bookdown
Ben Linzmeier (@delta18o.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-04-03): You could use the Bookdown package so it is all in R. Code + Text? Plus specifying package and R versions in it is probably possible? I haven’t looked very closely at it recently. ↪
GitRated (@gitrated.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-03-31): A new AI review! hadley/mastering-shiny ⭐3.6/5.0
hadley/mastering-shiny is the source repository for the Mastering Shiny book, built with bookdown and accompanied by a rich set of runnable Shiny demos/apps.
https://gitrated.com/hadley/mastering-shiny ↪
knitr
GitRated (@gitrated.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-03-30): A new AI review! yihui/knitr ⭐3.9/5.0
knitr is a mature, widely adopted R package that powers a large portion of the R Markdown / dynamic reporting ecosystem.
https://gitrated.com/yihui/knitr ↪
rstats
Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 193/7/63; 2026-03-27): 🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉
An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊
Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu…
#DataViz ↪
Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 57/1/7; 2026-03-27): #rstats
Periodic reminder: if you are writing articles / books w/ matrix, vector notation, my {matlib} 📦 has a whole suite of functions to make your life easier.
Want a matrix X? –> latexMatrix() |> Eqn()
Eqn() renders too in #RStudio Viewer
See the vignette: friendly.github.io/matlib/artic… ↪
Anthony Caravaggi (@thonoir.bsky.social; 45/1/10; 2026-03-26): I’m building an intro to R course to help students get up to speed on the basics. It’s called ‘R for Nervous Humans’. Modules 1-4 are up now. No interactivity though, for reasons. Feedback welcomed.
arcaravaggi.github.io/r-for-nervou…
#statistics #rstats ↪
Tiger Tang (@tigertang.bsky.social; 43/3/10; 2026-03-27): Introducing deckroadmap 🧭
A lightweight R package for roadmap footers in Quarto & R Markdown Reveal.js presentations. Give your audience a sense of direction, not just a progress bar.
📦 3 styles
✨ Live previewer
Blog: tigertang.org/deckroadmap/
Doc: github.com/CodingTigerT…
#rstats #quarto ↪
Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 32/0/2; 2026-03-27): JUMPSCARE!
#RStats ↪
Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 29/1/9; 2026-03-28): #rstats #dataviz
A new kid on the dataviz block is the predictions plot, showing how predictors in lm()/glm() contribute to
the predicted response. A novel and useful idea!
TAS: doi.org/10.1080/0003…
Implemented in the {classmap} package. ↪
Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel.com; 28/0/2; 2026-03-27): And a new cycle begins. #rstats ↪
Jan Broder Engler (@handle.invalid; 12/0/1; 2026-03-26): Here are some #tidyplots use cases for bioinformatics 🔥
Complete with data and code 🚀
https://tidyplots.org/use-cases/#bioinformatics
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
𝕍alérie ℝ. 🌋🪄🐿️ (@valrobert974.bsky.social; 11/1/1; 2026-03-28): Sur un #R #mathématique de médailles Fields 🎶, petit graphe artistique et interactif à l’aide du R package plotly.
*La France a 14 médailles Fields, si on considère Alexander Grothendieck qui était apatride à l’époque, ou 13 médailles Fields dans l’autre cas.
#Rstats #dataviz #dataESR ↪
Collin Schwantes (@collin-schwantes.bsky.social; 11/2/4; 2026-03-27): Python package developers, what does your documentation workflow look like? Sphinx feels incredibly clunky but maybe I’m doing it wrong?
#Rstats devs are spoiled by usethis, devtools, and pkgdown ↪
JD Long (@jdlong.cerebralmastication.com; 10/1/2; 2026-03-27): Y’all know that a few dollars USD goes much further in Africa than most other places. Can you kick in a few bucks for these folks trying to start up their R conference? I am. #rstats ↪
Jan Broder Engler (@handle.invalid; 9/0/1; 2026-03-28): This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀
https://tidyplots.org/getstarted
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 7/1/1; 2026-03-28): #rstats #dataviz
Titanic data examples: ↪
R-Ladies Rome (@rladiesrome.bsky.social; 7/0/1; 2026-03-28): 📊 New recording available!
Less iteration, better charts: rethinking how we create visualizations
Talk by Joseph Barbier at Rome R Users Group
Design first. Code second. Better results.
🎬 Recording & 📝 Blog post: romerusersgroup.github.io/content/even…
#RStats #DataViz #DataScience #AI ↪
Gilles Colling (@gilles-colling.bsky.social; 6/1/1; 2026-03-28): ggguides — p + legend_inside(“topright”) replaces 5 lines of legend.position / legend.justification / element_rect boilerplate, returns a theme object, chains with +
#rstats ↪
superboreen (@superboreen.bsky.social; 6/0/1; 2026-03-27): “Why learning R is a good career move.”
Good summary of #rstats goodness.
www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/why-lea… ↪
Federica Gazzelloni (@fgazzelloni.bsky.social; 5/0/2; 2026-03-28): 📊 New recording available!
Less iteration, better charts: rethinking how we create visualizations
Talk by Joseph Barbier at Rome R Users Group
Design first. Code second. Better results.
🎬 Recording and 📝 Blog post: romerusersgroup.github.io/content/even…
#RStats #DataViz #DataScience #AI ↪
Joachim Schork (@joachimschork.bsky.social; 3/0/0; 2026-03-28): Check out the Statistics Globe Hub: statisticsglobe.com/hub
The Statistics Globe Hub is an ongoing learning program that helps you stay up to date with statistics, data science, AI, and programming using R and Python.
#quarto #rstats #datascience #reproducibility #reporting #statisticsglobehub ↪
John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 2/0/0; 2026-03-29): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “great” today!
Wordle 1,744 5/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪
econmaett (@econmaett.github.io; 1/1/0; 2026-03-28): This one is also nice!
#rstats #econsky
book.rleripio.com ↪