Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero #rstats www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t…

2025/10/19

blogdown

R-Podcast (Eric) (@rpodcast.bsky.social; 8/0/0; 2025-10-18): I’m thrilled to share that awesome-blogdown lives on! I have benefited immensely from {blogdown} to create a web presence entirely from R, and there is no way I was going to let this slip away πŸ˜€

🏠 New site awesome-blogdown.org
πŸ“£ Announcement awesome-blogdown.org/site-update/

#databs #RStats β†ͺ

bookdown

Dan Quintana (@dsquintana.bsky.social; 74/3/30; 2025-10-17): Here are two “I can’t believe these are free” online stats texts books that cover both underlying principles and practical applications in R that I regularly refer to.

Learning Statistics with R
learningstatisticswithr.com

Doing Meta-Analysis with R bookdown.org/MathiasHarre… β†ͺ

knitr

William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social; 88/7/6; 2025-10-16): I do love how β€œcurtain for zoosha” most software shit sounds. using dtplyr so I can lazy_dt my tibbles instead of having frwite then vroom them. Kable knitr? No, Quarto tt. β†ͺ

rstats

econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 98/6/19; 2025-10-10): Ross Ihaka: The Open-Hearted Data Hero
#rstats
www.historyofdatascience.com/ross-ihaka-t… β†ͺ


Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 78/2/11; 2025-10-10): oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats β†ͺ


Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 68/6/7; 2025-10-10): “Man, I really wish RStudio respected hierarchy in code-folded section headers… I wonder how easy it would be to…”

(inner voice: DON’T DO IT! IT’S NOT WORTH IT! JUST GET BACK TO WORK! THE YAK IS BEST LEFT UNSHORN!)

“… I’m gonna do it.”

#RStats #RStudio β†ͺ


Guillaume Noblet (@gnoblet.bsky.social; 54/3/14; 2025-10-10): One of my graph has just entered the “best” section of the r-graph-gallery.com with a tutorial.

Featuring a waffle chart for time series, where the subtitle serves as a colorful legend.

Thanks a lot to @yan-holtz.bsky.social and @soeundataviz.bsky.social for adding it! #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 β†ͺ


Gregers Kristian Kjerulf (@gregerskjerulf.bsky.social; 36/4/3; 2025-10-10): CatGPT helping me debug a custom #rstats plotting function β†ͺ


econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 19/1/2; 2025-10-11): Note to self: when saving a blog post to @zotero.org, saving the webpage to @archive.org is useful.

Particularly for blogs that don’t render nicely to PDF or that may be discontinued in the near future.
#rstats #stats β†ͺ


Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 12/0/5; 2025-10-12): If you are not personally interested in attending this workshop, you can also sponsor participation of a student!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats β†ͺ


Dr. U (@transport-talk.bsky.social; 12/0/3; 2025-10-09): There’s also {raylibr} that enables you to make snake and DOOM games among others: github.com/jeroenjansse… #rstats β†ͺ


Dr Mircea Zloteanu β˜€οΈ 🌊🌴 (@mzloteanu.bsky.social; 11/3/0; 2025-10-10): R: How many cores do you want to use?
Me: Yes.

#R #brms #bayesian #rstats β†ͺ


Daniel Gutierrez (@ddgutierrez.bsky.social; 10/1/0; 2025-10-10): The part of data science no one glamorizes:
β€” Cleaning timestamps
β€” Untangling legacy SQL
β€” Explaining why null β‰  0
Yet this is where real value is created. Modeling is easy compared to wrangling chaos into clarity.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats β†ͺ


Collin Berke (@collinberke.bsky.social; 9/1/2; 2025-10-10): I’m often amazed at how much typing I’ve saved myself by using dput(names()) when working with #RStats.

I wrote about this back in 2024, and I was reminded about it’s utility again today: www.collinberke.com/til/posts/20… β†ͺ


Terry Christiani πŸ‘‹ (@terrychristiani.bsky.social; 9/0/2; 2025-10-10): It is here!!! So very excited to bring this #rstats event to life! I hope you will join us for this conference and help us make this first one a success. Get your ticket and get ready for some community created education for R+AI! β†ͺ


Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 8/0/2; 2025-10-10): This is how you can generate lollipop charts in #tidyplots 🍭

#rstats #dataviz #phd β†ͺ


Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 6/0/2; 2025-10-11): R in Production by Hadley Wickham
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/workflow.html#r-in-production β†ͺ


Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 6/1/1; 2025-10-12): when printing a command line prints with {cli} in @quarto.org, the color format washes away – does anyone know how to keep it?

eg. this is what prints in my terminal – but this is what shows up in my quarto document

#rstats β†ͺ


coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 5/0/1; 2025-10-11): That’s no moon!

#RStats β†ͺ


Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 5/0/1; 2025-10-11): Daily number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 1 - Oct 10, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot.
Coded with the {bskyr} and {ggplot2} R packages.

[Posted via R script and weekly cron job. Tx for your patience if something went awry] #RStatsStats β†ͺ


coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 4/0/2; 2025-10-10): #RStats Dev Diary - SDF/CSG rendering

A rotated space-filling structure (gyroid) β†ͺ


John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 4/0/0; 2025-10-11): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,575 3/6
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bit.ly/WordleR β†ͺ


Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/0; 2025-10-12): Shiny Production with AWS Book by Matt Doncho
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/shiny.html#shiny-production-with-aws-book β†ͺ

yihui.org

Adam Austin (@ataustin.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-10-13): hey #dataBS can we add to this list plz: yihui.org/en/2017/04/j… β†ͺ