Yet another cool and useful package from @coolbutuseless: {minixml} lets you build xml files in a programmatic way. I see good use for it in one of the internal packages at work... https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/minixml/ #RStats #XML #cool #useful
idk. i’m very pessimistic that anything at all can get through to people there. i get the very strong impression that people there want me to share the pretty pictures, write the funny and self-deprecating #rstats blog posts, and then shut my fucking mouth about anything personal. danielle it’s so *unprofessional* for you to have messy reactions to being raped, or to have feelings about your human rights being wiped out in both the US and the UK in a matter of months. you aren’t here to have feelings you’re here to make nice things for us
Catching up on Day 16 of the #30DayChartChallenge with the prompt of "Negative"! 
Waterfall chart made in #RStats
Doesn't feel as intuitive when decreases are a positive outcome
Needed a few hacky approaches to get the right layout
Well this looks interesting!
https://cidree.github.io/duckspatial/
Need some data to test a plot idea or algorithm? On https://drawdata.xyz/ you can draw the data you want... #rstats #synthetic #dataviz
Had a 
suggestion from @LeoRJorge to make it clearer the segments were countries:
Updated #RStats code @ https://ray.so/yNVidrt
#RStats code for the chart+table (link to data is in the code):
Sometimes you get data in less than optimal format, e.g. as a png of a figure 
... In that case https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metaDigitise/vignettes/metaDigitise.html might be the rescue. #rstats #ohno #datawrangling
@hrbrmstr, I've definitely noted their lack of presence here after a reasonably good start. Once BS took off, gone...
It puzzles me given that there is a whole server here dedicated to #RStats, thanks @danwwilson, and the thought that Posit is a B Corp, I'd think this would be more in tune with the ethos. But I suspect that's just me looking at the whole situation through my own lens and that lens distorts BS due to my own personal dislike of that site even before this caving.
@joranelias Welcome to seeing the light!
Use code 'at @head', use packages that take stability and backward compatibility seriously, and when you must 'freeze' something build a Docker container (ideally off @head, easily and reliably and quickly with eg #r2u). #rstats
I “use” renv pretty regularly, but increasingly I wonder why I bother. More than half the time when I actually have to *use* it to restore a project that hasn't been touched in more than a year or two renv::restore() fails with tons of errors, I struggle for hours to figure it out and typically just give up and simply install current versions of all the packages and pray. #rstats
Interesting data on LLM performance in R coding from @simonpcouch
https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-04-18-o3-o4-mini/
Note: Not only is OpenAI's o4-mini slightly better than long-time favorite Anthropic Claude Sonnet in these tests, but it's about 3X cheaper
o4-mini: $1.10 input $4.40 output
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: $3 input $15 output
#RStats #R #GenAI #LLMs
La galería de proyectos del programa de Campeon(a|e)s es muy diversa y muestra la posibilidad de desarrollar ideas que colaboren a la ciencia abierta y reproducible.
Por ejemplo, el paquete {agroclimatico} por @paocorrales que incluye una serie de funciones para calcular índices y estadísticos climáticos e hidrológicos, algunos de ellos enfocados al sector agropecuario: https://docs.ropensci.org/agroclimatico/
Aplica aqui: https://champions-program.ropensci.org
There are 2 new #rstats packages on CRAN:
- 0.00% are in English.
- 0.00% are in other languages than English.
- 0.00% use multiple languages.
- 100.00% do not declare any language.
Find the best contrast between one color and a list of options, e.g. for labels in geom_tile: {prismatic::best_contrast()} https://emilhvitfeldt.github.io/prismatic/reference/best_contrast.html #rstats #dataviz #ggplot #colors
Making use of highlighting and annotations
Different layouts using facets
