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

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 0/0/0; 2026-03-19): 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 ↪

• https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/blogdown.html#blogdown-creating-websites-with-r-markdown

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Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 79/2/16; 2026-03-14): Happy #PiDay!

Here’s the first 1,000 digits of pi encoded as colours 🎨 made with #RStats ↪

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 64/5/13; 2026-03-14): This video is bananas—you can estimate π from a ton of random coin flips bc the expected prop of heads/total after 50%+ of the flips are heads = π/4

Here’s an #rstats version I made of Matt’s Python code in the video gist.github.com/andrewheiss/…

With 10 million random flips I got 3.131381 ↪

• https://gist.github.com/andrewheiss/64eccec00472182d292238adc15e24e9

Jenny Bryan (@jennybryan.bsky.social; 50/2/8; 2026-03-12): This is fantastic news! Heather is such a positive force in the #rstats community and is doing vital work for the long-term sustainability of R and its community. ↪

Emil Hvitfeldt (@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social; 47/2/11; 2026-03-13): I’m over the moon excited to the release of 0.5.0 of orbital 🛰️

This release adds full support for boosted tree, faster creation of orbital objects, optimization of execution!

We can finally reliably predict with a xgboost model from a database!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03…
#rstats #tidymodels ↪

• https://tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03/orbital-0-5-0/

Mwavu (@mwavu.com; 44/3/8; 2026-03-13): anon: R is a terrible language and an absolute disaster.

me: correct.

anon: so you agree?

me: completely.

anon: then why do you use it?

me: shares attached screenshot

anon: furiously typing… deleting… typing…

#rstats ↪

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 29/1/7; 2026-03-13): #rstats #dataviz #psy6136
Lecture 9 for my course in Categorical Data Analysis– Count Data Models
📋 Materials: friendly.github.io/psy6136/#GLM…
🎞️ Slides: friendly.github.io/psy6136/lect… ↪

• https://friendly.github.io/psy6136/#GLMs_for_count_data
• https://friendly.github.io/psy6136/lectures/09-CountData.pdf

Gidon Frischkorn (@gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social; 28/2/10; 2026-03-14): @philippmusfeld.bsky.social , @joschadutli.bsky.social, @koberauer.bsky.social and I wrote up the result of three years of in lab discussions on setting priors in GLMs.

Hope some of you find the proposed workflow and our recommendations helpful!

#bayes #glm #brms #rstats ↪

Garrick Aden-Buie (@grrrck.xyz; 26/2/2; 2026-03-13): Humans AI Agents
🤝
CLI tools

Coming soon to btw, an #RStats cli tool for agents and humans ↪

Peter Licari (@peterlicari.bsky.social; 26/2/2; 2026-03-14): It’s dangerous to my wallet when y’all are our here making book recommendations. This one is @stephenjwild.bsky.social ’s fault. The dog thinks she’s helping me. #statssky #rstats #databs ↪

Ansgar Wolsing (@ansgarw.bsky.social; 24/1/7; 2026-03-14): A little #rstats exercise. Happy Pi Day for those who celebrate and if your local date format allows it. 🎊 ↪

econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 21/0/4; 2026-03-14): And here is his #rstats code 🙏
#econsky
github.com/chris4sims ↪

• https://github.com/chris4sims

Magnus Johansson (@pgmj.bsky.social; 19/0/2; 2026-03-13): I had somehow not noticed the 2.0 release of {lme4} last week, which includes functionality to specify structured covariance matrices. Nice! #rstats
cran.r-project.org/web/packages… ↪

• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lme4/news.html

Deepali Kank (@deepalikank.in; 14/0/1; 2026-03-14): #TidyTuesday week 10 - How likely is ’likely’?
Code: github.com/deepdk/TidyT…
#Rstats #Dataviz ↪

• https://github.com/deepdk/TidyTuesday/tree/main/2026/folders/week_10

Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 14/1/2; 2026-03-13): Really cool. I assume it works with R. It does depend on your collaborators having GitHub accounts, which is a pretty low bar. #RStats ↪

𝕍alérie ℝ. 🌋🪄🐿️ (@valrobert974.bsky.social; 10/2/4; 2026-03-14): 1/3 Sur un #R de #piday, journée internationale des #mathématiques sur le thème mathématiques et espoir, ma création mosaïque mathématique autour de π en utilisant ses décimales (N=20000, n=1).
#rstats #mathart #dataviz ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 9/1/0; 2026-03-13): Journey before destination #rstats

(Friendship bracelet from posit::conf(2023), given to me by Robin D, who I’m not sure is on BlueSky!) ↪

Gabby Palomo, PhD (@gabspalomo.bsky.social; 9/3/3; 2026-03-13): Can you please send me your links to your favorite resources regarding story telling using graphs and maps? #rstats #storyTelling #ggplot2 #rmaps ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 9/0/1; 2026-03-13): Is it dumb to share a LinkedIn link on BlueSky?! 😂 LOOK AT THESE LEGENDS! I can’t believe I’m allowed to work with these people 🥹 #databs #rstats

www.linkedin.com/posts/rohrn_… ↪

• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rohrn_positron-datascience-rstats-activity-7438271070429782016-_33h?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAACSkp_4BRz9mhkQZvnAk0Wdehn749sDDYJY

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 8/0/0; 2026-03-14): This is how you can reorder axis levels in #tidyplots 🚀

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

𝚖𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚊 𝚜𝚣𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘 (@mackaszechno.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-03-13): “No, wait. Give me the raw data and I’ll run it through #rstats…” ↪

yihui.org

"🔑🔑" (@cica.bsky.social; 1/0/1; 2026-03-17): trying to invert the background-image: of an HTML element without inverting the contents of its children…

reddit/SO :
redefine the background-image: as part of a CSS pseudo-element. difficult to implement in a user script…

yihui.org/en/2023/09/d… :
just invert again on the child element, lol ↪

• https://yihui.org/en/2023/09/dark-mode/