By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe [Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac] Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).

2025/09/14

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Posit (@posit.co; 43/0/4; 2025-09-08): Announcing the Quarto #RStats package version 1.5.0! 🥳

Set Quarto metadata programmatically from R values, add Markdown to HTML tables, and use new helpers for ggplot2 and flextable themes.

There are new tools to help you migrate from bookdown and blogdown. Learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po…


Juanjo Medina (@jjmedina.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-09-06): I’ve updated my web. I started a few years ago with github+blogdown+Hugo+netlify. It looked gr8 but changes to Hugo were a pain. Every time I wanted to change have 2 relearn all. So I’ve gone 4 more minimal but hopeful sustainable approach using GitHub+quarto+netlify. Link here: juanjomedina.com

bookdown

**** (@mheming.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-09-07): You should include quarto, which also includes python and julia and includes bookdown, blog down etc per se

knitr

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2025-09-11): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#knitr

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James Balamuta (@coatless.bsky.social; 45/7/14; 2025-09-07): By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11

shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe

[Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac]

Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).


Kevin Ushey (@kevinushey.bsky.social; 45/2/5; 2025-09-04): everything is terrible but at least the #rstats community is still one of the best


Daniel 🕹️ (@strengejacke.de; 44/2/4; 2025-09-05): R is not Nintendo. #rstats


Kylie Ainslie, PhD (@kylieainslie.bsky.social; 40/8/8; 2025-09-05): Instead of doing what I should be doing, I procrastinated by updating the “About” page of my website with a scrollytelling career timeline, some fun stats, and a card grid of hobbies! It’s amazing what you can do with @quarto.org!

kylieainslie.github.io/about.html

#rstats #AcademicSky


Charlie Gao (@shikokuchuo.net; 34/2/13; 2025-09-05): tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09…

This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements.

We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual!
#Rstats #tidyverse


Tomasz Woźniak (@tomaszwozniak.bsky.social; 24/16/5; 2025-09-07): Good bye basic 📦 plots! I’m getting on a ggplot2 journey from now on! Any recommendations on tutorials, themes, colour palettes, ribbons, histograms, time series, multiple plots? #rstats


Aaron Jacobs (@atheriel.bsky.social; 22/0/4; 2025-09-05): There’s been a big push at Posit this summer to get high-quality OpenTelemetry support out to the #rstats community (a longstanding dream of mine).

I think {mirai} is the first package release to showcase this work, and as per usual with @shikokuchuo.net, it was done in record time!


econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 21/6/5; 2025-09-06): This is why you should read Reproducible Analytical Pipelines by @brodriguesco.bsky.social kids
rap4mads.eu

Because if you don’t you‘ll end up having to peddle crypto on maga grifter podcasts
#econsky #rstats #stats


Chris Kenny, PhD (@chriskenny.bsky.social; 20/3/4; 2025-09-07): One super useful #rstats package: pushoverr (cran.r-project.org/web/packages…)

Send push notifications to your phone or computer from R with: pushover(message = ‘your code is done’)

@pushover.net has a 30 day free trial and then a one time $5 charge for a perpetual license.


Frank Hull (@frankiethull.bsky.social; 20/4/7; 2025-09-05): #rayshader #rstats


Posit (@posit.co; 20/3/6; 2025-09-05): Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl!

In Part 2, “Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response”, we get hands-on with LLM-powered apps. This guide is for #Python & #RStats users who want to go beyond the basics.

Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s…


𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 (@mackaszechno.bsky.social; 19/1/3; 2025-09-04): My personal library’s looking healthy 😁


coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 16/2/8; 2025-09-06): #RStats Dev Diary: {isocubes} getting close to CRAN release.

I ❤️ stylized 3d rendering.


Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 13/1/5; 2025-09-05): Task views on CRAN have been amazingly helpful for many years. They are always getting better. #RStats


Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@randvegan.bsky.social; 12/1/2; 2025-09-06): such richness awaits with #rstats and @duckdb.org / @motherduck.com

I will be making a PR request on their documentation to beef up their R section – needs some updating and love.


𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 (@mackaszechno.bsky.social; 10/1/2; 2025-09-07): Whaaaaat?

Indeed, we are a very diverse community on #rstats.


R-Ladies Amsterdam (@rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social; 10/0/4; 2025-09-05): How do you procrastinate?

#rstats #rladies


Dan Oehm (@danoehm.bsky.social; 9/0/3; 2025-09-05): I’ve been listening to a lot of the latest Deftones album recently. Inspired to make a colour palette from the album cover. (made with eyedroppeR) #Rstats #dataviz


John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 7/2/0; 2025-09-07): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “magnificent” today!
Wordle 1,541 2/6
🟨🟩⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
bit.ly/WordleR


Dale Maschette (@maschette.bsky.social; 7/4/4; 2025-09-06): Hey #rstats #ggplot2 people.
Anyone know of a simple way of dropping unused facets being plotted whilst maintaining fact spacing when using facet_grid?
Aiming to end up with something like this: