "AI Agents in Production" event (November 2024), 63% of participants cited security concerns as a key factor stalling their full deployment of #agents.

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 12

📊 Unique Opportunity!

Get exclusive insights into how real-world practitioners are deploying AI, LLMs, and Agents in production environments.

Participate now and access the results first-hand!

👉 Join the AI in Production 2025 Survey hq.yougot.us/primary/WebI...

#AI #LLMs #Agents #rstats #python

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 6

Less pedestrian traffic fatalities - what happened?

www.axios.com/2025/03/06/p...

Pedestrian deaths decrease — but not everywhere

There were fewer pedestrian deaths on U.S. roads in the first half of 2024.

www.axios.com

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Posit @posit.co · Mar 6

@simonpcouch.com is doing some really cool work with LLMs in R!

He's created experimental packages like chores, ensure, and gander to help automate tasks like unit testing and roxygen tags.

Check out his blog post to learn more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

#RStats #LLM

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 6

Clickhouse and R.

github.com/IMSMWU/RClic...

#rstats

GitHub - IMSMWU/RClickhouse: A 'DBI' Interface to the Clickhouse Database Providing Basic 'dplyr' Support

A 'DBI' Interface to the Clickhouse Database Providing Basic 'dplyr' Support - IMSMWU/RClickhouse

github.com

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 6

Investigating linear and linear mixed models that fail to converge?

Check this out: kwstat.github.io/connected/ar...

#rstats

Introduction to the 'connected' package

kwstat.github.io

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · Feb 28

"Alpha" announcement: arm64 is coming to #r2u !

If you use #Rstats with #Ubuntu on Snapdragon, Ampere, M1/.../M4 or other arm64 / aarch64 cpus, I have news: we have 1k binary packages, and growing. Plus the 17k platform indep. ones. Add 'arm64' to apt sources for a) cran and b) r2u and enjoy!

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 1

The best coding tool. I have tested ChatGPT 4.5 and prefer Claude 3.7 Sonnet for R code.

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

#LLMs #rstats

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.

www.anthropic.com

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Mar 1

Data Science in the browser! With WebAssembly and Quarto.

#rstats #python

github.com/coatless-tut...

GitHub - coatless-tutorials/next-gen-data-science-education-wasm: This repository contains code powering "The Next-Generation Data Science Education with WebAssembly" Quarto website demonstration.

This repository contains code powering "The Next-Generation Data Science Education with WebAssembly" Quarto website demonstration. - coatless-tutorials/next-gen-data-science-education-wasm

github.com

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Martin Stein @martinstein.bsky.social · Feb 28

wow - danke fuers Teilen, Ansgar.

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