Can anyone explain why Kamala Harris hasn't download my R package from CRAN yet? I understand she's on the campaign trail, but all she needs is an internet connection. Technical difficulties? #rstats

Back in November I did a webinar for the @NHSrCommunity on "Customising your R experience". The video is now up: youtu.be/MTui2ojTH0Q?si=D4b0… #rstats

@NicholasStrayer's great talk at posit::conf(2023) is now also available on YouTube. #rstats youtu.be/G3uxNtACutI?si=LnKT…

At 5pm (BST) on Thursday I'm going to be a guest on @posit_pbc's Data Science Hangout speaking about the work I do for the @bankofengland and supporting its 1000 R users. #rstats There's no need to register, you can join the stream using this link: pos.it/dsh

Here's an example where I create a function to install a package in a temporary directory, with temporary libpaths and with temporary compiler flags. And it's just so straightforward! I don't need to worry about global state because I know withr will take care of it for me.

I've been doing a bunch of #rstats package 📦 install testing this week. And the withr package (as usual!) just makes the experience so much easier and cleaner. 🤩👇

I haven't tried it myself, but I was blown away by this talk at Strange Loop which uses Julia to demo doing this: youtu.be/MiiWzJE0fEA

After a hard day of wrangling data from APIs, I'm very seriously considering naming my first child `tidyr::unnest_wider()`. I mean, just look how easy it makes converting highly nested JSON into a tidy data frame?! 🤩 Friday #rstats fun!

Have you ever wanted to generate random but readable strings? Like for files or folders? Today's Friday #rstats fun is thanks to @rgfitzjohn for the ids package📦 and its wonderful `adjective_animal()` 😻function.

Today's Friday #rstats fun: I discovered the (experimental) `tree()` function in the lobstr package for the pretty-printing of lists. So much cleaner than `str()`! 😍🗒️ Thanks @NicholasStrayer!