These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

2026/03/15

blogdown

Thomas Lumley (@tslumley.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-02-24): Is anyone else seeing blogdown/netlify failing to build? β†ͺ

bookdown

Riccardo Fusaroli (@fusaroli.eurosky.social; 2/0/0; 2026-03-11): I’ll be smart, I thought. Parallelized computations. Bookdown (I know, I’ll shift to quarto after teaching is done). I am learning sooo much on memory issues in R…. β†ͺ

Chris Chapman (@cchapman.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-03-09): FWIW, pre-Quarto, I wrote a similar piece about this process using R + bookdown: quantuxblog.com/how-the-quan…

Despite that, I learned a lot more details from @kjhealy.co here πŸ‘ β†ͺ

knitr

Dr Strange PhD, Cat Lackey (@ceeeyes.bsky.social; 8/3/3; 2026-03-10): Quittr sounds like an R package. Like knitr. β†ͺ

rstats

Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 620/8/142; 2026-03-05): These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats β†ͺ

Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 169/5/11; 2026-03-06): I am glad that Bluesky has now captured all the best parts of #rstats twitter: dank memes, sick burns, hot takes, and flame wars. β†ͺ

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 133/1/22; 2026-03-06): Finally got around to adding fancy links to my different interactive teaching websites for showing things like p-hacking, p-value interpretations, and (still-in-draft-form) DAGs at www.andrewheiss.com/teaching/ #rstats #QuartoPub #statsky β†ͺ

Noam Ross is #Hiring (@noamross.net; 118/1/85; 2026-03-06): Grant Witness is hiring! We’re seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats β†ͺ

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 58/34/13; 2026-03-06): I feel like we could collectively come up with some great bond flick names re: #rstats, #GitHub, etc πŸ˜‚

I submit for your approval: terrible ideas only.

“MIT License to Kill”
“Rebase Another Day”
“The Dev Who Reviewed Me” β†ͺ

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 52/3/8; 2026-03-06): I’ve got to say no no no #RStats β†ͺ

Mwavu (@mwavu.com; 46/1/9; 2026-03-06): python vs R?
base R vs tidyverse?
framework X vs Y?

unless you’re getting paid, use the one that brings you the most joy.

life’s too short to keep on writing code that you neither enjoy nor get paid for.

#rstats β†ͺ

Miles McBain (@milesmcbain.bsky.social; 32/10/8; 2026-03-08): Alright class, #rstats #dataabs, a question, and this will be on your exam:

Code quality, in particular readability, and the management of complexity is much more important in data analysis than software engineering in general. Why? β†ͺ

terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 27/0/5; 2026-03-06): Introducing population tiles of France.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale β†ͺ

Jonathan Peelle (@jpeelle.bsky.social; 24/2/1; 2026-03-07): Bluesky people are generally too nice, I’m still living after this blatant shitpost #rstats β†ͺ

econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 24/2/6; 2026-03-06): “wakefield” will forever be my favorite name for an #rstats package
#stats

github.com/trinker/wake… β†ͺ

Danielle Navarro (@djnavarro.net; 23/2/2; 2026-03-07): From #rstats with love β†ͺ

Antoine Vernet (@antoinevernet.com; 17/3/1; 2026-03-06): This is probably the biggest barrier for new python users coming from #rstats β†ͺ

Ed Palmer (@doced.bsky.social; 15/0/1; 2026-03-08): #rstats is so back πŸ’ͺ🀩 β†ͺ

Denis Mongin (@denismongin.bsky.social; 15/1/4; 2026-03-06): dear #Rstats #dataviz and #ggplot ninja, dear @coulmont.bsky.social , here is the next challenge

I want a ggspiralbars β†ͺ

πš–πšŠπšŒπš”πšŠβ€€πšœπš£πšŽπšŒπš‘πš—πš˜ (@mackaszechno.bsky.social; 11/2/3; 2026-03-06): data.table is the betamax of #rstats β†ͺ

Pierre-Paul Axisa (@ppaxisa.bsky.social; 9/1/3; 2026-03-07): S4 methods developers when you type @ to access some slots. #rstats β†ͺ

mozardt (@mozardmohtar.bsky.social; 8/1/0; 2026-03-08): The poster below summarizes updated robust #covariance-based #structural #equation #modeling #CBSEM workflow of current available #rstats #packages and #shinyapps β†ͺ

Bruce Hamilton (@bahome.bsky.social; 7/2/1; 2026-03-07): β€œOn subset(HerMajesty, HerMajesty$Service == β€˜Secret’)
#rstats #bond β†ͺ

Damien C-C (@dccc-phd.bsky.social; 3/0/0; 2026-03-07): a gold metal #RStats goof β†ͺ