@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you’ll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02…

2025/03/02

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Lukas (@jemsu.norden.social.ap.brid.gy; 0/1/0; 2025-03-01): Actually writing a blog post again after years and realizing that my #hugo theme is, of course, kind of out of date with various deprecation warnings and errors. While #blogdown thankfully introduced a mechanism to cache a specific hugo version to ensure reproducibility, I can technically still […] ↪

knitr

tj mahr 🍍🍕 (@tjmahr.com; 23/4/3; 2025-02-27): making a data dictionary ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-03-01): I worked mostly in txt files, even when I was taking courses that required me to turn everything in as .Rmd. I stuck to txt files for so long 😂 and really struggled to get things to knit properly. (Little did I know at the time, there was a knitr/R version issue and it wasn’t just me!) ↪

litedown

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-27): Updates on CRAN: hydflood (0.5.10), litedown (0.6), multilevLCA (2.0.1), outliers.ts.oga (1.0.1), Rfast (2.1.5), rsdmx (0.6-5), SCDB (0.5.1), shinyCLT (0.9.4) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-27): CRAN updates: appRiori dsTidyverse dsTidyverseClient gtreg HiResTEC litedown outliers.ts.oga #rstats ↪

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Davis Vaughan (@davisvaughan.bsky.social; 351/20/121; 2025-02-21): @lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉

With Air, you’ll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02… ↪

Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel.com; 28/0/5; 2025-02-20): Rcpp now used by 3000 CRAN packages!
Seamless R and C++ integration
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02…
#rcpp #rstats

Another milestons – and another big big thank you to the Rcpp Core team, all other contributors, and of course all users! ↪

Rob Thomas (@robthomasbirds.bsky.social; 20/4/7; 2025-02-21): Spending my Friday night analysing Cardiff University’s EDI data in relation to which categories of staff have been placed “at risk of redundancy”, because the HR department seems to have forgotten to do so.
#LivingTheDream
#BasicDueDilligence
#RStats
#11pm
#UnpaidOvertime ↪

EconMaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 11/0/3; 2025-02-22): @quarto.org is the superior web technology #rstats ↪

Benjamin Hlina, PhD (@benjaminhlina.bsky.social; 11/0/4; 2025-02-18): Trophic ecologists who work with stable isotopes I bring you a{nichetools} - a complementary package to {SIBER} and {nicheROVER} that allows you to work with data objects created by either pkg. Check it out!
benjaminhlina.github.io/nichetools/

#rstats #stableisotopes #foodwebs ↪

Kerry Shea is Unrivaled (@operantbaby.bsky.social; 8/1/2; 2025-02-18): Crystal Lewis (aka @cghlewis.bsky.social) is a data specialists beacon of hope! Spread the good word! #academicBlueSky #rstats ↪

Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco.bsky.social; 8/3/2; 2025-02-22): I need to know the downloads of all #RStats CRAN packages for a project idea, so I made a github action that does this every sunday evening: github.com/rstats-on-ni…

don’t leave free compute on the table ↪

Julia Silge (@juliasilge.com; 4/0/3; 2025-02-18): Join the SLC RUG this coming Thursday to hear from Bart Poulson about doing impactful, actionable work as a data practitioner! 🙌 #rstats

www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even… ↪

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 3/0/1; 2025-02-18): Free #RStats idea:

Translate R bytecode to C code. Compile. Run it.

This will avoid the bytecode interpreter, and just run native code.

Perfectly fine if this works on only a subset of the bytecode. ↪

Data Science Learning Community (@dslc.io; 1/0/0; 2025-02-18): From the DSLC.io aRchives:

🔵 Computational Genomics: Statistics for Genomics Part 2 youtu.be/i_-9IYOJCYg

🔵 Practical Stats for Data Scientists: Ch5: Classification youtu.be/4rBHx49v0Zo

Visit dslc.video for hours of new #DataScience videos every week!

#dataBS #RStats ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/0; 2025-02-18): Modern Data Science with R by Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan and Nicholas J. Horton
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20science.html#modern-data-science-with-r ↪

T. @ Techtonique (@teeeeeeeee.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-02-22): Tuning and interpreting LSBoost

https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2021/11/15/python/quasirandomizednn/mlsauce/tuning-explaining-lsboost

#Techtonique #DataScience #Python #rstats #MachineLearning ↪

T. @ Techtonique (@teeeeeeeee.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-02-21): Auto XGBoost, Auto LightGBM, Auto CatBoost, Auto GradientBoosting

https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2024/08/05/python/r/unibooster

#Techtonique #DataScience #Python #rstats #MachineLearning ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-22): CRAN updates: outlierensembles #rstats ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-21): New CRAN package qountstat with initial version 0.1.1
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=qountstat ↪

T. @ Techtonique (@teeeeeeeee.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-19): 2019 Recap, the nnetsauce, the teller and the querier

https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2019/12/20/databases/quasirandomizednn/explainableml/recap-1

#Techtonique #DataScience #Python #rstats #MachineLearning ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-18): CRAN updates: spiro #rstats ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-22): CRAN updates: ftsa #rstats ↪

T. @ Techtonique (@teeeeeeeee.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-18): Boosting nonlinear penalized least squares

https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2020/11/21/explainableml/r/python/lsboost/xai-lsboostinge

#Techtonique #DataScience #Python #rstats #MachineLearning ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2025-02-19): Machine Learning for Factor Investing by Guillaume Coqueret and Tony Guida
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/finance.html#machine-learning-for-factor-investing ↪

tinytex

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-27): Updates on CRAN: CorrectOverloadedPeaks (1.3.5), phreeqc (3.8.7), rangr (1.0.6), sasr (0.1.4), tinytex (0.56) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-02-26): CRAN updates: tinytex #rstats ↪