We are an #rstats lab now. Still a #julialang dev, but we are officially exiting the Python-first mindset after a year of trying to make it work for our lab.

2025/08/10

bookdown

Robinsky (@stolejourtweets.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-08-05): Mein go-to, wenn ich irgendwas in R machen will aber es nicht ganz checke ist die Analyse, die ich rechnen will (z.B. Random Intercept Cross Lagged Panel Models, LG Bachelorarbeit) + “bookdown” in die google suche zu packen und zack hab ich ein ganzes Buch (oder Kapitel) zum Thema ↪

knitr

tj ♏️ahr (@tjmahr.com; 31/5/3; 2025-08-05): knitr trick to forward a function definition into a code chunk #rstats ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 7/1/3; 2025-08-06): Every time I see something like this I tell myself to read @yihui.org‘s #Rstats Markdown book. It has so many cool {knitr} options I have never fully explored 🤩

bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkd… ↪

tj ♏️ahr (@tjmahr.com; 5/1/1; 2025-08-06): I’ve mostly just read this page dozens of times over the years yihui.org/knitr/options/ ↪

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 3/0/0; 2025-08-06): Didn’t know about the knitr code= option. ↪

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 ↪

SMT (@pp0196.bsky.social; 3/1/1; 2025-08-10): I use this package for the docs into txt step cran.r-project.org/web/packages…
But as ‪@christosargyrop.bsky.social‬ said, the choice of the library/programming style is very important. The smaller the surface area, the better. For example litedown worked way better than quarto for me at first try ↪

rstats

Karandeep Singh (@kdpsingh.bsky.social; 57/5/7; 2025-08-03): We are an #rstats lab now.

Still a #julialang dev, but we are officially exiting the Python-first mindset after a year of trying to make it work for our lab. ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 44/1/10; 2025-08-01): Welcome me to the world of European data, y‘all! 🇪🇺 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇩🇪
#rstats #econsky #stats
@cepremap.bsky.social

db.nomics.world

github.com/dbnomics/rdb… ↪

Jeremy Allen (@jeremy-data.bsky.social; 43/1/5; 2025-08-02): It’s not going to accept it, but in a good world, it would.

#dplyr #RStats ↪

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 38/2/7; 2025-08-01): #RStats Retro:

This is when I implemented SVG animated textures in ggplot2 ↪

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 35/2/6; 2025-08-01): New presentation just posted at today’s @user-conf.bsky.social virtual conference: Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph

By @tanyashapiro.bsky.social & @cedricscherer.com

Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDj…

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #user2025 ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 34/0/7; 2025-08-02): This is how you can generate multiple PDF files at once in #tidyplots 🚀

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 33/0/15; 2025-08-02): ❗️Our next workshop will be on August 14, 6 pm CEST, on marginaleffects package by
@vincentab.bsky.social !
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats ↪

Nic Crane (@niccrane.bsky.social; 32/3/6; 2025-08-02): My useR! 2025 talk on using LLMs in R focuses on small experiments which were quick to build to explore how LLMs actually fit into a typical R workflow.

If you’re experimenting with LLMs yourself, I’d love to hear what’s been useful or not!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ_8…

#rstats #genai #useR2025 ↪

Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 31/1/4; 2025-08-02): Very disappointing that UseR continues to invite speakers affiliated with Russian state universities that openly support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I expected better from the #RStats community… ↪

Josephine Kaminaga (@jkaminaga.bsky.social; 25/6/6; 2025-08-02): happy august! I did a little data visualization project this week trying to see what genres of books I’ve read and liked the most so far in 2025. (if you, like me, are a big fan of scifi + fantasy + dark academia, please give me book recs!)

🔗📚: github.com/jkaminags/bo…

#ggplot2 #dataviz #Rstats ↪

Julia Silge (@juliasilge.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 25/0/9; 2025-08-01): My virtual talk, a first look at #Positron for #rstats folks, posted while I was asleep 😴 but you can catch it here:

https://youtu.be/aKSrptGegeo?si=rTOSqhejk3DqspNc ↪

milos makes maps (@milos-makes-maps.bsky.social; 25/1/3; 2025-08-03): Earth Engine now hosts annual 10 m Satellite Embeddings (64 bands per pixel) powered by the new AlphaEarth Foundations model.

My next video on YouTube (milos-makes-maps) will show how to run part of its workflow in R. Subscribe to catch it 👉🏻 youtube.com/@milos-makes…

#AlphaEarth #Rstats #GIS ↪

Jamie Cockcroft (@jamiecockcroft.bsky.social; 22/2/7; 2025-08-02): Mixed-effects modellers, assemble!

Just dropped a (very niche) blog on the weird quirks that occur with uncorrelated random effects and the trifecta of packages: lme4, afex, and performance (in R).

Read here 👉 sites.google.com/view/jamieco…

#rstats #MixedModels #lme4 #afex #performanceR ↪

Julia Silge (@juliasilge.com; 21/1/6; 2025-08-01): My @user-conf.bsky.social virtual talk, a first look at Positron for #rstats folks, posted while I was asleep 😴 but you can catch it here:
youtu.be/aKSrptGegeo?… ↪

**** (@flaviaerius.bsky.social; 16/2/6; 2025-08-01): Every #Rstats user should read this post from @jennybryan.bsky.social‬.
Especially beginner to intermediate-level ones.
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12… ↪

mdsumner (@mdsumner.bsky.social; 13/1/1; 2025-07-31): Gather ye #rstats ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.bsky.social; 11/1/2; 2025-08-02): @brodriguesco.bsky.social I demand the new T programming language only support ISO 8601 date formats!
#rstats ↪

#!/usr/bin/env Rscript (@randvegan.bsky.social; 7/2/1; 2025-08-02): I’ve radicalized myself to try @brodriguesco.bsky.social {nix} package after loosing my morning trying to get all libraries updated and working for my project
#rstats ↪

Steven P. Sanderson II, MPH (@spsanderson.com; 7/0/1; 2025-08-02): Prepping the first Major release of my #R #package #RandomWalker

github.com/spsanderson/…

#GitHub #RStats #ggiraf #ggplot2 #tidydata #random #code ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 6/1/0; 2025-08-02): Color Palettes for Data Visualization rpubs.com/mathetal/co… #rstats ↪