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Chris Goodman (@cbgoodman.co; 0/1/0; 2026-07-02): Hmm…targets appears to have lost some functionality with Quarto. It can’t find standard packages with tar_quarto() like knitr and rmarkdown. Is this a Quarto problem or a Targets problem, @ropensci? ↪
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Davis Vaughan (@davisvaughan.bsky.social; 64/0/17; 2026-06-26): Air 0.10.0 is out now!
- Enforce
<-or=throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration
- pre-commit / prek support
- stdin support
- Install with uv, mise, or pixi
Read all about it!
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06… ↪
Miles McBain (@milesmcbain.bsky.social; 55/2/6; 2026-06-27): left_join is usually the right join:
milesmcbain.micro.blog/2026/06/27/l…
Brought to you by an afternoon bug hunt, and @ivelasq3.bsky.social who reminded me I have a micro.blog this week.
#rstats ↪
Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 42/2/10; 2026-06-27): New package on CRAN! {skymodelr} allows you to generate glorious high dynamic range skydomes in #RStats at any place and date/time! Realistic radiance, 0-15000m altitude, stars, planets, and of course, the moon: modeled with the correct phase and brightness! #rayverse
GH: github.com/tylermorganw… ↪
Dr. Dominic Royé (@drxeo.eu; 41/1/22; 2026-06-28): 🇩🇪🌡️ Germany 2026 vs 1961–1990 normal: Jan −0.5°C, Feb +2.6°C, Mar +3.1°C, Apr +2.3°C, May +2.8°C, Jun +4.5°C. Yesterday: 29.9°C — +13.4°C above normal.
The anomaly is accelerating. #ClimateData #Rstats #dataviz ↪
Kevin Ushey (@kevinushey.bsky.social; 34/3/8; 2026-06-28): important knowledge for anyone who doesn’t want the big AI button in rstudio: right click, wave bye. also discoverable in the “Assistant” preferences pane. #rstats ↪
Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel.com; 29/3/1; 2026-06-27): Hey Future Dirk, next time you scramble for ten minutes to find which variable held all ‘base’ and ‘recommended’ #Rstats packages, just remember this post (and its Alt-text). You are welcome, sincerely, Current Dirk ↪
Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 23/0/3; 2026-06-28): Got some nice improvements to high quality water rendering coming to #rayshader 👀
(it’s amazing what realistic sky and sun rendering can do for a scene!)
#RStats #rayrender #rayverse ↪
Emil Hvitfeldt (@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social; 20/0/1; 2026-06-26): One of my favorite packages we have in tidymodels is the recipes package. The package and its extensions cover a wide array of methods, and with these new animations, I hope to be able to better show what happens on a step-by-step basis
github.com/EmilHvitfeld…
#rstats #tidymodels ↪
CascadiaRConference (@cascadiarconf.bsky.social; 16/3/1; 2026-06-28): The Cascadia R Conference this year was a success! The best part of the conference, and R programming in general, is the community 🌈 ®️💙. See you next year in Seattle, WA! #CascadiaRConf #rlang #rstats #DataScience #community #coding ↪
Brittany Barker (@brittanysbarker.bsky.social; 16/1/3; 2026-06-27): Wrapped up a day of teaching Mapping and GIS in R today at the Cascadia R Conference! The repo with answer keys is at github.com/bbarker505/C…. We covered basics of sf and terra, making static and interactive maps, and raster analysis. #CascadiaRConf #GIS #rstats #Mapping #raster #sf #terra ↪
Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 12/0/2; 2026-06-25): This is how you can compare groups in #tidyplots 🦊
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
CascadiaRConference (@cascadiarconf.bsky.social; 10/0/1; 2026-06-27): The Cascadia R Conference organizing committee! The conference wouldn’t happen without our volunteers. Please consider joining our team for next year. #CascadiaR #rstats #volunteer @brittanysbarker.bsky.social @ellishughes.bsky.social @pezkin.bsky.social ↪
CascadiaRConference (@cascadiarconf.bsky.social; 10/0/1; 2026-06-26): Cascadia R Conference workshops are underway at PSU, including the “Intro to GIS and Mapping in R” by @brittanysbarker.bsky.social ! #PSU #CascadiaRConf #rstats #GIS #DataScience ↪
CascadiaRConference (@cascadiarconf.bsky.social; 8/0/0; 2026-06-28): Skyler Elmstrom, one of our co-organizers and leader of the GitHub workshops, has 4 years worth of Cascadia R Conference hex stickers on his laptop 🤩💜. #rstats #CascadiaRConf #HexSticker #R ↪
Benjamin Rosenbaum (@benrosenbaum.bsky.social; 8/0/0; 2026-06-25): Official heatwave regulations: absolutely no MCMC indoors! #Rstats ↪
EllIs Hughes (@ellishughes.bsky.social; 7/1/1; 2026-06-27): Another @cascadiarconf.bsky.social coming up!
Looking forward to seeing some great #rstats talks and seeing fellow nerds! ↪
Gabor Csardi (@gaborcsardi.org; 7/0/1; 2026-06-26): If you manage #Rstats with rig, make sure you use the new rig 0.8.1 to install the new R 4.6.1 version on macOS: github.com/r-lib/rig#id…
github.com/r-lib/rig/re… ↪
CascadiaRConference (@cascadiarconf.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-06-27): Hannah Wright, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon, is our first keynote speaker. She’s talking about state media control can influence large language models. #LLM #rstats #media #CascadiaRConf #models ↪
John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 4/0/0; 2026-06-28): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,835 3/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
bit.ly/WordleR ↪
John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 3/0/0; 2026-06-27): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,834 3/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪