#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, … and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

2025/12/07

bookdown

Posit (@posit.co; 5/1/10; 2025-12-05): 📢 Announcement: We are sunsetting the bookdown.org public hosting service.

If you have #RStats docs on bookdown.org, please migrate them to a new platform by January 31, 2026, to maintain control over your content. (We recommend Posit Connect Cloud!)

Learn more: posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset ↪

The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 1/0/0; 2025-12-06): bookdown.org Hosting Service Sunset

https://posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset/

#rstats #datascience ↪

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 (@hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy; 0/1/0; 2025-12-06): Huh. Rly glad I never jumped on the bookdown[.]org bandwagon. ↪

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-05): Updates on CRAN: bookdown (0.46), funtimes (10.0), GCCfactor (1.1.4), hce (0.8.8), highlight (0.5.2), LMMsolver (1.0.12), memshare (1.1.0), rankdifferencetest (2025.12.4), supernova (3.0.1), terrainmeshr (1.0.1), visor (0.1.1) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-05): CRAN updates: bookdown hce highlight supernova terrainmeshr visor #rstats ↪

knitr

Lorenzo Gaborini (@lgaborini.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2025-12-06): What’s different? The backend (knitr/pandoc) is the same, and you should also be able to change the HTML template in case it lacks metadata. Or maybe also writing a Lua filter to preprocess your Qmd for those extreme cases… ↪

**** (@lefilrouge.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-06): … Impressum & Datenschutz.

Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales Berlin
Fachgruppe Surveillance und Epidemiologie von Infektionskrankheiten
Turmstr. 21
10559 Berlin

#SARSCoV2 #CoViD-19 #Corona #Berlin

data.lageso.de/lageso/coron… ↪

rstats

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 197/13/65; 2025-11-28): #rstats
It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week.
He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, … and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly.
www.john-fox.ca ↪

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 100/1/16; 2025-11-28): Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday

ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ’ꜱ (@drmowinckels.io; 96/2/34; 2025-11-30): 🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄

Starting December 1st, I’m launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here’s why you should follow along 🧵

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource ↪

Ansgar Wolsing (@ansgarw.bsky.social; 65/3/6; 2025-11-28): In Cologne, KVB rental bike locations are available through an open API. I collected minute-by-minute positions of rented bikes on Nov 25, 2025. A map shows the path of one bike.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport #rstats ↪

Ansgar Wolsing (@ansgarw.bsky.social; 39/1/5; 2025-11-29): The Ruhrgebiet, once Europe’s largest industrial region, mined coal from the 13th century. By 1956 it employed almost half a million people, but within two decades the workforce had shrunk by two thirds. The last mine closed in 2018.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black #rstats #ggplot2 ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 36/3/5; 2025-11-29): Mapping out how quickly you can get around Edinburgh with different modes of transport for day 26 of the #30DayMapChallenge!

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 ↪

Elio Campitelli (@eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy; 24/3/8; 2025-11-27): New knitr / #QuartoPub #RStats trick. Add this to your setup to add automatic string interpolation to your captions. ↪

Martin Mächler (@mmaechler.bsky.social; 22/3/5; 2025-11-28): I remember John Fox as one of the most kind R Foundation #rstats members (ca. 2006-2023) giving wise and kind words often. The 1-1 interview he held with several of us, resulting in a useR!2008 pres and the article journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-… It is sad to miss him. May he rest in peace! ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 21/0/3; 2025-11-27): Best Practice for R :: Cheat Sheet #rstats
github.com/wurli/r-bes… ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 21/0/0; 2025-11-29): For the “boundaries” prompt on day 27 of the #30DayMapChallenge, I mapped the bounding boxes for each of Scotland’s 32 council areas 📊

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz ↪

Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 14/0/10; 2025-11-28): plinkQC: An Integrated Tool for Ancestry Inference, Sample Selection, and Quality Control in Population Genetics www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1… 🧬🖥️🧪 R package meyer-lab-cshl.github.io/plinkQC/ #Rstats ↪

Yani Bellini Saibene (@yabellini.bsky.social; 14/0/4; 2025-11-29): Ya esta!
El programa completo de @latinrconf.bsky.social 2025 está aquí: latinr.org/cronograma/p…

¡Les esperamos! La conferencia es gratuita: www.eventbrite.cl/e/latinr-202…

#RStats #DataScience #OpenData #OpenScience #AI #FOSS #Package #RSE ↪

Norm Matloff (你有冇諗清楚呀?) (@matloff.bsky.social; 13/0/0; 2025-11-29): Very sorry to hear that, one of the giants in #rstats. ↪

Peter Ellis (@freerangestats.info; 11/1/4; 2025-11-30): First in a series of #rstats blog posts about drawing charts of population growth, migration and remittance issues for Pacific island countries and territories. Today’s starts with the simplest - a couple of different ways to summarise population size and growth. freerangestats.info/blog/2025/11… ↪

Erik Reinbergs (@ereinbergs.bsky.social; 8/1/0; 2025-11-29): PSA bc I forget every time i use it (including again today) 😩

The marginaleffects package avg_predictions() option that corresponds to stata’s “margins x” is “variable = x”, not “by = x”.

#rstats ↪

Federica Gazzelloni (@fgazzelloni.bsky.social; 6/0/1; 2025-11-30): Day 30 (Makeover) of Accessibility
Rebuilt my Spain healthcare accessibility map using a simulated distance-to-hospital raster in km, a metric CRS, and a cleaner warm→cool palette.
Amazing how much clarity you gain from a small cartographic redesign.
#30DayMapChallenge #RStats ↪

Darakhshan Nehal (@darakhshann.bsky.social; 6/1/0; 2025-11-28): Estoy aprendiendo espanol. Often mess up the grammar though. :(
#rstats ↪

The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 4/0/1; 2025-11-29): October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

https://rworks.dev/posts/october-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages/

#rstats #datascience ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 2/1/0; 2025-11-29): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,624 3/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
bit.ly/WordleR ↪

Federica Gazzelloni (@fgazzelloni.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2025-11-29): Days 26-28 of #30DayMapChallenge are out! 🎉

🚌 Transport - OSM roads of Portugal
🗺️ Boundaries - Brazil + Roraima inset
🔤 Place Names - Wikidata endonyms

Made with R: {sf} {terra} {stars} {ggplot2}

#rstats #GIS #DataViz #RStats ↪

yihui.org

tj mahr 🦃 (@tjmahr.com; 0/0/0; 2025-11-28): okay, option hooks run before and chunk hooks can run before or after. I’ve used chunk hooks for cleaning up line-wrapping in model output yihui.org/knitr/hooks/ ↪