Claude is still a favorite of the #RStats community for writing R code - I find Opus 4.1 quite good at Shiny - but it's relatively expensive. And I run into Web UI limits pretty quickly. It will be very interesting if GPT-5 is as good for less $$.
#GenAI#LLMshttps://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114988747892582553
Your coding LLM benchmarks are lovely, but can GPT-5 actually write decent #RStats code?
It looks like keynotes from this week's in-person useR! conference will be livestreamed, according to a post on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/user-conf.bsky.social/post/3lvlq5egkbk2i
I assume on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@useRConference_global
Conference schedule: https://user2025.r-project.org/program/in-person/
You can see the full playlist of last week's virtual conference videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77T87Q0eoJgDiU_yXZ6c6Fp8PZTsDvg4
R code by Adam Bonica showing his analysis that only 1.6% of more than $600 million raised by Democratic political spam texts actually went to candidates! #RStats 👀👀
https://github.com/abonica/Mothership-Strategies-FEC-Analysis/blob/main/mothership_complete_api_analysis.R
His blog post: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigationhttps://www.threads.com/@rickhasen1/post/DM6S6oqSsEE
alcinnz
boosted
New server, new #introduction:
👋 Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly 
code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.
My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.
I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.
#rstats #rse #datascience #dataviz #ecology #chemistry #statistics
New presentation just posted at today's @useR_conf virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph
By @tanya_shapiro & @CedScherer
GitHub repo with sample {ggiraph} #RStats code from the presentation available at https://github.com/z3tt/ggiraph-user-2025
New presentation just posted at today's @useR_conf virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph
By @tanya_shapiro & @CedScherer
The tidyverse flavour of #rstats is not a programming language, it's a product.
Alex
boosted
New R package: rgeomorphon 📦 by Andrew Brown
Classifies terrain forms using a parallel C++ implementation of the geomorphon algorithm.
New R package: rgeomorphon 📦 by Andrew Brown
Classifies terrain forms using a parallel C++ implementation of the geomorphon algorithm.
My newest #zine is all about free places to #rollerskate near Boston. It's two sided, so if you unfold it, there's a map and listing of outdoor rinks in public parks.
I used #rstats to generate the map of the local outdoor rinks. https://github.com/lisawilliams/roller_hockey_rinks/ #rollerskating
New server, new #introduction:
👋 Hi! I'm Eric! I'm a scientific programmer & educator who writes mostly code. I currently work part time at #UniversityOfArizona where I help researchers by making R packages, #Shiny apps, automated data workflows, and training them on #ReproducibleResearch practices. I also mentor data scientists for @Posit Academy. I am #OpenToWork as a contractor if any of those skills sound useful to you.
My background is in plant chemical ecology and population ecology and for my PhD I studied #tea and did field work in China. I love tea (although I've been drinking coffee more and more lately) and practice #GongFuCha when I can. I love #foraging and tasting new things.
I currently live in #Tucson but the #BayArea will always be my home.
#rstats #rse #datascience #dataviz #ecology #chemistry #statistics
Learn #RStats + #GenAI and help medics in Ukraine save lives!
Join my Workshop for Ukraine on Sept 11 to see how to build LLM-powered chatbots with R that query your documents
We'll use {ragnar} and {ellmer} to create a RAG chatbot that answers questions about all Workshop topics & times. Then, we'll use those skills to query data on #PositConf2025 sessions.
💙💛 Register: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.nxnvhskykjzg 1/2
If RAG + #RStats isn't the topic for you but you'd still like to help raise money for medics in Ukraine, you can also
* Sponsor a student https://www.machlis.com/workshop/
* Explore other workshop topics at Workshops for Ukraine (searchable table on right doesn't use AI and doesn't require an OpenAI key) https://smach-rag-4-ukraine-workshops-demo-app.share.connect.posit.cloud 2/2
Learn #RStats + #GenAI and help medics in Ukraine save lives!
Join my Workshop for Ukraine on Sept 11 to see how to build LLM-powered chatbots with R that query your documents
We'll use {ragnar} and {ellmer} to create a RAG chatbot that answers questions about all Workshop topics & times. Then, we'll use those skills to query data on #PositConf2025 sessions.
💙💛 Register: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.nxnvhskykjzg 1/2
RAG has come to the tidyverse! Check out my step-by-step #InfoWorld tutorial on how to use the {ragnar} and {ellmer) #RStats 📦 to answer natural language questions about a document or Web page.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020484/generative-ai-rag-comes-to-the-r-tidyverse.html
Huge thanks to pkg creator @kalinowski4ben1 at @Posit for answering questions about this month's new version of {ragnar}, which has a lot of changes.
#GenAI#LLMs
Ulrike Hahn
boosted
🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.
🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience
🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.
🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience
Discovered this week: The {rsconnect} #RStats 📦 's writeManifest() function creates a json file of all the R dependencies in the file - and the versions currently loaded on your system - for any Quarto document, not just Shiny apps.
https://rstudio.github.io/rsconnect/reference/writeManifest.html
Scheduled for tomorrow: "RAG comes to the tidyverse!" My step-by-step tutorial on using the {ragnar} #RStats 📦 to do retrieval augmented generation in R is supposed to be published July 17 at #InfoWorld.
