blogdown
Mark Sellors (@sellorm.com; 6/1/1; 2025-09-27): I created awesome-blogdown.com 9 years ago, not long after {blogdown} was announced. It seemed like a fun way to help promote the project and its users. People have largely moved on to other tools and the list is stale though, so the website will be gone soon. It was fun while it lasted #rstats ↪
Ilya Kashnitsky (@ikashnitsky.phd; 2/1/0; 2025-09-27): Somehow I learned about this list only now. Cool project. Yet I think the awesome lists may have a better outreach/circulation as GitHub repos
I moved to #quarto some time ago, which is extremely similar to blogdown, and it covers all my needs perfectly ↪
Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 2/0/0; 2025-09-23): I only learned it to use blogdown and bookdown, and even then I only use it within a GitHub-oriented workflow ↪
knitr
Sofia Hauck (@shauck.bsky.social; 4/3/0; 2025-09-26): Maybe over the top for the problem you’re facing, but using something like the “knitr” package to run your script in a clean environment instead of trying to clean your current environment might be a good option? ↪
Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro.net; 2/3/0; 2025-09-26): Definitely works for some things but not others: I don’t want to embed a computationally heavy script inside knitr/rmarkdown etc, and it’s those cases where I’ve been trying to think about better approaches ↪
Ryan McShane (@ryanmcshane.bsky.social; 2/1/0; 2025-09-24): I wrote a wrapper around {knitr} kable and {kableExtra} kable_styling that I put at the top of every HW assignment I give to students (output is always PDF). I also have it in all of my Beamer slides 😬
It makes kable tables nice by default.
You can still call, e.g. knitr::kable, too! ↪
Ted Laderas (@tladeras.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-09-27): Everything else works, including install.packages(“tidyverse”). You may need to install “knitr” to get things to render ↪
rstats
Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 90/0/16; 2025-09-18): The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions 🤩
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
Tan (@tanho.ca; 45/3/3; 2025-09-19): #rstats tidy dev day 2025 in the books! I managed to ring the gong five times by making the following PRs: ↪
Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 44/0/4; 2025-09-19): Like this! sessioninfo::session_info() can now (or will after review) output to LaTeX #rstats github.com/r-lib/sessio… ↪
Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 41/1/1; 2025-09-19): Having a blast at my first #rstats tidy dev day, fixing old longstanding tidyverse issues ↪
Nic Crane (@niccrane.bsky.social; 30/9/7; 2025-09-20): I’m considering writing a proposal for R Consortium ISC funding to write a free & open source book on LLMs/AI in R. Advice out there is scattered between different resources. Wondering if this is something the wider #rstats community would be interested in, & what folks would like to see in there? ↪
Robert (Bob) Kubinec (@rmkubinec.bsky.social; 30/13/1; 2025-09-18): But can it run #rstats?
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/t… ↪
Calle Börstell (@cborstell.bsky.social; 25/1/5; 2025-09-20): library(tidyverse)
ggplot(mutate(uncount(tibble(x=LETTERS[1:7],y=rep(1:4,e=2)[-1],z=c(rep("#DDC",4),"#678","#643","#BCD")),y),g=row_number()))+geom_bar(aes(x,fill=I(z),group=g),col="#444")+theme_void()
👨🏻💻⛳️ #RStats ↪
Ryan McShane (@ryanmcshane.bsky.social; 24/1/0; 2025-09-19): Just finished my first #rstats #TidyDevDay! It might have been a net negative on open issues, because I:
- opened an issue each in {pak}, {roxygen2}, and {gitcreds}
- submitted a PR to {forcats}
- submitted a PR to {usethis} (needs corrected test)
But at least I got this selfie with @hadley.nz 🫠😆 ↪
novica (@novica.bsky.social; 18/0/3; 2025-09-21): If you were thinking about #ducklake in #rstats here is a blogpost that can help you get started. ↪
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@randvegan.bsky.social; 18/1/3; 2025-09-19): @duckdb.org 1.4 is now out on cran #rstats
github.com/duckdb/duckd… ↪
econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 17/1/2; 2025-09-19): It’s also widely known that @aoc.bsky.social uses #rstats #ggplot2 📈
📦 {ggaoc} by @jrosell.bsky.social
🔗 jrosell.github.io/ggaoc/ ↪
Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 17/0/0; 2025-09-19): This is how you can assign colors in #tidyplots 🌈
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 12/0/0; 2025-09-19): Best community ever ❤️❤️❤️ and I am so pooped!
#positconf #rstats #python #databs ↪
Roger Tugas Vilardell 📊 (@rogertugas.bsky.social; 10/1/1; 2025-09-20): 🤩 Quina il·lusió trobar, per fi, un llibre sobre estadística amb #Rstats, en català! Com no, a @lasetmana.bsky.social! 📚 ↪
Jordi Rosell (@jrosell.bsky.social; 10/1/0; 2025-09-20): TIL how to use plumber2 & mirai & S7 & SQLite to create an async json API in #rstats gist.github.com/jrosell/e482… ↪
Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 9/0/0; 2025-09-20): Here are some #tidyplots use cases for proportional data 🔥
Complete with data and code 🚀
tidyplots.org/use-cases/#p…
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 8/1/2; 2025-09-20): I might just want to sling funny insults at myself in #rstats 🤔 ↪
Konsta Happonen (@konsta.happonen.eu; 8/2/0; 2025-09-21): I have just discovered discrete time markov chain models and am enthralled #rstats ↪
Jeff Hackmeister (@jhackmeister.bsky.social; 5/0/1; 2025-09-20): Working on a thing after listening to @alisonl.bsky.social on @soundofhockey.com - still needs some work but something I really want to track under Lane Lambert. #rstats #hockeystats #SeaKraken
data pulled from @moneypuck.bsky.social ↪
Ella Kaye (@ellakaye.co.uk; 5/2/0; 2025-09-20): Here’s a link to more about R Dev Days, organised by the R Contribution Working Group. #RStats contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev… ↪
xaringan
Simón (@simonherrera.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-09-25): finally, a worthy oponent for Xaringan ↪