Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com 路 Jun 11

I've been getting a lot more out of Claude Code after hooking it up to tools that let it read #rstats pkg docs. I just type "read about some::topic" before tasking Claude with things that are unlikely to be in its training data, and the model will pull up whatever help files it needs.

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Sharon Machlis 路 Jun 11

That seems a lot handier than uploading package documentation manually and saving it in various projects

Dylan Johns 路 Jun 11

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Simon P. Couch 路 Jun 11

If you're a CC and R user and want to try this out, use `pak::pak("posit-dev/acquaint")` and then `claude mcp add -s "user" r-acquaint -- Rscript -e "acquaint::mcp_server()"`. More on acquaint, an R package that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in R: posit-dev.github.io/acquaint/