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.

Reposted from https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/tech-im-thankful-for-2024 Data science and bioinformatics tech I'm thankful for in 2024: tidyverse, RStudio, Positron, Bluesky, blogs, Quarto, bioRxiv, LLMs for code, Ollama, Seqera Containers, StackOverflow, ...It’s a short week here in the US. As I reflect on the tools that shape modern bioinformatics and data science it’s striking to see how far we’ve come in the 20 years I’ve

This is reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/expand-your-bluesky-network-with-r. ---I’m encouraging everyone I know online to join the scientific community on Bluesky.Bluesky for Science Stephen Turner·Nov 16Read full storyIn that post I link to several starter packs — lists of accounts posting about a topic that you can follow individually or all at once to start filling out your network.I started

Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/python-cli-click-cookiecutter. --- In the spirit of Learning in Public, I wanted an excuse to explore (1) click for creating command line interfaces, (2) Cookiecutter project templates, and (3) modern tools in the Python packaging ecosystem.