If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I’m giving in a couple weeks! It’ll be a blast (and we’re covering Quarto’s brand new _brand dot yaml system!)

2025/10/12

knitr

Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@randvegan.bsky.social; 2/0/1; 2025-10-12): ohh!! that fixed it!

old_hook <- fansi::set_knit_hooks(knitr::knit_hooks, which = c(“output”, “warning”, “error”, “message”))
options(crayon.enabled = TRUE) ↪

Yutaka Moteki (@mbrmghm.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-10-06): きのうformat()という関数を使った。

library(tidyverse)
library(ggplot2)
df <- data.frame(
date = as.Date(c(“2025-05-01”, “2025-06-01”, “2025-07-01”, “2025-08-01”, “2025-09-01”)),
SAN = c(1.5,1.9,5.9,6.8,6.3),
LDP = c(26.4,31.6,24.0,29.4,27.9),
….
)

df$date<- format(df$date, “%Y-%m”)
knitr::kable(df) ↪

rstats

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 86/3/29; 2025-10-03): If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I’m giving in a couple weeks! It’ll be a blast (and we’re covering Quarto’s brand new _brand dot yaml system!) ↪

R Consortium (@rconsortium.bsky.social; 50/2/8; 2025-10-02): 🚨 Big news for the R Community!

The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization.

Details: r-consortium.org/posts/sovere…

#rstats #opensource #datascience ↪

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 47/2/4; 2025-10-02): I once had data that had a date column that contanined a mix of values like 2015, 2015-09, and 2015-09-19 and I built some wild case_when() check based on the number of characters to then add the requiste number of “-01” parts to get them all to be ymd 😱 This would have fixed everything #rstats ↪

Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 40/2/11; 2025-10-03): R-Universe by @rOpenSci is an extremely useful project.

My latest R package, {pmtiles}, is not a good fit for CRAN as it bundles a pre-compiled Go library.

With R-Universe, I was able to get installable cross-platform binaries built in hours!

#rstats

walkerke.r-universe…. ↪

Marc Kissel (@marckissel.bsky.social; 27/1/6; 2025-10-03): Rubber duck debugging might be the norm, but my students have upgraded to “3D printed axolotl Debugging” in our #Rstats course cause ya gotta embrace whatever joy you can these days (thanks to @jennakissel.bsky.social for realization that w/ 3d printer we could go all in here) ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 25/0/1; 2025-10-05): #rstats in the wild ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 25/10/1; 2025-10-04): What’s the best “swag” you’ve ever gotten? Because I got this plastic disc ring notebook thing and this sharpie S-gel 0.7 pen mailed to me during #positconf (thanks, Kaia!!), and I’ve used them NONSTOP since, to the point where I will replace them if they ever run out.

#databs #rstats ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 24/8/2; 2025-10-03): Tell me what working-out-loud has gotten you 🙋🏻‍♀️

Allowing myself/my curiosity/the work I do to be visible in community spaces, giving talks, asking questions at online meet-ups, ect has changed my life in huge ways

I want to hear the ways it’s changed yours, small or large #databs #rstats, #python ↪

Nick Tierney (@njtierney.bsky.social; 17/1/4; 2025-10-03): I’m giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!

What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f…
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even…
How: @juliasilge.com

#rstats ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 14/2/2; 2025-10-03): Conceptual Econometrics Using R
with chapters on MCMC, panel data, VARs, Game Theory, and more by Peter C. B. Phillips & Eric Zivot et al.

#rstats #econsky

scholar.google.com/citations?vi… ↪

bsvars (@bsvars.org; 13/1/1; 2025-10-03): ⚠️ Publication alert! ⚠️ The methodological paper for the bsvars package has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Econometrics! 📄 Here’s it’s author’s accepted manuscript: doi.org/10.48550/arX…

Watch this space! 👀 Lot’s of goodies coming up! 🌟

#bsvars #rstats ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 11/4/5; 2025-10-03): Sorry for the spam #rstats #stats

But what are some best practices when using @zotero.org?

So far I‘ve just thrown everything into a single library (no groups etc) and used tags (inconsistently)… ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 10/0/0; 2025-10-03): This is how you can test selected comparisons in #tidyplots ✅

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

Cole 🐛 (@colebaril.ca; 8/2/4; 2025-10-04): 🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 4

Today, I looked into U.S. pumpkin production. Illinois dominates in the U.S. due to its ideal soil type and favourable conditions for pumpkin growing.

#Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Pumpkins #Pumpkin ↪

Calle Börstell (@cborstell.bsky.social; 7/2/0; 2025-10-04): Trying to debug for much longer than needed before realizing that

sample(3, 1)

is interpreted as

sample(1:3, 1)

Could not understand what the issue was, thinking it must be my own code, but finally looked at ?sample documentation… #RStats ↪

James Curran (@profjamescurran.bsky.social; 7/4/4; 2025-10-04): Thanks to @visnut.bsky.social, I can now offer recreations (in non-original colours) of the useR! Conference Attendee shirt from Brisbane (2018). They are cheaper than the Aalborg ones because they only have a logo on the front. All profits will go to the R Foundation #Rstats

tinyurl.com/3zf3dwmz ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 3/0/0; 2025-10-04): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,568 3/6
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
bit.ly/WordleR ↪

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS (@tyk314.net; 3/0/0; 2025-10-03): @clairemkbowen.bsky.social and Aaron Williams of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social remind us that data do not grow on trees. More eggs! #defenddata #defendresearch #statssky #rstats ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 2/0/0; 2025-10-05): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “magnificent” today!
Wordle 1,569 2/6
🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
bit.ly/WordleR ↪

The Cruncher (@tcau.dev; 2/0/0; 2025-10-04): The lion does, rarely, concern itself with updating R
#rstats ↪