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Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse
Summary, translation, and sentiment analysis of Bluesky posts on a topic using atrrr, tidyverse/ellmer, and mlverse/mall with Claude and other open…
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Use an LLM to translate help documentation on-the-fly
The lang package overrides the ? and help() functions in your R session. If you are using RStudio or Positron, the translated help page will appear in…
Turn a GitHub repo into a single text file for LLM-friendly input
The open source repo2txt web app will take a GitHub repo URL, displays the directory structure, lets you choose which files to include, and provides a…
TIL: dplyr::mutate()'s .keep argument
Use the .keep argument in dplyr::mutate() to control which variables to retain after mutating to create new variables.
Tech I'm thankful for (2024)
Data science and bioinformatics tech I'm thankful for in 2024: tidyverse, RStudio, Positron, Bluesky, blogs, Quarto, bioRxiv, LLMs for code, Ollama…
Expand your Bluesky network with R
Find people followed by the people you follow, but who you don't follow, using R and the atrrr package
Bluesky for Science
Bluesky starter packs for genomics, bioinformatics, R, and Nextflow
Python for R users
A Google search for “R vs Python” returns thousands of hits across sites like Reddit, IBM, Datacamp, Coursera, Kaggle, and many others.
Use nanoparquet instead of readr/CSV
Parquet is interoperable between Python and R, fast to read+write, works well with databases, and stores complex data types (e.g., tibble listcols). Use…
DuckDB vs dplyr vs base R
Using DuckDB in R to analyze 100 million rows of data in 3 seconds
AI code completion in Positron
Positron doesn't have GitHub Copilot, but Codeium and others are good alternatives.
Llama 3.2 summaries of bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints with biorecap
The biorecap package can now summarize bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints, and uses the llama-3.2-3b model by default.
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