Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 20/09/2026I still can't wait to hear your keynote, in whatever venue or time it takes place! ❤️ Wishing you a speedy recovery 111
Reposted by Shannon PileggiThomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...youtube.comIhaka Lecture Series 2026 #2 - When Creativity Meets CodeYouTube video by University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau 03110
Reposted by Shannon PileggirainbowR @rainbowr.org · 27/07/2026🌈 Big news! After the huge success of our conference we're doing it all again! 🎉 Want to help shape an amazing community event, gain experience, and meet brilliant people? We're recruiting volunteers for the 2027 conference organising committee. bit.ly/4vRGXKk #rstats #LGBTQinTech #OpenSourcedocs.google.comConference organising committee 2027Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2026, rainbowR will run a conference again in 2027 and we're looking for people to help organise it. If you're interested in being on the conferenc... 0196
Reposted by Shannon PileggiCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I sound like a broken record, but if you can only do one sanity check before sharing your data, let it be this. Check your rows. 1. Do you have the correct number of cases? 2. Are any cases duplicated or missing? 3. Are the unique identifiers valid? Thank you for your time. 🙏 1477
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 15/07/2026I was bummed to miss this useR and of course seeing you there, so I really appreciate your post!! We are so lucky to have you in the R community! 010
Reposted by Shannon Pileggiᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 15/07/2026I'm an R person who just shipped two cross-platform desktop apps in Rust + Tauri + React — a stack I'd never written before. One built straight in code with Claude, one designed first as a clickable artifact. Story: l.drmowinckels.io/sNeRrN 2318
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 30/06/2026Debugging in R is often missed in #rstats curriculums, but it is a minimal investment with huge workflow gains.🐞 Hope you can join us! 🤗 1176
Reposted by Shannon PileggiYani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Very excited to share this: rOpenSci's co-working with @pipinghotdata.com! Next week, come and join us to share tips and tricks to debug your R code! 131
Reposted by Shannon PileggirOpenSci @ropensci.org · 30/06/2026Coworking and Office Hours next week! 🍪 Theme: Debugging in #RStats 🐞 Tuesday July 7th 16:00 UTC Join @pipinghotdata.com and @yabellini.bsky.social General coworking Read up on debugging in R Cowork independently Chat with Shannon and other attendees! 🔗 ropensci.org/events/cowor... 064
Reposted by Shannon PileggiCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 29/06/2026Watcher - meet the R community! ```r install.packages("watcher") ``` Tell us how you end up using it - open a discussion show-and-tell at r-lib/watcher! Catch you at useR! 2026 in Warsaw next week!!! #RStats #Rshiny opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...opensource.posit.cowatcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for R, and the engine behind Shiny auto-reloadAfter a year quietly powering Shiny behind the scenes, we're excited to introduce watcher to the R community. 0318
Reposted by Shannon PileggiMine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverseopensource.posit.coTidy Dev Day 2026Join us for a full day of collaborative open source work — whether you're a seasoned contributor or making your very first pull request. 23013
Reposted by Shannon PileggiLibby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 24/06/2026If you create slides in #Quarto, or WANT to, you should really attend @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's upcoming 2-hour slidecrafting workshop. I don't think anyone in the data world has created more reavealjs-friendly slide stuff lately than Emil. ABSOLUTELY DO IT. #rstats #databs pos.it/slide-wrkshppos.itSlidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt 25215
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 09/06/20265 days prior I also completed women's solo event. I PRd by 1 minute and my legs had just barely recovered prior to the relay 😅 060
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 09/06/2026Had the privilege of competing in the #hyrox NYC women's relay with 3 other working moms and we are still in disbelief that we came in 3rd in our age group. So proud of this team for putting in the work and exceeding expectations 🥹 1100
Reposted by Shannon PileggiMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 02/06/2026New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats 03312
Reposted by Shannon PileggiRLadies+ @rladies.org · 11/05/2026We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re... 07731
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 30/04/2026 #rstats check it out 👏👏👏 the recent {renv} updates are incredible 🤩 thank you @kevinushey.bsky.social ❤️🙏🎉 081
Reposted by Shannon PileggiWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 28/04/2026Ever come back to an #rstats project and…it just doesn’t work anymore? Or struggle to keep up with all the latest R packages & tools, much less integrate them into your code? Keeping R workflows up-to-date can feel daunting - but luckily, @rladiessb.bsky.social has some thoughts ⤵️ 2215
Reposted by Shannon PileggiWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 27/04/2026Hello, all! 👋 I'm Danielle, and I’m truly stoked to be this week’s rotating curator 🥳 💫 A brief intro: I am a marine scientist at @emlab.ucsb.edu, where I use #rstats to research and support the sustainable use of ocean resources 🌊 🐟 1193
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 25/04/2026media.tenor.coma woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her . 110
Reposted by Shannon PileggiPeter Dalgaard @pdalgd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber. 321349
Reposted by Shannon PileggiEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Found the neat new library tegaki that provides handwriting animation for any font, and wrapped it to be used in quarto with ease github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto 0244
Reposted by Shannon PileggiEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Whipped up a fun little quarto revealjs extension. Add fun little iOS styled messages with full fragment support github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto 2366
Reposted by Shannon PileggiMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 02/04/2026This, and more, in ropensci.org/blog/2026/04... 1264
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 27/03/2026✨ Intro to Data Visualization with Ama Nyame-Mensah and Shannon Pleggi✨ Wed May 6th RSVP tinyurl.com/rladies-datavistinyurl.comIntro to data visualization, Wed, May 6, 2026, 6:00 PM | MeetupBYOLaptop and learn the grammar of graphics in R using ggplot2. Join us in person or on Zoom for a hybrid workshop, where you’ll explore the power of data visualization in 000
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 27/03/2026✨ Intro to Tidyverse with Kelsey Keith✨ Wed April 29th RSVP tinyurl.com/rladies-tidyversetinyurl.comIntro to tidyverse, Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 6:00 PM | MeetupBYOLaptop to learn data wrangling skills! Join us for a hybrid meeting either in-person or on zoom where participants will login to a virtual R session and learn to use Tid 100
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 27/03/2026 ✨ Career Panel and Networking with R-Ladies ✨ Wed April 15 RSVP tinyurl.com/rladies-careertinyurl.comCareer panel and networking, Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 6:00 PM | MeetupJoin us for a career panel and networking with established professionals who use R statistical programming language for data analysis in their career. 100
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 27/03/2026R-Ladies Philly 🔔 is partnering with the Free Library of Philadelphia and we are thrilled for our upcoming in-person series! Hope to see you there! 🤗 💜 #rstats #rladies 1114
Reposted by Shannon PileggiNic Crane @niccrane.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I took the contents of my workshop at RainbowR on the topic of LLMs in R & made it into a course! It's about {ellmer}, and I spent soo long agonising over how to sell it, I gave up & instead released it under a "Pay What You Want" model 😅😂 #rstats #llms #ai www.aifordatapeople.com/courses/llms...aifordatapeople.comLLMs in R - Quick WinsA fun, practical approach to learning how to work with LLMs in R. This is a course for anyone looking to get a quick overview of the most important aspects of working with the ellmer package. 1365
Reposted by Shannon PileggiMax kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Our list of 2026 #rstats and #python summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...tidyverse.org2026 Posit InternshipsPosit is sponsoring four summer internship positions in 2026. 12618
Reposted by Shannon PileggiPosit @posit.co · 20/03/2026Today is the last day to apply for an Opportunity Scholarship for posit::conf(2026)! Our Opportunity Scholarship provides travel, lodging, & registration to attend posit::conf for underrepresented groups in data science. Learn more & apply by midnight tonight: posit.co/blog/apply-t... 0712
Reposted by Shannon PileggiEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Six months from today, YOU could be joining us at posit::conf! A topic I plan to explore is how we best borrow ideas from across different fields (from DS to DE, team-of-one to enterprise, etc.) Ironically, that's also one of the magical things about the conf 1/2 2205
Reposted by Shannon PileggiJenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 12/03/2026This is fantastic news! Heather is such a positive force in the #rstats community and is doing vital work for the long-term sustainability of R and its community. 2486
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 12/03/2026I am so happy for this announcement!! Heather is such an incredible community partner and deeply knowledgeable of base R. This is great news for R core and the broader R community. 🎉❤️🙌🤩 #rstats 0248
Reposted by Shannon PileggiThe R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 12/03/2026We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats. 716136
Reposted by Shannon PileggiWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 23/02/2026Hi, I’m this week’s curator, Josi! I‘m a PhD student in statistical genetics 🧬 and use #RStats to do #SEM. I dabble in #DataViz and recently wrote my first #Rpackage. My hobbies are reading #Fantasy books 📚 and #maximalism. You may catch me at a conference matching my outfit to my poster 🤓🧜🏽♀️ #rladies 26010
Reposted by Shannon PileggiMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 13/02/2026New Git exercises in the #RStats package {saperlipopette}, about using the history! ❌ I want to find which commit deleted a file/line! 🏷️ On ancestry references 🤨 I want to find who added a specific line! 📂 What did the project looked like at a certain version? docs.ropensci.org/saperlipopet...docs.ropensci.orgPackage index 0252
Reposted by Shannon PileggiMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 09/02/2026"GitHub Actions is a product designed by a committee that has never once asked “but is it delightful?” and it shows." www.iankduncan.com/engineering/...iankduncan.comGitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian DuncanWhy GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience. 151
Reposted by Shannon Pileggiᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 03/02/2026Stop playing "diagnostics ping-pong" with your users 🏓 Wrote about why every R package wrapping external tools needs a sitrep() function — with real examples from meetupr and freesurfer. #RStats drmo.site/F5gVjR 0226
Reposted by Shannon PileggiuseR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 20/01/2026We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community" user2026.r-project.org #rstats #useR2026 02814
Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 15/01/2026I started with sjlabelled and then switched to labelled. It just got better for my primary needs and the active development is really nice 100
Reposted by Shannon PileggiAnita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I just posted my first question/answer on stackoverflow about rearranging some of the variables in a dataframe alphabetically whilst leaving the others where they are using R Would you have done something different? Let me know! #Rstats #EpiSkystackoverflow.comrearrange some columns in R alphabeticallyI have a dataframe with >100 variables, and I want to rearrange some of the variables alphabetically whilst leaving the rest where they are set.seed(123) ## for sake of reproducibility n <- 6 291
Reposted by Shannon PileggiCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Issue 25 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬 It includes: ➡️ Make Your Open Data More Useable @collin-schwantes.bsky.social ➡️ PIDs 101 - Webinar @sparcopen.bsky.social ➡️ Cleaning Medical Data with R @pipinghotdata.com ➡️ Lab Manual Template @martonkovacs.bsky.social rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...rdmweekly.substack.comRDM Weekly - Issue 025A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources. 0157
Reposted by Shannon PileggiWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 10/12/2025Fixing `tools::toTitleCase()` so it doesn't incorrectly capitalise conjunctions. Team includes @pipinghotdata.com and @reikookamoto.bsky.social. bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi...bugs.r-project.org18674 – tools::toTitleCase() incorrectly capitalizes conjunctions (e.g. 'and') when using suspensive hyphenation 251
Reposted by Shannon PileggiWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 10/12/2025Here's one that many people will notice and appreciate - improving the CSS for the R manuals. Team including @emitanaka.org @fontikar.bsky.social, Pao Corrales, Jayani Lakshika and Toni Price. github.com/r-devel/r-de...github.comWishlist: Improve the CSS for the R manuals · Issue #26 · r-devel/r-dev-dayThe R manuals (like Writing R Extensions) are written in the GNU documentation format Texinfo and converted into several formats, most prominently HTML. The HTML versions are installed with R under... 171
Reposted by Shannon PileggiWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 10/12/2025Adding missing information to bibliographic entries github.com/r-devel/r-de... With @fontikar.bsky.social and othersgithub.comAdd missing information to bibliographic entries · Issue #116 · r-devel/r-dev-dayThis is a task proposed by R Core member, @kurthornik. Background Recently, bibliographic references in base R packages have been converted to bibentry format, e.g. bibentry(bibtype = "Book", key =... 121