Made a little something to help students quickly convert between wide and long data for my (no-code) viz class. Helpful for when Datawrapper or Rawgraphs insist on a particular format for certain chart types. Built with #svelte and #rstats using webR! pivotteer.netlify.app

2025/04/06

knitr

Jeff Stevens (@jeffreyrstevens.com; 2/1/1; 2025-04-02): Yihui developed knitr, tinytex, xaringan, and many other R packages while a developer at @posit.co. Yihui embodies the classic xkcd cartoon on Dependency–a Nebraskan maintaining critical R packages that most of us use. Attend his talk to thank him for all of his hard work! (2/2)

#xkcd ↪

Randy Boyes (@randy.pub; 2/0/1; 2025-03-31): I typically do this with a loop and knitr::knit_child - all of my examples are code I can’t share but I can write an example if you need/want more detail ↪

Gabe The Engineer (@gdbassett.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-04-02): Could a hook to pandoc work? Knowing knitr uses pandoc for markdown to PDF hopefully it’s already integrated. ↪

Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. (@mickael.canouil.fr; 1/1/0; 2025-04-01): You can also use knitr as the engine and use JuliaCall to work the other way around. ↪

Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. (@mickael.canouil.fr; 1/2/1; 2025-04-01): There can be only one engine: knitr/jupyter/julia.

But there can be multiple languages. For those to work they did to be handled by the engine you choose (that’s independent of Quarto).
So with Julia engine, to call R code you need something like RCall.

juliainterop.github.io/RCall.jl/sta… ↪

litedown

Jeff Stevens (@jeffreyrstevens.com; 13/1/7; 2025-04-02): 📢 Huge Neb-RUG announcement! 📢
Yihui Xie will introduce his new litedown package in the next Nebraska R User Group talk:
Creating Beautiful PDFs via HTML/CSS/JS
1-2pm CDT Wednesday, April 9th
Register at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/even…
Learn more about Yihui in the thread! 👇 (1/2)

#RStats #statsky ↪

rstats

Aman Bhargava (@aman.bh; 72/6/14; 2025-03-30): Made a little something to help students quickly convert between wide and long data for my (no-code) viz class. Helpful for when Datawrapper or Rawgraphs insist on a particular format for certain chart types. Built with #svelte and #rstats using webR!

pivotteer.netlify.app ↪

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 72/5/13; 2025-03-28): Helpful trick for academic writing with #QuartoPub: sometimes when trimming down papers, you’ve got to remove references (ugh—bibliographies shouldn’t count in word counts!) so I use this #rstats snippet to extract all citations & and find things that I’ve only used once to see if they’re droppable ↪

Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net; 44/1/2; 2025-03-28): Me, when the “Introduction to Python” course I was supposed to teach is becoming an “Introduction to Quarto” course

#Rstats ↪

＠kearneymw (@kearney.bsky.social; 39/1/4; 2025-03-30): It’s amazing the things one can do in base R (without installing or loading any other #rstats packages): ↪

Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 31/1/20; 2025-03-28): ❗️Our next workshop will be on April 3rd, 6 pm CEST on Devops for Data Scientists (R & #Python) by
@rika-gorn.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats ↪

Dr. Dominic Royé (@drxeo.eu; 23/2/5; 2025-03-28): The data footprint we leave behind is incredible. Here the frequency of hiking routes in the Parque Rural del Teno of Tenerife, Canary Islands.

#dataviz #rstats #carto ↪

Dan Oehm (@danoehm.bsky.social; 21/1/1; 2025-03-29): Finally spent time on cleaning things up and gotta say, this is pretty satisfying.

#Rstats ↪

William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social; 21/5/3; 2025-03-28): #rstats #polisky
Is there a recommended/new package to derive gender estimates from (first name/American/contemporary) names? It appears that ‘genderdata’ package doesn’t work anymore, and genderizeR is API based and limited to 1k calls a day. ↪

Blas M. Benito (@blasbenito.com; 20/0/2; 2025-03-28): How handling a large sf data frame in Rstudio really feels like #rstats ↪

Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 20/2/7; 2025-03-29): Explore work-from-home patterns in 2023 across the US.

One of the thousands of creative maps you can make from U.S. Census Bureau data with #rstats, #tidycensus, and #mapgl.

Check it out: walker-data.com/map-challeng…

And learn how to do this yourself: github.com/walkerke/map… ↪

Calle Börstell (@cborstell.bsky.social; 16/1/1; 2025-03-27): {patchwork} brings me joy
#RStats ↪

Njoki Njuki 🏳️‍🌈 (@njokinjuki.bsky.social; 15/0/1; 2025-03-29): 📢 My Contribution to #TidyTuesday Week 12! 🚀
🔍 Exploring Amazon’s Annual Reports 📄
📝 Top 20 Words from 2005 to 2010
📊 Animated Word Cloud in #RStats
#DataViz #RStats #TidyTuesday
Code: github.com/LucyNjokiNju… ↪

Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel.com; 15/0/5; 2025-03-29): tinythemes 0.0.3 at CRAN: Nags
Lightweight Repackaging of ggplot2 Themes
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03…
#rstats ↪

W. Andrew Barr (@wabarr.bsky.social; 10/2/3; 2025-03-28): accidental aRt #rstats #foodwebs ↪

ryan scharf (@ryanscharf.bsky.social; 8/1/5; 2025-03-28): Cascadia R Conf peeps, Josiah Parry needs a TA for his Intro to Rust and Building Rust-Based R Packages talks! If you’re interested, reach out to him or join his R in Production discord server discord.gg/tWsRcv6a
#rstats #databs #datasky #datascience ↪

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript (@randvegan.bsky.social; 7/2/4; 2025-03-29): Ohh ! I’m excited for this one. If you need help attending let me know I’m sponsoring students #rstats ↪

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 7/1/1; 2025-03-29): I’m currently workshopping how CRAN could present its feedback to make it more palatable.

This is my initial template for package rejection for authors named “Mike”

#RStats ↪

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 5/0/1; 2025-03-29): Daily number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 1 - Mar 28, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot.
Coded with the {bskyr} and {ggplot2} R packages.

[Posted via R script and weekly cron job. Tx for your patience if something went awry] ↪

EconMaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 4/1/0; 2025-03-28): Anything from @bigbookofr.com
#rstats ↪

Pablo Rodríguez (@pabrod.bsky.social; 4/2/5; 2025-03-29): Aquí tenéis una simulación interactiva sobre el #CambioDeHora. Escrita en #R, funciona en cualquier navegador.

pabrod.shinyapps.io/cambio-de-ho…

#rstats ↪

yihui.org

Jeff Stevens (@jeffreyrstevens.com; 2/1/0; 2025-04-02): Thanks for tagging @yihui.org. I didn’t know he was on bluesky! ↪

EconMaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2025-04-02): @yihui.org ↪