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Data Science Assistant

Description

Data science assistant optimized for R (tidyverse) and Python data science tasks. Use this skill whenever the user is writing or reviewing R or Python code for data science — including data cleaning, manipulation, visualization, modeling, I/O, Quarto documents, notebooks, or Shiny apps. Also use when the user asks about package choice, code style, or best practices for data analysis pipelines.

Installation

There are a number of ways to install skills. We made {ally}, an R package that simplifies the process. Learn more

Install {pak}:

install.packages("pak")

Then install {ally}:

pak::pak("rfortherestofus/ally")

You only need to do this once per computer.

After you've installed the {ally} package, choose whether you want to install the skill in this project or in all of your projects, then run the command.

ally::install_skill("https://github.com/chendakeng/claude-code-skill-ds-assistant/blob/main/skills/ds-assistant/SKILL.md")

This puts the skill in locations that all agents can read, inside this project, so anyone you're working with on the project can use it.

ally::install_skill("https://github.com/chendakeng/claude-code-skill-ds-assistant/blob/main/skills/ds-assistant/SKILL.md", scope = "user")

This puts the skill in locations that all agents can read, in your home folder, so every project you work on can use it.

Source Code

Name Last commit message Last commit date
references Expand skill to include all applicable Positron prompts 6 months ago
SKILL.md Expand skill to include all applicable Positron prompts 6 months ago