You're gonna watch this video about sloths and think you know how it ends. BUT YOU DO NOT.

Open source is such fulfilling work.

New: Vanderbilt University just turned over their transgender patients’ private medical records to Tennessee’s Republican attorney general to be used in his investigation targeting LGBTQ patients. Vanderbilt says they were “obligated to comply.” tennessean.com/story/news/hea…

If you missed the R/Med 2023 Conference, keep an eye on the R Consortium Youtube channel for #RMed2023 content! Jeff Leek presents his keynote on “DataTrail & its Extensions - How You Can Build a Local Pipeline of Talent for Your Medical Center.” #Rstats ➡️youtu.be/v6yzsaiXV4M

📢 CRAN Team announcement (2023-07-12): CRAN submissions not possible due to issues - you'll see "Unpacking failed. Please make sure the tar.gz was created with R CMD build" CRAN incoming queue: 2 days delay right now CRAN submission summer break: Jul 21-Aug 7, 2023 #RStats

Hey #RStats, I've just released a minor update to my #ggplot2 extension ggh4x and below I'll highlight a few changes 🧵

Small new pkg 'badgen' on CRAN to generate pretty badges in R (without internet): docs.cran.dev/badgen

BREAKING: Video of a white cop unleashing a vicious dog on an unarmed black man in Ohio is repulsive in the extreme and another sign of police racism. This was going to end up as a murder until other officers intervened. It's indisputable: Fire the cop and prosecute him.

Had a great time teaching an #rstats dev workshop and chairing the #reproducibility section at SummeR Bay Area R Meetup last week San José State University! Big THANK YOU to the presenters Michael Chirico Gabe Becker stars , and the organizers who made it all happen!

AMAZING to see the {pointblank} #rstats package graduate to the official RStudio GitHub organization. It's a world-class package for data validation. Congratulations Richard Iannone ! github.com/rstudio/pointb…

The {gtsummary} #rstats package's latest release is now on CRAN! Check it out! 🧐🧐🧐 danieldsjoberg.com/gtsummary/

[BLOG POST] Documentation and datasets are the topics of the eighth Posit blog post for version 0.9.0 of {gt}. In this post, we talk about how we are trying to make the documentation better for you, and, why we’re so obsessed with datasets! posit.co/blog/new-datas…

New paper out on sex-specific genetic risk factors for melanoma. Sex-Specific Associations of MDM2 and MDM4 Variants with Risk of Multiple Primary Melanomas and Melanoma Survival in Non-Hispanic Whites mdpi.com/2288474 #mdpicancers via Cancers MDPI

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Our latest paper on genetic variants that affect vitamin D metabolism and their relationship with melanoma prognosis: Association of functional, inherited vitamin D–binding protein variants with melanoma-specific death academic.oup.com/jncics/article…

gt `0.10.0` is now out on CRAN. Here are some new features: - nanoplots, tiny interactive plots - add columns/rows to your table - units notation - the `from_column()` helper - `fmt_icon()` for adding icons! The full set of release notes available here: github.com/rstudio/gt/rel….

The new version of gtsummary is heading to CRAN this week. Please take a moment to test the dev package before the BIG release. #rstats #cran #gtsummary #datascience