Luis D. Verde Arregoitia

villain from mad max fury road, with the caption "Do not, my friends, become addicted to LLM tokens, They will take hold of you and you will resent their absence"

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Really useful #QuartoPub extension, especially for things like online event schedules 👇

Inline Asynchronous Generator Results into Documents Given a coro asynchronous generator instance that produces text, write that text into a document selection in RStudio and Positron. This is particularly helpful for streaming large language model resp...

Useful LLM-related package by @simonpcouch.com that has been flying under the radar but deserves attention, especially with that logo

simonpcouch.github.io/streamy/

A Few Claude Skills for R Users – R Works The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.

Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.

Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡

rworks.dev/posts/claude...

save me some!

Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2026) in Houston!
We’re offering 40 full-support scholarships for underrepresented groups in data science. Includes: 🎟️ Conference+Workshop pass 🏨 Hotel stay ✈️ Travel reimbursement
Apply by March 13: posit.co/blog/apply-t...
#positconf2026 #rstats

battling to use all the horizontal space in slides for plots or images😅

English version now available
luisdva.github.io/rstats/RRstu...

🚨 Último día 🚨
Hoy 20/2 cierra la convocatoria del Programa de Campeon(a|e)s
12 meses de mentoría, formación y comunidad en software científico y ciencia abierta, con foco en América Latina y en español.
⏰ Aplicá hoy 👉 champions-program.ropensci.org
Sumate a la próxima cohorte 💙
#RStats

a good part of the packages on the guide are Simonverse LLM tools for R and I'm sure I'm still missing a few😅

I'm very grateful that Luis maintains this guide. Very much recommend to those who haven't poked around there before! #rstats

Feb. update to the LLM+R guide 💪

8 new packages including:
code review, predictive modeling, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, HuggingFace integration, Gemini CLI companion, a CLI coding agent written in R🤯 ,and more!

available in English 🇱🇷 and Spanish 🇲🇽
luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
#rstats

Aplica antes del 20/02: champions-program.ropensci.org!

El Programa está dirigido especialmente a personas que:
🌎 Son de América Latina o trabajan allí
🧠 Tienen experiencia en #RStats y quieren aprender más
🗣️ Se sienten cómodas comunicándose en español
🤝 Quieren fortalecer sus comunidades locales

Ten simple rules for teaching data science Teaching data science presents unique challenges and opportunities that cannot be fully addressed by simply borrowing pedagogical strategies from its parent disciplines of statistics and computer scie...

"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874

A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!

R (el lenguaje de código abierto) y RStudio (el IDE de Posit) son cosas distintas, pero en muchos países de habla hispana usamos los términos indistintamente.

Escribí sobre este fenómeno lingüistico/cultural, considerando la adopción (o no) de Positron

luisdva.github.io/rstats/RRstu...
#rstats

OpenAccess science sounds great! But what if authors have to pay (Gold OA)? Well, clear biases appear: less participation from low and middle-income countries.

Find all about it in our new study led by Pablo Huais and Javi Nori 👇@oikosjournal.bsky.social

shorturl.at/bheb6

@peeer.bsky.social

New paper out today, 'Global North-South science inequalities due to language and funding barriers'

We highlight how language and funding barriers can compound inequity and offer practical recommendations to bridge these gaps.

Read the Open Access paper here! 👉 tinyurl.com/654ztk3w

ragnar 0.3.0 The new release of ragnar adds faster ingestion, new embedding providers, improved retrieval, and new integrations for using ragnar stores from tools.

ragnar 0.3.0 is now on CRAN! 🚀 An R toolkit for RAG from your docs: faster ingestion, better retrieval, Azure OpenAI + Snowflake embeddings, and MCP serving. tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01...

#rstats #rag #ai

We know that marine fishes 🐠 have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater 🐟?

Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-Pérez and friends (not just colleagues) 🤿 👇

shorturl.at/zgKfA

Closing The Loop with Our 2025 Wrap-up a post where we reflect on a year of shared learning and collaboration. Take a look at our wrap-up and our plans for 2026.

✍️ [blog] Closing The Loop with Our 2025 Wrap-up by The rOpenSci Team

A post reflecting on a year of shared learning and collaboration. Take a look at our wrap-up and our plans for 2026.

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/22/yearinreview2025/

#RStats #OpenScience

🤖 New update to the LLMs+R guide (ENG+SPA)

14 new pkgs plus reading materials
* AI assistants in RStudio
* Ralph Wiggum Coding in R
* local model tools
* auto-routing to the most cost-efficient model
* manage prompts w/ external files
* translations in the IDE
#rstats
luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

Advances in the Biogeography of Neotropical Mammals Recent computational and methodological advances in phylogenetics and bioinformatics, along with the increasing availability of evolutionary and ecological data, have produced deeper insights into the...

What do we know about mammal biodiversity patterns in the American tropics? Find out in the new book chapter by @liomys.mx and yours truly 👇

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

The whole book is a gem for those interested in the study of mammals of one of the world's most diverse regions!

Back from holiday and it's finally time to post about this. I am taking on a section editor role for the new diamond open access journal Biogeography, put together by @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social. That means that it's free to publish and free to read. (thread)

biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up!

solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/

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#rstats

Big news for Cambridge Prisms: Extinction! 🎉

We’re now indexed in ESCI and will be announcing our first Journal Impact Factor this summer.

A huge milestone for the journal and the extinction research community. Learn more and read the latest articles here: https://cup.org/4bsn3vl

Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026! You can now apply to participate in the 2026 Champions Program. We are looking for people to participate in mentoring roles and to become Champions.

🚀 We're pleased to open the call for Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026-2027, a 12-month journey in open science, research software, and community building.

🌎 This year's cohort will be run in Spanish and focused on Latin America

More info at ropensci.org/blog/2026/01...

Software Libre de Investigacion en America Latina · Community Call Venite a conversar con Diana Garcia, Erick Navarro y Luis Verde Arregoitia sobre su experiencia como campeon(e|a)s y mentores de rOpenSci y como podes aplicar para cualquiera de los dos roles.

Software Libre de Investigacion en America Latina ropensci.org/es/commcalls...

RDM Weekly - Issue 027 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

RDM Weekly is back with Issue 27! 📬

➡️ Can a CC License Constrain Fair Use or Other Copyright Limitations or Exemptions @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
➡️ Notion for Academic Research @rmkubinec.bsky.social
➡️ FAIR RDM Tutorial @lmu-osc.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant.

blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

It’s reached that time of year again where I gently suggest you hang on to your manuscripts and submit them early in 2026. Otherwise they’re likely to just sit on a virtual to do list for the next 3 weeks sending auto-reminders to editors/reviewers. 🎄