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🎤 Speaker Spotlight: Aditya Gadkari!

Waiting forever for large datasets to load in #rstats? There’s a better way.
Aditya explores the Apache data ecosystem. Learn how tools like #Parquet can drastically optimize storage, slash read times, and streamline your analytical workflows so you can spend less time waiting and more time analyzing.

🎟️ Tickets: CascadiaRConf.com
📅 June 26–27, 2026
📍 Portland, OR
#DataScience #ApacheParquet #DataEngineering #RProgramming #OpenSource

Cascadia R Conf Jun 10

🎤 Speaker Spotlight: 😈 M. Edward Borasky

xen.assist, Assisted Xentonal Algorithmic Composition with R

What can happen when R, AI, and music collide?

Ed will showcase xen.assist, an R package for composing xentonal electronic music, and explore how agentic AI can become part of the creative process.

Plus, there will be music!

🎟️ Tickets: CascadiaRConf.com
📅 June 26–27, 2026
📍 Portland, OR

#rstats #DataScience #RProgramming #AI #MusicTech

Federica Gazzelloni Jun 7

In this week’s issue, I reflect on memory, judgment, programming education,.

Read the full issue : https://federicagazzelloni.substack.com/p/notes-on-data-and-learning-n22

#RStats #DataScience #ArtificialIntelligence #Programming #Education #Teaching #Learning #ComputationalThinking #Statistics #NotesOnDataAndLearning #AI #RProgramming

Data Science May 5

Ever wish your R pipelines talked back? 📣

logrittr adds a verbose pipe (%>=%) that logs what’s happening at every step—rows, columns, changes, and timing—without touching your dplyr code.

Great for debugging, teaching, or just understanding your data flow.

👉 https://guillaumepressiat.github.io/logrittr/

#rstats #datascience #rprogramming

A Verbose Pipe Operator for Logging dplyr Pipelines

Provides the `%>=%` pipe operator that logs row counts, column counts, added/dropped columns, and timing at each step of a dplyr pipeline, inspired by the SAS DATA step log. Supports nested pipelines and configurable options for display width, number formatting, and language.

Jumping Rivers Apr 21

R 4.6.0 "Because it was There" is set for release on 24 April 2026.

%notin% is now in base R, summary() handles character columns more neatly, and list.files() gets a fixed = TRUE argument so you no longer need to escape dots in patterns.

Full code examples on the Jumping Rivers blog written by Russ Hyde: https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-new-r46/

#rstats #datascience #rprogramming

Hacker News Apr 16

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/

#HackerNews #RProgramming #TreeSitter #CodingExperience #DataScience #SoftwareDevelopment

A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

Modern tooling for parsing, searching, formatting, editing R code, just like for other programming languages.

crisdigital Apr 13

Polishing a few chapters of my R programming book this week. Focusing on clean workflows, reproducible analysis, and practical examples you can use in real projects. If you enjoy my R tutorials, you might like the book too.
📘 https://payhip.com/CrisDigital (payhip.com in Bing)
#rstats #datascience #rprogramming #coding