Was looking for an #rstats package and stumbled on @schochastics's #rtoot package for getting R to interact with Mastodon.
It's not my field, but this definitely sparks joy 
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Anyone here who would be interested in giving a 1/2 day workshop on using R to process and query corpora in November 2025? Or can you recommend someone who would be really good for this? I'm envisaging an introduction to quanteda and other such useful #Rstats packages. The person should be based in Germany or close by (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg would be doable, too). #CorpusLinguistics
Ready to plan your #positconf2025 adventure?
The posit::conf(2025) agenda is LIVE, packed with incredible workshops, keynotes, and talks.
Plan your perfect conference with Sam Parmar's Agenda Chat Bot, powered by #RStats shinychat, ellmer, and ragnar.
Check it out! https://posit.co/blog/posit-conf-2025-agenda/
RAG has come to the tidyverse! Check out my step-by-step #InfoWorld tutorial on how to use the {ragnar} and {ellmer) #RStats 
to answer natural language questions about a document or Web page.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020484/generative-ai-rag-comes-to-the-r-tidyverse.html
Huge thanks to pkg creator @kalinowski4ben1 at @Posit for answering questions about this month's new version of {ragnar}, which has a lot of changes.
#GenAI #LLMs
InfoWorldHow to create your own RAG applications in RSee how to query documents using natural language, LLMs, and R—including dplyr-like filtering on metadata. Plus, learn how to use an LLM to extract structured data for text filtering.
A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.
https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience
New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.
Explore it here: https://cidree.github.io/forestdata/
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From our perspective that QtWebEngine is indeed a pain point for Qt 6.x, and unfortunately, there's no alternative at the moment. We'd love to replace or make it optional if possible. We do not see a solution to this.
For working with R 4.5, we suggest trying the kf5-branch from Git. However, that branch will also become outdated over time.
Thanks for your efforts in keeping things updated on Haiku! 
Do any #RStats users have a suggestion for R packages to access Sentinel-2 data, specifically NDVI now that {sen2r} is no longer maintained? I thought I saw something earlier this week but now I can't find it again. #Sentinel2 #NDVI #DataAcess
Anyone have experience with read_xml in R? It gives an error using an url string that works in the browser.
#rstats
Pharma and life sciences folks! Join us at posit::conf(2025) for workshops on:
- Deploying Reproducible Analytics Environments for Regulated Use Cases with Becca Krouse (GSK) and Daniel Sjoberg (Genentech)
- End-to-End Submissions in #RStats with the #Pharmaverse with James Black (Novartis), Orla Doyle (Novartis), Doug Kelkhoff (Roche), Michael Mayer (Posit), and Rafael Pereira (@appsilon)
Update your skills for compliance & efficiency. Learn more: pos.it/conf-2025-workshops
This is huge! Parallel programming with #purrr functions now without any third packages. https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/purrr-1-1-0-parallel/
www.tidyverse.orgParallel processing in purrr 1.1.0The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.
mirai 2.4.1 is released!
- More options for reproducible RNG in #RStats
- More robust `everywhere()`, that you can now use everywhere!
See the changes here:
https://mirai.r-lib.org/news/index.html#mirai-241
mirai.r-lib.orgChangelog
Finally had a good enough reason to set up an R-Universe for official work #RStats packages. It's so nice to use behind the scenes and makes it so much easier for users that aren't familiar with Git and other devtools to just install binaries. @jeroenooms, thank you for your hard work on this.
aagi-aus.r-universe.devR packages by aagi-aus
Well crap. A project from over 5 years ago, when I wasn't doing things well, and I've not got package versions recorded, and was doing all of the analysis via a `knitr` script, with very few intermediates saved.
And now collabs have reviewer comments, and want to change some outputs.
The package is under a git repo, but figuring out how far back to go is a pain in the butt.
So glad using `renv` now at least gives me a record of what versions I had at the time of analysis. #RStats
burnt echoes in #rstats
Emacs org-mode includes the function `org-latex-preview`, which provides image overlays for LaTeX formulas in the buffer. As it turns out, it mostly works in non-org-mode buffers. It does throw warnings. I have suppressed them with this little wrapper:
```
(defun tws-latex-preview (&optional ARG)
(interactive "P")
(let ((warning-minimum-level ':error))
(org-latex-preview ARG)))
```
Not rigorously tested, but seems to work for making pretty comments in my source code.
There are 51 packages in danger of being archived used by 440 packages.
There are 1 that aren't yet archived. The first package could be archived on 2025-07-07 but it could take 52 days till all are archived (if not fixed in time).
There are 4 packages in danger both directly and indirectly.
In total 400 affected packages are from CRAN and 91 from Bioconductor.
Of all them, 10 affected by 2 package's deadlines.
Support the maintainers of the #rstats packages you depend!
Chapter 12: Spatial Statistical Learning 
Boost your spatial models! 
Learn about spatial autocorrelation, cross-validation, and machine learning with `mlr3`, using a real-world landslide prediction case study.
