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Going to Costco is hilarious, because why is everyone buying 60 eggs??

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

@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 5 days ago • 18 comments

New #rstats pkg gander is now on CRAN! gander is a coding assistant that knows how describe the objects in your global R environment. So, when you're working with data, LLMs will know the names, types, and distributions of data columns, resulting in much more effective completions.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

stares in historian

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

TIL that VS Code (and thus Positron) has a command to alphabetize selected lines with "Sort Lines Ascending"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

i took a detour and wrote a little bit about using colors as predictors in Feature Engineering A-Z feaz-book.com/miscellaneou...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Discover posit::conf as an Opportunity Scholar! The deadline to apply is this Friday, February 21st. The program includes travel funds, accommodations, and registration. We shared reflections from a few of last year's Scholars: posit.co/blog/discove... Apply today! #PositConf2025 #RStats #Python

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

rare school ban win

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Finished drafting the section on Periodic features for Feature Engineering A-Z In many ways it is a simplification of how we can handle periodic effects in date times or time series contexts feaz-book.com/periodic

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package? See options below. #RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

What's your sign?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Sneezing while driving is just as terrifying now, as it was when I started driving

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

$DEITY bless the #GDAL crew #gis lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gd...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

sharing some love today

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

no no we don't say "empty carbs" anymore. the preferred term is "emotional support carbs"

submitted 13 days ago • 204 comments

We are honored to hear @chelseaparlett.bsky.social talk about Marketing Mix Modeling next Thursday, if you are in the neighborhood i strongly encourage you to come by if it interests you www.meetup.com/socal-rug/ev...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There appears to be an inverse correlation between how long I procrastinate on a task, and how long it takes to perform

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

hi there friends 🌸 it’s @isabelizimm.bsky.social here hosting your weekly rocur!!! 👩🏻‍💻 im a software engineer @ @posit.co where i work on the #positronIDE 🌴 live in florida, usa 🐶 my dog, toast, knows ~35 tricks 🫶 if i was on a deserted island and could only bring 1 data science tool, it’d be #quarto

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Once again, you can change your Bluesky settings to remind you to use ALT text. There is literally no excuse.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

submitted 26 days ago • 94 comments

Don't want to see links to X on here? Go to Settings > Moderation > Muted words & tags and add "x.com" to mute forever. You can mute the word everywhere or choose to exclude posts from people you follow.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

I've been hard at work updating our entire text rendering stack in #rstats. Read about the relevant improvements in systemfonts, textshaping, and marquee in this rundown. The tldr; is that marquee is now ready for primetime

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

I'm excited for us to have interns again! working with and seeing what they have done over the years is inspiring

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

louder for the people in the back!

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

It's impossible to overstate the difference a nice, small, reproducible example makes when you open an issue or a feature request. For me it is so often the difference between "💡I can fix that right now" and "🤔 I'll have to come back to that later".

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

the magical thing about the drier lint trash can is that you never have to empty it. just push it down once a week

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

I'm thrilled to announce the release of orbital 0.3.0! This release adds support for classification models, hard class and probability predictions www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01... #rstats #tidymodels

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

I am using Positron every day and having a blast! Wrote up a small post outlining the key bindings I use and have created to make my life easier emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positro...

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

I'm with another Feature Engineering A-Z chapter! Dealing with circular/cyclical data using trigonometric functions feaz-book.com/circular-trig #rstats #python

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments