The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois. If you’d like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX…

2026/04/26

bookdown

Chris Adams (@chrisadamsecon.bsky.social; 7/0/5; 2026-04-24): The bookdown version of Learning Microeconometrics with R is back up and running: sites.google.com/view/microec…. Sorry for the inconvenience! #rstats #econtwitter #metrics #bookdown ↪

knitr

SenseNSensibility (@sensensensibility.bsky.social; 7/1/0; 2026-04-25): Hope all is ok - since i dont see a new #showmeyourknits theme, how will I start my sat.? anyone knit anything from this book- or M. Storey in general? looks terrific, in particularly the one on the front cover may be my next knit.
Does he tend to have solid doable patterns? (Lite-intermed. knitr) ↪

R-Ladies Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-04-24): 📝 “Report Ready PDF tables with rmarkdown, knitr, kableExtra, and LaTeX”

👤 Shannon Pileggi (@pipinghotdata.com)

🔗 https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2022-01-24-report-ready-pdf-tables-with-rmarkdown-knitr-kableextra-and-latex

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

R-Ladies Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 2/0/1; 2026-04-26): 📝 “Report Ready PDF tables with rmarkdown, knitr, kableExtra, and LaTeX”

👤 Shannon Pileggi (@pipinghotdata.com)

🔗 https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2022-01-24-report-ready-pdf-tables-with-rmarkdown-knitr-kableextra-and-latex

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

tj mahr 🤘 (@tjmahr.com; 2/1/1; 2026-04-24): note on trying to finagle downlit linking into a knitr+jekyll workflow www.tjmahr.com/notes/2026-0… ↪

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 1/0/1; 2026-04-22): knitr by Yihui Xie
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/reports.html#knitr ↪

Elio Campitelli (@eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy; 1/0/1; 2026-04-22): Prefix plot filenames with figure number in knitr/#QuartoPub

```
knitr::opts_hooks$set(label = function(options) {
this_label <- knitr::opts_current$get(“label”)
if (!startsWith(this_label, “fig”)) {
return(options)
}

all_chunks <- knitr::all_labels(startsWith(label, “fig”))
fig_num <- […] ↪

tj mahr 🤘 (@tjmahr.com; 0/0/0; 2026-04-22): hmmm i still have a knitr+targets -> jekyll blog site and 1) want something looser for random notes and posts, 2) targets to control rendering and 3) want downlit to work. i made a quarto version three years ago but never completed the porting www.tjmahr.com/quarto-blog/ ↪

litedown

Josiah (@josiah.rs; 2/1/1; 2026-04-22): may i recommend Zola? I use Zola + tailwind + quarto render (though might move to litedown) for my website:

github.com/JosiahParry/… ↪

rstats

Vincent Arel-Bundock (@vincentab.bsky.social; 71/0/19; 2026-04-16): The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois.

If you’d like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX… ↪

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 63/5/7; 2026-04-16): THE MONKEYS SUCCEEDED! For a fun time, run this in #rstats

See the full #rstats code here: gist.github.com/andrewheiss/…

There are 13 seeds between 1 and 200,000,000 that do this! ↪

Niki Hubbard 🐙🦀 (@nikihubbard.bsky.social; 46/1/3; 2026-04-18): A tiny Jorunna (pantherina, I think) in a shallow tidepool. A nudi that might look pale and grey from distance, but shines & sparkles up close because of its texture. Really like the gradient of silver and greys with the brown spots! 🩶

#nudibranch #rstats #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates ↪

Russ Hyde (@russhyde.bsky.social; 34/2/12; 2026-04-16): New blog post about R4.6 #rstats

www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n… ↪

Mattan S. Ben-Shachar (@mattansb.msbstats.info; 32/1/2; 2026-04-18): Staring at my mother-in-law’s quilt… it feels very… #tidy…
#rstats ↪

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 29/2/2; 2026-04-18): Look at how cool this is! 🌳Tarborist now tracks and tags invalidation (and potential invalidation) within your {targets} pipeline and actively updates as you work, so you can get a preview of what’s actually going to run before you run tar_make()!

#RStats

GH:
github.com/tylermorganw… ↪

Mattan S. Ben-Shachar (@mattansb.msbstats.info; 24/2/4; 2026-04-17): When you just want heteroskedasticity-consistent standard errors, but AI thinks you’re hungry for baked goods.

#rstats ↪

troy_phd (@troyhernandez.bsky.social; 22/2/1; 2026-04-15): #rstats!
because I’m good at Bluesky ↪

Grant McDermott (@gmcd.bsky.social; 21/2/0; 2026-04-18): Embarrassingly niche content

I recently spent some time tweaking my Neovim config, alongside some related shell tools. I think the end result is pretty slick & makes for an extremely fast+ergonomic workflow across my most used tools: #rstats, #pydata, git, Claude etc.

github.com/grantmcdermo… ↪

Manasseh (@manasseh6.bsky.social; 20/0/1; 2026-04-18): Infographic: Access to piped water💧services.

#30DayChartChallenge | UNICEF Data Day

#Rstats #Dataviz #ggplot2 ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 17/0/0; 2026-04-18): This is how you can guide attention in #tidyplots 🎯

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

R User Community (@r-user-community.bsky.social; 12/1/2; 2026-04-18): “What’s New in {dplyr} 1.2.0: A Tour” with Isabella Velásquez
presented to R-Ladies Rome (rladiesrome.bsky.social) in March 2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCbF…
#rstats ↪

troy_phd (@troyhernandez.bsky.social; 12/0/2; 2026-04-18): After ‘helping’ @dfalbel.bsky.social land the torch 2.8 bump, I vibe-coded a Linux-only libtorch wrapper.

Also, the 3rd use of ASTs I teased: compilers!
TorchScript is on the way out in favor of Python-only TorchDynamo; this is a path for R torch users

#rstats
cornball.ai/posts/torcha… ↪

**** (@klauswiese.bsky.social; 11/0/1; 2026-04-18): #Day17 | Relationships – Remake | #30DayChartChallenge | Are we making more or fewer remakes as the years go by?. Built with #RStats using #rvest, #dplyr, #stringr, #ggplot2 and #showtext. ↪

John Russell (@drjohnrussell.com; 7/0/1; 2026-04-19): #30DayChartChallenge Day 19 - Evolution

As the marketplace decides which games should be created, how have @boardgamegeek.com games ’evolved’ over time to survive in an increasingly saturated market?

Code in #rstats: github.com/drjohnrussel… ↪

Manasseh (@manasseh6.bsky.social; 7/0/1; 2026-04-17): Nothing much. Just tweaking the aesthetics. Appreciating styling in #ggplot2

#30DayChartChallenge | Remake

#Rstats #Dataviz ↪

R User Community (@r-user-community.bsky.social; 6/0/2; 2026-04-18): Save the date! 🇬🇭 The Ghana R Conference 2026 hits Accra Technical University on July 9th–10th.

This year’s theme: “Transforming the AI Ecospace of Ghana with R Software.” Join the community to explore machine learning, data engineering, and digital innovation! 🌐📈 #RStats ↪

Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 5/3/1; 2026-04-18): Any #rstats people with thoughts? ↪

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-04-18): Weekly number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 2024 - Apr 17, 2026, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot. Weeks run Sat–Fri.
This past week: 443 posts
Coded with {bskyr} and {ggplot2}

[Posted via cron job. Tx for ur patience if something went awry] #RStatsStats ↪

R-Ladies Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 3/0/0; 2026-04-19): 📝 ‘Iterative visualizations with ggplot2: no more copy-pasting’

👤 Elena Dudukina

📖 Automate R plots! Tidy eval ends ggplot2 copy-pasting.

🔗 http://www.elenadudukina.com/post/iterative-ggplotting/2021-06-20-iterative-plotting/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

tinytex

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 11/1/2; 2026-04-20): I find it interesting and a little surprising that (occasionally) people still use github.com/yihui/latex-… to figure out missing LaTeX packages: yihui.org/en/2021/06/l… Obviously TinyTeX still hasn’t won the world, which sounds like a major bug that I’m unable to fix. github.com/rstudio/tiny… ↪

yihui.org

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 12/0/1; 2026-04-20): 12 years ago I created crandalf at github.com/yihui/crandalf to check reverse dependencies of R packages on Travis CI and switched to GHA later. If your pkg has < 400 revdeps, you can do a simple edit in a .yaml file and submit a PR to let GHA do the hard work. More info: yihui.org/en/2021/06/c… ↪

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 6/0/2; 2026-04-15): In case you aren’t aware, TinyTeX has started offering binaries for ARM and musl-based Linux since last month: yihui.org/en/2026/03/t… Enjoy the extra 5 minutes saved!

BTW, I didn’t know musl/Alpine Linux before. While working on TinyTeX binary for it, I was intrigued and also quite impressed. ↪

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 3/0/0; 2026-04-24): PSA: The new standard for “lightweight” packages is that the package should be smaller than most hex sticker PNGs: yihui.org/en/2026/02/b… ↪

troy_phd (@troyhernandez.bsky.social; 2/2/0; 2026-04-15): litedown would be the more natural partner for that job. Trying it now.
pkgdown pulls in 53 non-base recursive hard deps, litedown pulls in 2 (commonmark, xfun). This is the whole point of the tinyverse philosophy.
Thanks for building it @yihui.org!
github.com/yihui/litedown ↪

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 1/0/0; 2026-04-15): Alternatively you can use the shell script to install it (which I’d recommend because the script is always up-to-date and not subject to the R package tinytex): yihui.org/tinytex/#ins… 2/2 ↪

Ashley Dalrymple (@dr-shlee.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-04-24): @yihui.org ↪

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 0/0/0; 2026-04-16): Of course, it has existed since 2024: yihui.org/litedown/#se… See Figure 1 in the documentation to know more about the scope of litedown. ↪