I was interested by the crackdown described here and decided to see what would happen if I deleted a few old questions. We’re talking four questions, 10+ years old, of questionable current relevance. Some I could not delete and so I recommended them for closing on the basis of their age. Sure enough, I got a 24-hour ban with a nasty message from the site, and got the dunce cap “Disciplined” added to my profile.
I was never a power user on #stackoverflow in the first place, and nobody was looking to me for advice, but this was enough to prompt me to delete my account. I’m not interested in having my name associated with this kind of organization. Frankly, I’m also not a strong enough #rstats programmer to take the risk of getting coding advice from AI: if it’s badly wrong, which tends to happen at least in other domains — rarely enough that people let down their guard, but often enough to be nonignorable — I might not know. So the value proposition of using their site is not what it was before, and there’s really no reason for me to stay.
In case you missed it, @kirill wrote up an excellent piece on Apache Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC), #rstats, DBI, and the future of database connectivity in R! https://r-dbi.org/blog/dbi-4-3/
posit::conf(2024) is an open-source data science conference happening in Seattle on August 12 - 14!
After the final keynote of #positconf2024, connect with R-Ladies Seattle and PyLadies Seattle at the community mixer! Open to all, even if you did not attend the conference.
Join us at posit::conf(2024) on Wednesday, Aug 14 after the last keynote for the joint R-Ladies / PyLadies community mixer in Seattle! 💜 The event is open to the public and posit conf attendees. 🤗 #rstats#rladies#pyladies#positconf2024
I've always wanted to try to get axis text directly on my plots like I've seen in the New York Times and other places. Finally figured it out with the help of the {ggh4x} package. Code here: https://rfor.us/axistext#rstats
Since I've recently quit my job, I've enabled github sponsors now. Without any expectations, let's see if I can make a living as an #rstats#rspatial#whateverspatial opensource developer 🤔
Thanks to inspiration by @kylebarron I am currently deep diving into #deckgl and #geoarrow to enhance the geo-spatial visualisation toolkit available in #rstats#rspatial...
I am delighted to present a talk at posit::conf() for the first time! 🙌 You can find me in the session "Beautiful And Effective Tables" presenting on "Context is King" - a talk about #rstats variable labels. 🎉 #positconf2024
A new release of #rstats broom is on CRAN! v1.0.6 includes several changes to well-used tidiers from the package, e.g. for lm(), gam(), and survfit() output.
PSA: The latest development build of #webR served at https://webr.r-wasm.org/latest/ is now running #RStats 4.4.0 🎉 This change will be included as part of the next release. Thanks @jeroenooms for helping get this up and running.
WebAssembly packages for R 4.4 are now being served by https://repo.r-wasm.org/. As before, you can browse the list of available Wasm packages by visiting that URL in your browser. Feel free to let me know if any major packages have been broken in the rebuild process.
A new release of RStudio dropped this week!! A lot of bug fixes and hard work over the last few months. For me, the highlights are the improvements to the Git pane, the completion for ggplot2 aesthetics, help for S3 methods, help available when package loaded via devtools. I had the chance to contribute some (very) minor features. Special thanks to @kevinushey and @ronblum for their kindness and responsiveness! #rstatshttps://posit.co/blog/rstudio-2024-04-0-whats-new/
I'm excited to teach the "What They Forgot To Teach You About R" workshop with E. David Aja at posit conf for the 3rd year! 🎉 Join us to level up your personal R administration 🛠 and debugging skills 🧐. 🤗 #positconf2024#rstats
Next Tuesday I'll be part of a Fireside Chat alongside #useR2024 keynote Abhishek Ulayil on the topic of "Building foundations for R’s future as an accessible and diverse collaboration".
Rendering the moon's craters with displacement mapping in R with rayrender! If you noticed they appear unphysically large, it's because I'm using a information communication technique long employed by cereal boxes: the data have been enlarged to show texture 😉
(1/2) I have been following the work of @stevensanderson and David Kum for a few years now, and I am excited to see the release of their new book 🥳- Extending Excel with Python and R 🚀.
The book focuses on the common conjunction and collaboration between data scientists and Excel users. This includes scaling and automating #Excel tasks with #RStats and #Python and core data science applications such as data wrangling, working with APIs, data visualization, and modeling.
We're very excited to be hosting three reading groups at eCOTS over the next few weeks, and we'll be introducing them this week!
The first reading group is on the topic of "What do students learn from simulations in statistics?" and is facilitated by Andrew Pua, and will be happening May 21 10pm BST / 5pm EDT / May 22 5am Philippine Standard Time
on May 16, 2024, from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm CEST I'm giving a 2 hour online workshop on reproducibility with #Nix for #RStats users organized by the DIPF (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education)