Anatolii Tsyplenkov

@anatolii.nz

Holding PhD in hydrology, interested in sediment transport issues and all things #geospatial. Love mountains, mystery stories and #rstats 🤎 🌐 https://anatolii.nz | 🐙 https://github.com/atsyplenkov

I'm happy to share `ir`, a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and Quarto documents. It's inspired by my two favorite parts of `uv`: self-describing scripts and tools you can run without installing first. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents

`ir` is a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and rendering Quarto documents whose package requirements, and optional R selection, live inside the file itself.

opensource.posit.co

Has anybody come up with a solution to this problem: you have a perfectly reproducible analysis pipeline that produces beautiful dynamic reports. But once you bring on even one collaborator things immediately devolve into email-attached word documents named manuscript_finalFinal_2.docx #rstats

Which language serves as the geospatial lingua franca — #pythonor #rstats? A quick look at Google Trends suggests R, but that’s a rather simplistic comparison. Has anyone come across a more in-depth study on the most popular languages for spatial analysis?

A plot showing google hits for ` Python spatial `, ` R spatial `, ` Python geospatial `, ` R geospatial ` keywords since 2015 to present

Consider this: to slow down #AI development, the community could deliberately mislabel correct answers as incorrect. By doing so, the false positive rate would rise, confusing the #LLM and disrupting its learning process. 🤖🤔

Response quality control in ChatGPT web interface

a lazy organizational tip for data analysts and researchers: create a single directory that holds all the exploratory or one-off scripts that don't yet have a proper home mine is called misc_R once a year (like today!) I satisfyingly shove the prior year's files into a subdirectory

screenshot of a directory browser in a text editor showing the directory called misc_R containing several subdirectories, one for each year

I just realized there’s no emoji to represent data frames, databases, or even spreadsheets! What do you typically use #rstats #databs ? Here are my favorites so far: • 🗄️ this cabinet reminds me of data storage • 🗓️ if you squint, it might resemble a spreadsheet with all its cells • 📊⚾️ data base?

Ditching code autocompletion feels so freaking good 🍹. It was an illusion to think it actually speeds up #rstats code writing. For the past month, my workflow has been opening the same project in Positron and Cursor. If I get stuck, I start chatting with an LLM in Cursor.

Day 2 of porting my favorite RStudio addons to Positron. Introducing Formalist, an extension that allows you to make R function calls explicit, i.e., from select(mtcars, cyl) → dplyr::select(mtcars, cyl). It uses {pedant} #rstats 📦 by @wurli in the background!

I am in Auckland this week and doing a little bit of an #rstats tour in addition to attending the NZMS conference. The first photo is by me and the second photo is by Ross Ihaka. Black Crow Cafe seems to have closed so I grabbed a drink at the Scarecrow Cafe two shops down.

A bench in front of a restaurant window on a steep street 
Two men sitting on a bench sipping coffee. The text reads “The original R developers plotting world domination at the Black Crow Cafe on Kitchener Street.