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New on my blog: Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro release really made a splash last month. They've just announced an update to 2.5 Flash, a faster and cheaper model; I put it through its paces on challenging #rstats coding problems. www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-05...

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Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

submitted 11 days ago • 69 comments

If you want access to GitHub Copilot Pro (so no limitation for completion and Chat, and access to new models like Sonnet 3.7) for free as a verified Teacher or Student, use this link (which I found very hard to find) github.com/github-copil... @tommytang.bsky.social

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#rstats folks: If you have a habit of updating your library after an R upgrade by copying the old one and run update.packages(). --> DON'T DO THAT <-- Especially not with 4.5.0. You will overwrite base packages with ones from a previous version and as these are not on CRAN, things go bad.

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

New #RStats rix package release, now with better handling of Python packages and handling of remote packages hosted in sub-directories on GitHub thanks to @mheming.bsky.social

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16 tools/papers for multi-sample multi-group single-cell RNAseq differential expression analysis 🧵 👇

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever you want to convert almost any file format into markdown: this new tool will help you. Why bother? Markdown is the native language of #chatGPT github.com/microsoft/ma...

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CHOIR improves significance-based detection of cell types and states from single-cell data www.nature.com/articles/s4...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

🚀 New homepage, new domain, and a fresh favicon! Check it out: www.mheming.com 🌐 The site is now deployed via GitHub Actions for smoother updates and reliability: github.com/mihem/mihem.... Fingers crossed for long-term stability this time (looking at you, old Wowchemy 😅) @tommytang.bsky.social

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Big updates in the latest VS Code release: ✨ Extend agent mode (now available in VS Code Stable!) with MCP tools ✨ A unified chat experience ✨ Use your own API key to access more language models ...and so much more aka.ms/VSCodeRelease Let’s dive in 🧵

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Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats) lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-li... I wish I were taught like this.

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Version 1.98 of VS Code is out now with drag and drop peek references, rich terminal IntelliSense, improvements to agent mode and NES, and more! Full release notes: code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_98 Let’s go… 🧵

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

We are delighted to announce Reticulate 1.41! You can now simply declare your dependencies using `py_require()`, and Reticulate will handle the rest. This seamless experience is powered by uv, an extremely fast #Python package manager written in Rust. Learn more: posit.co/blog/reticul... #RStats

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New rix release on CRAN: - better handling of remote dependencies - RStudio now for macOS - a new walkthrough vignette explaining how to set up a project using #Nix! docs.ropensci.org/rix/articles... #RStats

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@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments

New #RStats X #nix blog post why we forked nixpkgs brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

bsky.app/profile/brod... new release of rix. Every #Rstats user interested in reproducibility should give rix a try. @brodriguesco.bsky.social created this great pkg and I put a lot of work into automatically fetching the remote dep of R GitHub pkg of a similar date. @tommytang.bsky.social

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

New release of rix on CRAN! rix generates Nix expressions which are then used by the Nix package manager to build reproducible #RStats development environments. Many new features in this release: 1/3

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Agent mode (preview) is here for GitHub Copilot in VS Code! In agent mode in Copilot Edits, Copilot can now iterate on its own output, execute terminal commands, and even self-heal from runtime errors. Try it in VS Code Insiders: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_97#_agent-mode-experimental

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🧵 Why are workflow languages like Snakemake essential for bioinformatics? Let’s explore their power in streamlining genomic data analysis.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Hey #Rstats! Tired of manually adding @importFrom all over your 📦 #Rpackage? Say hello to {autoimport}, now on CRAN! 🚀 It parses your code and adds the necessary tags automatically, at the function or package level. Less typing, more coding! 🔥 github.com/DanChaltiel/...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Version 1.97 of VS Code is out now with Copilot Next Edit Suggestions, Python no-config debugging, SVG image preview, and more! Full release notes: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_97 Here are some of the highlights… 🧵

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

These two box plots generate the same bar plot with very different data: an old post by Rafa. Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-...

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like reproducibility? wanna contribute to open source? want to open PRs, and review PRs? wanna make the #RStats ecosystem great on #Nix / #NixOS ? join our matrix channel matrix.to#/#r:nixos.org and let's talk!

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Analysis of multi-condition single-cell data with latent embedding multivariate regression www.nature.com/articles/s4... I know it is good if Wolfgang Huber is in the author list.

submitted 130 days ago • 1 comment

1/2 Every #rstats user, interested in #reproducible analysis should try the new version of #rix. It's much more robust than just using renv. With this update rix allows to use date specific versions and improves using github packages. bsky.app/profile/brod...

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

rix v0.14.3 is on CRAN with many new features and improvements! cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Thanks to the many contributors for this release (credited in the DESCRIPTION file) Here is a sneak peak of what awaits you: 1/4

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

Wonderfully comprehensive work by @clodida.bsky.social and Greg Wu on scRNA-seq immunophenotyping of CSF across a multitude of neurologic conditions. Congrats to all co-authors! jci.org/articles/vie...

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Extensions are an integral part of VS Code - and now, Copilot functionality can be added to your extensions. See this in action with the GitHub Pull Requests extension, using Copilot to summarize issues/PRs. Available to everyone today with GitHub Copilot Free. Learn more: aka.ms/copilot-free

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

I am in the process of uploading our sequencing data from our PNS atlas to GEO. I struggle to find raw files for Xenium. @10xgenomics.bsky.social provides this nice list kb.10xgenomics.com/hc/en-us/art... but Xenium is missing.

submitted 144 days ago • 3 comments

Another great study by the colleagues from Münster Multi-omic characterization of human sural nerves across polyneuropathies | @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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