@rladiesmelb
A local chapter of @rladies.org & a registered non-profit, R-Ladies Melbourne Inc. promotes gender #diversity & #inclusivity in the R community #Rstats! 🐨🇦🇺 Website: https://r-ladiesmelbourne.github.io/ LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/rladiesmelbourne
‼️ Upcoming Event ‼️
Join us and Dr Kate Saunders who will present on “Data driven decision making for fantasy basketball.”
Interested in turning data into decisions? Sports analytics or forecasting?
Register now on meetup! shorturl.at/CECCC
📆 18 Mar, 5.30-7.30pm
📍DiUS, Level 3, 31 Queen St Melbourne
📢 Contributor Office Hour (AMER)
📅 February 12, 09:30 - 10:30 PST
Join us online to
- discuss how to get started contributing to R
- get help/feedback on contributions you are working on
- look at open bugs/work on translations together
https://www.meetup.com/r-contributors/events/313023308
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
A graphic for Posit featuring a hexagonal sticker with a camel carrying boxes and "yaml12" text, over a blue wave background.
Announcing yaml12: High-speed YAML 1.2 for #RStats & #Python 🐫
Built entirely in Rust, get up to 2x faster in R and 50x faster in Python vs. defaults, tag evaluation (like code execution) is opt-in, and strict YAML 1.2 compliance for consistent data.
Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01...
We’re back for 2026! 💜
R-Ladies+ Melbourne is gearing up for a big year of events, learning, and community.
Stay tuned and see you soon! 👩💻📊 #RLadies #RStats #WomeninSTEM
Tomorrow's #DSLab is gonna be interesting because I've never used AI to help write analysis code, or do any analysis at all! Super curious what this will look like and excited for you to meet @sara-altman.bsky.social if you haven't yet! She's part of the AI team here at #Posit!
#rstats #databs
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Risk 2026 · Full schedule available!
R is used to calculate, measure, report, or mitigate risk. Find out the latest techniques, ask your questions directly to speakers, connect with other R users.
Reproducibility, AI, Security, risk visuals...
rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website...
#rstats
Good news: The posit::conf(2026) Call for Talks has been extended to Friday, February 20!
Join us in Houston to share your work with the R & Python community.
🎤 Speakers receive: Professional coaching, free conference pass, travel assistance
Submit your 20-min talk proposal: pos.it/conf-talk-2026
Join us Thu 11 Dec, 5:30pm at The Clyde rooftop (Carlton) for the R-Ladies+ Melbourne end-of-year meetup! 🌟
Celebrate 2025 highlights, connect with the community, and hear from 5 inspiring mentors across public health, genomics, bioinformatics & software. Register on Meetup!
buff.ly/McL9fs1
**Just 2 in-person tickets left at this event, a wait list is available!**
📢 R Dev Day @ Australia
🏢 Monash University, Melbourne
🌐 Remote, Australia
📅 Fri 21 Nov
Registration deadline: Sun 16 Nov
https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-oz-25/
Attend this free event to collaborate on […]
Thank you everyone to joined us last night at our event with @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 💜
We learned so much about the conception & growth of R Dev Days and how #RLadies have contributed!
Sign up for R Dev Day in Melb now!
🔗 www.meetup.com/r-contributo...
#rstats #WomeninSTEM
📣 ‼️ This week we’re hosting Dr Heather Turner! 📣 ‼️
She’ll share insights from R Dev Days, collaborative efforts contributing to #Rstats, documentation, translations & more, including great work from the R-Ladies community!
🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO
📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm
📍 Monash City Campus
Whether you’re an R-Ladies member, BioCAsia participant, or just passionate about R and bioinformatics — everyone’s welcome. Light refreshments provided!
Wrap up the ABACBS Conference 2025 with us at the BioCAsia × R-Ladies Melbourne Networking Event! 🎉 An evening of connection, community & conversation before the BioCAsia workshops kick off.
📅 Wed 26 Nov 2025
🕓 After ABACBS Closing (~4:30 pm)
📍Malt Shovel Taphouse
💸 Free
Register: buff.ly/fxoH0VT
Just discovered this gem from R-Ladies Ottawa and wow, what a game-changer for our quarto slides preparations! 🙌 The clarity & structure are exactly what we needed. Huge thanks to the Melissa Van Bussel for sharing this💡
buff.ly/fI5RKVU
#Rladies #DataScience #QuartoSlides #GitHubActions
Excited to host Dr Heather Turner, leading #RStats developer & statistician! 🎉
She’ll share insights from #RDevDays: collaborative events where contributors, including women & gender minorities, work on base #R, dashboards & more.
🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO
📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm
📍 TBA
Starting right now !!! Join us to celebrate our 9th birthday with SSA! #rstats #rladies
This was supposed to be a quiet release, so I can refer to it in my upcoming talk, and I wasn't expecting many likes for this article. Thank you for your interest ☺️
A summary to come out when the paper is hopefully accepted 🤞
Join us tomorrow for a drink and a chat with SSA Victoria at Father's Office! Be there by 5pm to make it for Happy Hour 🍻💜
Just over 24 hours to go! 🎉 Join us for an exciting R-Ladies+ panel on The People, Purpose & Power of R-Ladies+. See thread below to be part of it!
Join us tomorrow for the International Day of Women in Statistics & Data Science conference in a panel "More Than Code: The People, Purpose, and Power of R-Ladies+" with Dionne & Felicia (Melb), Kristy & Giorgia (Syd), organised by Hunna Watson!
🔗 www.idwsds.org
🕓 12-1pm AEDT
#rstats #rladies
🎮 Did you know you can make video games in R?
The {nessy} package lets you create NES-style Shiny apps and deploy them just like any other Shiny app. Who said R is only for stats? 🚀
#RStats #Shiny #RLang #DataScience #VideoGames
📱✨ Check out {pushoverr} — an R package for sending push notifications straight from your scripts! Perfect for alerts when jobs finish, results are ready, or plots are generated.
🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=pushoverr
#rstats #RPackage #DataScience
🎲 Want to add a little playfulness to your R sessions? Check out {fun}- a package full of classic games (Minesweeper, sliding puzzles, Gomoku) and quirky utilities all in R.
Try demo(package = "fun") to see what it can do!
🔗 cran.r-project.org/package=fun
#rstats #RPackage #UseR #FunWithR
Be sure to arrive on time to make it for happy hour 🍻
It's our 9th birthday and you're all invited to celebrate with us! 💜
We are partnering up with the Statistical Society of Australia to host a Social Night!
🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb...
📅 Thu 16 Oct, 5-7pm
📌 Father's Office
#StatSocAus #rladies #stats #rstats
Did you know? R was developed by Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman at the University of Auckland in the early 1990s. It's a free #opensource language designed specifically for statistical computing & data analysis. Today it's a go-to tool for statisticians & data scientists!
#RStats #DataScience
✨ Check out {cli} - an R package for beautiful command-line interfaces!
Use it to add headings, alerts, lists, progress bars & more, with built-in colors and themes. Perfect for making console output clear and stylish.
🔗 github.com/r-lib/cli
#rstats #RPackage #cli
Big news: R-Ladies Melbourne turns 9 on October 18th! 🥳💜
We’re so proud of this amazing community of R users, learners, and enthusiasts who have been building, sharing, and supporting each other since 2015.
Stay tuned: we’ll be celebrating soon! ✨
#RLadies #RStats #Melbourne
Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for ✨ Plot Twist: Bringing Your ggplot2 Visuals to Life with ggplotly with Dr. Kirsty McCann!
We loved seeing the community come together to explore interactive data viz. 🚀📊
#rstats #ggplot2 #ggplotly