Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

2026/07/19

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Nick Tierney (@njtierney.bsky.social; 11/1/0; 2026-07-14): Just migrated my #rstats blog from blogdown/hugodown to quarto using claude! Was quite straightforward, if a bit iterative.

Have a look at the new (nearly identical) website here: www.njtierney.com ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-15): 11/
Action item:
• Push your code to GitHub
• Write a blog post on something you’ve learned
• Build a simple site with blogdown or Quarto
Which one will you start today? ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-15): 7/
If you use R, try blogdown/Quarto.
It turns your code + markdown into beautiful static websites.
Bonus: It teaches you about site structure and deployment. ↪

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James A Campbell (@rtbecard.bsky.social; 5/1/0; 2026-07-13): I wrote up my solution for figure scaling in rmarkdown. fig.width and fig.height set the output size and the new scale parameter scales the figure contents.

Paste the code for the option hook in the first chunk, and the scale parameter will be available in all the following chunks. #rstats ↪

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-15): New on CRAN: rpic (0.6.2). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rpic ↪

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Nick Tierney (@njtierney.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-14): I am interested in making an agent to help people transition their websites - it could be bi-directional - would also be interesting to explore {litedown}, too! ↪

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Dirk Eddelbuettel (@eddelbuettel.com; 121/3/39; 2026-07-11): Norm Matloff (1948-2026)
@matloff.bsky.social

I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter.

We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing. ↪

coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.bsky.social; 100/4/32; 2026-07-08): Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !)

github.com/coolbutusele…

This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R!

Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes! ↪

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 78/2/13; 2026-07-09): What can you do when you combine the great spatial ecosystem in R (sf, terra + many others) with rayshader? The only limit is your imagination.😎

Modeled. Animated. And Rendered. Entirely in R.

Rayshader 1.0 coming soon 😃

#RStats #rayshader #rayrender #rayverse ↪

Matt Cowgill (@mattcowgill.bsky.social; 46/5/5; 2026-07-11): This report — every word, table, and chart — was made in #rstats www.dewr.gov.au/workplace-re… ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 46/2/1; 2026-07-05): A little bit of generative art made with #RStats and @datawrapper.de

#CreativeCoding ↪

MikeKSmith (@mikeksmith.bsky.social; 39/1/8; 2026-07-07): Inspiring talk from Dariia Mykhailyshyna about teaching and surveying the R community in Ukraine while in the midst of a war. #rstats #useR2026 ↪

Riinu Pius (@pius.cloud; 31/3/4; 2026-07-09): Things I thought before I had children:

Only one of these beliefs I still hold 🤓 ↪

Denis Mongin (@denismongin.bsky.social; 27/0/10; 2026-07-10): The record breaking temperatures in France of this 2026 summer, compared to all daily temperatures since 1950
#Rstats #dataviz #climate

A periodic yoyo breaking through the roof each time ↪

Charlie Gao (@shikokuchuo.net; 20/0/0; 2026-07-06): It’s summer again, and that means #useR2026 🤗 #Rstats ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 18/1/4; 2026-07-07): For #TidyTuesday this week, I decided to create a custom interactive table to explore UFC women’s fighters.

🛠️ Data wrangling with #RStats
📊 Table built with JavaScript

#DataViz ↪

Deepali Kank (@deepalikank.in; 16/2/2; 2026-07-06): #TidyTuesday week 26 - Wreck Inventory of Ireland
Built with #Rstats Quarto, #D3js and a help with AI.
#DataViz ↪

Josiah (@josiah.rs; 15/1/2; 2026-07-08): dude, this is sick!!!!!
#rstats ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 15/1/0; 2026-07-11): Sneak peak at a new interactive project exploring historic temperature trends across Scotland

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #QuartoPub ↪

Byte Charts (@byte-charts.dev; 11/0/0; 2026-07-11): Smoking prevalence has steadily declined since 2000, but men continue to smoke at much higher rates than women.

For this visualization, I created the cigarette illustration in Figma, generated the chart in ggplot2, and combined them in Figma.

#figma #notai #dataviz #rstats #ggplot #smoking ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 8/0/1; 2026-07-10): This looks very cool - I’m excited to check it out!

#RStats #DataViz ↪

January Weiner (@january3.github.io; 8/0/0; 2026-07-08): The most beautiful poster at the #useR2026 conference - the {peRsian} package #rstats ↪

Ming Tommy Tang (@tommytang.bsky.social; 7/0/1; 2026-07-11): Applied HPC with R book-hpc.ggvy.cl/ #rstats ↪

Steve Kambouris (@steve-kambouris.bsky.social; 7/0/2; 2026-07-11): This is a beautifully presented report in both PDF and Word formats, very impressive work using #rstats ↪

Karel Fišer (@fiserkarel.bsky.social; 5/0/1; 2026-07-10): #TidyTuesday 2026-06-16 UK Baby names.

Code: gitlab.com/karel_fiser/…

#DataViz #RStats #ggplot2 ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 4/0/0; 2026-07-11): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,848 3/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪