Data Scientist (with R)

I Vibe Coded an R Package (jcarroll​.com​.au). Describes building an R package querying WaniKani API, visualizing kanji similarity, with Claude Code AI, caching, tests, and a Shiny app

Our September issue is out now! (methodsblog​.com). DeepDiveR for palaeodiversity estimation; field heatwave simulation; synergyfinder in ecotoxicology; ML in marine imagery; biases in home range tracking; airborne eDNA samplers

Help Us Design a New Git(Hub) Organizational Dashboard (ropensci​.org). ROpenSci designs an organizational dashboard to map contributors, repositories, and maintenance needs across epiverse, reconhub, and epiverse-trace on GitHub

R Weekly 2025-W38 R6 Interfaces, ggplot2 (rweekly​.org). R6 Interfaces for Backend and ggplot2 4.0.0; insights from R consortium updates and new packages

The ‘Tanakh’ R package (pacha​.dev). R package Tanakh provides tidy, verse-level Hebrew Bible access with English/texts sourced from Chabad.org using RSelenium and purrr

Boost Your Career with Jumping Rivers Free Monthly Webinars – Next Session on 18th September (jumpingrivers​.com). Free monthly webinar series focused on R, Python, Shiny, and Posit with automated reporting via Quarto and Litmus insights

wbstats is back on CRAN (pacha​.dev). Wbstats returns to CRAN after policy-aligned updates, including mocked tests with vcr and documentation tweaks

The world’s laziest peer reviewer (reeserichardson​.blog). Dataset on peer review reports from six BMC journals reveals a review mill and calls for reform in peer review transparency

Paper in a prompt creating a first draft in one prompt (seascapemodels​.org). Prompts using Roo Code with Claude Sonnet 4.0 to draft a marine science paper, including data analysis and web-sourced references

Recreating APA Manual Table 7.1 in R with apa7 (wjschne​.github​.io). Recreating APA Table 7.1 in R using apa7, flextable, and tidyverse for reproducible APA-style tables

Recreating APA Manual Table 7.2 in R with apa7 (wjschne​.github​.io). Recreating APA Table 7.2 in R using apa7, flextable, ftExtra, and tidyverse with custom formatting

Justify your answer (argmin​.net). Three views of optimal decisions—gambling odds, likelihood ratios, and random-phenomena—unifying decision rules in ML, detection theory, and betting

Day 4 of Teaching Gov 50 at Harvard (causalinf​.substack​.com). Teaching potential outcomes through concrete narratives, spreadsheets, and Rebecca Thornton’s HIV study; integrating R, dplyr, ggplot2, and hands-on coding

Closing my tabs (Sep 12, 2025) (blog​.stephenturner​.us). Curated AI in academia, biosecurity, CRISPR horses, bioinformatics, bioacoustics, and tools like Podman, R/Quarto, Shiny, and DeepMind Perch 2.0

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R (gettinggeneticsdone​.blogspot​.com). Positron Assistant brings GitHub Copilot inline code and Claude-powered chat/agent mode to R in Positron for AI-assisted coding and package development

Repost: Make your development environment portable and reproducible (gettinggeneticsdone​.blogspot​.com). Strategies for portable, reproducible dev environments using dotfiles, scripts, VS Code dev containers, and selective tools across VMs and clouds

Make your development environment portable and reproducible (blog​.stephenturner​.us). Portable, reproducible dev environments using dotfiles, VM setup scripts, R verse packages, and VS Code dev containers

Positron for Product Owners (posit​.co). Positron enhances product ownership workflows with GitHub integration, Quarto planning, testing, multi-project management, and Python/R package management in a VSCode-like IDE

What’s New in Posit Package Manager: September 2025 (posit​.co). Posit Package Manager September 2025 adds SSO (OIDC), ARM64 Linux support, new Linux R repo URLs, and fine-grained CVE-based vulnerability blocking

2025-09-12 AI Newsletter (posit​.co). Posit introduces Positron editor for Python, R; covers RStudio/Jupyter/VS Code management, package repositories, Shiny sharing, Databricks integration, and AI/news updates including Anthropic settlement and agentic browsers

Deploy to Connect Cloud from Positron and VS Code (posit​.co). Deploy Python and R content to Connect Cloud from Positron or VS Code using the Posit Publisher extension

Tidy RNA sequencing visualization (cosminribo​.eu). Explores RNA-seq visualization with BigWig/WIG conversion, Gviz, tidyCoverage, ggtranscript, and patchwork for annotated PDFs

Améliorer la lisibilité des étiquettes de vos graphiques avec le package ggrepel (delladata​.fr). Utilise ggrepel pour repositionner et lisser les étiquettes dans ggplot2 avec geom_text_repel et geom_label_repel, et compare avec geom_text et geom_label

Linear cosine palettes (blog​.djnavarro​.net). Generative art in R: linear cosine palettes using a, b, c, d bases and a t parameter

Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 (nrennie​.rbind​.io). Nicola Rennie presents The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a data-visualization case-study book with end-to-end R workflows and TidyTuesday-derived examples

ggplot2 4.0.0 (tidyverse​.org). ggplot2 4.0.0 release notes covering S7 migration, themes, scales, discrete positions, labeling, and new helpers

Recipe Complexity Correlates with Higher Ratings (stevenponce​.netlify​.app). Heat map analysis links recipe complexity (ingredient count and cooking time) to higher AllRecipes ratings using R tidyverse, tidytuesdayR, viridis, and ggplot2

Little useless-useful R functions – Markov babbler (tomaztsql​.wordpress​.com). R snippet builds Markov-like word transitions, tokenization, and ggplot visualization of word networks in R

Memshare: Memory Sharing for Multicore Computation in R with an Application to Feature Selection by Mutual Information using PDE (arxiv:cs). Memshare enables shared memory multicore computation in R with ALTREP, showing 2x speedups and PDE-based mutual information feature selection

Network Meta-Analysis of survival outcomes with non-proportional hazards using flexible M-splines (arxiv:stat). Flexible NMA of survival with non-proportional hazards via M-splines and weighted random walk priors in multinma

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