If you use Positron / VS Code and the Material Icon theme (which is nice!), it sometimes guesses folder icons wrong / doesn’t know about #rstats things like targets or renv or Quarto. Just found out that you can set your own custom folder icons! gist.github.com/rupeshtiwari…

2026/01/04

blogdown

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 2/0/0; 2026-01-03): I found it pretty straightforward to migrate my old hugo/blogdown site to a quarto blog

Good luck with whatever option you go with! ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/1; 2025-12-29): blogdown Creating Websites with R Markdown by Yihui Xie, Amber Thomas and Alison Presmanes Hill
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/blogdown.html#blogdown-creating-websites-with-r-markdown ↪

bookdown

Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social; 22/0/14; 2026-01-03): It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I’ve migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here:
dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud
Hard copy also available here:
www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W… ↪

Steve Senior (@stevensenior.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-01-03): Sad news about bookdown.

Good book here though. ↪

IBD Doctor (@ibddoctor.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-01-02): For folks who want to self-teach/learn medical data analysis with R, this resource has moved from bookdown to posit.cloud
peter-higgins-rmrwr.share.connect.posit.cloud ↪

knitr

Awakari (@bluesky.awakari.com; 0/0/0; 2026-01-04): @ Mehrad yup no issue here, R can get knitr it seems something from quarto cli, I run quarto check and it seems fine now, still unclear if it is because I installed some package in a “classic” R ubuntu path or if that an effect of quarto check

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rstats

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 110/4/11; 2025-12-27): If you use Positron / VS Code and the Material Icon theme (which is nice!), it sometimes guesses folder icons wrong / doesn’t know about #rstats things like targets or renv or Quarto. Just found out that you can set your own custom folder icons! gist.github.com/rupeshtiwari… ↪

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 39/0/7; 2025-12-24): Turn Claude into an expert on writing {testthat} #Rstats 📦 version 3 R tests with the Claude Testing R Packages skill by @posit.co
github.com/posit-dev/sk…
That repo has other skills including how to use brand.yml with Quarto and Shiny
github.com/posit-dev/sk…
#GenAI ↪

Aman Bhargava (@aman.bh; 37/3/13; 2025-12-27): Rhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz

aman.bh/blog/2025/tw… ↪

ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ’ꜱ (@drmowinckels.io; 33/3/2; 2025-12-26): We Made It! 🎉

25 days. Complete modern R package development workflow. From usethis automation to CRAN submission. You have everything you need!

#rstats #CRAN #RPackageAdvent2025 #ThatsAWrap ↪

Kenny Vaden (@kennyvaden.bsky.social; 29/0/2; 2025-12-26): Self-Portrait (R code)

Code based self-portrait of the brain that wrote the code that fed its structure into an algorithmic system.

#codeart #genartclub #genart #rstats ↪

Michael Chirico (@michaelchirico.bsky.social; 28/2/2; 2025-12-24): Look under your tree! 🌲 🎁

There’s a major #rstats #rdatatable release waiting!

A tremendous thanks to all involved and especially those contributing to some major (performance-maintaining!!) rewrites around the non-API issue.

cran.r-project.org/web/packages… ↪

Kyle Walker (@kylewalker.bsky.social; 16/0/1; 2025-12-24): While some have made the claim that “R is dead!” this year on social media…

Claude Code is going mainstream, and guess what language it’s using.

#LongLiveR

#rstats ↪

Adam Austin (@ataustin.bsky.social; 14/1/1; 2025-12-28): Day 9 of #AdventOfCode, base R!

Part 2 was tailor-made for all the data nerds (🙋‍♂️) who prefer to understand their problems through visualization. I’m sure the problem could be solved without a plot, but it definitely reduced the possibility space!
Code on GitHub: github.com/ataustin/adv…
#RStats ↪

John Harrold (@abumirchi.com; 14/0/0; 2025-12-26): If you see a guy at 4 am drinking coffee and making R packages until the sun comes up the on his brother-in-laws floor in India that’s me.

#rstats ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 14/0/1; 2025-12-23): #tidyplots dark mode coming soon 🦇

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

C.Robbs (@etts12.bsky.social; 13/2/0; 2025-12-27): I found some time to make a dot density map of Montgomery County, MD, which is where I live. The county is both densely populated and diverse. A characteristic not captured by the map is its high cost of living. #R #rstats #spatial #ggplot2 ↪

Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 12/0/3; 2025-12-26): R2G2: A Python-R Framework for Seamless Integration of R/Bioconductor Tools into Galaxy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6… #rstats 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/BlankenbergL… ↪

Manasseh (@manasseh6.bsky.social; 12/1/0; 2025-12-24): The Languages of the World for #TidyTuesday, Week 51.

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 ↪

ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ’ꜱ (@drmowinckels.io; 11/1/0; 2025-12-24): Day 24: rlang - Tidy Evaluation in Packages

Handle user expressions safely in package functions.

Pro Tip: Use {{ }} (embrace) for single arguments, … for multiple arguments.
Resources: rlang.r-lib.org

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 ↪

Aman Bhargava (@aman.bh; 8/5/0; 2025-12-25): #rstats folks, how do you figure out the positions for your annotations/labels or other arbitrarily positioned text on top of your plot? I have to fiddle around with xy numbers for far too long to get what I want. Are there some better hacks or tools I am not aware of? Does everyone do the xy thing? ↪

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 6/0/0; 2025-12-27): Daily number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 1 - Dec 26, 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 ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 4/1/0; 2025-12-27): 1. divingintogeneticsandgenomics.rbind.io/post/pca-in… PCA in action, my blog post to calculate SVD and PCA with #rstats ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 4/0/0; 2025-12-25): Mastering Software Development in R by Roger D. Peng, Sean Kross and Brooke Anderson
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/r%20programming.html#mastering-software-development-in-r ↪

Peter Ellis (@freerangestats.info; 3/1/1; 2025-12-27): Third in my list of 5 star books I read for the first time in 2025 was Scott Cunningham’s “Causal Inference - the Mixtape”. This was a great, practical overview of causal inference statistical techniques; with both Stata and #rstats code. www.goodreads.com/book/show/56… ↪

Patrick Schratz (@pat-dev.bsky.social; 2/0/2; 2025-12-26): Alpine 3.23 #rstats binaries are now available at rpkgs.com.

Subsequently, 3.21 entered EOL. Binaries will continue to be built until 3.24 has been released. ↪

yihui.org

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 8/0/1; 2025-12-29): The {servr} #RStats 📦 ’s httd() function spins up a local Web server if you need to test an HTML file that requires a Web server to run.
For example servr::httd(“docs”) automatically launches a browser that displays an index.html file in your docs directory.
pkg.yihui.org/servr/
By @yihui.org ↪