R

Weekly recap (Oct 3, 2025)

R updates (from rOpenSci, Blaze, R Works, RWeekly, Posit), Slidecrafting, AI highs & lows, structural variation, biotech, RAG, tinytable, "vibe work…

Oct 3 •

Construct objects with idiomatic R code

Use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples

Oct 2 •

Voice control ggplot2 with ggbot2

Today I learned you can create and customize ggplot2 visualizations using your voice alone.

Sep 27 •

Weekly recap (Sep 26, 2025)

Apple gets into protein folding, parsing R/Markdown and Quarto, vibe-coding an R package, AI in biosecurity and writing, nothing about AI is inevitable…

Sep 26 •

Charlottesville R Users

Recap of the first R User Group event in Charlottesville VA

Sep 25 •

Weekly recap (Sep 19, 2025)

AI-generated genomes, R news for my posit::conf() FOMO, biosecurity, mirror life, teaching and AI, ELSI for AI, in defense of CRAN, Anthropic Economy…

Sep 19 •

Closing my tabs (Sep 12, 2025)

AI in academia, $1B NSF cut, AI+biosecurity, bacterial DNA from mammoth bones, understanding LLMs and their math, bioacoustics for conservation…

Sep 12 •

Closing my tabs (Sep 5 2025)

NIH budget, AI, R, Bluesky & Science, state of biotech, AI in higher ed, R packages Top 40, structural variation, statistical power, Python documentary…

Sep 5 •

Using OpenAI Codex in Positron

Developing an R package using the OpenAI Codex agent in Positron

Aug 28 •

GitHub Repositories for Sequencing Companies

Using R and the GitHub API to get licensing information for GitHub repos for sequencing-related companies, one-shot with GPT-5.

Aug 26 •

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R

Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demonstration: using agent mode to create an R…

Jul 16 •

Tidy RAG in R with ragnar

Retrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a…

Jul 15 •

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