Christoph Sax and I will be teaching at #useR2026: blockr, the open source no-code workflow builder for R.

🌟 You'll discover:

1. How you can create dashboard in minutes
2. How to develop custom blocks, with the help of AI 🤖
3. How to deploy 🛫

We are excited about this, after 3 years of intense development between Bristol Myers Squibb and cynkra

📆 When: Monday July 6, time: TBA
🔥 More about blockr: https://blockr.site/

#rstats #shiny #dashboard #nocode #datascience #reproducible

New post: a tiny Lua filter that converts Quarto's verbose `<figure>` HTML into plain markdown image syntax, so my Hugo theme's render hook actually fires on plot images.

Fifteen lines of Lua, one entry in `_quarto.yml`, done.

https://l.drmowinckels.io/WgOEMR

#quarto #hugo #lua

RE: https://nerdculture.de/@mpadge/116673981176543194

I had a lot of fun, and learned so much, by conitrbuting the the goodpractice package.

💻️ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights 👏 👏

These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. 📦 🔬

And thanks to all the maintainers in our #RStats community for your work on the software tools that support our disciplines !🤩

Check our website to learn about more packages and more maintainers: https://ropensci.org/packages/

The @rOpenSci R-universe builds are so handy for finding bugs and other minor issues that I miss locally. https://ropensci.r-universe.dev/builds

Really helping me up my game with rOpenSci packages, but also my own personal work and those with AAGI, https://adamhsparks.r-universe.dev/builds

#RStats

May news 🗞️ #RStats

🎉 15 Years of rOpenSci, and we’re just getting started

✍️ Champions Program update

🙌 May is Maintainer Month

📬 Software-Review update

🚀 Social media cards for R-universe

📆 Coworking

🗒️ Blog posts

🧰 Package development corner

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/05/28/news-may-2026/

I have been quiet a while, but now I'm showing why:

First public beta of Entracte is out today 🎬

A cross-platform break reminder I've been building — for anyone whose desk job has them staring at a screen too long without realising.

→ https://entracte.drmowinckels.io

#LMM #Claude #Tauri #Rust #breakReminder #DeveloeprWellbeing

👋 Meet Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng! 🇨🇦 🇹🇼

Bioacoustic ecologist with a career centered on bird-related research. She maintains {bbsTaiwan}, a package she developed as rOpenSci's Champions. The bbsTaiwan package is for accessing and analyzing data from Taiwan's Breeding Bird Survey, supporting bird population monitoring and conservation science.

Find Sunny at:
🌐 https://sunnytseng.ca
💻 https://github.com/SunnyTseng

#MaintainerMonth #rOpenSci #RStats #Ecology #Birding