Yihui's Social Feeds

roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats

Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

Charlie Gao (@shikokuchuo.net; 73/2/13; 2026-05-07): OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉

Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice.

Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05…

#Rstats ↪

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05-07_opentelemetry/

R-Podcast (Eric) (@rpodcast.bsky.social; 11/0/3; 2026-05-08): Episode 225 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/…

✨ {shiny.webawesome} (M.B. Anand)
📊 {ggplot2} hidden gems @nrennie.bsky.social
📃 Typst support in {knitr} @yihui.org

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

R-Ladies Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 2/0/1; 2026-05-02): 📝 “Why I’m excited to join RStudio, told through a blogdown metadata project”

👤 Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social)

🔗 https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/why-rstudio/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie #tutorial ↪

https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/why-rstudio/

knitr

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 11/0/2; 2026-04-28): A new document format .Rtyp in knitr for Typst output: yihui.org/en/2026/04/k… (I also wrote down my thoughts on Typst since people keep asking me; I stand firmly on the HTML path but I’ll be happy to continue supporting Typst and LaTeX, even though I don’t use them myself) ↪

The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois. If you'd like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX...

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Chris Adams (@chrisadamsecon.bsky.social; 7/0/5; 2026-04-24): The bookdown version of Learning Microeconometrics with R is back up and running: sites.google.com/view/microec…. Sorry for the inconvenience! #rstats #econtwitter #metrics #bookdown ↪

https://sites.google.com/view/microeconometricswithr/bookdown

knitr

SenseNSensibility (@sensensensibility.bsky.social; 7/1/0; 2026-04-25): Hope all is ok - since i dont see a new #showmeyourknits theme, how will I start my sat.? anyone knit anything from this book- or M. Storey in general? looks terrific, in particularly the one on the front cover may be my next knit.
Does he tend to have solid doable patterns? (Lite-intermed. knitr) ↪

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

samuel mehr (@mehr.nz; 1/1/0; 2026-04-16): yea probably - although I guess positron -> typora is a much more common action for me (this is for writing a book that is almost exclusively prose) so I don’t need to knit too often

I actually ended up doing it as one really long qmd though rather than the new version of bookdown - simpler tbh ↪

Arthur Albuquerque (@aalbuquerque.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2026-04-14): Oh, is that version different from the one you had in bookdown? ↪

One of a few more subtle palettes among the nudibranchs and slugs still to come! A gem doris. Less flashy with the visuals, still a stunning little nudi. Love this gradient of brown to gold with a splodge of sky blue. #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 7/1/1; 2026-04-06): #rstats Q: A section here describes automating GH actions for a bookdown book. Is there something similar for a #Quarto book?
orchid00.github.io/actions_sand… ↪

https://orchid00.github.io/actions_sandbox/websites-using-pkgdown-bookdown-and-blogdown.html

Naupaka Zimmerman (@phytobio.me; 2/0/0; 2026-04-06): I appreciate that all the figure/table cross refs etc are built in instead of having to wrangle bookdown. Means it’s a more streamlined experience for complex documents like manuscripts, which is a primary use case for me. Sweave could do all that, but it’s easier to read/write markdown vs TeX. ↪

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Ben Linzmeier (@delta18o.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-04-03): You could use the Bookdown package so it is all in R. Code + Text? Plus specifying package and R versions in it is probably possible? I haven’t looked very closely at it recently. ↪

GitRated (@gitrated.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-03-31): A new AI review! hadley/mastering-shiny ⭐3.6/5.0
hadley/mastering-shiny is the source repository for the Mastering Shiny book, built with bookdown and accompanied by a rich set of runnable Shiny demos/apps.
https://gitrated.com/hadley/mastering-shiny ↪

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

GitRated (@gitrated.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-03-26): A new AI review! hadley/adv-r ⭐3.6/5.0
This repository contains the source (text, figures, and build tooling) for Hadley Wickham’s Advanced R, published as a book and deployed as a static website via bookdown and GitHub Pages.
https://gitrated.com/hadley/adv-r ↪

https://gitrated.com/hadley/adv-r

knitr

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2026-03-28): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/reports.html#knitr ↪

https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/reports.html#knitr

Job Nmadu (@nnjob.bsky.social; 0/0/1; 2026-03-25): Just re-install knitr, rmarkdown and observe the effect. ↪

Happy #PiDay! Here's the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-02-24): Is anyone else seeing blogdown/netlify failing to build? ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2026-03-19): blogdown Creating Websites with R Markdown by Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas and Alison Presmanes Hill
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/blogdown.html#blogdown-creating-websites-with-r-markdown ↪

https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/blogdown.html#blogdown-creating-websites-with-r-markdown

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Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 79/2/16; 2026-03-14): Happy #PiDay!

Here’s the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats ↪

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 64/5/13; 2026-03-14): This video is bananas—you can estimate π from a ton of random coin flips bc the expected prop of heads/total after 50%+ of the flips are heads = π/4

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-02-24): Is anyone else seeing blogdown/netlify failing to build? ↪

bookdown

Riccardo Fusaroli (@fusaroli.eurosky.social; 2/0/0; 2026-03-11): I’ll be smart, I thought. Parallelized computations. Bookdown (I know, I’ll shift to quarto after teaching is done). I am learning sooo much on memory issues in R…. ↪

Chris Chapman (@cchapman.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-03-09): FWIW, pre-Quarto, I wrote a similar piece about this process using R + bookdown: quantuxblog.com/how-the-quan…

Despite that, I learned a lot more details from @kjhealy.co here 👏 ↪

This is pretty neat actually; using builder (builder.opifex.org) to translate #rstats {dplyr} code to {data.table} code at build time so you get zero overhead. ⚠️ it's an llm-generated POC plugin github.com/devOpifex/fa...

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-02-24): Is anyone else seeing blogdown/netlify failing to build? ↪

bookdown

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 1/1/0; 2026-03-05): Yeah, it’s set up as a Quarto book with parts and chapters (similar to bookdown), so I can manage version control with git, etc., and I can jump into Typora as needed for long-form writing/editing. Even if this weren’t a code-heavy document, I’d do the same thing bc citations, version control, etc ↪

#RStats is up baby www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-02-24): Is anyone else seeing blogdown/netlify failing to build? ↪

rstats

Jeremy Allen (@jeremy-data.bsky.social; 62/4/10; 2026-02-21): #RStats is up baby

www.infoworld.com/article/4129… ↪

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4129615/python-is-slipping-in-popularity-tiobe.html

Konsta Happonen (@konsta.happonen.eu; 62/15/7; 2026-02-21): So, what’s the next #rstats flame war on the schedule? Base |> vs. magrittr %>%? ↪

Norm Matloff (你有冇諗清楚呀?) (@matloff.bsky.social; 49/1/13; 2026-02-21): #rstats

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics will be running a special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the official release of R. (The Univ. of Auckland was the birthplace of R.) They invited various people to contribute articles, including me. 🧵 1/ ↪

Checks out. #rstats

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 6/1/0; 2026-02-17): Same for blogdown. My website is still baed on blogdown. But if I were to rebuild it, or if I was looking to make a new website, I’d just use quarto. It’s easier ↪

bookdown

Max kuhn (@topepo.bsky.social; 61/1/10; 2026-02-16): With bookdown.org being decommissioned, I’ve been working on converting #rstats books from #bookdown to #quartopub. After spending a lot of time with Claude to get it right for my two books, here’s a repo that might help you do the same (especially with Claude Code):

🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

Jörn Alexander Quent (@jaquent.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-02-11): If you want to give you figures different names (fig1.svg etc.) but still want to show them in the document without always typing them out you can also use this:

```{r, echo = FALSE}
knitr::include_graphics(plot_filename)
``` ↪

Heather Turner :rstats: (@heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 0/1/0; 2026-02-09): @eliocamp going via markdown seems an unnecessary complication in this case. Have you tried using the knitr integration? https://docs.overleaf.com/integrations-and-add-ons/r-code-knitr ↪

https://docs.overleaf.com/integrations-and-add-ons/r-code-knitr

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 (@favstats.eu; 63/1/20; 2026-02-05): 🚀 dashboardr is out!

I decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too! See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes emilhvitfeldt.com/post/r-color... #rstats

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-02-03): Updates on CRAN: BiostatsUHNplus (1.0.4), bittermelon (2.2.1), BiVariAn (1.0.3), blavaan (0.5-10), blogdown (1.23), bootStepAIC (1.4-0), BoutrosLab.plotting.general (7.1.5), bregr (1.4.0), broom (1.0.12), bruceR (2026.1), bslib (0.10.0), bspline (2.5.1), bspm (0.5.8), btb (0.2.2), btml (0.2.0) ↪

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Emil Hvitfeldt (@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social; 114/4/28; 2026-01-30): I decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too!

See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes

I genuinely had no idea #rstats technically has a module system. my_module <- new.env() source("helpers.R", local = my_module) my_module$add(1, 2)

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

aure 🌰🍂 (@maureviv.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-01-30): I haven’t moved (yet?) away from blogdown-hugo ↪

bookdown

Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 82/5/23; 2026-01-28): All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend.

1/3 ↪

Antoine Vernet (@antoinevernet.com; 2/2/0; 2026-01-28): I liked bookdown, but I think Quarto is basically doing most of the things that I dreamed the RMarkdown ecosystem would one day do!
I would love to read the blogpost, but the link appears broken.
1/2 ↪

The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up! solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/ 1/3 #rstats

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

Carlos Scheidegger (@cscheid.net; 2/0/0; 2026-01-23): I like to think our ergonomics are much better, but Quarto’s lineage is pretty directly from weave (knuth) to sweave (S, the precursor of R) to knitr (in R) to rmarkdown to quarto

And no, none of these words are in the Bible ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/1; 2026-01-20): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#knitr ↪

https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#knitr

tj mahr 🤘 (@tjmahr.com; 0/0/0; 2026-01-20): fwiw i autoconverted to the quarto chunk option style with

This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming. #rstats #python #databs

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-01-18): CRAN updates: blogdown #rstats ↪

bookdown

William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social; 6/0/0; 2026-01-14): they’re sunsetting bookdown too, just fucking kill me ig ↪

Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 3/1/1; 2026-01-14): The biggest change is it’s now made with Quarto, and is hosted by Quarto Pub at solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/. Due to changes wit Posit and bookdown, the old address will soon be dead.

2/3 ↪

https://solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/

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Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 109/14/12; 2026-01-10): This is the most elite change in #Positron, it’s so calming.

The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2 #rstats 1/8

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 16/3/5; 2026-01-06): #rstats blogdown/netlify users: you might have received an email saying your site will go away because something something prerendering.

If you go to the check link in the comments of the linked page (not the one in the text) it will likely tell you there’s no problem because your site is static🎉 ↪

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2026-01-06): Is this a blogdown thing or a netlify thing? I’ve not seen any correspondence ↪

If you use Positron / VS Code and the Material Icon theme (which is nice!), it sometimes guesses folder icons wrong / doesn't know about #rstats things like targets or renv or Quarto. Just found out that you can set your own custom folder icons! gist.github.com/rupeshtiwari...

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 2/0/0; 2026-01-03): I found it pretty straightforward to migrate my old hugo/blogdown site to a quarto blog

Good luck with whatever option you go with! ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/1; 2025-12-29): blogdown Creating Websites with R Markdown by Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas and Alison Presmanes Hill
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/blogdown.html#blogdown-creating-websites-with-r-markdown ↪

https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/blogdown.html#blogdown-creating-websites-with-r-markdown

bookdown

Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social; 22/0/14; 2026-01-03): It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I’ve migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W… ↪

Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨. Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️ Apply by 18 Jan 👉 jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-... #statssky #statsky

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

gzt aka zoidberg (@giziti.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2025-12-21): Nice. Yeah here’s definitely caveats to that kind of full automation. I went to grad school with the creator of knitr (for R heads…) ↪

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Emi Tanaka (@emitanaka.org; 41/0/29; 2025-12-19): Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨.

Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️

Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-20): Updates on CRAN: DOVE (1.11), knitr (1.51), npANCOVA (0.1.1), Rsomoclu (1.7.7), tidypopgen (0.4.1) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-20): CRAN updates: knitr npANCOVA Rsomoclu tidypopgen #rstats ↪

litedown

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-18): Updates on CRAN: biogrowth (1.0.8), dang (0.0.17), EasyABC (1.6), gbutils (0.5.1), jpinfect (0.1.9), litedown (0.9), metap (1.13), mixture (2.2.0), psre (0.4) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-18): CRAN updates: gbutils litedown metap mixture psre #rstats ↪

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ’ꜱ (@drmowinckels.io; 1/1/0; 2025-12-09): Day 9: Vignettes with knitr and rmarkdown

Create comprehensive tutorials and examples for your package.

usethis::use_vignette(“getting-started”)

● Start with a clear problem statement
● Show realistic examples
● Keep computational time under 5 minutes

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 ↪

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Harriet Mason (@harriet-mason.bsky.social; 111/2/37; 2025-12-06): HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in…

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats ↪

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Posit (@posit.co; 5/1/10; 2025-12-05): 📢 Announcement: We are sunsetting the bookdown.org public hosting service.

If you have #RStats docs on bookdown.org, please migrate them to a new platform by January 31, 2026, to maintain control over your content. (We recommend Posit Connect Cloud!)

Learn more: posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset ↪

The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 1/0/0; 2025-12-06): bookdown.org Hosting Service Sunset

https://posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset/

#rstats #datascience ↪

https://posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset/

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 (@hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy; 0/1/0; 2025-12-06): Huh. Rly glad I never jumped on the bookdown[.]org bandwagon. ↪

Ever wonder which international border is closest? This map divides Germany into 9 zones, showing the nearest neighbor for any given point. Germany borders more European countries than any other nation.* #30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Natural Earth #rstats #ggplot2

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Colin Madland 🇨🇦 (@cmad.land; 0/1/0; 2025-11-29): Then I started learning #r when I started my PhD and discovered #bookdown for scholarly publishing…which leads me to @quarto.org which I think is a significantly underappreciated publishing workflow for #highered courses #edusky ↪

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Elio Campitelli (@eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy; 24/3/8; 2025-11-27): New knitr / #QuartoPub #RStats trick. Add this to your setup to add automatic string interpolation to your captions. ↪

Lorenzo Gaborini (@lgaborini.bsky.social; 5/0/0; 2025-11-23): Yes officially with the recent {quarto} package:
cran.r-project.org/web/packages…

Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

knitr

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2025-11-22): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/reports.html#knitr ↪

https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/reports.html#knitr

eli knaap (@knaaptime.com; 0/1/0; 2025-11-19): as part of this journey, i also learned that knitr (and thus quarto, as a side effect) can automatically translate interactive graphics (e.g. leaflet maps) into static images via webshot2 (github.com/rstudio/webs…), which is just awesome and i wish the jupyter engine could pull that off too ↪

https://github.com/rstudio/webshot2

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Emi Tanaka (@emitanaka.org; 71/1/12; 2025-11-16): Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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LBrenes (@lbrenes.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2025-11-11): I learn something new every time with @ivelasq3.bsky.social , or finally understand something that has eluded me. In this case, #Quarto + knitr::knit_child() + params. I can’t find the recording to follow the demos but the slides alone will get you there. Thanks for sharing! #rstats ↪

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Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 452/43/163; 2025-11-06): Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don’t worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp….

Happy Halloween #statsky (and #rstats)

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Giles (@gdeejay.bsky.social; 218/6/27; 2025-11-01): Happy Halloween #statsky (and #rstats) ↪

terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 78/5/9; 2025-10-31): Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale ↪

Ansgar Wolsing (@ansgarw.bsky.social; 59/2/5; 2025-11-01): 🚴 Where do bike accidents with personal injuries happen in Cologne?
This map shows hotspots within 2.5 km of the city center in 2024. Each purple dot = one accident involving a bike where someone got hurt.

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 01 - Points #rstats ↪

Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme. #RStats #Python #RIPDavidLynch

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-10-28): Updates on CRAN: arcgislayers (0.5.2), blogdown (1.22), DrugSim2DR (0.1.2), FossilSim (2.4.2), lefko3 (6.6.0), pedtools (2.9.0), reformulas (0.4.2), rsconnect (1.6.0), SelfControlledCaseSeries (6.1.1), wbwdi (1.0.2) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-10-28): CRAN updates: blogdown DrugSim2DR lefko3 pedtools reformulas rsconnect SelfControlledCaseSeries wbwdi #rstats ↪

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Lee Heffner (@leeheffer.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-10-29): #BookishTues The first line of a new book is the ignition for the reader. It either stutters and fails or it sparks and pulls the reader along. I recently put a bookdown after the first sentence because it had 3 adverbs before the first period. Unacceptable.
#writingprompts ↪

💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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troy_phd (@troyhernandez.bsky.social; 2/0/0; 2025-10-25): I like blogdown and Hugo.
It’s a blog not a podcast, frequency and consistency aren’t that important ↪

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SMT (@pp0196.bsky.social; 2/0/0; 2025-10-23): je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais j ai l impression que c’est fait avec litedown ↪

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Achim Zeileis (@zeileis.org; 55/1/14; 2025-10-17): 💡 Came across this nice tool today:

🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz

JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats

Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero #rstats www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t...

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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R-Podcast (Eric) (@rpodcast.bsky.social; 8/0/0; 2025-10-18): I’m thrilled to share that awesome-blogdown lives on! I have benefited immensely from {blogdown} to create a web presence entirely from R, and there is no way I was going to let this slip away 😀

🏠 New site awesome-blogdown.org
📣 Announcement awesome-blogdown.org/site-update/

#databs #RStats ↪

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Dan Quintana (@dsquintana.bsky.social; 74/3/30; 2025-10-17): Here are two “I can’t believe these are free” online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to.

Yihui's Social Feeds

roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats

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R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

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The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois. If you'd like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX...

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Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

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One of a few more subtle palettes among the nudibranchs and slugs still to come! A gem doris. Less flashy with the visuals, still a stunning little nudi. Love this gradient of brown to gold with a splodge of sky blue. #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

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🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

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We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

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Happy #PiDay! Here's the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats

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These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

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This is pretty neat actually; using builder (builder.opifex.org) to translate #rstats {dplyr} code to {data.table} code **at build time** so you get zero overhead. ⚠️ it's an llm-generated POC plugin github.com/devOpifex/fa...

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#RStats is up baby www.infoworld.com/article/4129...

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Checks out. #rstats

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I decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too! See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes emilhvitfeldt.com/post/r-color... #rstats

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I genuinely had no idea #rstats technically has a module system. my_module <- new.env() source("helpers.R", local = my_module) my_module$add(1, 2)

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The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up! solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/ 1/3 #rstats

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This is the most elite change in #Positron, it's so calming. #rstats #python #databs

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The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke's "Doing Bayesian data analysis" is up! solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2 #rstats 1/8

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If you use Positron / VS Code and the Material Icon theme (which is nice!), it sometimes guesses folder icons wrong / doesn't know about #rstats things like targets or renv or Quarto. Just found out that you can set your own custom folder icons! gist.github.com/rupeshtiwari...

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Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

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#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

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Ever wonder which international border is closest? This map divides Germany into 9 zones, showing the nearest neighbor for any given point. Germany borders more European countries than any other nation.* #30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Natural Earth #rstats #ggplot2

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Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.

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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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Happy Halloween #statsky (and #rstats)

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Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme. #RStats #Python #RIPDavidLynch

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💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

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This is pretty neat actually; using builder (builder.opifex.org) to translate #rstats {dplyr} code to {data.table} code at build time so you get zero overhead. ⚠️ it's an llm-generated POC plugin github.com/devOpifex/fa...