blogdown

Richard D. Morey (@richarddmorey.bsky.social; 2/0/1; 2025-08-03): What’s the best way nowadays to create blog posts with Rmarkdown? Is {blogdown} still being actively maintained? ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2025-07-30): 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? ↪

Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-07-29): Excellent work. Converting from Hugo and R Blogdown to Quarto was one of the best steps I’ve ever taken. ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2025-07-30): 7/
If you use R, try blogdown/Quarto.
It turns your code + markdown into beautiful static websites.
Bonus: It teaches you about site structure and deployment. ↪

knitr

tj ♏️ahr (@tjmahr.com; 13/0/2; 2025-07-30): got the targets::tar_load() rstudio addin working in positron ↪

Carlos Scheidegger (@cscheid.net; 1/0/0; 2025-07-31): (The difference between your source qmd and the md output from —to markdown is that quarto will run knitr and try to give you a markdown result after processing crossrefs etc)

Tables are going to be very tricky to get right because the code that generates them tends to be quite format specific ↪

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

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 91/6/11; 2025-07-25): Wishing you all a 𝘴𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩 ride into the weekend 😎
rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/dsbook/smoot…
#rstats #stats ↪

• https://rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/dsbook/smoothing.html

Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 77/3/24; 2025-07-25): 🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07…. ↪

• https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/ellmer-0-3-0/

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 66/8/8; 2025-07-26): OMG I TRIED AIR. I TRIED IT & LIFE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. @juliasilge.com recommended format on save, so I set up Air + format on save + auto save when focus leaves editor.

This might be the thing that gets me using #Positron for both #Rstats & Python (currently only using it for #Python) #databs ↪

Max kuhn (@topepo.bsky.social; 49/2/10; 2025-07-25): We’ve released 4 new chapters of Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data.

Includes: Bayesian optimization, feature selection, model comparisons, classification metrics, calibration, #rstats computing sections, and more

blog.aml4td.org/posts/2025-0… ↪

• https://blog.aml4td.org/posts/2025-07-new-chapters/

Elin Waring (@elinwaring.bsky.social; 43/2/6; 2025-07-26): Oh that great feeling when you get “on its way to cran” in your inbox. New version of skimr coming! #rstats ↪

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 32/1/3; 2025-07-25): Last night I dreamt I was debugging regex that I’d written to categorise my dreams

I need to lay off the regex 😵‍💫

#rstats #databs ↪

Matthew Kay (@mjskay.com; 31/5/2; 2025-07-26): goddammit every day is a new “hmm I should make a package for that” #rstats ↪

Ilya Kashnitsky (@ikashnitsky.phd; 29/2/5; 2025-07-25): A perfect URL does not exi… 😃 #rstats
🔗 rstats.wtf ↪

• https://rstats.wtf

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 25/6/3; 2025-07-27): Share your coding dreams!
I used to have nightmares where I was in the center of a dark, scary forest, and I had to code to escape, each coding success taking me closer to the edge and freedom. If I had an error, I’d appear back at the center and have to start over. I never got out. #rstats #databs ↪

Andreas Filser (@filsa.bsky.social; 25/2/7; 2025-07-25): Friday #rstats #ggplot2 tip for anyone - like me - who’s spent hours trying to get the formatting of their exported plot right
📉🛠️🎨 ↪

Peter Ellis (@freerangestats.info; 23/5/8; 2025-07-26): Ok so this Pinheiro and Bates book - physical copy on my shelf having survived multiple international moves and downsizings - has been my bible on mixed effects models. But it’s 25 years old, is there a modern (#rstats) equivalent i should upgrade to? ↪

Yorgos (@gd047.bsky.social; 20/4/2; 2025-07-26): Patent Alert: The Sperm Plot™ 😂 🧬📊
Novel visualization where project timelines swim upstream toward completion. Each ‘swimmer’ tracks % progress vs % time elapsed.

#DataViz #Analytics #PatentPending #RStats ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 18/2/4; 2025-07-27): @thomasp85.com’s {ggfx} #rstats 📦 really does improve #ggplot2 dataviz 🤩
ggfx.data-imaginist.com
lenkiefer.com/2021/03/05/u… ↪

• https://ggfx.data-imaginist.com/
• http://lenkiefer.com/2021/03/05/using-ggfx-for-good/

Jarrett Byrnes (@jebyrnes.bsky.social; 17/0/3; 2025-07-26): 🔥🔥🔥 New paper: Location scale models in ecology: heteroscedasticity in continuous, count, and proportion data from @itchyshin.bsky.social et al. with a code tutorial for #rstats! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v… for paper and ayumi-495.github.io/Eco_location… for code! 🌍🧪 ↪

• https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/9705/
• https://ayumi-495.github.io/Eco_location-scale_model/

Darakhshan (@darakhshann.bsky.social; 15/4/2; 2025-07-27): Doing basic projects in Python

Me:
Is there a Tidyverse alternative for this

#rstats #pydata ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 15/1/3; 2025-07-26): New color gradient scheme just dropped!
#rstats #dataviz
lenkiefer.com/2021/11/04/2… ↪

• http://lenkiefer.com/2021/11/04/2021-11-04-taste-the-painbow/

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 15/0/1; 2025-07-26): Thank you for citing #tidyplots 🙏

Maria J. Pereira et al. Depot-specific metabolic and inflammatory profiles in perirenal and renal sinus adipose tissue, Molecular Medicine (2025).

doi.org/10.1186/s100…

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

• https://doi.org/10.1186/s10020-025-01323-1

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 10/3/3; 2025-07-26): I’ve also been meaning to rave about air!

I started using it last week in RStudio and it is excellent, would highly recommend #rstats

My only gripe the insistence of adding curly brackets to anonymous functions and clogging up my bookmarks. It’s probably just a setting I need to change! ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 7/3/2; 2025-07-26): 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝
by Len Kiefer, Freddie Mac.
#econsky #rstats #dataviz
Code: lenkiefer.com/2018/12/19/f…
Data: www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-… ↪

• http://lenkiefer.com/2018/12/19/forecasting-is-still-hard/
• https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/real-time-data-research/individual-forecasts

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 6/4/1; 2025-07-27): Just because you 𝘤𝘢𝘯 animate something doesn’t mean you should
lenkiefer.com/2020/11/30/v…
#rstats #dataviz ↪

• http://lenkiefer.com/2020/11/30/visual-meditations-on-house-prices-2020-edition/