Jenny Bryan

Software engineer @posit_pbc, humane #rstats

Trying the mastodon thing at: @[email protected]
Also at: @jennybryan.bsky.social

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

Here's a few mastodon accounts I've staked out, but haven't really figured out what to do / which one to use. But putting this out there just in case! #rstats

https://t.co/3HwlYp2ep3
https://t.co/uIqUCkJ3ce
https://t.co/cyEfPnW516

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@thomas_mock @meghansharris @rfortherest lots of folks don't fully appreciate the un-safety / silliness of turning spreadsheet data (which has real types!) into a csv, then attempting to re-discover the types and re-parse it correctly from a csv

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@thomas_mock @meghansharris @rfortherest Ooh I love the advice in that clip! I agree that slurping data directly out of a spreadsheet is the "right" thing to do, whether its google sheets or excel. Maybe with the occasional "export to csv" as a backup 😬

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@andyhre ooh when you get some invites, can I have one? 🙏

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@JackK Is there a list of the 20+ programming languages? I've followed various links, but haven't found such a list yet. TIA.

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@DAYtheELF well, I'm sure there's a 🪰 expert perfectly suited for giving that talk as well -- maybe it's you! 😂

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@AllbriteAllday I revisited this topic in a lightning talk for NormConf last year, with slightly higher production values 😅

https://t.co/trJUklAo2O

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@dmi3k @NBISwe @topepos @xieyihui @chrisderv I would not pass up the chance to go to Visby! in person 🙋‍♀️

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@JohnHelveston that repo should at least give you some good ideas then

the surrounding world (mostly dplyr and tidyr) has changed since then, but that still doesn't solve everything

[NBIS @NBISwe]

🥳For this years #RaukR we are happy to have world-class guest lecturers @JennyBryan, @topepos, @xieyihui and @chrisderv from #posit helping us teach R!

Applications are still open at https://t.co/smH5VZSYPH

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@JohnHelveston not sure if you're looking for problems or solutions, but many moons ago I did a webinar on row-oriented work https://t.co/eZS3NFppEZ

[Posit PBC @posit_pbc]

posit::conf(2023) registration is now open. 🥳

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[Stephanie Hicks, PhD @stephaniehicks]

Dear world, Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

In honor of #IWD2023, I am extremely excited to share with you a new #childrensbook featuring some brilliant #Women in #Statistics and #DataScience!

📖 book: https://t.co/wcYvFpDL77
💻 blog: https://t.co/sRdwieCHOW

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@mtkonczal @DebbieCarlson1 once the origins of the term Joy Division became more clear, everyone involved decided "ridgeline plot" was a better name

https://t.co/nztitE4An5

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@antoine_fabri Advanced R gets into this a bit

https://t.co/wOfoeokgjC

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@CallmeAlfredo The GPT output does seem like code salad. I haven't tried to upload an image using googlesheets4. It should be possible, but you might have to use some of the lower level tooling. I.e. it might not be possible with a user-facing convenience function.

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@fulop_dan read_csv() calls this argument "name_repair". Note the lack of a leading ".".

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@ellis_hughes @_ColinFay re: intentional vagueness ... perhaps? hard to say

but sometimes all you can do is make sure to prevent ungraceful failure on CRAN

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@_ColinFay the problem is, if my package wraps an API, I don't want it to fail gracefully for my user, if their internet is down
I want it to fail loudly and informatively
so I'm not convinced this is a great, general design target for packages, hence my extreme pragmatism

[Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan]

@_ColinFay I would probably wrap curl::has_internet() in a helper with an escape hatch, i.e. that consults an option or env var before calling curl::has_internet(). Similar to how rlang::is_interactive() works.