Thomas Lin Pedersen

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If you've gotten bored with assaulting the eyes of bystanders as you drive around in your cybertruck you can soon assault their eyes with smoke and dust as well

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We have just merged in a massive PR to #ggsql, bringing first class support for 15 new database backends. If your favourite database is missing, please let us now If your favourite database is in there, please test it out and let us know if you run into issues

We released rig 0.11.0, the #Rstats installation manager, this week (and 0.10.0 a bit before). New: a website at rig.r-lib.org, user mode R installations, R package management and R projects. First of three blog posts, on R installations: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

R bindings to the new ggsql 0.5 beta has landed on CRAN pak::pak("ggsql") #rstats

Our research group at Apple is recruiting PhD interns working in human-centered AI, including #interpretability, #alignment, and #visualization. 🍎🤖 Please include the phrase “#human-ai-vis” in your resume or cover letter, and apply at: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

🎨 formatted spreadsheets can now make the round trip in R. {forgts} reads a formatted .xlsx file into a gt table, and the new {gtxlsx} package by J.M. Garbuszus writes it back out with fills, fonts, and colors #rstats post available in English and Spanish luisdva.github.io/rstats/round...

New in querychat: multiple tables, chat history, data-dict, and easy extraction of findings into Quarto, Shiny, Jupyter, etc. querychat is now much more capable beyond just querying "pre-defined" Shiny outputs. Available for both #rstats and #python. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09...

📦 Introducing shinyreact for R & Python Write your UI natively in React. Shrink your Shiny server to data-only logic. Agent Skills write the React for you. ✨ opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-09... This is the start! Tell us what you build and what breaks. #RStats #Python #Shiny #React

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

🎙️ Today on Regression to the Mean Girls @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I chat with the amazing @emilyriederer.bsky.social about a deep dive into election data! We chat data quality! Headless browser automation! Connections to EHR data! It’s great.

😍We were exceptionally lucky at Statistics Denmark to have @thomasp85.com giving a thorough {ggsql} intro, with a focus on motivation and the theoretical foundations 🗣: In the era of LLMs, READABILITY of the code is essential for humans; SQL tops here 🏆 🔗 slides: thomasp85.github.io/2026_ggsql_4...

As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release post

One of my greatest joys of the #rstats language is that it comes with both a runif() and stopifnot() function

Also, if you want to talk ggsql in any shape or form, come by during a break and I’ll be happy to chat

I’ll be presenting our work on #ggsql today at #PositConf2026 It will be lovely and whimsical and I hope you’ll join both if your are new to ggsql or have been following along since the spring

Just arrived in Houston. Looking forward to a week of Data Science, R, and Viz at #PositConf2026 Come say hi if you see me

New post on the company blog that does a great job showing just how convoluted using ODBC is and how painless database access can be with ADBC and dbc: columnar.tech/blog/odbc-dr...

Leland McInnes built UMAP to help humans (not AI) make sense of messy piles of images, documents, and video. His full thinking on data, taste, and exploration is on The Test Set. Listen now: https://posit.co/thetestset/episode/smuggled-gold-and-untrustworthy-intuition-with-leland-mcinnes

Also added to development version of ggsql too 🫡 Try it out in interactive examples at ggsql.org/syntax/coord.... ``` VISUALISE continent AS fill FROM ggsql:world DRAW spatial PROJECT TO equal_earth ```

New native renderer for #ggsql supporting smooth resizing, rich text layout (not shown), and infrastructure to support interactivity, plot composition and more is coming along nicely

Cut-outs from my posit::conf presentation

Ask more of your dashboard with querychat & ggsql! 📊 Explore data in your #RStats and #Python Shiny apps via natural language using safe, reproducible SQL and generate inline charts with ggsql. 🔗 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

📝 "Exploring other ggplot2 geoms" Level up your R data viz with these amazing ggplot2 plugins. 👤 Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social) 🔗 https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/other-geoms/ #rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie #reference

This is totally a glitch in the renderer and no-one can convince me otherwise

Ever used a ggplot2 extension package (like ggbump, geomtextpath, ggdensity) and wondered how they were made? @ginareynolds.bsky.social, @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and I will create an extension from scratch, live, tomorrow on the DS Lab! In #RStats and #Python! Register here: pos.it/dslab

One of the absolute best... among a backlog of absolutely terrific pieces!

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

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TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: June 24th & 29th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

I'm thrilled to share that #querychat now supports more exploratory visualization powered by #ggsql. We're excited about what this direction can unlock for data scientists looking to curate "tidy" data for others explore. Expect more on this in the coming months. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...