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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

Behold, the RStudio Yeti!

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

My blue RStudio branded Yeti

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

We optimize for “wtf?!” moments 🙂

Nic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 5d

Just added Air to the Arrow CI jobs 🪂

It's an R formatter written in Rust, and so fast I genuinely had a "wtf?!" moment the first time I used it.

Would love to see a similar linter; if I had the time, I'd love to try building one - need to get acquainted with tree-sitters one day! 🌳

#rstats

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize-worthy than an individual leveling threats against Norway if he doesn't get it.

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 8d

It is not internal! It is something I've been iterating on to help with performance based PRs in vctrs and elsewhere. I have gotten enough questions about it that I should probably release it for real at some point, but feel free to use it github.com/DavisVaughan...

GitHub - DavisVaughan/cross: Run Functions Across Package Versions

Run Functions Across Package Versions. Contribute to DavisVaughan/cross development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 @mattansb.msbstats.info · 10d

We all know filter, mutate, summarize, but the #tidyverse has some advanced hidden jems!

Recently a client sent me some code they were using to look up values between 2 tables based on date-times.

I replaced ~100 lines of code* with a single inner_join(by = join_by(overlap())).

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 10d

I just learned about the `truncate` argument in {lubridate} functions, which means NO MORE HACKY paste0(year, "-01-01") code to build dates when converting years to dates in #rstats

library(lubridate)

yr <- 2025

# This doesn't work
ymd(yr)
#> Warning message:
#> All formats failed to parse. No formats found.
#> [1] NA

#-------
# TIRED
#-------
# I've done this for *yeeeeears*
ymd(paste0(yr, "-01-01"))
#> [1] "2025-01-01"

#-------
# WIRED
#-------
# The truncated argument tells {lubridate} that it can
# ignore up to 2 (in this case) formats to look for.
# Ordinarily `ymd()` looks for three formats: a year,
# a month, and a day. `truncated = 2` means it can skip
# the month and day parts
ymd(yr, truncated = 2)
#> [1] "2025-01-01"

ymd(c("2025", "2025-10", "2025-10-02"), truncated = 2)
#> [1] "2025-01-01" "2025-10-01" "2025-10-02"

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 10d

Getting inequality/rolling/overlap joins in dplyr is definitely one of my proudest accomplishments 😆 Glad it was useful!

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 10d

2️⃣ I ALSO HAVE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT THIS

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks!

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 22d

artisanal code 🤌

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 23d

So good to see you!! (And your family 😂)

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 23d

Another delightful #positconf in the books! So lovely to see everyone 🌻 I miss it already!

Especially excited about:
🤖 @minecr.bsky.social’s aifeedr
🌬️ Making my code pretty like @davisvaughan.bsky.social’s with air
✨ @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social’s editable quarto magic
📈 everything @kjhealy.co said

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 23d

We actually tried so hard to get baristas for conf itself, but the hotel policy about bringing in third party vendors is so strict! Luckily that does not apply for dev day 😬

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 23d

Time for tidyverse dev day!

Can’t wait to review some PRs and drink some coffee ☕️ #positconf2025

A menu of tidyverse themed coffee drinks

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Vinicius Oike @viniciusoike.bsky.social · 25d

I've been using Air since switching to Positron and have been loving it. My only criticism is the styling of tibbles (it just breaks them). Apparently that has been solved

# fmt: tabular

coming soon

#PositConf

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 24d

I pretty strongly agree

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 24d

Working on it!

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 24d

Confirmed to be a bug, sorry about that

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 25d

We’ve actually secretly taken over the air R package too and may use it later on as well!

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 25d

It’s actually a Rust crate not an R package! But we are indeed very excited about the upcoming tabular formatting!

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 25d

Air is our incredibly fast R code formatter!

Come learn all about it at 2:40pm in Regency V in the Sparking Development Joy session!!

We also have hex stickers!

#positconf2025 #rstats

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 29d

Can't wait to see everyone at posit::conf(2025)!!

Here's my annual "things to do" list for food, coffee, bakeries, and bars near conf!

#positconf2025 #rstats

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

atlanta-posit-conf-2025

posit::conf 2025 Hotel Coffee ⭐ I think this looks the most promising, there are other locations that look decent even if this one seems new and has few reviews and is inside another building 7 minu...

docs.google.com

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · Sep 4

Because it's just a markdown document, I had the idea that maybe you can tell an AI about the extrachecks list and have it analyze your project for you. It's not a guaranteed success, but it's probably a reasonable first pass? I'd still personally double check everything manually too.

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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · Sep 3

Once again, @davisvaughan.bsky.social's extrachecks have saved me from a likely CRAN rejection for an upcoming #RStats package submission. Thanks Davis! github.com/DavisVaughan...

GitHub - DavisVaughan/extrachecks

Contribute to DavisVaughan/extrachecks development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · Aug 28

That's so cool!