Bioinformaticians: If you see an R package in bioinformatics that is in CRAN instead of Bioconductor, does this raise a bit of suspicion? Why or why not? #bioconductor#bioinformatics#rstats
I'm super interested to know/see the Venn diagram of :emacs: Emacs and :rstats: R users. 😏
I myself use Rstudio for work and Emacs ESS for my personal projects. So far I have managed to have a very comfortable setup for my Rstudio, but my ESS config can use some feedback/comment, especially from seasoned ESS users.
Hello #rstats folks! I am focussing on trying to condense my #rstats reading into an RSS reader, and I was wondering if people could share some links to blogs that they follow?
New post: "How to get good with R", where I ramble on some ideas on getting better with R - keen to hear what people think I've missed and discuss the topic!
Hey folks, I'm thinking about doing a live stream of #rstats package development, or potentially package review.
I was reviewing a package for my research group on a video call and I think it was helpful to demonstrate the process, and see someone think through a problem.
My goal is that I want to showcase the process of doing package development and reviewing, and I think it would be fun to do it on twitch, or something like that.
I've never done anything like this before, I was considering doing it this Sunday, but could also do during the work week in the morning (Australia Tasmania time - afternoon for USA viewers).
I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on how to do #rstats streaming well, is Twitch the right place to do it?
If you'd like a package reviewed I would be happy to take a look, and promise I will be kind :)
I want to start a R project and I want to keep everything about this project static and frozen in time. I know nix-shell is a thing, but:
is there a better/smoother approach?
is it possible to also have a service/daemon running in that nix-shell ? The editor I use (Rstudio) has desktop and server versions, and I would rather have the server version running on a beefy remote machine and I ssh into it.
#RStats lazyweb: has anyone ever had to connect to an azure SQL database using microsoft entra authentication? I am searching for a solution and all I can find is MSFT espousing how good it is, and so far it feels like an automation nightmare! ping @hrbrmstr because you’ve usually connected to everything before I have.
Does anybody know how to get git to work in a Shiny app?
We used to have a working app that cloned a repo, added a file, and the pushed a new commit (using a PAT in an environment variable). However, this doesn't work anymore with {git2r} and I also don't manage to find out how to use environment variables for a GitLab or Codeberg repo with {gert}... 😒
Shiny and #RStats friends, I’m thinking about a Shiny 201 or 301 workshop. Imagine you took Intro to Shiny, and you’ve made a few apps. You’re ready to learn the next thing to level up. What do you wish you had learned next?
Mastodon, what is a good (freely available) dataset to give an example of principal component analysis?
Thanks for answering or sharing! #statistics#pca#rstats
For Day 1 of #30DayMapChallenge, I mapped 9 of the schools for Black children in northern Delaware when Delaware--there were more than 80 throughout the state when the state enforced racial segregation in schools. #rstats
Tomorrow at 12pm Sydney/Melbourne time we will be trying out the first round of this live #rstats package review. Currently we have myself, @milesmcbain , and @adamhsparks joining for review, which is very exciting!
Thanks to everyone who has been very helpful with sharing resources and experience and enthusiasm: @tanho, @wviechtb, @michcampbell and @hye
I haven't had as much time to iron out the twitch stream as I would like so hopefully it all works out! I'll post a link here when I've got it working.
When I read R code and see people have very liberally used tons of packages like there is no tomorrow, I cringe. This is bad when they are doing it in research. Basically what they are doing is addicting their analysis and research to tons of packages. Like any other addition, when they don't get their fix, it's gonna hurt, and gonna hurt bad. Their research's reproducibility is close to non-existence as none of those packages will be around for ever. Pick dependencies carefully.
#rstats Q: I'm trying to make a flexdashboard (or Quarto dashboard or whatever) that displays data dynamically when loading in the browser (like pulling from an API). It looks like running a full Shiny server is the only way to get that to work. Is there some other way to populate it w/live data?
Folks, an open call: I am #hiring TWO Principal Research #Scientists to join the Developer Success Lab!
One is a scientist with statistics/psychometrics focus (R is our ecosystem here), and one is an intervention science focus; both are fully remote roles working directly with me, our current Principal Scientist, and our brand-new Principal Dev Experience Engineer on our public-facing empirical research mission 🙌
After years of wishing something like this existed, I decided to finally buckle down and make it myself. Behold, an animated explanation of what group_by() |> summarize() does in {dplyr} in #rstats!
More coming later with group_by(cat2), plus group_by(cat1, cat2) and ungroup()!