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Nick Tierney
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 12d
I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!

What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com

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Event Time Announcer - Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic
Event Time Announcer shows time for Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic in locations all over the world. In Salt Lake City it happens on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 4:00:00 pm.
www.timeanddate.com
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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 1h
This post by @andrew.heiss.phd about automatically generating markdown that contains code that needs to be run is super interesting. It will take me a bit of time to wrap my head around how to do this, but this should be very useful for teaching,

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/11...
Guide to generating and rendering computational markdown content programmatically with Quarto | Andrew Heiss
Learn how to use knitr::knit() in inline chunks to correctly render auto-generated R and markdown content in Quarto documents
www.andrewheiss.com
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 14h
End of an era :(
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Matt Moores @mattmoores.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d
I mostly followed the 2nd edition of "R Packages" by @hadleywickham @jennybryan with a few minor tweaks to account for the differences between GitHub and Bitbucket/Jira

https://r-pkgs.org/release.html

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is writing or maintaining R code! #rstats #statsodon
R package release checklist in Jira list of bug fixes in Jira cover of the 2nd edition of the book "R Packages"
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Matt Moores @mattmoores.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d
version 0.7-0 of my R package `bayesImageS' is now available on CRAN for Linux and macOS
(Windows binaries are still being built and should be available soon)

The main change is a reduction in the console output for the exchange algorithm. There were also […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
announcement by CRANberries of the new version of the R package bayesImageS logo of the R package bayesImageS
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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;

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🏰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
Joe Cheng, Posit, CTO - headshot
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 3d
Agreed that summaries can mis represent the data, which I think is why there is a movement to show the data alongside summaries so we can interpret the veracity.
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 3d
Agreed it is important to have the experiment context in there! And fair point that box plots can be confusing to audiences. Any summary will lose information, so showing the data alongside summaries keep them honest. Have you seen the datasaurus dozen? www.research.autodesk.com/publications...
Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing
Why graphical representation and visualization are so important to...
www.research.autodesk.com
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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 3d
ohh!! that fixed it!

old_hook <- fansi::set_knit_hooks(knitr::knit_hooks, which = c("output", "warning", "error", "message"))
options(crayon.enabled = TRUE)
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James Goldie @jamesgoldie.dev · 3d
This thread is a bit old now, but it might help you figure it out! github.com/quarto-dev/q...
ANSI colours with downlit · quarto-dev quarto-cli · Discussion #3717
Does Quarto support ANSI colours in R output? This is handled by downlit in R packages like pkgdown and "just works". Quarto uses downlit for code linking when code-link: true, but this doesn't mak...
github.com
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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 5d
Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero
#rstats
www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t...
“R changed my opinion of humanity to some extent, to see how people are really willing to freely give of themselves and produce something larger than themselves without any thought of personal glory.”
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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 5d
Amazing quote! I also feel a permanent fascination by the world of *open* source/science/books/courses. The best teachers I had designed open-book exams ❤️
#OpenScience #foss #rstats

Let me suggest a beautiful and extremely relevant talk on this by @drob.bsky.social
🔗 posit.co/resources/vi...
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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · 5d
Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero
#rstats
www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t...
“R changed my opinion of humanity to some extent, to see how people are really willing to freely give of themselves and produce something larger than themselves without any thought of personal glory.”
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 5d
There are some strong opinions on dynamite plots! simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-0...
Simply Statistics: Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die
simplystatistics.org
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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 5d
Basketball #tidytuesday

Adventures in {grid} part 2, tried to make a basketball court.

code: github.com/mic-wypych/t...

#rstats | #dataviz | #ggplot2
A plot showing eurobasket teams that made it to final four or won a title on plot styled as a basketbal lcourt
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Jordi Rosell @jrosell.bsky.social · 5d
Ross Ihaka used “for each y, find the closest value in x” to illustrate a core #rstats issue: R has no scalar data types.
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 7d
It was! Should be up soon.
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 7d
Great post by @andrew.heiss.phd on animating #rstats {dplyr} operations

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...
Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations | Andrew Heiss
Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data
www.andrewheiss.com
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 7d
Amazing, thank you so much!
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Eric R. Scott @leafyericscott.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 7d
I am learning how to make a regular old #rstats #shiny app into a "progressive web app"—one of those websites you can "install" on your phone or desktop and runs full-screen.

It is *not that hard*, but also very much not documented, so I feel like this is going to need to be a blog post eventually.
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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 7d
#rstats what do folks do when converting from raster to terra with saved data objects? active bindings is a possibility

github.com/ropensci/gra...

interested in any perspectives, I don't want to change the entire way the package works (I'm not the maintainer, just toying with ideas)
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 7d
I'm going to be giving an #rstats talk about functions in about 45 minutes - it's online!

The talk is called: "Practical Functions: Practically Magic", but could potentially be retitled, "Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction".

Join at: www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 7d
A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?
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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 8d
Yes! Lots of iteration and mock up drawings in keynote. We were able to go through a local manufacturer in Australia to get a fully custom pattern through a knitting machine. Very neat.
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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 8d
How cool is this?! Positron opens a HTML color picker when typing a HTML color in your script.

#RStats #dataviz
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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 8d
mirai 2.5.1 released.

mirai.r-lib.org

This is a patch release, but brings a new synchronous mode: `daemons(sync = TRUE)` runs your code in the same process. This means you can now drop into a browser session *within* your mirai #rstats code!

p.s. amazing hex stickers made by someone @posit.co!!
mirai R package hex sticker
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