I have a similar experience. I am able to get the #Rstats code I want from Claude in just a few prompts, often in just one. It’s not just that Claude has improved, it’s also that I started using R in 2014 (I know what to ask) and I learned how to prompt effectively (I know how to ask).

2026/05/24

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Christophe Dervieux (@cderv.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-05-22): tufte 0.15.0 on CRAN πŸŽ‰

Edward Tufte styles for R Markdown (HTML + PDF).

Old πŸ“¦ still deserve some ❀️

New: bookdown wrappers (tufte_*2()) with text refs + cross-refs, and margin_fig_pos for margin figure offset.
Fixes: natbib in margins, fig.margin + fig.align, more.

github.com/rstudio/tuft… β†ͺ

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Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net; 45/4/6; 2026-05-15): I have a similar experience.

I am able to get the #Rstats code I want from Claude in just a few prompts, often in just one. It’s not just that Claude has improved, it’s also that I started using R in 2014 (I know what to ask) and I learned how to prompt effectively (I know how to ask). β†ͺ

Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is; 38/3/7; 2026-05-14): This week’s #TidyTuesday is about twin cities. I built a scrollytelling map about Rio de Janeiro’s 93 sister city agreements

Made with Quarto and Closeread

Interactive: 019e2679-54db-2e9a-2e03-8bbc8b92210f.share.connect.posit.cloud

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t…

#RStats #dataviz β†ͺ

brucy (@realbrucy.bsky.social; 34/2/5; 2026-05-14): Not only messing up orinithology, but also making a mockery of R tutorials. #Rstats β†ͺ

Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 33/4/3; 2026-05-16): Computing tool of the day: I’ve needed to have an elegant way to stitch together pieces of Quarto books to make a unified html file for teaching. In collaboration with Claude I now have a great yaml-driven tool for this. #RStats β†ͺ

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 25/3/8; 2026-05-15): #rstats ALERT: Bad news for the Gentoos in the {penguins} dataset
x.com/BirdGuides/s… β†ͺ

Kevin Ushey (@kevinushey.bsky.social; 23/1/1; 2026-05-17): “on its way to CRAN”, the five sweetest words in the english language #rstats β†ͺ

terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 23/0/5; 2026-05-15): Rivers of France.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale β†ͺ

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 20/1/2; 2026-05-14): I’m sitting here editing and publishing another #DSLab with Hadley (the one about data dictionaries and parquet!) and I’m reviewing the transcript for rogue hobbits this time πŸ™ˆ I promise! #rstats β†ͺ

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 19/2/2; 2026-05-16): Just remembering the falsely delicious undergrad feeling of analyzing data curated specifically to demonstrate a certain relationship or outcome, followed by the sinking, squelchy feeling of uncertainty when collecting real data on my own that turned out to contain nothing but noise #databs #rstats β†ͺ

Trinobia (@trinobia.bsky.social; 17/0/2; 2026-05-16): Working all day with no fun? 😩πŸ₯±
Not anymore! πŸŽ²πŸŽ―β™ŸοΈ

Take some time off coding and running scripts all day and try out this fun R package called Rcade

It also contains my favourite game: Pacman πŸ˜„βœŒοΈ github.com/RLesur/Rcade

#RStats #OpenSource #CodingFun #RProgramming #DataScience #Pacman β†ͺ

Dr Di Cook (@visnut.bsky.social; 15/0/1; 2026-05-17): New version of the tourr package is available on CRAN cran.r-project.org/web/packages… #rstats main changes in little tour operations to be used with a project on preferential voting vis, and connecting with biplots. Plus lots more documentation thanks to Claude β†ͺ

terence (@tterence.bsky.social; 13/0/2; 2026-05-15): Today’s land cover map is Bangladesh.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale β†ͺ

Aleksandra LaziΔ‡, PhD (@alelazic.bsky.social; 12/1/0; 2026-05-16): It’s been 84 years… okay, three months, but I finally get to share a PhD side quest: a mini meta-analysis.

Analysis & forest plot done in {metafor}, HTML report knitted in RMarkdown, {grateful} for software acknowledgements.

GitHub repo github.com/ale-lazic/va…

#Rstats #Metaanalysis β†ͺ

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 9/1/1; 2026-05-14): #RStats gis β†ͺ

Blas M. Benito (@blasbenito.com; 9/1/2; 2026-05-15): Last week I started tracking the impact of the venerable {spatialRF} #rstats πŸ“¦, and turns out it’s been cited by ~70 research papers: blasbenito.github.io/spatialRF/ar… β†ͺ

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 9/0/0; 2026-05-16): #TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD πŸ“Š
πŸŽ‚May 15, 1951 Andreas Buja born in Zurich, Switzerland πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

Co-author of interactive/dynamic data visualization system, XGobi for high-D data, predecessor of #rstats GGobi β†ͺ

NA (@frankberninger.bsky.social; 5/1/0; 2026-05-15): @rstats-sky.bsky.social #rstats
Sometimes I am horrified. None of the lines throws a warning and all are things that are likely to happen when you write code and do not pay attention. β†ͺ

Big Book of R (@bigbookofr.com; 4/0/1; 2026-05-16): Model to Meaning: How to Interpret Statistical Models
With marginaleffects for R and Python by Vincent Arel-Bundock
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#model-to-meaning-how-to-interpret-statistical-models
with-marginaleffects-for-r-and-python β†ͺ

Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 3/1/0; 2026-05-17): “Yet another markup language” is what’s used in the preamble to Quarto documents to specify title, author, date, output format, how code is rendered, default figure sizes, and lots more. Claude developed a similar yaml structure for processing Quarto htmls. See hbiostat.org/rflow/rformat #RStats β†ͺ

RLadies+ Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-05-16): πŸ“ “R-Ladies & PyLadies - Bringing the Communities Together”

πŸ‘€ Cosima Meyer (@cosima.bsky.social)

πŸ”— https://cosimameyer.com/post/r-ladies-and-pyladies-bringing-the-communities-together/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie β†ͺ

yihui.org

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 6/0/1; 2026-05-21): I just discovered TeX Live dropped support for Solaris from the automatic PR github.com/rstudio/tiny… today; with indescribable joy and uncertainty, I went to texlive-source repo and indeed I was not dreaming: github.com/TeX-Live/tex… as if they heard me in my post: yihui.org/en/2026/03/t… β†ͺ

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 5/0/2; 2026-05-18): I’ve used testit quietly for testing R packages for ~13 years until John Blischak offered a few usability suggestions recently, which made me believe this tiny package is worth a v1.0 release. If you appreciate minimalism like me, you may enjoy life minus 22 dependencies: yihui.org/en/2026/05/t… β†ͺ