New paper with @floswald.bsky.social @lars.vilhuber.com and collaborators on reproducibility with LLMs, including what researchers should document to make LLM-assisted work transparent ✌️ arxiv.org/abs/2607.24372
Christoph Scheuch
@christophscheuch.bsky.social
Making finance and economics research more transparent and reproducible | Data Editor @ Society for Financial Studies · Researcher @ HU Berlin · Co-creator of tidy-finance.org & econdataverse.org
R CMD check comes back clean. Then CRAN emails you about title case and a missing @ return tag. checktor is in. It catches those before you submit. On CRAN as of last week 7/2! CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=chec... Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/... #rstats
The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and it is chock full of exciting stuff! 🤩 Check out the new Packages pane, inline output for Quarto, the new Posit Assistant interface, and more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...
Positron May Release Highlights
Highlights from the 2026.05 release of Positron, including a new Packages pane and inline output for Quarto.
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Can LLMs teach you everything about AI? In theory, yes. In practice, it’s overwhelming. That’s why @niccrane.bsky.social and I built a course for @athlyticz.bsky.social. It cuts the noise and gives a clear workflow using R across ML and LLMs, from sports to beyond. athlyticz.com/llm
SynergiZing ML & LLMs in R | tidymodels + RAG Course
Learn production R workflows blending tidymodels with LLMs — tool-calling, RAG with ragnar, Shiny deployment, and vitals evaluation.
athlyticz.com
it never ceases to amaze me that I can refer to duckdb functions in R expressions as though they were R functions and everything gets translated to SQL
![dplyr code with duckdb functions in all caps
tbl_files <- tbl(db, "csvs") |>
# CAPS for duckdb functions
mutate(
# $speaker has directory names with the patterns:
# - `[speaker]-[listener]` (listener specific data)
# - `[speaker]` (default version)
# so compute appropriate $speaker, $listener values
dir_parts = speaker |> STRING_SPLIT("-"),
speaker = dir_parts |> LIST_FIRST(),
listener = dir_parts |> LIST_LAST(),
listener = ifelse(listener == speaker, "default", listener)
) |>
select(speaker, listener, file, label, logprob, model_name, model_commit)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tpgnsvgqsu5b752uud3wmtja/bafkreiab635ulp5b4jthhnwqu3p7s3pfo4yua7vqkpqfhqtog4sfxkt2jq)
ellmer 0.4.0 is out now! New features include Claude caching & file uploads, support for newer OpenAI responses API, web search tools, and better security. Read more at tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats
ellmer 0.4.0
ellmer 0.4.0 includes important lifecycle updates, new Claude features (caching, file uploads, web tools), OpenAI improvements, and enhancements to error handling, pricing tracking, and security.
tidyverse.org
- Ultimate R Bundle: 7 academic style courses taught by top instructors including Dr. Paul Sabin, @niccrane.bsky.social , and @christophscheuch.bsky.social and working professionals in sports and academia, including a preorder on our AI/LLM course releasing in 2026.
New R package I developed as part of the `econdataverse` project for accessing macroeconomic data from the International Monetary Fund's IMF Data API was just published to CRAN. 🥳 Writeup here: open.substack.com/pub/modeling...
Announcing imfapi: User-Friendly Access to IMF Data in R
New IMF API, new IMF API R library — part of the econdataverse initiative
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I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily slidecrafting-book.com #quarto
We’re thrilled to have @niccrane.bsky.social and @christophscheuch.bsky.social join our team to co-develop our flagship async course, SynergiZing ML & LLMs in R. We’ve also welcomed @albertrapp.bsky.social to lead our monthly membership track. 👉 Early access updates here: athlyticz.com/ai-signup
SynergiZing ML & LLMs in R — tidymodels, RAG, Shiny | Athlyticz
Waitlist open for Athlyticz’s async R course: tidymodels + LLMs (RAG, tool-calling, evals) and Shiny/vetiver deployment—by Nic Crane & Christoph Scheuch.
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Big milestone: {econdataverse} is now on CRAN #rstats. Install & load multiple #EconDataverse packages in one step, just like the {tidyverse} 🥹
tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #RStats #tidyverse
nanonext 1.7.0
nanonext is a communications and concurrency toolbox that facilitates fast, powerful and reliable data exchange in polyglot data science workflows.
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Looking forward to my first pure #Python conference ever at PyData Berlin 🐍 If you are interested in getting to know Shinylive and WebAssembly in Python, feel free to join my talk tomorrow at noon titled „Building Reactive Data Apps with Shinylive and WebAssembly“ ✌️
Another new CRAN release with @tealemery.bsky.social 💪 {datacommons} is a wrapper for the Google Data Commons API v2, which provides unified access to global public stats in a knowledge graph, thus reducing data-wrangling pain. Feedback as always very welcome 🙏 github.com/tidy-intelli...
GitHub - tidy-intelligence/r-datacommons: Client for the Google Data Commons API V2
Client for the Google Data Commons API V2. Contribute to tidy-intelligence/r-datacommons development by creating an account on GitHub.
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New #RStats package on CRAN: {imfweo} (w/ @tealemery.bsky.social) gives easy access to IMF’s World Economic Outlook. It's part of the #EconDataverse, helping economists + financial professionals work with sovereign-level data. Feedback welcome ✌️ github.com/Teal-Insight...
GitHub - Teal-Insights/r-imfweo: Seamless Access to IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Data
Seamless Access to IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) Data - Teal-Insights/r-imfweo
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New CRAN package imfweo with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=imfweo
CRAN: Package imfweo
Provides tools to download, process, and analyze data from the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) database <<a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/SPROLLs/world-economic-outlook-databases" target="_top">https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/SPROLLs/world-economic-outlook-databases</a>>. Functions support downloading complete WEO releases, accessing specific economic indicators for selected countries, and listing available data.
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Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨ This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting
Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...
I’m a big fan of the Positron IDE, so when @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social asked me to provide a testimonial, I didn’t hesitate 🙏
Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto
By popular demand over on LinkedIn, I’ve kicked off a series on deploying R/Python projects to Azure. First up: version control, containerisation, build pipelines & hosting. Should I include #Python or keep it focused on #rstats? blog.tidy-intelligence.com/posts/deploy...
Shiny Apps in the Azure Cloud
A practical guide to deploying Shiny Apps in the Azure Cloud
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Starting my new position as #data #editor for the Review of Financial Studies together with @christophscheuch.bsky.social. Very excited for all that is to come!
Introducing TidierErrors.jl, an experimental #JuliaLang package that makes error messages tidier with the help of LLMs (with support for local LLMs!) github.com/TidierOrg/Ti... Developed by @randy.pub Left: original error message Right: tidier error message
#rstats has anyone added a new provider to ellmer? I see that it’s doable but I’m hoping to see if someone has blazed that trail for me and I can follow in their footsteps steps.
New on CRAN: {oecdoda} 📢 Access & analyze Official Development Assistance (ODA) data from the OECD API in R - inspired by Jorge Rivera’s {oda-reader}. Part of #EconDataverse. Feedback welcome 🙏 tidy-intelligence.github.io/r-oecdoda/
Seamless Access to OECD Official Development Assistance (ODA) Data
Access and Analyze Official Development Assistance (ODA) data using the OECD API <https://gitlab.algobank.oecd.org/public-documentation/dotstat-migration/-/raw/main/OECD_Data_API_documentation.pdf>. O...
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