Join my for my talk: ‘Me, Myself, & Claude’ on AI-Assisted R Development and lessons from my consulting practice at the Inaugural R+AI Conference virtually on November 12, 2025 🎉

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology announced the release of AviList— the first unified global bird taxonomy. Today, I'm excited to share that this groundbreaking dataset is now available to R users through the avilistr package on CRAN.

I’m excited to share that my open source R packages, {shinyLP} and {ttbbeer}, have officially hit 100,000 combined downloads!

Jasmine Daly and Beni Altmann are presenting a talk on The CRAN Cookbook: Improving the Skills of R Package Maintainers at the LatinR Conference. This conference features talks and tutorials about the use of R in R&D across various domains to virtual audiences on November 18-22, 2024.