Back in the top 10, baby! Eat your heart out, “#rstats is dying” thinkpieces. 😜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

2025/12/21

knitr

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-20): Updates on CRAN: DOVE (1.11), knitr (1.51), npANCOVA (0.1.1), Rsomoclu (1.7.7), tidypopgen (0.4.1)


CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-20): CRAN updates: knitr npANCOVA Rsomoclu tidypopgen #rstats

litedown

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-18): Updates on CRAN: biogrowth (1.0.8), dang (0.0.17), EasyABC (1.6), gbutils (0.5.1), jpinfect (0.1.9), litedown (0.9), metap (1.13), mixture (2.2.0), psre (0.4)


CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2025-12-18): CRAN updates: gbutils litedown metap mixture psre #rstats

rstats

Kelly Bodwin (@kellybodwin.com; 70/9/13; 2025-12-11): Back in the top 10, baby!

Eat your heart out, “#rstats is dying” thinkpieces. 😜

www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/


Ella Kaye (@ellakaye.co.uk; 66/1/14; 2025-12-12): 🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project

“Enabling the next generation of R contributors”

has received £500k over 2 years.

www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1…


Andrew Perfors (@perfors.net; 49/15/13; 2025-12-11): Hey #rstats and #stats people, does anyone know of any references that explain the hazards of trying to run or interpret models with all combinations of many predictors? (i.e., including multiple 2-way and 3-way interactions)


Maëlle Salmon (@masalmon.eu; 47/1/8; 2025-12-11): New post on the @ropensci.org blog: How to Assess Usage of your #RStats Package

📂 Downloads
🌳 Reverse dependencies
🔍 Code mentions
🎓 Citations
⭐ Popularity measures: likes
🤝 Contributions to the repository
🙋 Use case reports
🕵️ Telemetry

ropensci.org/blog/2025/12…


Konsta Happonen (@konsta.happonen.eu; 34/3/0; 2025-12-12): why.

Timezones, not even once. #rstats


Kenny Vaden (@kennyvaden.bsky.social; 28/0/4; 2025-12-13): GM

Old friend (R code)

Revisiting WORLDS (2021) on its 4th anniversary

Deeply grateful to the supporters who made it possible and continue to encourage creative, systems-driven art

#codeart #genartclub #genart #rstats


easystats (@easystats.github.io; 26/1/7; 2025-12-12): 🎉 Great news for #rstats users! If you love the native R graphics feel of #tinyplot AND you’re a fan of the powerful #easystats #modelbased package, this is for you!

Thanks to @gmcd.bsky.social, we significantly enhanced the tinyplot integration.

🔗 Read more: easystats.github.io/modelbased/a…


Adam Austin (@ataustin.bsky.social; 17/2/0; 2025-12-12): WHEW! Day 7 of #AdventOfCode, base R only!

Part 2 had me stumped. Shout-out to @karstendick.bsky.social for posting an approach that I could implement, namely “the number of paths through a node is equal to the sum of paths through its parents.”
#RStats
github.com/ataustin/adv…


Rami Krispin (@ramikrispin.bsky.social; 13/0/1; 2025-12-13): Having fun with Claude code and the gt library 😆

#rstats


Tomasz Woźniak (@tomaszwozniak.bsky.social; 12/0/1; 2025-12-13): Hey, that’s my package! 🖤💙 #bpvars #bsvars #rstats


Emily Riederer (@emilyriederer.bsky.social; 11/1/1; 2025-12-13): Officially stashing away “Their trajectory is parallel to mine on a log scale at least” for any time comparison in robbing me of job in life

(This is a post on insecurity not a knock on rstats if that wasn’t clear)


John Paul Helveston (@jhelvy.bsky.social; 10/1/1; 2025-12-14): My intro to programming in #rstats class materials are all openly available

p4a.seas.gwu.edu


Achim Zeileis (@zeileis.org; 9/2/1; 2025-12-13): These are the materials for our 1-semester course

Introduction to Programming with R

It’s geared towards 1st-year bachelor students without any prior programming experience. #rstats

discdown.org/rprogramming/


Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 9/0/1; 2025-12-12): #rstats
Big overhaul of my {vcdExtra} pkg for visualizations of categorical data and glm() / loglm() models, now on CRAN
github.com/friendly/vcd…


Blas M. Benito (@blasbenito.com; 8/0/1; 2025-12-12): One minute of silence for ggplot2’s aes_string().
Gone, but never forgotten.
#rstats


Jason Mercer (@wetlandscapes.bsky.social; 8/1/0; 2025-12-11): Positron is building up dev container support! This is big! github.com/posit-dev/po… #rstats #python


**** (@yonicd.bsky.social; 7/0/0; 2025-12-13): supressWarnings(warn=-1) #rstats


ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ’ꜱ (@drmowinckels.io; 6/2/1; 2025-12-14): Day 14: testthat 3rd Edition Features
Modern testing with the latest testthat features.

Setup:
usethis::use_testthat(3)

Pro Tip: Use test_that() with descriptive names that explain what should happen.
Resources: testthat.r-lib.org

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025


Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 6/0/0; 2025-12-12): Two tools for plotting genomics data:

figeno: Tool for making genomics figures in #python.
github.com/CompEpigen/…

Plotting Multi-omic Data with plotgardener in #rstats
phanstiellab.github.io/plotgardene…


Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics (@urbandemog.bsky.social; 5/1/0; 2025-12-12): How well do LLMs generate R code?
skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud #rstats #llm

xaringan

Aman Bhargava (@aman.bh; 5/1/0; 2025-12-19): I have such immense inertia in even wanting to switch from RStudio to Positron or to Quarto from xaringan/rmarkdown. I get that they are better, but the original tools feel so close to my heart it feels wrong doing it. #rstats