r-skills

Claude Code plugin providing skills for R programming. Complementary to Posit skills.

Installation

Via Marketplace (recommended)

After pushing to GitHub:

/plugin marketplace add jsperger/llm-r-skills
/plugin install r-skills@r-skills

Local Development

claude --plugin-dir /path/to/r-skills

Dependencies

For full functionality, the following are required:

• languageserver - R package for LSP support
• jq - JSON processor for hooks
• air - R code formatter

Skills

designing-tidy-r-functions

Guidelines for designing user-friendly R function APIs, covering naming conventions, argument ordering, and output stability.

ggplot2

ggplot2 4.0+ features including S7 migration, theme defaults, and new scale/position aesthetics.

hardhat

Infrastructure for building tidymodels-compatible modeling packages using mold() and forge().

metaprogramming

Techniques for manipulating R expressions using rlang: defuse-and-inject pattern, quosures, and symbol construction.

rlang-conditions

Error handling with rlang and cli: formatted output, error chaining, and input validation.

targets-pipelines

Complex targets patterns: static branching, dynamic branching, hybrid patterns, and custom target factories.

tidy-evaluation

Programming patterns for data-masked functions in the tidyverse using {{}} and managing variable ambiguity.

tidymodels-overview

Overview of the tidymodels ecosystem for machine learning in R.