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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 16/3/5; 2026-01-06): #rstats blogdown/netlify users: you might have received an email saying your site will go away because something something prerendering.
If you go to the check link in the comments of the linked page (not the one in the text) it will likely tell you there’s no problem because your site is static🎉 ↪
Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2026-01-06): Is this a blogdown thing or a netlify thing? I’ve not seen any correspondence ↪
Zad Rafi (Sir Panda) (@lesslikely.com; 0/0/1; 2026-01-06): Do people still use blogdown/hugo or has everyone moved onto Quarto /substack? ↪
bookdown
New-Cleckit Dominie (@ncdominie.bsky.social; 2/1/0; 2026-01-06): Thanks! I was trying last year to use Bookdown, which IIRC came out of Bath. It was a valiant attempt to make a usable MathML generator, but so clunky if one was used to LaTeX that I got really frustrated with it. Fine for wee projects but a nightmare for 80pp of lecture notes… ↪
Steve Senior (@stevensenior.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-01-03): Sad news about bookdown.
Good book here though. ↪
knitr
tj mahr 🦃 (@tjmahr.com; 3/1/0; 2026-01-06): this looks good! it passed my two main concerns: 1. that you can drop it at the top of an .Rmd file, run knitr::knit(), and not get a false positive from knitting in a clean session, and 2. that it will detect and report devtools/renv shims ↪
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Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 138/1/33; 2026-01-02): The 1.3.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of Kruschke’s “Doing Bayesian data analysis” is up!
solomon.quarto.pub/dbda2
#rstats
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Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 55/8/17; 2026-01-04): #Rstats slides back into the top 10 programming languages. R is far from dead. www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ ↪
Darren Wilkinson (@darrenjw.bsky.social; 50/5/17; 2026-01-01): Some lecture notes on spatial and temporal modelling, illustrated using R - darrenjw.github.io/spatio-tempo… - #rstats #rspatial #quarto ↪
Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 32/0/5; 2026-01-02): #rstats ANNOUNCE:
The {ggCheysson} 📦 brings the graphical styles of the Albums de Statistique Graphique to R and ggplot2.
Not yet on CRAN, and still under development.
friendly.github.io/ggCheysson/ ↪
Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is; 24/0/3; 2026-01-02): Genuary 2026, Day 1: One color, one shape
Code: github.com/gkaramanis/a…
Inspiration: bsky.app/profile/roni…
#RStats #genuary #genuary1 #creativecoding ↪
- https://github.com/gkaramanis/aRtist/tree/main/genuary/2026
- https://bsky.app/profile/ronikaufman.bsky.social/post/3mber3pu6rc2l
Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is; 23/1/2; 2026-01-04): Genuary 2026, Day 3: Fibonacci forever
#RStats code: github.com/gkaramanis/a…
#rtistry #genuary #genuary3 #creativecoding ↪
Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 20/1/4; 2026-01-02): My friend @tommytang.bsky.social vibe-engineered these R and Python tutorials that run in the browser with WASM. chatomics-labs.base44.app #Rstats 🧬🖥️🧪 ↪
Robert (Bob) Kubinec (@rmkubinec.bsky.social; 14/1/1; 2026-01-02): An amazing part of 2025 was the growth of ordered beta regression. The paper was cited 94 times in 2025 across many fields.
Super grateful to everyone who has used it and cited it. Thank you!
and don’t forget your ordered beta merch 😆
#rstats
rmk-designs.printify.me ↪
Robert (Bob) Kubinec (@rmkubinec.bsky.social; 13/0/0; 2026-01-03): Amazing to see the growth of the ordbetareg R package from 2022 to present. It’s now regularly in the top 10 percent of downloaded packages from CRAN.
I’ll be working on a new package release soon… feedback always welcome!
#rstats ↪
Collin Berke (@collinberke.bsky.social; 12/1/0; 2026-01-02): Spent some time learning more about @github.com Actions today.
Thankful for r-lib’s #RStats actions. It makes getting up and going way easier: github.com/r-lib/actions
The use of caching for setting up R’s dependencies is also 🤌. ↪
Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is; 12/0/0; 2026-01-02): Genuary 2026, Day 2: Twelve principles of animation
#RStats code: github.com/gkaramanis/a…
#rtistry #genuary #genuary2 #creativecoding ↪
Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 9/0/4; 2026-01-02): Reminder that this workshop is next week already! Don’t miss your chance to register!
#RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky ↪
Stephen Turner (@stephenturner.us; 9/0/1; 2026-01-02): Weekly recap: NSF reorg, Science in 2050, 2025 LLM recap, #Rstats + Python, R Data Scientist, virtual cells, genomics in 2026, Claude Code course, AI and labor, how uv got so fast, Anthropic/biotech, papers+preprints doi.org/10.59350/h52… ↪
Ted Laderas (@tladeras.bsky.social; 8/2/0; 2026-01-02): Trying out #databot for exploring endangered languages of the world for #TidyTuesday
I know some about spatial analysis using {sf}, so I work with #databot to visualize the data spatially. #rstats #databs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bahM… ↪
Mike O’Brien (@obrien.page; 5/2/8; 2026-01-03): Has anyone out there run geodesic regression in #rstats? #gischat ↪
Tomaz Kastrun (@tomaztsql.bsky.social; 5/2/0; 2026-01-03): »New R package - LazyMouse«
Check it out
github.com/tomaztk/Lazy…
#rlanguage #Rstats #Github ↪
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 4/3/0; 2026-01-03): 2026 goals
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targeting a number of new #rstats packages this year, some are boring wrappers of a API service but others are more exciting
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switching my codebase to coderberg.org – already started and pretty happy with it
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more focus on a single project rather than spreading myself too thin ↪
John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 3/0/0; 2026-01-04): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “great” today!
Wordle 1,660 5/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪
The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 2/0/0; 2026-01-04): Weekly Recap (January 2, 2026)
https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-january-2-2026
#rstats #datascience ↪
Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 2/1/0; 2026-01-03): #rstats #CRAN package submission seems to have an enormous hangover. It’s been down for the count for over two days. ↪