This week on my substack: what is an agent open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi....
This makes me SO HAPPY! This is what I want people to do! See tidytuesdayR on CRAN for relatively easy dataset submissions! dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR...
When I was at PyCon US, there was so! much! buzz! around @pola.rs.
For those of us who work primarily in the latter part of the data science lifecycle (reporting, etc.), I wrote a little blog post on four #Python libraries with Polars support.
Check it out here! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
I'm alive *AND* I wrote a blog post?! Unheard of!
Much 💖 to @abbycabs.dev, and @grafana.bsky.social's David Allen and Amanda Wagner whose FOSDEM talk's were a huge source of inspo!
Panache v2.52.0 is out! 🚀
A formatter, linter & language server for Quarto, Pandoc & Markdown.
New: experimental math formatter (align + whitespace normalization) and hand-written YAML parser & formatter, fully lossless, even hashpipe YAML (Quaro chunk options)
https://panache.bz
Mike Bostock's first data viz library ran on three 1x1 pixel GIFs and raw HTML tables. It kind of made a bar chart. He went on to build D3.
Listen now on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/01BJ...) and Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...).
We've been working to make mori better - 0.2.1 is now on CRAN!
Share R objects across processes with zero copies using shared memory + ALTREP. Supports mirai and all parallel frameworks.
New: `prune_shared()` cleans orphaned regions, cleaner errors.
github.com/shikokuchuo/...
#Rstats #Tidyverse
I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!
#RStats challenge and potential community project:
* Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible!
Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues
Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...
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