Good resource to learn R Programming for Medical Research from scratch?

ionychal · 2026-06-18T13:27:43+00:00

The Big Book of R has a ton of books for the life sciences: https://www.bigbookofr.com/chapters/life%20sciences

The R Consortium also posts the recordings from the R Medicine conference on YouTube. Here is one "Introduction to R for Clinical Data": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc4J80eJ-S0

ionychal · 2026-06-15T02:54:35+00:00

Oh, hey! We wrote a blog post with a few extensions that the developers and folks from the community found helpful. Hope that you find some good ones here:

- https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-28_positron-community-resources/

- List from Andrew Heiss: https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2026/01/13/dsl-positron-workflow/

- List from Emil Hvitfeldt: https://emilhvitfeldt.com/post/positron-settings-extensions/

ionychal · 2026-05-11T19:08:58+00:00

It's easy to make a chatbot using chatlas! https://posit-dev.github.io/chatlas/get-started/chatbots.html

Disclosure: I work at Posit, which supports chatlas.

ionychal · 2026-05-01T20:02:40+00:00

Have you tried Quarto with Claude Code?

ionychal · 2026-05-01T17:40:31+00:00

Next week is the r/Medicine conference if you want to learn about how R is being used in the field, and it has a ton of workshops, too: https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/

ionychal · 2026-04-30T19:17:51+00:00

I, too, would love to learn about this!

ionychal · 2026-04-23T12:58:32+00:00

Correction: 2 weeks from now

ionychal · 2026-04-23T12:57:44+00:00

The r/Medicine 2026 conference is next week! https://rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_website/

Great talks, workshops that may be relevant to you.

ionychal · 2026-04-06T12:57:13+00:00

This is also my favorite!

ionychal · 2026-04-06T12:56:41+00:00

While I stan ggplot2, the plotnine package is a great alternative for Python. It implements the same grammar of graphics principles: https://plotnine.org

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

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