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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

📢 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻: 𝗔 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 📅 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 30th July, 2026 ⏰ 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 11 AM 📍 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: Online - www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...  Join @libbyheeren.bsky.social and Isabella Velásquez to explore the next generation of data science development in a relaxed, beginner-friendly environment!

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This week, we had our 2025–26 AGM and are excited to announce the 2026–27 R-Ladies+ Melbourne leadership team! 🥳 President: @kirstymccann.bsky.social Vice-President: Mansi Aggarwal Secretary: Harriet Mason Treasurer: @dionnecargy.bsky.social We look forward to another year of great events! 💜

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

‼️ Upcoming Event ‼️ Join us for a session on Deep Probabilistic and Generative Modelling covering diffusion models, variational inference, generative AI, and biomedical applications — plus a short hands-on PyTorch demo! 📆 20 May, 6-7 PM 📍 Online 🎟️ Register now - www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Reminder: Event This Wednesday! Register now.

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

‼️ Upcoming Event ‼️ Join us and Dr Kate Saunders who will present on “Data driven decision making for fantasy basketball.” Interested in turning data into decisions? Sports analytics or forecasting? Register now on meetup! shorturl.at/CECCC 📆 18 Mar, 5.30-7.30pm 📍DiUS, Level 3, 31 Queen St Melbourne

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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

📢 Contributor Office Hour (AMER) 📅 February 12, 09:30 - 10:30 PST Join us online to - discuss how to get started contributing to R - get help/feedback on contributions you are working on - look at open bugs/work on translations together www.meetup.com/r-contributors/event…

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R Contributor Office Hour (AMER), Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Join the online Office Hour to \\- discuss how to get started contributing to R \\- get help/feedback on contributions you are working on \\- look at open bugs/work on transl

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

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dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

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Posit @posit.co · 04/02/2026

Announcing yaml12: High-speed YAML 1.2 for #RStats & #Python 🐫 Built entirely in Rust, get up to 2x faster in R and 50x faster in Python vs. defaults, tag evaluation (like code execution) is opt-in, and strict YAML 1.2 compliance for consistent data. Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01...

A graphic for Posit featuring a hexagonal sticker with a camel carrying boxes and "yaml12" text, over a blue wave background.

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We’re back for 2026! 💜 R-Ladies+ Melbourne is gearing up for a big year of events, learning, and community. Stay tuned and see you soon! 👩‍💻📊 #RLadies #RStats #WomeninSTEM

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Tomorrow's #DSLab is gonna be interesting because I've never used AI to help write analysis code, or do any analysis at all! Super curious what this will look like and excited for you to meet @sara-altman.bsky.social if you haven't yet! She's part of the AI team here at #Posit! #rstats #databs

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Risk 2026 · Full schedule available! R is used to calculate, measure, report, or mitigate risk. Find out the latest techniques, ask your questions directly to speakers, connect with other R users. Reproducibility, AI, Security, risk visuals... rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website... #rstats

main image for Risk 2026 - Feb 18-19, 2026

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Posit @posit.co · 02/02/2026

Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20! Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community. 🎤 Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-2026

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Join us Thu 11 Dec, 5:30pm at The Clyde rooftop (Carlton) for the R-Ladies+ Melbourne end-of-year meetup! 🌟 Celebrate 2025 highlights, connect with the community, and hear from 5 inspiring mentors across public health, genomics, bioinformatics & software. Register on Meetup! buff.ly/McL9fs1

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End of Year Networking Event 2025 - In Person Only! , Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

🎉 **R-Ladies End-of-Year Celebration!** 🎉 Please join us on Thursday 11th December 2025 on the **rooftop** at The Clyde Hotel in Carlton from 5.30pm. This is a networkin

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R Contributors @r-contributors.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

**Just 2 in-person tickets left at this event, a wait list is available!** 📢 R Dev Day @ Australia 🏢 Monash University, Melbourne 🌐 Remote, Australia 📅 Fri 21 Nov Registration deadline: Sun 16 Nov pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-… Attend this free event to collaborate on […]

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thank you everyone to joined us last night at our event with @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 💜 We learned so much about the conception & growth of R Dev Days and how #RLadies have contributed! Sign up for R Dev Day in Melb now! 🔗 www.meetup.com/r-contributo... #rstats #WomeninSTEM

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📣 ‼️ This week we’re hosting Dr Heather Turner! 📣 ‼️ She’ll share insights from R Dev Days, collaborative efforts contributing to #Rstats, documentation, translations & more, including great work from the R-Ladies community! 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO 📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm 📍 Monash City Campus

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R-Ladies at R Dev Days with Dr Heather Turner, Wed, Nov 12, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Rladies Melbourne will be hosting Dr Heather Turner who is a leading R developer and statistician with over two decades of experience. **R-Ladies at R Dev Days** Under my

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Wrap up the ABACBS Conference 2025 with us at the BioCAsia × R-Ladies Melbourne Networking Event! 🎉 An evening of connection, community & conversation before the BioCAsia workshops kick off. 📅 Wed 26 Nov 2025 🕓 After ABACBS Closing (~4:30 pm) 📍Malt Shovel Taphouse 💸 Free Register: buff.ly/fxoH0VT

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Networking Event Registration

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Just discovered this gem from R-Ladies Ottawa and wow, what a game-changer for our quarto slides preparations! 🙌 The clarity & structure are exactly what we needed. Huge thanks to the Melissa Van Bussel for sharing this💡 buff.ly/fI5RKVU #Rladies #DataScience #QuartoSlides #GitHubActions

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Excited to host Dr Heather Turner, leading #RStats developer & statistician! 🎉 She’ll share insights from #RDevDays: collaborative events where contributors, including women & gender minorities, work on base #R, dashboards & more. 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO 📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm 📍 TBA

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Starting right now !!! Join us to celebrate our 9th birthday with SSA! #rstats #rladies

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 15/10/2025

This was supposed to be a quiet release, so I can refer to it in my upcoming talk, and I wasn't expecting many likes for this article. Thank you for your interest ☺️ A summary to come out when the paper is hopefully accepted 🤞

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Join us tomorrow for a drink and a chat with SSA Victoria at Father's Office! Be there by 5pm to make it for Happy Hour 🍻💜

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rladiessydney.bsky.social @rladiessydney.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Just over 24 hours to go! 🎉 Join us for an exciting R-Ladies+ panel on The People, Purpose & Power of R-Ladies+. See thread below to be part of it!

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Join us tomorrow for the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science conference in a panel "More Than Code: The People, Purpose, and Power of R-Ladies+" with Dionne & Felicia (Melb), Kristy & Giorgia (Syd), organised by Hunna Watson! 🔗 www.idwsds.org 🕓 12-1pm AEDT #rstats #rladies

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Thriving in Your Environment

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🎮 Did you know you can make video games in R? The {nessy} package lets you create NES-style Shiny apps and deploy them just like any other Shiny app. Who said R is only for stats? 🚀 #RStats #Shiny #RLang #DataScience #VideoGames

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

🎲 Want to add a little playfulness to your R sessions? Check out {fun}- a package full of classic games (Minesweeper, sliding puzzles, Gomoku) and quirky utilities all in R. Try demo(package = "fun") to see what it can do! 🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=fun #rstats #RPackage #UseR #FunWithR

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The Comprehensive R Archive Network

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It's our 9th birthday and you're all invited to celebrate with us! 💜 We are partnering up with the Statistical Society of Australia to host a Social Night! 🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 📅 Thu 16 Oct, 5-7pm 📌 Father's Office #StatSocAus #rladies #stats #rstats

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R-Ladies & SSA Melbourne Social Night: Happy 9th Birthday R-Ladies, Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup

**Happy 9th Birthday R-Ladies Melbourne 🎉** Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at a joint event with R-Ladies Melbourne and the Statistical Society of Austra

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Did you know? R was developed by Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland in the early 1990s. It's a free #opensource language designed specifically for statistical computing & data analysis. Today it's a go-to tool for statisticians & data scientists! #RStats #DataScience

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

✨ Check out {cli} - an R package for beautiful command-line interfaces! Use it to add headings, alerts, lists, progress bars & more, with built-in colors and themes. Perfect for making console output clear and stylish. 🔗 github.com/r-lib/cli #rstats #RPackage #cli

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GitHub - r-lib/cli: Tools for making beautiful & useful command line interfaces

Tools for making beautiful & useful command line interfaces - r-lib/cli

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Big news: R-Ladies Melbourne turns 9 on October 18th! 🥳💜 We’re so proud of this amazing community of R users, learners, and enthusiasts who have been building, sharing, and supporting each other since 2015. Stay tuned: we’ll be celebrating soon! ✨ #RLadies #RStats #Melbourne

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for ✨ Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly with Dr. Kirsty McCann! We loved seeing the community come together to explore interactive data viz. 🚀📊 #rstats #ggplot2 #ggplotly

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

✨ Transform your ggplot2 plots into interactive stories! Join our workshop, Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, and make your data clickable and unforgettable. 🔗 Sign up: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 📅 18 Sept 🕒 5:30-7:30pm (includes networking & food) 📍 DiUS

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Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly, Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Transform your static R plots into interactive, engaging visual stories! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take pre-organised ggplot2 code and show you how to enhance it wit

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Tired of rerunning everything every time you change a line of code? 😩 The {targets} package automates your #Rstats workflow—only running what’s needed, tracking dependencies, keeping your analysis reproducible & efficient. ⏩ books.ropensci.org/targets/ #RStats #ReproducibleResearch #DataPipelines

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The {targets} R package user manual

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Dr Dionne Argyropoulos @dionnecargy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It's THIS THURSDAY! Be sure to join us this week to meet up with other members of the #RLadiesMelb #Rstats community! We look forward to seeing you all there :) 💜

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Missed a past R-Ladies Melbourne talk? We've got you covered! 🎥✨ Our video archive is packed with inspiring talks from past speakers—covering everything from R tips and packages to data science journeys & community insights. Catch up here 👉 r-ladiesmelbourne.github.io/videos.html #RLadies #RStats

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Our Video Archive – R-Ladies Melbourne Inc.

Our 28-05-2025 meetup with Kathleen Zeglinski and Danyang Dai from R-Ladies Melbourne.

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🎉 Join us for the first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you're new or a regular, come connect, unwind, and build community. #Rstats #Rladies 📍 Father’s Office 🕕 August 14, 6pm 🍻 Arrive on time for happy hour! www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...

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R-Ladies Social Night, Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Come unwind and connect with like-minded people at our first R-Ladies Social Night! Whether you’ve been to one of our events in the past or you’re just starting out, this e

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

No one asked for it, but the {BRRR} package is exactly what we didn’t know we needed. From “yeaaahhhh boi” to Big Sean, DJ Khaled, and Big Shaq—{BRRR} lets you drop iconic sound bites straight from R. Because sometimes, your code deserves bars. 🔊 github.com/brooke-watso... #RStats #BRRR #DataDrama

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GitHub - brooke-watson/BRRR: Rap adlibs in R.

Rap adlibs in R. Contribute to brooke-watson/BRRR development by creating an account on GitHub.

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Lauren! A senior postdoc at WEHI, she uses #RStats #TidyModelling for disease research across humans and animals, with a special focus on #PlasmodiumVivax and #OneHealth approaches! #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience #InfectiousDisease

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

OMG I TRIED AIR. I TRIED IT & LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. @juliasilge.com recommended format on save, so I set up Air + format on save + auto save when focus leaves editor. This might be the thing that gets me using #Positron for both #Rstats & Python (currently only using it for #Python) #databs

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tiddlydump.bsky.social @tiddlydump.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Whatever you choose, 100% let them know about the Big Book of R. There's a large, well-organized, link tree to gobs of free (usually) resources, and you can just pop into whichever ones you want to check the ToC or sample a chapter. Let your skill and interests be your guide! bigbookofr.com/

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Big Book of R

Thanks for stopping by. If you’re like me, you can’t help but bookmark every R-related programming book you find in the hopes that one day you, or someone you know, might find it useful.

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Andreas Filser @filsa.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Friday #rstats #ggplot2 tip for anyone - like me - who’s spent hours trying to get the formatting of their exported plot right 📉🛠️🎨

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Just discovered {ggcats} and yes, it does exactly what you think: adds cats to your ggplots. 🐈📈 Because sometimes your data visualisation needs a little more purr-sonality. 👉 github.com/R-CoderDotCo... #RStats #ggplot2 #dataviz #catsinstats

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GitHub - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats: The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2

The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2 - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Mansi! A product-focused bioinformatician at Mass Dynamics, she uses #RStats—especially #dplyr & #ggplot2—for data processing and visualisation to power proteomics and drive data-driven healthcare innovation! #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Need some wisdom while coding in R? Try the {fortunes} package — a collection of real quotes from the R community that are insightful, quirky & often hilarious. Perfect for when your code won’t run and you need a philosophical break. 📦 dzchilds.github.io/eda-for-bio/... #RStats #DataHumour

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Chapter 8 Packages | APS 135: Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis with R

Course book for Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis with R (APS 135) in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

For a book I'm writing I want to print text in colors. #rstats #quarto This gist: gist.github.com/friendly/b2a... defines a colorize() function that can be used easily for HTML and LaTeX/PDF documents in .qmd and .rmd files.

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Render text in color for Markdown / Quarto | Format refs to packages in inline text

Render text in color for Markdown / Quarto | Format refs to packages in inline text - colorize.R

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R-Ladies Melbourne @rladiesmelb.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Meet our R-Ladies Melb member Caitlin: @caitbourke.bsky.social! She’s a post-doc researching malaria in Madagascar, using #RStats &#tidyverse for bioinformatics, visualisation & data analysis across transcriptomics, genomics, immunology & epidemiology! #CommitteeSpotlight #DataScience

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