@StatistikkR

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Data analysis by day, stats geekery by night | Exploring the fascinating world of #datascience, #statistics, and all things #Rstats & #python
GitHubhttps://github.com/StatistikkR
I am surprised it took amazon 2 #AWS outages to come with the ingenious idea of actually code reviewing #AI generated code 🤣 Almost as unexpected as the #SpanishInquisition https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Ars Technica

How did not know that #bash/#zsh automatically keeps track of the $OLDPWD and even offers a shortcut `~-`?

`cd ~-`

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/03/01/tilde-dash/

Shell variable ~-

After writing the previous post, I poked around in the bash shell documentation and found a handy feature I'd never seen before, the shortcut ~-. I frequently use the command cd - to return to the previous working directory, but didn't know about ~- as a shotrcut for the shell variable $OLDPWD which contains the

John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting

"When you need actual logic? You write a script. In a real language. That you can run locally. Like a human being with dignity and a will to live."

What a fun read on the sad reality of #GitHub actions.

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

Ian Duncan
Sometimes (often) one ends up needing to run older versions of R using older versions of packages. Evercran might be just the tool to help with that: https://github.com/r-hub/evercran#readme #RStats #docker #Cran #Rcheology
GitHub - r-hub/evercran: Any version of R -- with the matching version of CRAN

Any version of R -- with the matching version of CRAN - r-hub/evercran

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Training large language models on narrow tasks can lead to broad misalignment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
posit::conf(2025)

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📅 Save the Dates: UseR! 2026 The international #Rstats community will gather in Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 from 6–9 July 2026 for the next edition of UseR!, the premier conference for users and developers of the R programming language.

Website: user2026.r-project.org/index2.html

#rstats #coding #opensource

A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing #rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?

UPDATE: It was this, by sarahjohnson.io :

https://gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d64d0969f2a0f05297e59e6c15ad

Claude R Tidyverse Expert

Claude R Tidyverse Expert. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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TIL you can use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-... #Rstats

Construct objects with idiomat...
Construct objects with idiomatic R code

Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

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