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CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-01-18): CRAN updates: blogdown #rstats ↪
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William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social; 6/0/0; 2026-01-14): they’re sunsetting bookdown too, just fucking kill me ig ↪
Solomon Kurz (@solomonkurz.bsky.social; 3/1/1; 2026-01-14): The biggest change is it’s now made with Quarto, and is hosted by Quarto Pub at solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/. Due to changes wit Posit and bookdown, the old address will soon be dead.
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Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 109/14/12; 2026-01-10): This is the most elite change in #Positron, it’s so calming.
#rstats #python #databs ↪
Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 64/3/10; 2026-01-10): I am very happy to announce that I will be a keynote speaker at useR!2026 in Warsaw!
Hope to see many incredible members of #RStats community in person there 😀 ↪
Emily Riederer (@emilyriederer.bsky.social; 38/1/9; 2026-01-10): Weeks after writing about how the best ideas bleed btwn R and python, I find out from @stephenturner.us ’s excellent blog that the #rstats world is attempting their own Rust-based analog to uv (for deps mgmt not packaging)
Haven’t tried but neat to watch
a2-ai.github.io/rv-docs/ ↪
Jeremy Allen (@jeremy-data.bsky.social; 32/3/7; 2026-01-10): If you don’t want Claude to load all this great #RStats content for each session, try asking Claude Code to deconstruct this content into distinct skills. On first pass it did not add required YAML headers, so needed second pass with those instructions. Here are the skills I ended up with. ↪
Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 23/0/6; 2026-01-10): #rstats #dataviz #psy6136
Gave the first lecture for my course in Categorical Data Analysis
Slides: friendly.github.io/psy6136/lect… ↪
terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 22/1/5; 2026-01-09): Trying something different with Mount Snow in neon.
Am of two minds about the light reflections…maybe microfacet is better.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale ↪
terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 22/0/6; 2026-01-08): Power lines of the United Kingdom.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale ↪
Egor Kotov 🌐🏃♂️🚊🚋🚙 (@ekotov.pro; 20/0/6; 2026-01-10): #rstats {duckspatial} 0.9 is on CRAN, makes @duckdb.org 🦆 #spatial 🌍 more user-friendly, enabling faster big data spatial ops in R. Adrián Cidree shared a great breakdown of how we (+ @urbandemog.bsky.social) are doing it:
📖: cidree.github.io/duckspatial/…
💻: github.com/Cidree/ducks…
#rspatial ↪
- https://cidree.github.io/duckspatial/articles/duckspatial.html
- https://github.com/Cidree/duckspatial
Florian Oswald (@floswald.bsky.social; 19/1/2; 2026-01-10): How to deal with 17GB dataset on a 16GB RAM laptop? my updated version of Grant’s @gmcd.bsky.social big data workshop from 2 years ago. That’s where I first saw @duckdb.org and never looked back. interfaces in #rstats #julialang #python
floswald.github.io/duckdb-polars/ ↪
David Ranzolin (@daranzolin.bsky.social; 15/0/1; 2026-01-09): |> mutate(across(2:last_col(), (x) …)) the 🐐 #rstats ↪
Josiah (@josiah.rs; 14/1/2; 2026-01-09): where(everything()):
me after my wife is so very kind and cleans my office as a surprise #rstats ↪
Daniel Gutierrez (@ddgutierrez.bsky.social; 11/0/2; 2026-01-09): I always tell my students: The best model isn’t the most accurate. It’s the one you can explain clearly to a decision-maker who wasn’t in the room when it was built.
#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats ↪
Manasseh (@manasseh6.bsky.social; 11/0/3; 2026-01-09): BYOD for the 1st #TidyTuesday of the year.
I chose to focus on the Africa Cup of Nations giants. Did the host nation make it to the top four?
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 ↪
CascadiaRConference (@cascadiarconf.bsky.social; 10/0/5; 2026-01-10): Exciting news 🎉 The 2026 Cascadia R Conference is happening in Portland, Oregon on June 27, 2026! The Call for Presentations and Early Registration is now OPEN! Have a cool project in #rstats? Share with the Cascadia community! 🌲
Submit here: cascadiarconf.com/cfp/
#CascadiaR #DataScience #rstats ↪
Joachim Schork (@joachimschork.bsky.social; 10/0/1; 2026-01-09): Comparison of mice imputation with Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics (NNS) and k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN).
Check out my course for more details: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours…
#rstats #statistics #datascience #statisticalanalysis ↪
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 9/1/1; 2026-01-11): tidymodels is so good #rstats ↪
Harald Kliems (@haraldkliems.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 8/1/1; 2026-01-11): Slow clap everybody: I rendered the 3D route animation with 16 instead of 32 samples per image in order to get it done in an afternoon rather than overnight. #rayshader #RStats ↪
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 8/1/3; 2026-01-10): Now that I’m learning about APIs I’m shocked that so many subscriptions services are basically just wrappers of a free API service.
#rstats ↪
The Data Journal (@datajournaluk.bsky.social; 7/1/4; 2026-01-10): Yugioh card text is now at ~85 words per card for cards released in 2025, roughly a 200% increase since the games original release.
#yugioh #anime #data #dataviz #rstats ↪
The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email; 4/0/1; 2026-01-09): The Prescription Takeover
https://stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visualizations/TidyTuesday/2026/tt_2026_01.html
#rstats #datascience ↪