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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 10h

🤯🤯🤯 Now this is what I'm talking about!

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 11h

nooooooo it was one coding session, it didn't mean anything

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 11h

yes absolutely ... the dangers of errant merges are dire 😭 and it feels even more dangerous when i'm just learning R and there is no simple way to inspect my merges. at least tidylog may provide a good first step!

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 11h

omg perfect!!! thank you! tidylog seems to be exactly what I was looking for (I wanted dplyr's many-to-many error but for other kids of errors as well, e.g., if i tried doing m:1 but there were multiple records in the second data)

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 11h

yep, basically wondering whether i have to write this every time i use join()

merge_flag = case_when(
!is.na(x) & !is.na(y) ~ "matched",
!is.na(x) & is.na(y) ~ "X_only",
is.na(x) & !is.na(y) ~ "Y_only",
TRUE ~ "error"
)

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 12h

yup yup i just meant to say that diagnostics are trickier. I've tried to write my own function, but at least at this stage of learning it's not pretty easy for me :) if i use my own (clunky) function, it seems I lose the rich functionality of R's native join? Maybe soon though! 🤞

Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 12h

This is the only package I found aimed at that issue. But the "relationship = ..." doesn't show warnings when it should

randrescastaneda.github.io/joyn/

An R package for joining tables

It is a joy to join tables in R with `joyn`

randrescastaneda.github.io

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 13h

I finally made the switch to R from stata, and as a fierce long-time defender of stata, I can concede that R is leagues better in almost every way.

Still, I do wish there was an easier way to diagnose merges w/o complicated code. GPT hasn't helped, and joyn doesn't seem to do it right. Any advice?

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 3d

dammit i did not see the first comment

Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 3d

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 19d

Crying (complimentary)

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · 21d

JDM folk: please submit :)

Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 21d

Excited to announce our amazing lineup of speakers for the 2026 JDM preconference at SPSP!

Conference date: Feb 26th
Location: Chicago
Deadline to apply: Oct 23rd.

Application link: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p...

cc: @sdellavi.bsky.social, @hirshmansam.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 26d

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Nick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · Sep 5

New The Effect materials today: introductions to basic coding and data manipulation in R, Stata, and Python. Get the wheels turning on using these languages with data with these intro pages and exercises:
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...
nickchk.com/Coding%20and...

Introduction to Working with Data: R Version

nickchk.com

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Aug 31

For those still complaining -- in this day and age! -- about tables/figures at the end of the paper because it's a "hassle to scroll up and down", here's a tip.

If you click on a link on a page (e.g. to a fig/table), you can return instantly to that page by:

Preview: ⌘ + [
Adobe: ⌘ + left arrow

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Aug 5

Haha no, I wish I was that smart

Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Aug 5

*leans in to make sure #17 is really what it says*

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 4

***Historians***

Check out who are listed as #2...

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Jul 22

‘My position on OpenAI has hardened in recent months, as they have themselves recognized that their only path to profitability is to follow the models of…Meta (Facebook) & Alphabet (Google) by creating dependency and/or addiction for an entire generation’.

Always read @mattseybold.bsky.social

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Jun 20

“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

theamericanvandal.substack.com

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Jul 23

lol he might need to update his examples! bsky.app/profile/thet...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 22

A Legal group founded by Stephen Miller calls for federal and Tennessee investigations into Cracker Barrel for its DEI policies — “because initiatives are focused on supporting workers who are women, Black, LGBTQ+, or Latino”

www.newsweek.com/cracker-barr...

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Jun 30

2020: Thank god for healthcare workers, we would be dead without you

2025: Thank god for lawyers, we would be dead without you

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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · Jun 30

Trying to identify opioids and other drugs in pharmacy data (claims, PDMP, etc.)? Use my code to quickly build a list of national drug codes (NDCs) using the free public database RxNorm.

I wrote this code to replace the CDC's now-discontinued opioid NDC dataset.

github.com/asacarny/dru...

GitHub - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm: Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm

Code to create a list of NDCs (National Drug Codes) for opioids, benzodiazepines, and other related drugs using RxNorm - asacarny/drug-ndc-rxnorm

github.com

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Jun 25

What ... is this ... peculiar stirring ... within mine breast .... could it be -- aye -- hope?!

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jun 25

wait, is a Good Political Thing really happening???

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Manasvini Singh @vinisingh.bsky.social · Jun 8

Another one joins the list (though i can still count them on one hand) ... show us the way, Williams!

www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. college is first to decline federal science grants because of new DEI language

Williams College says NSF and NIH requirement related to discrimination “undermines” academic freedom

www.science.org

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jun 7

The Republican Party has fully embraced fascism and destroyed American democracy. But some Democrats still say Latinx. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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