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  Oh, no! My R package {safespace} is in a broken state - won't someone (new to PRs) help me fix it??? I'm renewing my offer to guide newbies through the R package building / fixing / reviewing process during Hacktoberfest - see this post https://jcarroll.com.au/2024/10/01/a-safe-space-for-learning-how-to-make-pull-requests/ Open a pull request on https://github.com/jonocarroll/safespace to get a mentored review of your submitted changes with zero risk of breaking anything valua...

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  Perhaps you saw the post series "Python is not a great language for data science"... well, here's Haskell IS a Great Language for Data Science https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/12/05/haskell-is-a-great-language-for-data-science/ #haskell :haskell: #rstats :rstats:

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  I've been keeping an eye on this since I first heard about it, and it looks like it now works! duckdb has a dplyr extension which can be installed - use dplyr code to slice and dice data within a duckdb session. https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/dplyr Shoutouts to the author @mrchypark and to @DSLC for their 'DuckDB in Action' book club.

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  @baptnz opted not to remake chicken.pdf then? https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

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  Ooh, that's satisfying

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  I've been looking into dbt for data engineering and wanted to flesh out what the similarities and differences were to just using {targets} - I learned lots about both of them! I wrote up my findings in this post https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/05/04/comparing-r-s-targets-and-dbt-for-data-engineering/ #rstats #dbt #dataeng

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  Maybe I knew this at one point in the past, maybe not, but it just blew my mind (all over again, if I did)... 🤯 In a terminal, Ctrl+x Ctrl+e opens $EDITOR to edit the current command with whatever ergonomics you're more familiar with in that editor - amazing for long terminal commands. As mentioned the latest post from @ratfactor https://ratfactor.com/cards/text-files-as-ui

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  A bit of a long shot, but in the spirit of #fedihire I'm on the lookout for opportunities to contribute to R tooling. If your org could use some help developing or productionising an R package or some prototype R code, managing data access via databases or APIs, or translating between languages, drop me a line and let's discuss. Worldwide timezones supported. My services are listed here: http://jcarroll.click/services and I'm available to start immediately.

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  New post: Schotter Plots in R https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/04/17/schotter-plots-in-r/ in which I reproduce a famous plot in R based on translating some Python code, itself translated from ALGOL #aRtistry #rstats

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  R/Pharma 2026 call for speakers is open until (approx) 02 May and we're once again running an APAC track for those not in America/Europe timezones. Some of last year's sessions are available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/rinpharma We're interested to hear from people involved with R and Pharma, but also adjacent languages and industries. Submit a proposal: https://sessionize.com/rpharma-2026/

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  The latest issue of @rweekly is now live! https://rweekly.org/2026-W14.html Highlights: - 📊 Introducing ggauto: automating better charts by @nrennie - 🤖 Adding Alt Text in Quarto with Claude Code by @stephenturner.us - ☕ Using science to find the best decaf by @gdeejay.bsky.social As always, thanks for your contributions - keep them coming! Add your R blog to our RSS feed list, or submit a PR on GitHub linking to a post #rstats :rstats: