Where it all started. #Rstats

2026/07/12

bookdown

~/.Γ° (@deomorxsy.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-07-07): I guess this format works well with bookdown, but I’ve never used this one directly: bookdown.org β†ͺ

knitr

tj mahr 🀘 (@tjmahr.com; 1/0/0; 2026-07-08): β†ͺ


~/.Γ° (@deomorxsy.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-07): on the CLI: cat+sort+uniq
on vim: :sort, :u/:uniq

and later it just need to be put under LaTeX, compiled with pandoc, etc

in R with Literate Programming there is Rmarkdown+Knitr+Pandoc β†ͺ

litedown

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… β†ͺ


CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-11): Updates on CRAN: litedown (0.10), mRpostman (1.2.2), psychomix (1.1-10), psychotools (0.7-7), quadmesh (0.6.0), RQuantLib (0.4.28), treeSS (0.2.5) β†ͺ


CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-11): CRAN updates: litedown mRpostman treeSS #rstats β†ͺ

rstats

Alex Holcombe (@alexh.bsky.social; 116/1/18; 2026-07-03): Where it all started. #Rstats β†ͺ


Kelly Bodwin (@kellybodwin.com; 99/3/2; 2026-06-30): Pilgrimage.

#rstats β†ͺ


Rob Calver (@robcalver.bsky.social; 63/3/48; 2026-07-02): I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. πŸ˜€ routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian β†ͺ


rOpenSci (@ropensci.org; 55/0/29; 2026-06-29): πŸŽ‰ We’ve just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed.

Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven’t already! πŸ¦‹ #RStats β†ͺ


Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 31/1/4; 2026-06-30): The next update to rayshader has completely overhauled water meshing to support multi-elevation water bodies and includes a new feature, render_streams(), that does exactly what it says it does πŸ‘

#RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse β†ͺ


Ondrej Mottl πŸŒΏπŸ’»πŸ“ˆπŸŒβ³ (@ondrejmottl.bsky.social; 20/0/0; 2026-06-30): “R-is-not-a-real-programing-language”-my-ass!
Look at this beauty! #Rstats has such an amazing community of super smart people!
β€οΈπŸ’šπŸ©΅ β†ͺ


Shannon Pileggi (@pipinghotdata.com; 17/1/7; 2026-06-30): Debugging in R is often missed in #rstats curriculums, but it is a minimal investment with huge workflow gains.🐞 Hope you can join us! πŸ€— β†ͺ


Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net; 16/4/0; 2026-07-03): TIL that ctrl + shift + M in RStudio automatically produces a pipe.

#Rstats β†ͺ


Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 16/1/1; 2026-07-01): okay – I’m converting to {air} formatter. no more leading commas for me.

#rstats β†ͺ


Yani Bellini Saibene (@yabellini.bsky.social; 13/1/0; 2026-07-02): It is always very funny to check the transcript of my videos:

“Aropensay” / “Aropensy” / “dar opensy” β†’ rOpenSci

🀣 #RStats cc: @ropensci.org β†ͺ


Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 11/1/0; 2026-07-03): I am walking amongst gods in the #rstats community β†ͺ


Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 11/0/1; 2026-06-29): @kylewalker.bsky.social showing off his demi-god skills with #rstats

loving what he is doing! β†ͺ


Seungju Kim (he/him) (@follhim.github.io; 9/0/2; 2026-07-03): 🫣 New major update to ’lavaan’ coming soon… #lavaan #rstats β†ͺ


Karel FiΕ‘er (@fiserkarel.bsky.social; 8/0/0; 2026-06-30): #TidyTuesday 2026-06-02 Parental leaves.

Code: gitlab.com/karel_fiser/…

#DataViz #RStats #ggplot2 β†ͺ


Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 7/0/3; 2026-07-03): Fantastic talk about making fantastic talks, plus a link to a great book about making R graphics. #RStats #StatsSky #Statistics β†ͺ


Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 6/0/0; 2026-07-02): This is how you can highlight data in #tidyplots πŸ’‘

#rstats #dataviz #phd β†ͺ


Grant McDermott (@gmcd.bsky.social; 5/0/0; 2026-07-03): Typos aside, forgot to tag #rstats #dataviz β†ͺ


Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 5/0/1; 2026-07-02): Best Practice for R :: Cheat Sheet #rstats
github.com/wurli/r-bes… β†ͺ


Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-07-03): Congratulations on the major new release. And tiny footprints are good. #RStats β†ͺ