We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.
A photo of a laptop screen with a thank you banner on a rainbow background. The upper right corner shows a picture of a person in a red shirt.
It’s a wrap! 🌈 The @rainbowr.org conference closed with a keynote by @hadley.nz on Claude 💻
Thank you to @ellakaye.co.uk @damiepak.bsky.social Katlyn, Lea @tinarozsos.bsky.social @northernmaps.bsky.social @oberman.bsky.social @ddsjoberg.bsky.social @statsrhian.bsky.social for organizing 🫶
@mehtology.bsky.social @monjalexander.bsky.social @nicoleradziwill.bsky.social If you know of any R Ladies in Toronto area who are looking for a position, please send them our way 👩💻💜🙏
I’m hiring! 🎉 I’m building out my team and looking for someone who enjoys working in R (tidyverse), is comfortable with Git, and is excited about data. 🤓
#rstats #tidyverse #datascience
roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/roche-ext/jo...
Giving the AI of {gtsummary} by @ddsjoberg.bsky.social a try! Starting with AI generated study guide of this package - let's see how much it helps!
Do we even still need static cheatsheet anymore?
How do we make AI with R package vignette, any good tutorials?
#gtsummary #rstats #gt #posit
Supported by my fellowship from the Software Sustainability Institute, this year the rainbowR committee (with the amazing @oberman.bsky.social, @ddsjoberg.bsky.social and @statsrhian.bsky.social) has been working hard to nurture rainbowR and make the community sustainable for the long-term.
It's free, but there was an application process to be accepted to their open-source program. Otherwise, you're 100% correct, it would be paid.
Screenshot of the gtsummary homepage showing the AI chatbot.
Check out the release of {gtsummary} v2.50.
My favorite feature is the AI chatbot on the homepage. It does a fantastic job of answering simple and complex questions about the package. (RAG model powered by kapa.ai) 🤖
www.danieldsjoberg.com/gtsummary/in...
#rstats #gtsummary #datascience
Can't wait for the rainbowr conference! 🌈
Conference announcement for rainbowR 2026 featuring a colorful rainbow striped border. The main text reads 'Conference Keynote: Daphna Harel - Studying Queer Data While Living It: Positionality, Power, and Practice' with event details 'February 25-26th, 2026, online' and website 'conference.rainbowr.org'. A professional headshot of Daphna Harel appears on the right side of the dark blue text panel.
We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Daphna Harel, @daphna.bsky.social, PI of the NYU Queer Data Lab, as a keynote speaker for the rainbowR conference!
For more about the conference, including how to submit a proposal, and to sign-up for updates, see conference.rainbowr.org
#RStats #QueerData
Looking forward to this talk! Come join me for a discussion on queer data!
Call for abstracts for the first ever @rainbowr.org conference is still open! We're looking for talks that either
🦄 Showcase how our diverse community uses #RStats
🏳️🌈 Use LGBTQ+ data
Get in your abstracts before December 1st.
conference.rainbowr.org/abstracts.html
#queerdata #PrideinSTEMDay
After 7.5 years in development (on-and-off), I am beyond excited to announce the release of the #RStats {pregnancy} package for tracking dates and medications in pregnancy and fertility treatment! There's a lightning talk about it at #PositConf2025 at 1pm EDT today.
ellakaye.github.io/pregnancy
It is a month that ends in “ber”, I’m gonna play Christmas music. I don’t make the rules
🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday August 27th, 4pm UTC 🌈
- connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️🌈
- ask questions about R 🙋
- tell us about an R package you like 📦
- show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻
➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups
happy august! I did a little data visualization project this week trying to see what genres of books I've read and liked the most so far in 2025. (if you, like me, are a big fan of scifi + fantasy + dark academia, please give me book recs!)
🔗📚: github.com/jkaminags/bo...
#ggplot2 #dataviz #Rstats
I don't know how many Canadian leftists chose to vote strategically, and held their nose and voted for the Liberal party, but if you did, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Canada will remain a safe, welcoming place for our trans friends and family.
Early bird deadline for R/Medicine is approaching!
Register by April 10 to save on your ticket and join the premier R conference health and medicine. Don't miss out—prices go up soon!
🔗Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...
#rstats #rmed25 #datascience #opensource
📣 R/Medicine 2025 virtual conference is coming June 10-13! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...
⭐ Early bird registration through April 10
⭐ Submissions accepted through April 11
⭐ All-star lineup of keynotes and workshops
#rmed25 #rstats
LLMs + #RStats are a powerful combo. I wrote a little post about using R to curate GitHub data and {ellmer} to program with LLMs to automate one of my least favorite tasks: remembering what I did this week.
www.garrickadenbuie.com/blog/llm-wor...
Sometimes when building a minimal reprex for a bug, you discover that you were the bug all along. I assume this is what Kafka was on about.
The Bluesky muted words and tags interface with "x.com" muted forever in text & tags (excluding users you follow)
Don't want to see links to X on here? Go to Settings > Moderation > Muted words & tags and add "x.com" to mute forever. You can mute the word everywhere or choose to exclude posts from people you follow.
The joy of finding out about #Rstats packages after(!) doing all the hard work manually. 82 messy lines of code vs. 8 simple lines. #phdlife
Thanks @ddsjoberg.bsky.social and gtsummary team!
The Trevor Project
I support the Trevor Project.
Trans rights are human rights.
It's important today.
For those going home to visit family this weekend:
• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.
And the start of my personal watch list:
The Positron session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRc...
@ddsjoberg.bsky.social on gtsummary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYA_...
some people go to therapy, I spend my morning getting more facile with the {gtsummary} package in R
Slide with title "What does an ARD look like?" and some R code and output showing ARD structure, with thumbnail image of Daniel speaking.
thank you @ddsjoberg.bsky.social for ✨Harnessing CDISC’s Emerging Analysis Results Datasets Standard with the {cards} and {gtsummary} Packages✨ at R/Pharma! 😍 #rstats
slides 👉 www.danieldsjoberg.com/ARD-RinPharm...
irmagerd! I love it!!
Here is my opinion on important #rstats accounts to follow.
go.bsky.app/8pYGwbP
It is very much a curated list by me, and reflects my own opinion. I will be adding to it as I discover more folks i think should be on the list.