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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Thank you for sharing, Matt 🤗❤️

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Can you provide an example of the y-axis being incorrectly scaled? I'm curious about what's wrong with ggplot's scaling 🤔

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Nice work 🤗 and thanks for the shout-out. 🥳

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Want to build AI Bots with R? Combining the {ellmer} package with the Shiny framework might be exactly what you need. And I'm happy to share that I get to talk about how that works at this year's ShinyConf 🎉 If you want to join, you can still sign up at www.shinyconf.com/agenda #rstats

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Also I just noticed that my DMs were blocked 😅 should now be open in case you want to reach out ✌🏻 (unfortunately I can't DM you)

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I do consulting work in that space ✌🏻

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

All three steps are pretty cheap and easy to pull off. If you're curious, tomorrow my 3-minute newsletter will release a tutorial to guide you through every step of the way. You can still join 3300+ readers at buff.ly/KYAQYdv

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Ever wanted to restrict your Quarto project to only a few select people? You can do so by 1️⃣ Hosting your project on Azure Static Web Apps 2️⃣ Creating your own user base via Azure's AAD B2C service 3️⃣ Configuring your app so that it only allows users from your user base #rstats (1/2)

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

But I get how these steps can feel confusing if you never had to do something like this. That's why I've created a tutorial that shows you every step of the way. It will be released tomorrow on my 3-minute newsletter. If you want to join 3300+ readers, you can sign up at buff.ly/rRTZXE5

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

3️⃣ Point the client's redirect URI to your web app on Azure 4️⃣ Place the client credentials into the app via environment variables That's it. Once you've done that, Azure takes care of the rest and your project is hidden behind a layer of authentication. (2/3)

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The nice thing about hosting a Quarto project on Azure is that you can easily enable social logins via vendors like GitHub, Apple or Google. All you have to do is 1️⃣ Add an "auth" section to your config file 2️⃣ Get a client from the identity provider (e.g. Google) (1/3) #rstats #datascience

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I used to think that securing a Quarto website is about writing lots of code. But really it only requires ✅ hosting on Azure static web apps, ✅ creating a JSON file inside of your Quarto project, and ✅ filling that file with values that you can look up in the docs. #rstats #datascience (1/2)

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

❤️ thank you, Roland, for these kind words 🤗 honestly I think many people have social media fatigue and that's okay. I have it too. That's why I'm concentrating on making more entertaining videos instead of daily posts 🙂

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Setting this up is pretty easy but a bit lenghty to describe here. That's why my newsletter will release a step-by-step tutorial on how to host Quarto projects on Azure tomorrow. If you want to join 3300+ readers, you can do so at buff.ly/3PRzat5

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hosting Quarto projects on Azure is an easy way to add user authentication to your project. That way, only selected users can access your web page. All you need for that is 🔹 a GitHub repo, 🔹 an Azure subscription, and 🔹 Azure's static web apps service.

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

And I've created many tutorials about Step 2 in the last few weeks, so it's time to show you how Step 1 works. Tomorrow, my 3-minute newsletter will teach you how to use AWS Textract. If you want to get bite-sized tutorials delivered to your inbox, you can join 3300+ learners at 3mw.albert-rapp.de

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's fascinating how easy text analysis has become in recent years. Nowadays, text analysis reduces to 1️⃣ feeding a document/image to an OCR service like Textract, and 2️⃣ sticking the results into an LLM. No huge entry barriers for data scientists to dive into text processing. #rstats #datascience

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

You might want to try {rhandsontable}: jrowen.github.io/rhandsontable/

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rhandsontable

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The book will cover all of these things and today we're getting started with the basics. Like every week, there's also a video version of the chapter. You can check them out here: Video tutorial: buff.ly/40Wel6a Book chapter: buff.ly/42CXE0U

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

New chapter for the "AI With R" book 🥳 We're getting started with the {ellmer} package. This package has lots of features like ✅ tool calling to mix AI with traditional functions, ✅ structured output to extract infos, and ✅ async streams to build chat bots. #rstats #AI #datascience

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

That way, you can unlock lots of unstructured data that was previously hidden in PDFs or Images. If you want to see more details, tomorrow my 3-minute newsletter will give you a step-by-step guide with specific examples. If you're curious, you can join 3300+ readers at buff.ly/3PRzat5

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

But what if you have a PDF? In that case, you can use the pdf_convert() function from the {pdftools} package to make the PDF into an image. Then, you can use the previous steps. That's it. Not really much you have to do.

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Then, you can enforce a structured output by defining new type objects. Key functions here are type_array() and type_object(). If you've read my newsletter from last week, then you should have a good idea of how they work: buff.ly/4aBw6uJ

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Let's imagine you have an image of an invoice. You can put that into one of {ellmer}'s content objects. Key function here is content_image_file()

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

With AI, it's really easy to process invoices or other documents using R. Here's what you have to do: #rstats #AI

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Also, do you have any particular use case you'd like to see implemented in R? Let me know in the comments and I might just expand the materials a little 🥳

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

New Project: AI With R 🥳 I've been writing about how to use AI/LLMs with R. So I'm happy to share that I'm starting to collect all the materials in one central space. You can read the first two chapters at buff.ly/3PQNzWz #rstats #AI

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Thank you for spreading the word about my tutorial ❤️

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

First Mr beast video I'd watch 🤣

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Using tidyselect helpers in these kinds of situations really is underrated 😁

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Check out this AI chat-bot I built with #rstats using {elmer} and {shiny} 🥳 The crucial steps are 1️⃣ Insert textboxes with insertUI() 2️⃣ Stream LLM responses into the textboxes Want more details? Tomorrow, I show 3200+ readers how I built this thing. You can join us at 3mw.albert-rapp.de/subscribe

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My solution to today's #adventofcode in #rstats. Took me a while to realize that I can get reverse diagonals by just using diag() on the matrix with column indices chosen descendingly 😅

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

That's neat! Didn't know about the split trick.

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#rstats/#python question: Why is it so hard for IDEs to find surrounding Py-code when I'm executing multiline code with Ctrl+Enter? In R or rather RStudio, multiline statements always get executed as a whole. I'm assuming this is a hard problem in Python but anyone knows why that's the case? 🤔

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Glad to see that the #rstats community is sharing their #AdventOfCode solutions. Here's mine. For some reason it was a pain to get the regex for Part 2 right so I just brute-forced it (find indices between all don't and dos and then remove those chars) 🤣 btw is there an R leaderboard this year? 🤔

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Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🤯 This is an incredible solution.

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Video editing becomes 2x more fun when you get to include your favorite dumb memes 😂 #Rstats

Dr. Albert Rapp @albertrapp.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Fully agree. That discourse and how it shaped both base R and tidy R is really what I wanted to get at. Thanks for proposing nicer words for this, Ben 🤗