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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · Jun 2
🎨 Excited to release diffuseR
- an R implementation of the diffusers library!
✨ txt2img and img2img generation
🚀 No Python dependencies
📦 SDXL & SD2.1 models. More coming soon!
What will you create? #RStats #AI
troyhernandez.bsky.social
Starts tomorrow morning!
Register now! (free)
My talk on diffuseR will be Friday
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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eddelbuettel.com
Been saying this for decades, and _actually meant it_. There is so much sanity checking done in a package that it absolutely certainly unquestionably is the correct container to assemble #Rstats code in.
hotgarbage.ca Chris Thomas @hotgarbage.ca · 7d
I wish I had made my own #rstats package sooner. It's absurd how effective a guardrail it is against user... code creativity... borking things up
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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mdsumner.bsky.social
#rstats #python fortune!

"Suffice to say it takes a certain lack of empathy for your fellow human to design a language where whitespace bugs are a thing."

~Claus Wilke, 2025 blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
#rstats Well worth reading.
Programming languages for statistical computing and graphics show provide the shortest path between an idea in your head and result on your screen or in your paper
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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rconsortium.bsky.social
TOMORROW! R+AI 2025 goes live!

Highlights:
• Joe Cheng (Posit): Keeping LLMs in Their Lane
• Oracle ML: RAG from your DB (Hornick & LaMonica)
• Troy Hernandez: Stable Diffusion in R
• Many, many more!

Nov 12–13. See the full program and register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

#rstats #AI
Screenshot showing speakers from the upcoming R+AI event - View of many headshots
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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simonpcouch.com
I'm excited to share side::kick(), an experimental open-source coding agent for RStudio built entirely in R. It can interact with your files, communicate with your active #rstats session, and run code.

Check it out: github.com/simonpcouch/...
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
troyhernandez.bsky.social
🚀 The @rconsortium.bsky.social's inaugural R+AI Conference is next week!

I’ll be presenting diffuseR — bringing Stable Diffusion to R natively (no Python, no reticulate… just {torch} and vibes 😎).

🔗 Talk abstract:
rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

💻 Project repo:
github.com/cornball-ai/...
R+AI 2025
rconsortium.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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terrychristiani.bsky.social
Hey there, #rstats!

The R+AI schedule has been announced So, head on over, check out the schedule & register for our first R+AI event - 100% online w/ 3 ticket price categories - Pro, Non-Profit or Academic, & Student! See y'all on November 12th and 13th. 😀
rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
R+AI 2025
rconsortium.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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collinberke.bsky.social
I'm often amazed at how much typing I've saved myself by using `dput(names())` when working with #RStats.

I wrote about this back in 2024, and I was reminded about it's utility again today: www.collinberke.com/til/posts/20...
Use base::dput() to easily create and save objects – Collin K. Berke, Ph.D.
Need to create and store an object quickly, use this trick
www.collinberke.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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antoinevernet.com
#rstats
The two buttons meme, the first button reads "answering emails", the second one reads "playing with experimental R packages"
October 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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domi.zip
I finally cleaned up my messy cablework
2 skeletons, on left with veins, arteries, lymph nodes as they are in the body; on right with them being represented as straight cables like in the arranged neatly next to each other like in a server room
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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liomys.mx
🤖 Big update to the LLMs + R guide

> 10 packages added plus other tools and interested reads

luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

As usual, all the content is available in English and Spanish.
#rstats
screenshot of the guide's news section with the following updates: ### Latest updates (September 2025): #### R packages - `contextR`, conversational memory for LLM workflows - `kbretrieveR` for working with AWS Knowledge Bases - The R Language Analysis Suite (text,talk & topics) - `LLMR`, a general interface - `myownrobs`, AI coding agent for RStudio - `air`, an AI coding helper - Format and complete few-shot prompts with `promptr` - LLM-powered chatting in Shiny with `shinychat` and `querychat` #### Other tools and extensions - Databot, an EDA assistant for Positron - R instructions for Cursor Users #### Helpful reads - ellmer deep dive - Howard Baik - On hallucinations - Cosima Meyer - LLM workshop materials from posit::conf 2025
September 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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transport-talk.bsky.social
{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/

#RStats bookmark from old twitter
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
troyhernandez.bsky.social
For context:
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September 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
troyhernandez.bsky.social
Hilarious watching the Python folks getting attacked with the same dumb talking points that they used against R a decade ago.
Reminds me of when they pushed Jupyter notebooks over markdown in an IDE, then turned around and claimed only R users would use a notebook 😭
September 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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eddelbuettel.com
Intriguing new package `edgemodelr` offering llama.cpp / ggml for #Rstats for local model deployment. Quite tiny too with no dependencies besides #Rcpp.

cran.r-project.org/package=edge...
September 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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emilyriederer.bsky.social
Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages

jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...
If all the world were a monorepo
The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance
jtibs.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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coatless.bsky.social
By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11

shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe

[Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac]

Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).
September 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
troyhernandez.bsky.social
Installing a new OS on an old 13" ultrabook.
Which distro should I try?
1. Ubuntu 25.04
2. Debian 13
3. NixOS 25.05
4. Omarchy 2.0
August 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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pp0196.bsky.social
Somebody had to try it: linear algebra on an OLAP and an OLTP database in R
factbased.blogspot.com/2023/02/larg...

Much older approach with even a proposed patch to GNUR (not required anymore with ALTREP)

RIOT: I/O-Efficient Numerical Computing without SQL
arxiv.org/abs/0909.1766
#rstats
Large Matrix Multiplication: DuckDB vs. SQLite
On my laptop with 16 GB RAM, I would like to perform a matrix-vector multiplication with a sparse matrix of around 10 million columns ...
factbased.blogspot.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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terrychristiani.bsky.social
Hello there, #rstats, I know y'all are enjoying the last weeks of summer and I am just reminding you that the deadline for submissions for the @rconsortium.bsky.social #R+AI conference is September 5th. Please take a moment and share your proposal with us!
rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...
Call for Proposals – R+AI 2025
rconsortium.github.io
August 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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latinrconf.bsky.social
¡Nueva fecha para enviar tu trabajo! Tenés tiempo hasta el 25 de agosto para enviar tu resumen. Recordá que podés presentarlo en español, inglés o portugués.

Sumate a #LatinR2025, del 1 al 5 de diciembre, virtual y gratuito. Conocé más sobre la convocatoria en: latinr.org/blog/es/2025...
Flyer de la conferencia LatinR 2025 con fondo azul oscuro. En letras blancas y mayúsculas se lee Convocatoria a presentar trabajos. Una franja amarilla resalta el texto: Nueva fecha límite: 25 de agosto. Abajo figura 1 al 5 de diciembre, virtual y gratuita #LatinR2025. A la derecha, el logo hexagonal de LatinR en color violeta.
August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
Several ppl sent me this extraordinary chart crime. Thank you I love it
A chart showing median home price (in $100,000 increments) from 1967 to 2021 with a trend on same y-axis for "real weekly wages". The home price trend goes up. The weekly wages trend is flat at what appears to be zero, because weekly wages are small in terms of $100,000.
August 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jamesrball.com
Every time I see people project consciousness onto AI (which has been done since the dumbest auto-response chat bots imaginable) I am reminded of the eight-second long Jeff Winger pencil speech from Community.
youtu.be/z906aLyP5fg?...
July 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM