🦆 📦 redquack 0.3.0 now includes a suite of convenience functions, and more importantly, full control over labeling variables and coded values without separate imports. This makes redquack a great tool for large or small REDCap projects. ➡️ dylanpieper.github.io/redquack/ #rstats #redcap

Stretching DuckDB w/ Common Crawl, ~1.7B rows, ~300 parquet files. ~2-3s for single-column aggregations, ~2-3 mins to SUMMARIZE the data, peaking at ~12-14GB memory usage. Not exactly real-time, but the fact you can do this on a laptop with no server setups or Spark pipelines is still amazing.

Remember this #rstats post? I wasn't the only one talking about it & the tidyverse team was listening 😎 #databs New #dplyr functions? They're looking for feedback!! 🤔 replace_when, recode_values, replace_values 👀 Read this: github.com/tidyverse/ti... 🗣️ Comment on PR: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · last yr.

Ever needed to recode a variable based on whether it matches something in a named list? Have you ever used rlang's `!!!` operator? It's pretty dang cool. I feel like {rlang} is so cool, but so enigmatic 😂 #rstats Here's a pic & gist (bc it's frustrating to not be able to copy/paste the pic) #databs

I think pedocon theory is right. It’s empirically adequate, parsimonious, fits within a broader theoretical framework, and has immense explanatory breadth and depth www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

liberalcurrents.com

I am such a sucker for frivolous uses of AI. Here's an anthem for the tidyverse: suno.com/s/iVMVs4IoyA...

suno.com

Very cool to see authors of this article mentioning the importance of sharing project-, data-, AND variable-level documentation alongside data in a repository, and linking to the templates I've provided on OSF as an example! 🌟 doi.org/10.1515/ling...

As a data manager, good documentation not only helps me do my job better, but also helps me annoy you less! 😅 Good documentation about inclusion criteria, READMEs about oddities in the data, consort diagrams and tracking to explain missing data, and so on, are all ways to ensure I bug you less! 🐛🐜🐝

New to me is the term "premature closure", where you too quickly latch on to the first solution you see. Always a danger in coding, but particularly so today when LLMs can give you a plausible fix so so quickly. www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...

Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding

When LLM models generates clean, professional-looking code, it's tempting to stop exploring alternatives. But therein lies the risks that comes with premature closure. So what is premature closure?

shayon.dev

Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps. Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai. pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr") purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/

Functional Programming Tools

A complete and consistent functional programming toolkit for R.

purrr.tidyverse.org

One cool thing you can/should do is sample from priors only, and plot the distribution of the actual quantity of interest (ex: risk ratio). I find this very useful. This is actually super easy with brms. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

This blog post about engineering not doing ETL is nine years old… it’s worth reviewing multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2016/03...

Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL: A Guide to Building a High Functioning Data Science Department | Stitch Fix Technology – Multithreaded

“What is the relationship like between your team and the data scientists?” This is, without a doubt, the question I’m most frequently asked when conducting i...

multithreaded.stitchfix.com

Here's a functional programming trick for #rstats that I wish I started using sooner: if you need a #ggplot2 scale to be reusable across multiple plots and dynamically configurable without relying on global state, consider using a function factory (a function that returns a function) to build it

mirai - minimalist async framework for #RStats - released as an 'r-lib' package. Blog post: Advancing Async Computing in R. shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir... mirai provides event-driven async for #RShiny and parallel processing for purrr #tidyverse. Really excited to be working on this at Posit!

shikokuchuo{net}: mirai 2.3.0

Advancing Async Computing in R

shikokuchuo.net

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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There's so much polarization around LLMs. They are way overhyped, I agree. But I also use them semi-regularly now. Here's a thread of genuine use cases where I find them helpful. Please add your own!

📦 I’m excited to share a new #rstats package I’ve been working on: {shinyfa} built to help folks working on large or unfamiliar #rshiny apps ✨ The package scans your app folders and extracts out details on render*(), reactive() and input$ to a dataframe! 📖 www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/shinyfa...

Introducing {shinyfa}: Analyze Large Shiny App Codebases Faster with This R Package | Daly Analytics

Discover {shinyfa}, a new R package designed to improve developer experience by analyzing and summarizing the structure of large Shiny applications. Perfect for consultants, teams, and contributors wo...

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Playing around with satellite imagery of #madison to make some office art. #Rstats

✨Use llms from #rstats with ellmer ✨Version 0.2.0 is on CRAN now. No blog post yet because I'm about to go on vacation, but in the meantime you can check out the release notes: github.com/tidyverse/el....

The kind of Friday morning content I needed to see. ❤️

FAIR Wizard@fair-wizard.com · last yr.

Every data steward at a faculty meeting.

Registration for the posit::conf(2025) virtual experience is now open! Join us virtually, Sept 16–18, and access live-streamed keynotes and 100+ talks, on-demand recordings, Q&A sessions, and our virtual networking platform. Learn more in the blog post: posit.co/blog/posit-c... #RStats #Python

In case you missed it, we recently updated some of our packages, including many new features (again) in the #rstats #easystats {modelbased} package: easystats.github.io/modelbased/n... The last weeks we were working a lot on improving support and performance for Bayesian models and especially

I'm still thinking about my favorite quote from the Posit Data Science Hangout today. It perfectly sums up what I hope I provide to the researchers I work with: a trusted partner, who is there to support them in their work. Earn a reputation for being a good person to work with - Cara Thompson

Great news! R/Medicine 2025 is providing a forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data. Join us for the premier R conference for health and medicine. 🔗 Register today: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #RMed25

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

I’m happy to share that I’ll be giving a talk at R/Medicine 2025! 🎊 I work with a BIG REDcap database for substance use treatment (200+ locations) which makes extraction difficult. I developed {redquack}, an #rstats 📦 that transfers REDCap data to DuckDB, and will talk about how to use it. 🦆

📊 🕵️‍♂️ #rstats community! Do you sometimes feel like you're just pretending to be a data scientist? I'm researching imposter syndrome for my upcoming talk at posit::conf(2025) 🔍 I'd love to hear YOUR experiences in a short 5-10 minute anonymous survey: forms.gle/YkJtwZWquyKM... Please share! 🔄

Imposter Syndrome in Data Science

This survey is intended to gather community feedback from data scientists and students or recent graduates interested in data science as a career. Your responses will be anonymous and may be used for...

forms.gle

Since it's in Atlanta, I'll be here at my first posit::conf! I'll be speaking here with @gosterhout.bsky.social about election night reporting with #rstats and #QuartoPub (showing off {targets} and other neat tricks like this: www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/11... )

Posit@posit.co · last yr.

We’re excited to announce that the session catalog for posit::conf(2025) has launched! View 100+ talks, sort by day and type, and add favorites to your schedule: reg.rainfocus.com/flow/posit/p... Our Early Bird discount is still available. Get your ticket today! #RStats #Python #PositConf2025

States spend too much on clunky election night reporting. We just replaced ours using #rstats. dbplyr backend + reactable & leaflet viz + #quartopub site. Real magic happened with programmatic code chunks & targets pipeline done by @andrew.heiss.phd. #dataviz results.voteidaho.gov

Another q for the stats people! People worry about collinearity (cf blog post below). Consider a scenario in which the collinear predictors are just controls to account for confounding. Including both of them doesn't impair the precision with which the effect of interest is estimated, does it?

Happy reinstalling-all-your-R-packages day to all those who celebrate #rstats