Posit Data Science Lab - YouTube Welcome to the Lab, y'all! Head over to https://pos.it/dslab to see the lineup and register to attend. We get together on Tuesdays and we'd love you to join.

It was! It'll be on our YouTube playlist soon: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Super excited for this #RStats panel tomorrow! Hope you're able to join us 💜

Getting Started with Quarto: A Hands-On Workshop, Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 9:30 AM | Meetup Join us for a virtual, hands-on workshop on [Quarto](https://quarto.org), a tool for creating reproducible documents, reports, and dashboards with [R](https://www.r-project

📢 Getting Started with Quarto – A Hands-On Workshop

🎤 Speaker: Isabella Velásquez
🗓 Wednesday, Apr 29 | 9:30–11:00 AM (PHT)
📍 Online via Zoom (link after registration)

👥 Organized by RNVSU

🔗 www.meetup.com/r-nvsu/event...

Open to everyone!
#rstats #Quarto #DataScience #rconsortium

This list is absolutely brilliant, especially as you are writing your technical slides for upcoming talks and workshops!

This week on What's New in R:

✅ Walkthrough of @andrew.heiss.phd’s Positron workflow
✅ Blog post by @ivelasq3.bsky.social sharing collection of Claude skills for R users
✅ @stephenturner.us’s demo of a Claude Skill for automatically generating _brand.yml files

Read more: buff.ly/iTfyA48

#rstats

A parquet floor. Text: DATA CLEANING + DATA DICTIONARIES + PARQUET + CLAUDE. A match made in heaven. Join us with Hadley Wickham, Tues, April 21 @ 12 pm ET, pos.it/dslab.

Interested in data cleaning, data dictionaries, Parquet files, Claude, or ALL OF THE ABOVE?

Join the Data Science Lab tomorrow at 12 pm ET with @hadley.nz to learn how these form a ✨match made in heaven✨

Register here: pos.it/dslab

Thanks for sharing!

R-Ladies Rome (english) - Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0 – A Practical Session dplyr 1.2.0 tutorial | New dplyr functions | tidyverse data manipulation | R programming | R-Ladies Rome In this R-Ladies Rome event, Isabella Velásquez (Developer Relations at Posit PBC) presents a…

"What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0: A Tour" with Isabella Velásquez
presented to R-Ladies Rome (rladiesrome.bsky.social) in March 2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF...
#rstats

What's new in R 4.6.0? Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes in the April 2026 release of R 4.6.0.

New blog post about R4.6 #rstats

www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n...

Wow! It's absolutely beautiful!

It's pretty rad!! I hope it works well for you 🥰

Build websites for R packages Generate an attractive and useful website from a source package. pkgdown converts your documentation, vignettes, README, and more to HTML making it easy to share information about your package online.

Have you ever tried pkgdown? pkgdown.r-lib.org

There's just so many awesome updates... 🥲

posit::glimpse() Newsletter – April 2026 - Posit

The latest Glimpse newsletter is packed with open source #RStats and #Python updates from Posit!

Quarto 1.9, introducing Great Docs, orbital 0.5.0, devtools uses pak, and more.

Read it here: posit.co/blog/glimpse...

Screenshot of the announcement by Simon Urbanek regarding Tomáš Kalibera’s untimely passing. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalibera on 1 April, a valuable member of the R core team for close to 10 years and a good friend, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools aimed at aiding package authors to make their packages more reliable, and was instrumental in modernizing the Windows build of R. He was an active member of CRAN and the R community, providing help to package authors, and he was the most prolific writer on the R core blog. He will be remembered for his profound contributions to R by millions of users. He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time. Respectfully, Simon Urbanek

RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.

stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...

Beautiful!

what is asynchronous programming? Join us with Charlie Gao, author of {mirai}. Tues, April 14 at 12pm et. pos.it/dslab

We're thrilled to be joined by @shikokuchuo.net tomorrow on the DS Lab to learn about asynchronous programming (and parallel programming, which it turns out is different!).

Charlie is the author of mirai, which enables them in #RStats tools like Shiny and purrr ✨

See you there! pos.it/dslab

Upcoming section on Isabella's Talks page.

Inspired by @jennajordan.me, I added an "Upcoming" section to my Talks & Workshops page. Thank you for the inspiration, Jenna!

Check it out here: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk

I hope to see you here, there, anywhere 🥰

Screenshot of a tweet by Hannah Rempel about presenting on using Google Drive with R workflows at SatRDayLA. Two photos show her presenting to an audience, with slides about user-friendly data management and ecological research using R.

7 years ago, I gave my first talk at an R stats conference. At the reception, a man asked me, "Do you use R?" 🙄 My mentor, Dr. Kelly Bodwin, helped me shake off my subsequent feeling that I didn't belong and encouraged my love of statistics.

Effective mentorship matters: ojs.elte.hu/cejntrep/art...

Holy moly

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.

But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅

First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.

#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Thanks so much for joining us!! 🥳

(apparently, this is Rita Ora)

What a riot - DS Lab with @libbyheeren.bsky.social , @ivelasq3.bsky.social , @markjrieke.bsky.social , and Sam Parm! So much cool thing happenings in #rstats community.

singing, bayesian stats, Pokemon balls, and Rita ora!

Also I want to say I tried to dress up Lou Bega

a woman in a black dress says i love her Alt: a woman in a black dress says i love her

Me while you were presenting:

RDM Weekly - Issue 039 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 39 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬

It includes:
➡️ Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0 @ivelasq3.bsky.social
➡️ Computational Reproducibility: A Primer from @ukrepro.bsky.social
➡️ SCORE: Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence @cos.io
and more!

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

If you figure it out… please let me know! 😀

A heatmap showing RSF World Press Freedom Index rankings for 19 G20 countries from 2014 to 2025. Each cell displays the country's rank for that year, colored on a blue-to-red gradient where blue indicates a low rank (more press freedom) and red indicates a high rank (less press freedom). Countries are ordered from best average rank at the top to worst at the bottom. Germany, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and France consistently appear in the top 10–45 range and show predominantly blue tiles throughout. The United States and Italy occupy the middle of the chart with purple tones, showing moderate rankings in the 40–80 range. Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and China form the bottom tier with deep red tiles, reflecting persistently high ranks above 100–170. Argentina shows notable improvement between 2021 and 2022, dropping from rank 68 to 29. China and Saudi Arabia remain among the lowest-ranked countries across all years.

Practicing my #Python with plotnine for the #30DayChartChallenge:

Day 6: Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Rankings for G20 Countries

Promotional graphic for "Fun Data Projects on the Data Science Lab" featuring a Quarto logo in a fedora and the "Um, Actually..." logo. Text: "Join us with Damie Pak, Mark Rieke, and Sam Parmar! Tues, April 7 @ 12 pm ET pos.it/dslab".

It's gonna be a fun Data Science Lab tomorrow!

@damiepak.bsky.social, @markjrieke.bsky.social , and Sam Parmar are going to walk through some fun data science projects that they have worked on. (Can you guess what they are about below?!)

Join the party: pos.it/dslab

Stacked bar chart of percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools by race/ethnicity and state in 2022. It shows significant variation in student demographics across the U.S., with White students making up 51%.

Stacked bar chart of percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools by race/ethnicity and state in 2022. It shows significant variation in student demographics across the U.S., with White students making up 47%.

Stacked bar chart of percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools by race/ethnicity and state in 2022. It shows significant variation in student demographics across the U.S., with White students making up 46%.

For #30DayChartChallenge Day 3: Mosaic, I used Posit AI in RStudio to update an #RStats plot that I created back in 2018.

It's been a while, so it was very helpful to have something to work with and help troubleshoot.

I recorded the session if you want to see how it went! youtu.be/pD0JU2hu5bI