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Here's a useful page with a ton of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Gavin Simpson (@gsimpson.bsky.social; 4/3/0; 2026-07-29): It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently

Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I’ve spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats ↪

James M. Ward (@jmw86069.bsky.social; 3/1/0; 2026-07-26): Love to see these words:

“Thanks, on its way to CRAN.”
Thanks Uwe Ligges!
#rstats

Is the heat of June 2026 in France a "black Swan" climate event ? Looking at the data, the answer is: NO. And it is even more worying: June 2026 is a standard product of the warming trend. Let me show you with #Rstats graph from @infoclimat.fr data #climate ⬇️🧵 1/3

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

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Denis Mongin (@denismongin.bsky.social; 96/3/43; 2026-07-13): Is the heat of June 2026 in France a “black Swan” climate event ?

Looking at the data, the answer is: NO.

And it is even more worying: June 2026 is a standard product of the warming trend.
Let me show you with #Rstats graph from @infoclimat.fr data
#climate
⬇️🧵 1/3 ↪

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 45/3/4; 2026-07-14): Roads!

(Pivot, I’m just doing Simcity in R now)

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

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

blogdown

Nick Tierney (@njtierney.bsky.social; 11/1/0; 2026-07-14): Just migrated my #rstats blog from blogdown/hugodown to quarto using claude! Was quite straightforward, if a bit iterative.

Have a look at the new (nearly identical) website here: www.njtierney.com ↪

https://www.njtierney.com/

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-15): 11/
Action item:
• Push your code to GitHub
• Write a blog post on something you’ve learned
• Build a simple site with blogdown or Quarto
Which one will you start today? ↪

Where it all started. #Rstats

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

bookdown

~/.ð (@deomorxsy.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-07-07): I guess this format works well with bookdown, but I’ve never used this one directly: bookdown.org ↪

https://bookdown.org/

knitr

tj mahr 🤘 (@tjmahr.com; 1/0/0; 2026-07-08): ↪

~/.ð (@deomorxsy.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-07): on the CLI: cat+sort+uniq
on vim: :sort, :u/:uniq

and later it just need to be put under LaTeX, compiled with pandoc, etc

in R with Literate Programming there is Rmarkdown+Knitr+Pandoc ↪

litedown

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 3/0/0; 2026-04-24): PSA: The new standard for “lightweight” packages is that the package should be smaller than most hex sticker PNGs: yihui.org/en/2026/02/b… ↪

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

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

knitr

Chris Goodman (@cbgoodman.co; 0/1/0; 2026-07-02): Hmm…targets appears to have lost some functionality with Quarto. It can’t find standard packages with tar_quarto() like knitr and rmarkdown. Is this a Quarto problem or a Targets problem, @ropensci? ↪

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Davis Vaughan (@davisvaughan.bsky.social; 64/0/17; 2026-06-26): Air 0.10.0 is out now!

Enforce <- or = throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉)
Tighter Positron and RStudio integration
pre-commit / prek support
stdin support
Install with uv, mise, or pixi

Read all about it!

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

New-Cleckit Dominie (@ncdominie.bsky.social; 15/2/0; 2026-06-26): Would accessibility people please stop telling me “just use Bookdown”?

I’m sure Bookdown is very nice and very useful for its purposes, but if you’ve been using proper LaTeX since the 1990s, it’s like going from an organ to a kazoo. ↪

Hugh Pumphrey (@hughpumphrey.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2026-06-27): Not heard of bookdown until now, but as a long-time player of the LaTeX organ I have no desire to switch to any buzzy alternative. ↪

Looks like my summer read has finally arrived. #rstats @mc-stan.org

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-06-19): Updates on CRAN: bean (0.2.2), blogdown (1.24), craftgrn (0.1.7), crossnma (1.3.1), earthdatalogin (0.0.5), metasnf (2.3.0), rstudiothemes (1.1.2), stt.api (0.3.0), treesitter.r (1.3.0) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-06-19): CRAN updates: bean blogdown craftgrn rstudiothemes stt.api treesitter.r #rstats ↪

bookdown

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-06-16): Updates on CRAN: bibliometrix (5.4.1), bookdown (0.47), caroline (1.0.0), contentanalysis (1.1.1), crunch (1.31.2), forecTheta (3.0.3), mvalpha (0.6.0), nemsqar (1.2.1), nestable (0.1.1), rayrender (0.41.3), servr (0.33), tinytex (0.60) ↪

#RStats challenge and potential community project: * Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible! Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

RLadies+ Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-06-10): 📝 “Unbreak your blogdown site”

👤 Alison Hill

🔗 https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-12-blogdown-checks/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-12-blogdown-checks/

bookdown

Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. (@mickael.canouil.fr; 38/0/7; 2026-06-10): Four years of daily Quarto use. One CLI replaced bookdown, xaringan, distill, and R Markdown. 40+ extensions. ~14,000 comments/replies.

mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-10-why-quarto-stuck/

#quarto #typst #rstats #QuartoPub ↪

https://mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-10-why-quarto-stuck/

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Henrik Bengtsson (@henrikbengtsson.bsky.social; 68/2/19; 2026-06-06): #RStats challenge and potential community project:

Create a minimal package ‘dumpsterfire’ that triggers as many ‘R CMD check’ issues as possible!

Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social; 20/0/9; 2026-06-01): Just a reminder:
The free online version of Evaluating What Works has been migrated from bookdown to posit, and is now available here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy available for purchase here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W…
#intervention ↪

rstats

Matthew Kling (@matthewkling.bsky.social; 119/7/25; 2026-05-27): Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN – make 3D #ggplot2 figures using coord_3d()

matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/ ↪

https://matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 79/0/9; 2026-05-28): Robert Gentleman, co-founder of #rstats, receives an honorary doctorate from #UBC 🎈🎈🎈 ↪

Sometimes you have to break stuff even more before you fix it 📊 #AccidentalArt #RStats

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 68/2/3; 2026-05-21): Sometimes you have to break stuff even more before you fix it 📊

#AccidentalArt #RStats ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 56/7/4; 2026-05-23): I discovered my love for statistics/ #rstats in my early 30s

Long before THAT was a love for music, words, & ✨animation✨

I illustrated these 3 frames from Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea in #Procreate as a study (I’ll put a timelapse vid below)

I have a similar experience. I am able to get the #Rstats code I want from Claude in just a few prompts, often in just one. It's not just that Claude has improved, it's also that I started using R in 2014 (I know what to ask) and I learned how to prompt effectively (I know how to ask).

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bookdown

Christophe Dervieux (@cderv.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-05-22): tufte 0.15.0 on CRAN 🎉

Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF).

Old 📦 still deserve some ❤️

New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset.
Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more.

github.com/rstudio/tuft… ↪

https://github.com/rstudio/tufte/releases/tag/v0.15.0

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Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net; 45/4/6; 2026-05-15): I have a similar experience.

I am able to get the #Rstats code I want from Claude in just a few prompts, often in just one. It’s not just that Claude has improved, it’s also that I started using R in 2014 (I know what to ask) and I learned how to prompt effectively (I know how to ask). ↪

Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

blogdown

RLadies+ Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-05-12): 📝 “Up & running with blogdown in 2021”

👤 Alison Hill

🔗 https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-12-new-year-new-blogdown/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

https://www.apreshill.com/blog/2020-12-new-year-new-blogdown/

knitr

Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. (@mickael.canouil.fr; 6/0/1; 2026-05-15): Quarto Typst Render 0.13 ships ’typst_define()’ for R and Python.
Push polars DataFrames, lists, scalars from a knitr or jupyter session into every ‘{typst}’ cell, accessible as ‘#typst_define.’.

github.com/mcanouil/quarto-typst-render

#Quarto #Typst #rstats #python #dataviz ↪

https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-typst-render

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Wolfgang Viechtbauer (@wviechtb.bsky.social; 204/3/41; 2026-05-07): Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis ↪

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

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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 ↪

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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

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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

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

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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.

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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.
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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

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

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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 ↪

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Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

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Is the heat of June 2026 in France a "black Swan" climate event ? Looking at the data, the answer is: NO. And it is even more worying: June 2026 is a standard product of the warming trend. Let me show you with #Rstats graph from @infoclimat.fr data #climate ⬇️🧵 1/3

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Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

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Where it all started. #Rstats

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Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

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Looks like my summer read has finally arrived. #rstats @mc-stan.org

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#RStats challenge and potential community project: * Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible! Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...

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Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

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Sometimes you have to break stuff even more before you fix it 📊 #AccidentalArt #RStats

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I have a similar experience. I am able to get the #Rstats code I want from Claude in just a few prompts, often in just one. It's not just that Claude has improved, it's also that I started using R in 2014 (I know what to ask) and I learned how to prompt effectively (I know how to ask).

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Speaking of crazy d values, this reminds me of this feature I was thinking about adding to the forest() function in metafor. #Rstats #MetaAnalysis

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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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Here's a useful page with a ton of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

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...