Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/development-environment-portable-reproducible. You upgrade your old Intel Macbook Pro for a new M4 MBP. You’re setting up a new cloud VM on AWS after migrating away from GCP. You get an account on your institution’s new HPC. You have everything just so in your development environment, and now you have to remember how to set everything up again.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/codex-positron. Last month I wrote about agentic coding in Positron using Positron assistant, which uses the Claude API on the back end.Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R Stephen Turner·Jul 16Read full story Yesterday OpenAI announced a series of updates to Codex, the biggest being an IDE extension to allow you to use Codex in VS

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-assistant-copilot-chat-agent I have a little hobby project I’m working on and I wanted to use the opportunity to fully make the switch to Positron from RStudio. I used Positron here and there when it first came out, but now that it’s out of beta and has a more complete feature set (like remote SSH sessions!) I have everything I need to switch and not look back.

Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/tidy-rag-in-r-with-ragnar Retrieval augmented generation in R using the ragnar package. Demonstration: scraping text from relevant links on a website and using RAG to ask about a university's grant funding.

Reposted from the original at: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-production-ai ... Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, &

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/quarto-books. ...In the spirit of learning in public, I wanted an excuse to dive into Quarto to learn more about publishing formats beyond simple PDF and HTML documents.If you’re not familiar, Quarto (quarto.org) is the successor to RMarkdown, the next-generation scientific publishing system that works natively with Python, R, and OJS.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/uv-part-3-python-in-r-with-reticulate. Two demos using Python in R via reticulate+uv: (1) Hugging Face transformers for sentiment analysis, (2) pyBigWig to query a BigWig file and visualize with ggplot2.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/r-450-bioconductor-321. Faster package installation, import only the functions you want with use(), built-in Palmer penguins data, grep values shortcut, and lots of new bioinformatics packages in Bioconductor ... R 4.5.0 was released last week, and Bioconductor 3.21 came a few days later.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesky-analysis-claude-llama-tidyverse.

Reposted from Paired Ends at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/llm-translate-documentation. ---The lang package overrides the ? and help() functions in your R session. The translated help page will appear in the help pane in RStudio or Positron. It can also translate your Roxygen documentation.

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/github-repo-to-text-for-llm-input. ---  If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or even some local model through Ollama or HuggingFace Assistants, you’ll know that the chat interface makes it challenging to feed in an entire repo like a Python or R package, because functions, tests, etc. can be scattered across many files throughout a repo.