#user2024 — Public Fediverse posts

What a nice article to remember Friedrich “Fritz” Leisch, one of the unsung heroes of #RStats: https://journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-2024-001/. Didn't know anything about his work until #user2024. Much more impressed about all of his contributions to the language and the tools surrounding it.

Finally the efforts of the #useR2024 dev day landed R-devel!! Some improvements on Rd2HTML mainly for #rstats accessibility.

@eliocamp created the patch while I was identifying the issues. There are still some issues that can be improved as explained & discussed on the (now closed) issue https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18825
Diff: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/commit/447675cf8d24ebf96ef3f021116df05f686e4f3f

Happy new year! I'm trying to recall some details of the talk by Kurt Hornik on #useR2024. I found the slides, but would like to hear what was said about a specific topic. Although many of the conference content is on the Youtube account https://www.youtube.com/@useRConference_global, I haven't found that talk (event if it was a keynote). Does anyone know if it was recorded and if it will be shared? I wanted to confirm about some CRAN policies/practices before asking directly/publicly on a #rstats mailing list.

My Keynote talk "Keep R Weird" from #user2024 is now on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/KOQBfC1WPwM?si=zUR7uo6OTKrrdkcW

Thank you so much, @useR_conf for having me - it was truly a special conference and a joy to learn new things about #rstats alongside my fellow weiRdos.

#keepRweird

☑️ #SDSS2024 in Richmond
☑️ #user2024 in Austria
☑️ Get married
🔲 #jsm2024 in Portland (on my way!)
🔲 #PositConf2024 in Seattle (woo!)

Hype level: High
Exhaustion level: Also high

Let's do this thing.

I wrote a blog post about my experience at #useR2024 :rstats: : https://llrs.dev/post/2024/07/28/the-missing-r-generation/
I focus on the ambient and my purpose of going there and not the content.

Comment here and explain your experience!

This survey is open to anyone that attended either the virtual event (2 July), or the in-person event (8-11 July), or wishes to provide feedback on why they did not attend useR! 2024.

https://rfoundation.limequery.com/153438

#RStats #useR2024 #DataScience #Coding #diversity

Happy to have seen this particular artwork in Munich's amazing Lenbachhaus, on the way home from #useR2024 -- so very apt!

@njtierney @kellybodwin @PipingHotData Having added tests, @maelle looked at the source and suggested using `withr::local_seed()` (as opposed to `set.seed()`). A good reason why it’s worth following package good-practice, even for silly packages, you get to learn about package better-practice!

Also, this was very much the theme of @fontikar’s talk at #useR2024 https://userconf2024.sched.com/event/1c8zy/why-build-silly-things-in-r-fonti-kar-university-of-new-south-wales

The @inbo checklist #rstats package (https://inbo.github.io/checklist) checks your code using a set of hard coded rule files. Hard coding the rule forces users to stick to the rules set by the organisation. Feedback at #useR2024 suggests that other organisations might want to use different rules. Any suggestions on how we can allow an organisation to specify a rule set file which cannot be changes by the users. Maybe a standardised git repo like @rOpenSci does to setup a custom R-universe?

Credits to @jarek for sharing it with me at #user2024

Interested in #spatial #networks, #openstreetmap data, and #rstats ? Last week I presented the #sfnetworks package at #useR2024 and gave a simplified example of how it can be used to analyze OSM-based street networks. You can find a notebook with the code on GitHub: https://luukvdmeer.github.io/UseR2024/notebook.html

Credits to @jarek  for sharing it with me at #user2024

#rstats

We had a great time at #UseR2024 last week! It was great to meet so many people and see such a range of interesting talks! Here's a few snapshots of our own speakers, Clarissa, Colin and Pedro!

#RStats #DataScience

My favourite talk from #useR2024, highly recommend you take a look!

From: @maelle
https://mastodon.social/@maelle/112795047470727533

Really enjoyed #useR2024. I was lovely to see so many friendly faces and to re-connect with the world-wide R community 😀

Shoutout to Steven Kell, who did a phenomenonal job as Social Media chair for #useR2024.

He did most of hard work since the start of 2024. I Rejoined the organisers team when he could no longer attend

So happy to meet so many wonderful people at #useR2024 ❤️, and also grateful I was able to do a bit of hiking outside of Salzburg to decompress! Now back to the US ✈️

In preparation of #useR2024 📦 #qgisprocess 0.4.0 was released on CRAN last week:

👉 faster loading and less overhead
👉 new vignette about passing R objects to #QGIS processing algorithms
👉 new vignette about package settings

🌐 https://r-spatial.github.io/qgisprocess/news/index.html

#rstats #rspatial

From Colin Gillespie at #useR2024:

"GitHub actions are essentially little computers flying around in the sky which when you push up to tell you if you are a good person or a bad person"

Me, up in the clouds at Dachstein Krippenstein, looking for my gh actions 😁

Postscript: At the #RStats dev day (the day after the main #useR2024 conf), organised by @R_Contributors, @kellybodwin and I submitted a patch to fix the alignment bug in the stem() plot, which I discussed in the talk. It was a really fun day, and a nice result! Huge thanks to Paul Murrell and Martin Maechler from R Core for their friendly and helpful support.

Thanks to a random guy (Marcus) at #useR2024 for helping me to understand the problem, enabling me to fix it :)