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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The future of LLMs has to be local right? Like, I get why training requires a data center (and a bunch of stolen data), but with increasing efficiency, local application of those models is heading toward being trivial

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Curious about folks experiences with Posit Workbench. Alternatives you've tried that you've hated or liked? Pros and cons?

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Pretty disappointed Anthropic is forcing opencode to drop Pro/Max support. opencode is really the best experience of all the LLM CLI tools out there today. And the avoidance of vendor lock-in is really great.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

SNOTEL: Anyone else unable to access either the Rest or SOAP APIs or is it just my stuff? Anyone know what's going on? Site said they were down for maintenance last night and now this.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I noticed opencode doesn't have a default LSP for #rstats. I'm a bit confused as to what custom LSP should be used with opencode as there seems to be air, Ark, and languageserver. Anyone have thoughts?

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JD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 19/01/2026

Got dang it.

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 12/01/2026

Quarto Wizard 2.0.0 is out! Native extension management, batch operations, multi-extension selection, private repo support, and a new documentation website. Upgrade today: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #QuartoWizard #Quarto #VSCode #PositronIDE

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Quarto Wizard 2.0.0: Native Extension Management and Batch Operations – MCU

Quarto Wizard 2.0.0 brings native extension management without CLI dependency, batch operations, multi-extension selection, and a new documentation website.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

What are your data science strategies for managing medium to big data in the context of version controlled code? Ideally in a way that is agnostic to OS and language and is fairly cheap and can be hosted on prem or in the cloud. DVC? Symbolic links? Something else? #rstats #python #julialang

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The community in this thread is one of the reasons I really like #rstats. So many genuine and helpful people.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Getting {renv} and {pak} to play nicely together in a docker container is a nightmare #rstats

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

Example of using `filter_out()` on the `penguins` dataset, showing how it is much easier than `filter()`, especially with `NA`s

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/11/2025

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Posit @posit.co · 01/10/2025

Looking to use Quarto inside Positron, our new IDE for data science? We’ve released a video and guide for getting started. Positron makes Quarto easy: Quarto is pre-installed, you get dedicated buttons for tasks like "Preview," and full coding support. Learn more: posit.co/blog/create-...

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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 26/09/2025

📢 PSA: The R-Forge server is under attack from hackers and hence web access (e.g., for package installation) is currently down. #rstats The team at WU Wien is working on it. I'll report here when it is back up again.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Cline+OpenRouter in Positron is amazing

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Git pull/merge requests intimidate me. What really helped you understand them? And how do you usually do them in a way that helps the person making the request get good feedback while also ensuring the code is in good shape (outside of tests -- code isn't at that stage, yet)? Web? Local?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 25/08/2025

New #QuartoPub extension! Quarto output styling adds CSS rules for computational output, warnings, and messages for #rstats, #python, #julialang, and #observablejs - use the default styles, minimal styles, or add your own custom CSS andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-outpu...

Output, errors, warnings, and messages in R, but they're all formatted the same

Output, errors, warnings, and messages in R with a thin border around the output, and errors filled with red, warnings filled with yellow, and messages filled with blue

Warnings and messages highlighted with actual R code showing a ggplot plot of penguin data

Output, errors, warnings, and messages in R with a thin border around the output, and errors bordered with red, warnings bordered with yellow, and messages bordered with blue

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Where are the communities focused on data science, engineering, analytics, etc in the public utilities sector? Especially water. Trying to find my nerds

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Say you have some observations and a black box model (e.g., compiled and you can't change anything about it). You can programmatically manipulate the model parameters and compare results to observations. That's it. What tool do you use to tune the parameters? Bonus for any #bayesian tools

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Given a focus on scientific computing I prefer #julialang for speed and readability, but I'm Rust curious. Is there a rust equivalent to rcpp for #rstats?

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

One thing I really #rstats had was a way to view a help file for a local function just using roxygen2 decorators. I'm lazy, I don't want to build a package

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 05/07/2025

*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...

Positron connected to a not-really-remote remote session inside a Docker container

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Tom Mock @themockup.blog · 08/07/2025

Thanks for trying it out! Check out this button in the plot pane for opening in editor or new window and the "colorize" extension for coloring hex codes and other colors:

screenshot of a R script with colorized hex code and the colorize extension highlighted

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Posit @posit.co · 01/07/2025

Ever wonder how the #tidyverse came to be? 🤔 #TheTestSet's first episode features @hadley.nz on his accidental empire of #RStats packages, bear encounters, and more! Stream it at thetestset.co, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. #DataAnalytics #PodcastLaunch

Hadley Wickham in a white t-shirt and jeans sits on a light-colored couch across from Michael Chow, wearing a dark green shirt and pants, who is seated on an orange pouf. Between them is a white coffee table with books. In the background, there's a dark bar with shelves displaying numerous bottles, a wood-paneled wall, and a black, modern fireplace. Text overlay reads "Hadley Wickham CHIEF SCIENTIST, POSIT".

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 13/06/2025

Bleeding edge update for the #tidyverse purrr package with even more seamless #rstats parallel maps. Introducing our shiniest new adverb: `in_parallel()`. Just wrap your function to take advantage of blazing fast parallel processing via mirai. pak::pak("tidyverse/purrr") purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/

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Functional Programming Tools

A complete and consistent functional programming toolkit for R.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Anyone have an example of setting up and using @duckdb.org's ducklake in #rstats, yet? Preferably with dbplyr or duckplyr

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

What are your favorite ways to model time series? Bonus for models that can accomodate [0, Inf) bounded data and sharp spikes in seasonality, where the onset of the spike varies over time

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The latest release of the {mvgam} #rstats 📦 has hit CRAN. Plenty of exciting new features including Joint Species Distribution Models, support for the full range of Gaussian Process kernels available in the {brms} 📦 and plenty more nicholasjclark.github.io/mvgam/news/i...

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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Did you know the LTER maintains a thriving job board? From REU positions to faculty hires, our sites have dozens of openings each year. Several just got posted! You can check them all out here: lternet.edu/opportunities/

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Opportunities Archive - LTER

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Did not realize that when you explicitly add types to variables in #python functions you can access all the methods and other IntelliSense stuff from within the function. Legit question: Does something like this exists for #rstats (using #positron here)?

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Been playing with pixi, trying to make just absolutely cursed environments and not only does it resolve fast, but it _fails_ fast. Would recommend.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I know I'm fighting the current here (🥁), but when talking about data lakes and data swamps, the two terms should be reversed as swamps tend to have a lot more structure and feedbacks (e.g., governance) maintaining their integrity

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

About to send out my next monthly newsletter with information about my recent work. If you’re interested you can sign up for free at sendfox.com/symplectomor... or read old newsletters at sendfox.com/symplectomor....

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Introducing {quarto-bluesky-comments}: Add native #Bluesky discussions to your #Quarto docs with a shortcode! 🦋 ✨ Live preview ♲ Thread support 🎯 Like & repost stats Inspired by @emilyliu.me & @samuel.bsky.team 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/bluesky-comm... 🔧 github.com/coatless-qua...

Screenshot of the Bluesky Comments Quarto shortcode extension documentation website. The page shows the result of embedding a Bluesky comment thread directly into the Quarto document.

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Isabella A. Oleksy, Ph.D. @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Published today: our paper on the ~100 year ice record on Mohonk Lake, a mtn top lake in upstate NY. Ice is forming later, and variability in duration and ice clearance has increased substantially. Notably, recent years have seen intermittent ice cover. bit.ly/mohonkWinter

Ice phenology in Mohonk Lake from 1932 to 2023. Dates of ice‐on and ice‐off are plotted as points. A line segment connects the ice‐on and ice‐off in the same water year and the length and color gradient and point fill correspond to ice‐cover duration. The black line indicates significant Theil‐Sen's slope ( p < 0.05). Triangles indicate years where only ice‐on or ice‐off was recorded.

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Cosima @cosima.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

To all the #pyladies and #rladies out there - if you have a blog or a YouTube channel and want to be added, feel free to reach out! Your content will then be featured by the @pyladies-bot.bsky.social or @rladies-bot.bsky.social 🙌

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Per @anatolii.nz's suggestion, I gave @posit.co's Positron a whirl using WSL's GUI and it worked! This is seriously cool. #rstats #python

A screen shot of using Positron from Windows Subsystem for Linux's graphical user interface.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I first read this years ago when it was given to participants in an environmental leadership training, and it's been hugely helpful. They also offer this cheat sheet of evidence-based practices to help give our nervous systems a break and manage burn out.

A tiny survival guide to avoiding burnout, including: protect your mornings, go outside, be active, cultivate relationships, nurture gratitude, detox (navigate addictions), spend time with animals, simplify, admire art, laugh, foster humility and extend grace, sleep and clarify intentions.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17/11/2024

Tenure Track Faculty Opening at Carnegie Mellon in Decarbonization, Climate Change Adaptation, & Related Fields. Please share airb your networks or consider applying. One reason I left a think tank for CMU is because CMU has a lot of folks working on energy & climate. 🔌💡 apply.interfolio.com/154848

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 17/11/2024

I'd love to include a bunch of examples of what you can use LLMs for in the elmer documentation to inspire #rstats developers? What cool tools have you used or created? (Bonus points if they have public R code I can link to).

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Wait, wait, what?! I can now run Linux GUI apps in Windows directly from WSL? That is magical. I still like running dockerized stuff with RStudio Server, but this is a great option to have. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window... #rstats #wsl2

A view of RStudio for Linux (Ubuntu) forwarded to Windows 10 with some example code and ggplot2 output. A redbox in the Windows taskbar highlights the RStudio icon with the Linux icon, indicating the app is being served from WSL2.

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Jason Mercer @wetlandscapes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Are there power companies or federal entities trying to identify pumped hydro opportunities in mountain areas? Pumped hydro still seems like the most viable energy storage option at the moment.

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