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Charlie Gao (@shikokuchuo.net; 73/2/13; 2026-05-07): OpenTelemetry has come to R 🎉
Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI are now instrumented: production-grade traces from R with no code changes. Set a few env vars and telemetry flows to the backend of your choice.
Full write-up: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05…
#Rstats ↪
R-Podcast (Eric) (@rpodcast.bsky.social; 11/0/3; 2026-05-08): Episode 225 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/…
✨ {shiny.webawesome} (M.B. Anand)
📊 {ggplot2} hidden gems @nrennie.bsky.social
📃 Typst support in {knitr} @yihui.org
h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & the wacky curator 😆
#RStats #databs ↪
Max Slinger (@promptslinger.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-05-07): the Yihui Xie piece on AI coding caught my eye. his knitr and R Markdown work was absurdly meticulous, curious what someone like that thinks about letting the machine do the first draft ↪
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Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz; 76/1/17; 2026-05-01): roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05… ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats ↪
Jenny Bryan (@jennybryan.bsky.social; 36/2/6; 2026-05-01): I am most excited that @inheritParams now supports explicit inclusion and exclusion 🎉 #rstats
#’ @inheritParams other_fn x y
#’ @inheritParams other_fn -z ↪
We Are RLadies+ (@weare.rladies.org; 33/1/0; 2026-05-02): A short love letter to {purrr} 💌
#purrr has quickly become one of my most-used #rstats packages.
The two ways I use it most:
📊 Mapping plotting code over subsets of data
📗 Importing many similar files into R ↪
Rami Krispin (@ramikrispin.bsky.social; 30/1/3; 2026-05-02): If there is one thing you cannot take from R is the creative hexagons!
Also, a new R library for processing H3 hexagonal spatial indexing into DuckDB 👇🏼
cidree.github.io/duckh3/index…
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️🌈 (@jarome.bsky.social; 29/1/5; 2026-05-02): Who said coding isn’t fun?
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Nic Crane (@niccrane.bsky.social; 27/1/1; 2026-05-02): We’re excited to announce the release of {arrow} 24.0.0 🏹📦
Here’s a roundup of the new features and changes in a 🧵
Full details can be found at arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news/
#rstats #apachearrow ↪
Rob Thomas (@robthomasbirds.bsky.social; 27/1/4; 2026-05-01): Happy May 1st - this is traditionally the main feast day of the oak-leaf measuring season, whereby the village elders would use their 15 cm rulers & a generalised additive mixed model, to predict the peak of caterpillar abundance and hence the breeding success of the village pied flycatchers #RStats ↪
Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 23/5/1; 2026-05-02): I have this #Positron shirt, and it’s so comfy, but I think I wanna dye it. Would that be blasphemous?! haha #rstats ↪
Daniel Falbel (@dfalbel.bsky.social; 20/0/3; 2026-04-30): Just published a new blogpost on torch for #rstats updates: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04… ↪
Rob Hyndman (@robjhyndman.com; 16/0/1; 2026-05-02): Another podcast interview. This one on open source/open access data science. valuedrivendatascience.com/102 #rstats #statssky #datascience ↪
**** (@rmarkdown.bsky.social; 15/0/4; 2026-05-03): Linear Regression: A Visual Introduction to (Almost) Everything You Should Know 👉 mlu-explain.github.io/linear-regre…
By @jdwlbrv — a must-read for anyone into #rstats, #dataviz, #datascience, #machinelearning, #LinearRegression, and #stats. ↪
Liam U. Taylor (@liamtaylor.bsky.social; 13/1/0; 2026-05-02): you ever supposed to be doing something and you update #RStats ↪
R-Podcast (Eric) (@rpodcast.bsky.social; 12/0/3; 2026-05-02): Episode 224 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/…
📦 {logrittr} (Guillaume Pressiat)
🌌 Universes of seeds @andrew.heiss.phd
h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏
#rstats #databs ↪
Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 11/1/2; 2026-05-02): Should’ve tagged #rstats too ↪
Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc (@christosargyrop.bsky.social; 9/1/0; 2026-05-03): Chatbot: “I am adding a short helper to
..”
Short helper: 200 lines
#AIslop #vibecoding #rstats ↪
Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ (@ondrejmottl.bsky.social; 8/0/0; 2026-05-03): Learning {purrr} changed my life forever 😍
purrr::map is great with tibbles (as the store lists)👌
#RStats ↪
Antoine Vernet (@antoinevernet.com; 8/0/1; 2026-05-03): Rayshader is one of the coolest new (-ish) #rstats things I really want to try but have not yet managed to. ↪
Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 4/0/0; 2026-05-03): The Grammar of Experimental Designs by Emi Tanaka
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/statistics.html#the-grammar-of-experimental-designs ↪
coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 4/0/1; 2026-05-02): #Rstats wanderers, come with me on a short (realtime) stroll with me through a secret forest!
Animated rendering in R + native rasters
Gfx by edermunizz: https://edermunizz.itch.io/free-pixel-art-forest ↪
CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-05-03): CRAN updates: formatdown #rstats ↪
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Brian O’Meara (@omearabrian.bsky.social; 32/1/12; 2026-05-04): I appreciate @yihui.org’s thoughts on #rstats and more. His blog post on AI is well worth reading: yihui.org/en/2026/05/a… ↪
Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 11/0/1; 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) ↪
Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 3/1/0; 2026-05-05): Looks like this will never change: yihui.org/en/2017/12/s… & yihui.org/en/2018/02/c… For our mental health, we should leave SO behind, and tell users to ask questions elsewhere. One former SO employee told me they had discussed my complaints in my posts back then, but I’ve never seen a change. ↪