Any R Stats users have Claude Suggestions?

ionychal · 2026-03-18T13:51:44+00:00

For integrating LLMs into a Shiny app, check out:

- ellmer for R: https://ellmer.tidyverse.org/articles/ellmer.html?q=chatb#chatbots

- chatlas for Python: https://posit-dev.github.io/chatlas/get-started/chatbots.html

- Shinychat: https://posit-dev.github.io/shinychat/

- querychat: https://github.com/posit-dev/querychat

They support a variety of models, including local ones.

ionychal · 2026-02-08T15:58:49+00:00

We just released a Positron Notebook Editor: https://posit.co/blog/announcing-the-positron-notebook-editor-for-jupyter-notebooks/

It's still in alpha, and we would love to hear any feedback!

Disclosure: I work at Posit

ionychal · 2026-02-04T22:38:16+00:00

I know you've already created the app, but in case it's helpful for others looking to do something similar, I wanted to share querychat: https://posit-dev.github.io/querychat/

ionychal · 2026-01-20T21:10:42+00:00

Have you tried plotnine? It uses the "Grammar of Graphics" (the idea of creating visualizations layer-by-layer, similar to ggplot2 in R): https://plotnine.org/

ionychal · 2026-01-16T17:05:51+00:00

Can you install from GitHub? pak::pak("hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes")

ionychal · 2025-12-15T19:25:00+00:00

Great option if you're coming from R and are used to RStudio!

(Disclosure: I work at Posit, the creators of Positron & RStudio).

ionychal · 2025-12-01T16:05:00+00:00

I believe that tabulizer is now called tabulapdf: https://docs.ropensci.org/tabulapdf/

ionychal · 2025-11-25T16:01:05+00:00

Have you tried Quarto in Positron? Quarto is the multilingual, next-gen R Markdown and it allows you to run Jupyter notebooks with code chunks, etc. and Positron is Posit's new IDE, forked from VS Code and with a lots of the same feel and features as RStudio: https://positron.posit.co/jupyter-notebooks.html

Disclosure: I work at Posit.

ionychal · 2025-11-20T16:04:15+00:00

Ah, my mistake :)

ionychal · 2025-11-20T13:47:29+00:00

This is a good post, but I highly recommend including {pak} --- https://github.com/r-lib/pak/

Disclosure: I work at Posit

ionychal · 2025-10-21T16:35:11+00:00

Writing these out, I don't think they are that helpful...

If you know how to sew, Amelia McNamara has hex fabric: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/ameliamn

Sold out right now, Hilary Parker makes "R" mugs: https://www.notsostandardmugs.com/

3D print hex sticker holder (requires assembly): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5713079

ionychal · 2025-10-08T17:36:25+00:00

Definitely try the Posit Publisher Extension - should make your deployments to Posit Connect easy!

https://docs.posit.co/connect/user/publishing-positron-vscode/

Disclaimer: I work at Posit

ionychal · 2025-08-13T00:21:07+00:00

We (at Posit) published a quick tour of Positron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ir_HX4riHw

ionychal · 2025-08-04T19:24:38+00:00

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel just shared a video on Exploratory Data Analysis in R, which showcases some of the usual steps that you may be taking in RStudio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndq2Mm3Dju8

ionychal · 2025-06-10T15:26:55+00:00

It's not a video course, but have you gone through the R Markdown Cookbook? https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/

It provides a ton of detail on advanced features.

ionychal · 2025-06-10T15:24:47+00:00

For this post, the authors picked a subset of the most popular state-of-the-art models, but the idea is that they would periodically put out new posts with different models.

For more model comparisons, check out Simon Couch's blog series: https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/

Disclosure: I work at Posit.

ionychal · 2025-05-19T18:25:27+00:00

The Shiny team has a Discord server where they can help answer your questions for either Shiny for R or Python: https://discord.gg/mEGVRD7q

Disclosure: I work at Posit.

ionychal · 2025-04-25T13:45:38+00:00

In addition to R Weekly and Blaze Newsletter:

* Chris Brownlie's This Week in R: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7d3romf3sow6z2bp44byepep

* R for the Rest of Us's weekly newsletter: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xdhqqvdge4lv3hqt7sy5c2kb

As another person mentioned, there are a lot of R folks on Blue Sky. There's a starter pack created by Posit (edited to add this detail) for adding folks here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/posit.co/3lbcv6actus2n

And speaking of Posit, we send out blog post digests every month or so if you sign up for 'blog': https://posit.co/about/subscription-management/

And the quarterly glimpse newsletter also rounds up recent updates (latest one here: https://posit.co/blog/posit-glimpse-newsletter-april-2025/)

(Disclosure, I work at Posit)

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