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troy_phd
@troyhernandez.bsky.social
AI founder, Dad, #Rstats
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🎨 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
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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
🚀 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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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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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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October 8, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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I finally cleaned up my messy cablework
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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🤖 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
September 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/

#RStats bookmark from old twitter
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
September 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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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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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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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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
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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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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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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¡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...
August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Several ppl sent me this extraordinary chart crime. Thank you I love it
August 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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
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Wow.

I was sent a 5GB csv file which I just converted to RDS.

It's now 400 MB

Not bad, #rstats...
a man in a polka dot shirt is holding a blue coffee mug
Alt: a man in a polka dot shirt is holding a blue coffee mug
media.tenor.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Just noticed that #Rcpp now tops 100 million downloads per the (known downward-biased subset of CRAN mirrors served via the CDN set up by posit and excluding all other mirrors).

github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp
June 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Claude writes #rstats code like it's python. It loves for loops and seems incapable of understanding vectorized operations, matrix math, etc. It ignores all the efficient ways of doing things in R. Great for simple tasks, but I'm running into limits.
June 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If Rstudio would allow people to execute Python in a Python interpreter (without reticulate) using the same keyboard shortcuts afforded to .R and .sh files (ctrl+enter) this plot would go to the moon
Is #rstats dead? I don’t think so.
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Quick follow-up to diffuseR:
Here are the export scripts I used to create the TorchScript files 🔧 Fair warning - they're a bit rough around the edges, but I wanted to make them available for anyone who wants to export their own models.
github.com/cornball-ai/...
GitHub - cornball-ai/diffuseR-TS
Contribute to cornball-ai/diffuseR-TS development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM