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Jul 10, 2025

Summer Updates: Bricks, Bikes, and Brilliant Students

Jul 10, 2025

From brewery brick reveals to charity bike rides, this month has been all about community connections. I'm sharing updates on my custom brick at a local brewery, CT Challenge fundraising ride, and the exciting conservation analytics project I'm mentoring. Plus, there are still free hex stickers up for grabs!

Introducing {avilistr}: The AviList Global Bird Taxonomy is Now Available in R

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.

100k Combined Downloads for shinyLP & ttbbeer — A Big Thank You to the R Community

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

Jasmine Daly & Beni Altmann Present at LatinR Conference

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.