blogdown

Mikhail Popov (@mpopov.com; 5/0/0; 2025-07-17): A few years ago I moved my site to a GitHub + Netlify + {blogdown} + Hugo setup and oh man that was such a good investment of time and effort. Pays off every time I need to update any copy (eg my about me). ↪

R-Ladies Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 5/0/1; 2025-07-16): 📝 “Introduce yourself online with blogdown & Hugo Apéro”

👤 Alison Hill

📖 Build your own website! Learn R Markdown, blogdown, & Hugo. Easy deployment included.

🔗 https://www.apreshill.com/talk/2021-iyo-tunis/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

• https://www.apreshill.com/talk/2021-iyo-tunis/

bookdown

Ehud Karavani (@ehudk.bsky.social; 6/0/0; 2025-07-14): if you care most for reach, i think the best way to maximize it are textbooks with a free online version (either a pdf or a fancier r bookdown/quarto website).
i have zero knowledge in how to make it work, but such books exist for a fact, so it might be possible if you want to consider it. ↪

knitr

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2025-07-15): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#knitr ↪

• https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.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 ↪

• https://www.tjmahr.com/unenv/

rstats

Charlie Gao (@shikokuchuo.net; 189/5/60; 2025-07-10): #tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07… ↪

• https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/purrr-1-1-0-parallel/

Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 95/2/20; 2025-07-11): Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I’ve summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42… ↪

• https://gist.github.com/hadley/77d42f02b49d333e8f7b0ce8a8847073

Ilya Kashnitsky (@ikashnitsky.phd; 84/4/16; 2025-07-12): {ralger} #rstats package looks like an absolute game changer in the task of web scraping for people with very occasional need in this rather nerdy task 🤩
Instead of drilling manually through cached HTML, one can use intuitively named functions that just do it ✨
🔗 feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/ ↪

• https://feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/

Elena Llaudet (@ellaudet.bsky.social; 58/3/13; 2025-07-12): Here are my beginner-friendly interactive graphs to help build intuition about key stats concepts:

• bit.ly/dss_shiny_random_assignment
• bit.ly/dss_shiny_mean_sd
• bit.ly/dss_shiny_correlation
• bit.ly/dss_shiny_intercept_slope
• bit.ly/dss_shiny_least_squares

Hope they’re helpful! #rstats ↪

• https://bit.ly/dss_shiny_random_assignment
• https://bit.ly/dss_shiny_mean_sd
• https://bit.ly/dss_shiny_correlation
• https://bit.ly/dss_shiny_intercept_slope
• https://bit.ly/dss_shiny_least_squares

Crystal Lewis (@cghlewis.bsky.social; 47/4/7; 2025-07-12): Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R
cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl…

#rstats ↪

• https://cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cleaning-workshop/slides.html

Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 31/26/4; 2025-07-10): What do y’all think folks near to hear about using LLMs to generate #rstats code? ↪

Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 29/1/3; 2025-07-11): Despite claims that “R is dead” on social media, 2025 has been an incredible year for #rstats:

💻 {ellmer} wrapping LLM APIs;
💻 {mcptools} & {mcpr} implementing MCP connections for R;
💻 Native parallel processing in {purrr} via {mirai}

What else are you excited about? ↪

Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 28/0/2; 2025-07-11): Another awesome underrated feature of Positron. You whisper “Positron” on Bluesky and you can summon the experts to join your campaign and lend their help, no D20 required. #Rstats ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 27/1/4; 2025-07-11): This is how you can reorder axis levels in #tidyplots 0.3.1 🚀

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

Erika (@erikaduan.bsky.social; 26/3/5; 2025-07-13): I’ve written a simple guide to the new Positron IDE for #rstats and #python programming. I think that RStudio is still the most thoughtfully designed IDE for R programming but Positron is very useful if you also code a lot in Python.

github.com/erikaduan/r_… ↪

• https://github.com/erikaduan/r_tips/blob/master/tutorials/s-positron_setup/s-positron_setup.md

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 21/1/3; 2025-07-12): f you use ggplot2, you will find patchwork package amazing patchwork.data-imaginist.com/ #rstats ↪

• https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/

James Balamuta (@coatless.bsky.social; 20/1/4; 2025-07-13): What is this? An R editor for ants?

@examplesWebR now goes full-screen because your data viz deserves better than a cramped iframe!

Click “Full-width” → no more squinting

Try it: rd.thecoatlessprofessor.com/webr-in-pkgd…

#rstats #webr ↪

• https://rd.thecoatlessprofessor.com/webr-in-pkgdown/reference/residual_surrealism.html

Grant McDermott (@gmcd.bsky.social; 19/1/7; 2025-07-12): tinyplot v0.4.2 is now available on CRAN + R-universe 🎉 Mostly bug fixes, but includes some important integration improvements for Positron IDE users. Release notes: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW…

#rstats ↪

• https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEWS.html#section

Julia Silge (@juliasilge.com; 19/0/6; 2025-07-11): Join the SLC RUG on July 22 to hear from Emil Hvitfeldt about sparse data structures in tidymodels! ✨ #rstats

www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even… ↪

• https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/307528267/

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 17/1/6; 2025-07-12): Check out this repo of awesome base #rstats plots by @nickypsn.bsky.social

github.com/PoisonAlien/…

poisonalien.github.io/basegraphics… ↪

• https://github.com/PoisonAlien/basegraphics
• https://poisonalien.github.io/basegraphics/baseplots.html

Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 15/0/2; 2025-07-12): Adding on to another answer @davisvaughan.bsky.social pointed out a super cool Positron feature, Ctrl+Shift+Right (MacOS) to “expand” and Ctrl+Shift+Left to “shrink” the selection. Giving me vim motion vibes 😎 forum.posit.co/t/breakerofc… #Rstats ↪

• https://forum.posit.co/t/breakerofchains-or-similar-for-positron/204665

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 10/2/4; 2025-07-12): Some nice fonts in that thread ☺️
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang ↪

Ben Moran (@benmoran.bsky.social; 9/1/1; 2025-07-13): Really disappointed in the #rstats and #pydata community for the lack of Comic Sans!!! Shame!! ↪

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript (@randvegan.bsky.social; 8/1/2; 2025-07-13): in {pkgdown} is there a way to use quarto code annotation in the code blocks?

eg. so we can show tutorials and explain what the code is doing?

#rstats

quarto.org/docs/authori… ↪

• https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/code-annotation.html

Julia Silge (@juliasilge.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 5/0/1; 2025-07-11): Join the SLC RUG on July 22 to hear from Emil Hvitfeldt about sparse data structures in tidymodels! ✨:rstats: #rstats

https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/307528267/ ↪

• https://www.meetup.com/slc-rug/events/307528267/

tinytex

Tiffany Timbers (@tiffanytimbers.bsky.social; 2/1/0; 2025-07-16): The old adage, “have you tried turning it off and on again” should never be forgotten. Uninstalling and reinstalling tinytex just solved my dependency hell problem. ↪