R version 4.6.0 “Because it was There” (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

2026/05/03

blogdown

R-Ladies Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 2/0/1; 2026-05-02): 📝 “Why I’m excited to join RStudio, told through a blogdown metadata project”

👤 Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social)

🔗 https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/why-rstudio/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie #tutorial ↪

knitr

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 11/0/2; 2026-04-28): A new document format .Rtyp in knitr for Typst output: yihui.org/en/2026/04/k… (I also wrote down my thoughts on Typst since people keep asking me; I stand firmly on the HTML path but I’ll be happy to continue supporting Typst and LaTeX, even though I don’t use them myself) ↪

who let the duck in (@technoduck.me; 1/0/0; 2026-05-02): fun fact, the main and most popular package to convert R Markdown files into html and pdf in RStudio is called “knitr” and the it knits the files. its a bigass “knit” button. fully a coincidence and unrelated to tangled but nevertheless. fun fact. ↪

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 1/0/1; 2026-04-27): Yes, I think so. I guess PNG is more widely known than WebP, though.

BTW, WebP just gained support in knitr a few days ago: github.com/yihui/knitr/… ↪

rstats

Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd.bsky.social; 208/3/54; 2026-04-24): R version 4.6.0 “Because it was There” (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats

The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber. ↪

Miles McBain (@milesmcbain.bsky.social; 50/0/5; 2026-04-24): Starting to feel a bit like the old days here #rstats

Seems like every other day I spot some exciting new work getting skeeted.

Inspiring stuff. Keep it coming! 👏👏👏 ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 42/1/5; 2026-04-24): Day 26 of the #30DayChartChallenge: Trend 📊 (a couple of days early)

A simple chart made with #RStats to show how easy it is to get nice-looking, effective charts with {ggauto}!

#30DayChartChallenge2026 #Day26 ↪

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 41/1/8; 2026-04-25): I implemented a fork of {targets} which provides the necessary changes to support {mori} shared memory regions! Check out the discussion thread below to learn more about the implementation:

github.com/ropensci/tar…

And try out the primary fork here:
github.com/tylermorganw…

#RStats ↪

Kevin Ushey (@kevinushey.bsky.social; 31/4/4; 2026-04-25): me after learning #rstats chose %notin% instead of %nin% for the R 4.6.0 release ↪

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 31/2/7; 2026-04-25): #rstats The idea of a pipe (|) operator goes back to early Unix.
Eg: hist | head -5 to see your most recent commands.
But, where & how did arrive in R #tidyverse thinking and, importantly: in R syntax?

Here’s an interesting post that describes this history.

adolfoalvarez.cl/blog/2021-09… ↪

Greg Lin (@glin.github.io; 25/1/5; 2026-04-25): If you’ve ever needed to install R on Linux but couldn’t find builds for your distro, we now have portable R builds for most modern Linux (Arch, non-LTS Ubuntu, Alpine, AL2023, etc)

no root needed, extract anywhere, install multiple R side by side. R 4.6.0 down to 3.0.0, x86_64 + arm64. #rstats ↪

Tiger Tang (@tigertang.bsky.social; 21/1/4; 2026-04-25): 🚀 Officially on CRAN: deckroadmap 0.1.4!

Stop losing your audience in Revealjs slides. Add automated, section-aware roadmap footers to Quarto & Rmd.

✅ 3 styles (pill, minimal, progress)
✅ Custom colors
✅ install.packages(“deckroadmap”)

📖 Story & Demo: tigertang.org/deckroadmap/

#rstats #quarto ↪

Jarrett Byrnes (@jebyrnes.bsky.social; 20/2/3; 2026-04-23): dplyr::replace_when() and dplyr::recode_values() I am in you! The cognitive load and lines of code saved…. #rstats ↪

Sharon Machlis (@smachlis.bsky.social; 19/1/3; 2026-04-26): ggplot2 theme in Associated Press style:
github.com/associatedpr…

#RStats #ggplot #ggplot2 #dataviz #DDJ ↪

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 19/2/2; 2026-04-25): I sighed heavily so many times while reading this. The 5 core beliefs resonate a lot. I dream of a different world a lot lately, and it mostly looks like the (post-apocalyptic?) peace of the Monk and Robot books by Becky Chambers.

#rstats #databs ↪

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 19/1/5; 2026-04-24): There’s still much more that can be done to use #datavis / graphic design ideas from Cheysson style.

I’ve started on a ggCheysson #rstats pkg: friendly.github.io/ggCheysson/

Still a WIP, but includes @kennethfield.bsky.social fonts, ideas/patterns from @infowetrust.com ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 19/1/2; 2026-04-24): And here’s how little #RStats code you need to create this chart! ↪

Steven Ponce (@sponce1.bsky.social; 16/0/1; 2026-04-26): 📊 #30DayChartChallenge 2026 – day 26
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Uncertainties | Trend
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🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali…
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2 ↪

Rodrigo Barreiro (@rodrigo404.bsky.social; 16/3/3; 2026-04-23): #30daychartchallenge / day 23 / seasons

I find using {geomtextpath} the easiest way to create beautiful grids for circular plots

#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 ↪

Rodrigo Barreiro (@rodrigo404.bsky.social; 15/1/3; 2026-04-24): #30daychartchallenge / day 24 / South China Morning Post (Theme day)

adding a subtle alternating shade to the bg goes a long way

#dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats ↪

Damie Pak (@damiepak.bsky.social; 14/2/0; 2026-04-24): I don’t code as much anymore since leaving academia.
Also the push for AI in coding…

So I think the best way to deal with it is to create even stupider, more niche, wilder side projects. #rstats ↪

Luis (@b3m3bi.bsky.social; 12/0/1; 2026-04-25): #Tidytuesday #dataviz #Rstats

Seabirds eat in the morning and follow ships in the afternoon

code: github.com/b3m3bi/tidyt… ↪

Miki (@mikipe.bsky.social; 7/0/2; 2026-04-26): El ‘Efecto Anuncio’ del BCE. Cómo la credibilidad hunde la curva real de tipos (Euribor) mucho antes de ejecutar compras, mientras el mercado proyectaba falsos rebotes. Pura historia macro. 🏦💶 #30DayChartChallenge #Day26 #rstats ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-04-26): CRAN updates: containr osrm.backend #rstats ↪

tinytex

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 26/1/2; 2026-04-30): I didn’t know until today that curl.exe has been available on Windows for 8 years. Sigh. How much of my life has been wasted in fighting with those stupid download methods in .bat and power(???)shell scripts over these years!

Anyway, TinyTeX users on Windows can enjoy a faster installation now. ↪