Gosh, I am so lucky. I’m so incredibly lucky to share a community with such smart, giving, kind, & funny data people. I’m so lucky to feel like I belong. Whatever you do, help someone feel this way, too. Spread this warmth. You can do it. It’s up to you! And me. And us. #databs #rstats #pydata

2025/07/06

blogdown

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2025-06-29): This is why I had a hugo/blogdown website until earlier this year :')

I can guarantee something will break ↪

bookdown

Ben Bolker (@bbolker.bsky.social; 8/5/0; 2025-07-02): Wd love a short list of advantages for those like me who are (1) R-centric (i.e. don’t need Quarto’s polyglot advantage); (2) not using extensions such as bookdown etc..There are some nice formatting bits (callouts etc.), but my adoption has been spotty so far (see also bsky.app/profile/edde… ) ↪

knitr

Andreas Brandmaier (@brandmaier.bsky.social; 6/0/4; 2025-07-02): CRAN release of reproducibleRchunks v1.1.0 - now with full support of all standard knitr code chunk options.
There are also some example vignettes to get you started: brandmaier.github.io/reproducible…
or just read our Open Access article in Collabra: Psychology: doi.org/10.1525/coll… #rstats ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2025-07-03): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/reports.html#knitr ↪

litedown

tj ♏️ahr (@tjmahr.com; 8/1/0; 2025-06-09): the struggle is really. you wanna share or record something but it doesn’t feel substantial enough for a blog post. this was my on/off attempt at microposting. www.tjmahr.com/unenv/ very curious about litedown though ↪

rstats

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 73/1/6; 2025-06-29): Gosh, I am so lucky. I’m so incredibly lucky to share a community with such smart, giving, kind, & funny data people.

I’m so lucky to feel like I belong.

Whatever you do, help someone feel this way, too. Spread this warmth. You can do it. It’s up to you! And me. And us.

#databs #rstats #pydata ↪

Simon P. Couch (@simonpcouch.com; 53/2/15; 2025-06-27): vitals, an R package for LLM evaluation, is now on #rstats CRAN!🧸 Specifically aimed at folks building with ellmer, the package will help you engineer prompts, choose models, and measure cost/latency/performance rigorously.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/06… ↪

Collin Berke (@collinberke.bsky.social; 47/2/4; 2025-06-28): Today I learned about #rstats {dplyr}’s group_map() and group_walk(). group_map() is really useful for iterating a function on groups within a tibble. group_walk() is great for splitting and writing a .csv file by group.

Here are a few examples using the palmer penguins data 👇 ↪

Elena Llaudet (@ellaudet.bsky.social; 31/2/4; 2025-06-28): Are you using our textbook to teach stats and R?

I am revising my lecture slides — see my progress here: bit.ly/dss_instruct…. Updated source files will be available to instructors via PUP in a few weeks.

Hope everyone is having a great summer! #rstats ↪

Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 24/1/5; 2025-06-28): mapgl for #rstats now includes full support for PMTiles as a data source in both @maplibre.org and @mapbox.com maps!

Try out the example in the docs where you can visualize the 64 million places hosted by @overturemaps.bsky.social: walker-data.com/mapgl/refere… ↪

Noam Ross (@noamross.net; 24/1/2; 2025-06-26): I know a #rayshader #rstats joint when I see one, @tylermw.com ↪

Daniel 🕹️ (@strengejacke.de; 23/2/2; 2025-06-27): I just wanted to say that the @posit.co team is doing a great job with Positron, Ark and Air! #rstats ↪

Collin Berke (@collinberke.bsky.social; 22/1/7; 2025-06-27): Friendly #rstats package development reminder to my future self: @inheritParams is a nice {roxygen2} feature to help you stay DRY when writing function documentation. More here: r-pkgs.org/man.html#inh…

📦 : roxygen2.r-lib.org/index.html ↪

Rami Krispin (@ramikrispin.bsky.social; 21/0/4; 2025-06-28): I updated my dockerized 🐳 R-dev template:
🔹 Clone my local zsh settings
🔹 Add CLI tools

To use it, fork -> modify and create your own GitHub template -> On a new project, clone the template, set the required libraries, and build the image

github.com/RamiKrispin/…

#Rstats ↪

Matthew Kay (@mjskay.com; 17/0/2; 2025-06-28): The cost of a ten-minute bugfix on a package you haven’t touched in a few months is approximately 2-3 hours of fixing Github CI #rstats

(I’m not complaining, it was worse in the travis days) ↪

Jonathan Carroll (@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 13/0/8; 2025-06-29): New post: https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/06/29/counting-digits-quickly/

What if you could just wave a magic wand over your R #rstast :rstats: code and have it transform into something that ran as fast as or faster than C? @t_kalinowski’s {quickr} ‘R to Fortran Transpiler’ does that for you! […] ↪

**** (@tiddlydump.bsky.social; 13/1/1; 2025-06-26): Another reminder to hug an open source developer today.

#rstats ↪

**** (@rmarkdown.bsky.social; 12/0/3; 2025-06-28): Working with Quarto or R Markdown? Manage your references seamlessly with CiteDrive.
📚 citedrive.com/en/quarto/ #quartopub #rmarkdown #bibtex #biblatex #texlatex #rstats ↪

Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 12/0/5; 2025-06-27): tidycensus for #rstats is now updated to support the new data; run pak::pak("walkerke/tidycensus") to grab it.

The (corrected) code to built the pyramids is here: gist.github.com/walk…

And for more Census visualization ideas, check out my book: walker-data.com/cens… ↪

Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social; 11/1/4; 2025-06-27): I had a great time presenting at GASP 💙🤍 got a lot of great questions!

If you are interested in the #Quarto workshop materials, please find them here: bit.ly/gasp2025-quarto

Available for #RStats and #Python! ↪

Eli Pousson (@elipousson.bsky.social; 9/1/3; 2025-06-28): You might enjoy this presentation that showcases a bunch of tips and tricks for reusing #rstats documentation indrajeetpatil.github.io/dry-r-packag… ↪

Dominik Liebl (@dliebl.com; 6/0/1; 2025-06-28): Zwei auf einen Streich! 😊
#EconSky #rstats ↪

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 6/1/3; 2025-06-27): #RStats Dev Diary

6502 assembly code for a C64 text scroller saying “Hello #RStats”

I’m pondering game loops in #RStats with {nara}. & needed to get my hands dirty …

Code here: https://gist.github.com/coolbutuseless/9e5f4127e4e24f49de5ce122a0b04050 ↪

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 5/1/3; 2025-06-29): #RStats Dev Diary: {zap} serialization

Image shows comparisong serializing ‘diamonds’ data to file. {zap} is fast and very compressed. ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 5/0/0; 2025-06-29): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “splendid” today!
Wordle 1,471 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
bit.ly/WordleR ↪

tinytex

Tapani Hopkins (@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-07-02): I suddenly couldn’t save my articles as PDF because of missing “fmtutil-sys”. So of course I just had to type “quarto list tools” then “quarto update tinytex” into Terminal.🤷

As said, bit of a Mastodon factor. I’m still very much sold on Quarto for writing articles, but can’t deny it’s clunky. ↪