I want your own words Originally at https://seanmonstar.com/micro/20260729-i-want-your-own-words/

I’m at useR! in Warsaw this week and talking about mcp-repl, an MCP server that gives agents sandboxed Python and R sessions: github.com/posit-dev/mc... Come say hi if you want to chat about AI tooling, deep learning in R — keras3, torch, jax, r-xla — or, of course, S7!

Watcher - meet the R community! ```r install.packages("watcher") ``` Tell us how you end up using it - open a discussion show-and-tell at r-lib/watcher! Catch you at useR! 2026 in Warsaw next week!!! #RStats #Rshiny opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

watcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for R, and the engine behind Shiny auto-reload

After a year quietly powering Shiny behind the scenes, we're excited to introduce watcher to the R community.

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If you manage #Rstats with rig, make sure you use the new rig 0.8.1 to install the new R 4.6.1 version on macOS: github.com/r-lib/rig#id... github.com/r-lib/rig/re...

GitHub - r-lib/rig: The R Installation Manager

The R Installation Manager. Contribute to r-lib/rig development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Air 0.10.0

Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...

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TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

If you're still wondering about the slick new functions in dplyr 1.2.0, join me for a "Working smarter with dplyr 1.2.0" redux with R-Ladies Abuja! 📅 Wednesday, 24 June 2026 🕐️ 6pm WAT 🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-abuj... See you there! ⚒️ #RStats

Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0, Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Discover how the latest features in **{dplyr} 1.2.0** can help you write cleaner, faster, and more maintainable data transformation workflows. This session explores practic

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I was recently diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder called anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It's a "disease of chaos" that completely upturned my life for a couple months. I wrote a blog about it that goes into more detail and discusses prognosis. :-) burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

arrow now supports some of your favorite new dplyr verbs, such as filter_out():

and `dplyr::recode_values()`, `dplyr::replace_values()`, and `dplyr::replace_when()`:

To write good, "reviewable code", we’re recommending: 🧹 Strict formatting, using tools like Air for R and Ruff for Python 🤖 AI to help generate comments and docs 🧠 Pipeline tools like Make or {targets} 🧪 Code testing

For code review practices, we're leveraging much of the excellent #TidyTeam code review guide by @davisvaughan.bsky.social [🔗 code-review.tidyverse.org/] As academics, our process will be guided by our #research goals: 🔁 Reproducibility (does the code run?) 🎯 Accuracy (is the code right?)

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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I had the pleasure of speaking to students at both Duke University and Wake Forest University about the existential crisis that many of them are feeling right now: In the age of AI, is my degree worthless? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTx...

Existential crisis! Is my degree worthless?

YouTube video by Davis Vaughan

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Glad I was made aware of this, I already have a working VSCode/Positron extension specific to {targets} so I can perform static analysis, navigate, debug, add static pipeline autocomplete, and generally make sense of my giant targets pipelines much more easily🥳 #RStats

Davis Vaughan@davisvaughan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@masalmon.eu has written up a great post on the downstream effects of tree-sitter-r! - Air, for formatting - Jarl, for linting - Positron's R support, for completions and more - GitHub Search for R It's been very cool to see all the ways this one project has been used to enhance #rstats!

I had a great time talking about dplyr 1.2.0 with @rladiesrome.bsky.social! Thank you for having me 🧡 ✏️ Slides: ivelasq-dplyr-1-2-0.share.connect.posit.cloud#/title-slide 📹 Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF... 🕸️ Materials: ivelasq.rbind.io/talk/dplyr-1... Enjoy the new #RStats release 🧑‍🔧

Working smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0 – %>% dreams

A talk on the new functions introduced in the latest {dplyr} release.

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@masalmon.eu has written up a great post on the downstream effects of tree-sitter-r! - Air, for formatting - Jarl, for linting - Positron's R support, for completions and more - GitHub Search for R It's been very cool to see all the ways this one project has been used to enhance #rstats!

Maëlle Salmon@masalmon.eu · 4mo ago

New post on the @ropensci.org blog, "A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter" Edited by @etiennebacher.bsky.social, @davisvaughan.bsky.social, Steffi LaZerte ropensci.org/blog/2026/04... #RStats

By now it is obvious that AI has completely solved statistics and machine learning. So as the next step in the tidymodels journey we are moving into game development! Introducing our first game! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/tidymodels-d...

!!!!!

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Project Hail Mary is a religious experience. It is the best movie I have ever seen- an ode to hope, love, science, and friendship. Ryan Gosling will win Best Actor and he will deserve it. You may not see a better movie in your lifetime. GO. Bring tissues. See it on the big screen.

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Today, I was pair coding w/ @ivelasq3.bsky.social & I literally said, "UGH! AIR, FORMAT THIS FOR ME, I DON'T KNOW HOW," and Air *did* format it for me, & I realized in that moment just how much I've come to rely on Air and auto-formatting in #positron. Thank you, @davisvaughan.bsky.social 🥳 #rstats

So very exciting and well deserved!

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

i live 20 minutes down the road, just hmu next time 😂

JD Long@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 5mo ago

My spawn just sent me this. It appears you can get @posit.co support at halftime during Davidson bball games 🤣 #rstats

Literally no one: Like absolutely no one at all: Me: `uvx --from air-formatter air format path/to/script.R`

Come for Isabella's puns 😂 stay for the peek behind the curtain of how functions get added to or deprecated from #tidyverse packages like #dplyr 👀 from @davisvaughan.bsky.social himself Tomorrow! Tues 12pm ET! Register at pos.it/dslab if you haven't already 👏🏻 and we'll see you there #databs #rstats

Isabella Velásquez@ivelasq3.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm beyond excited for tomorrow's Data Science Lab with @davisvaughan.bsky.social! dplyr 1.2.0 is now out. There are many new functions in this release, and you will see them in action, live. You won't want to `filter_out()` this info 😉 Join us, we can't `replace_*` you 🧡 pos.it/dslab

I'm beyond excited for tomorrow's Data Science Lab with @davisvaughan.bsky.social! dplyr 1.2.0 is now out. There are many new functions in this release, and you will see them in action, live. You won't want to `filter_out()` this info 😉 Join us, we can't `replace_*` you 🧡 pos.it/dslab

The newest edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Read a roundup of major #RStats & #Python updates: ggplot2 4.0.0, dplyr 1.2.0, ellmer 0.4.0, Positron native Jupyter Notebook support , and more. 🎟️ Plus, registration for posit::conf(2026) is officially OPEN! Find it here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...

posit::glimpse() Newsletter – February 2026 - Posit

This edition covers major updates from Posit, including new versions of ggplot2, ellmer, and dplyr.

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screaming this from the rooftops

Luca Palmieri@lpalmieri.com · 6mo ago

The mainstream conversation around AI agents is stuck on "AI slop." There's more to it: we can use cheap agent code to do quality-raising work that didn't make economic sense before. What's viable now that writing code isn't the primary bottleneck? lpalmieri.com/posts/agenti...

#rstats filter_out is good

That's a crazy improvement for such a frequently used function

Davis Vaughan@davisvaughan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Last week we released dplyr 1.2.0, but we left off something VERY important 🙂 `dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are now up to 30x faster and use 10x less memory! We dive into how we achieved these numbers in this new #rstats post! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...