knitr
Gavin Simpson (@gsimpson.bsky.social; 4/3/0; 2026-07-29): It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently
Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I’ve spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats ↪
James M. Ward (@jmw86069.bsky.social; 3/1/0; 2026-07-26): Love to see these words:
“Thanks, on its way to CRAN.”
Thanks Uwe Ligges!
#rstats
jamba-1.0.5 fixes a test for color conversion, edge case rounds slightly differently on one test machine. 🤷♂️
And new:
reload_qmd_cache()
Super useful when using Quarto for R with knitr cache enabled. ↪
Gavin Simpson (@gsimpson.bsky.social; 1/2/0; 2026-07-29): Now, I could try to address this upstream with @posit.co and the @quarto.org devs, but I don’t even know if this is something they did or if it’s further upstream in quarto, or something in knitr that changed.
And right now my minimal working example is a 2000 line qmd file 😭 ↪
Gavin Simpson (@gsimpson.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2026-07-29): I finally fix this and can now render the PDF again, just like I could a couple of months ago and I’ve lost most of my day.
So you’ll forgive me if I give a massive 🖕 to:
LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() + stupid Word-using journal ↪
Dr Katie Twomey (@k2mey.eurosky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-31): I did not know that that’s what knitr was! ↪
CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-30): New on CRAN: simPDF (0.1.1). View at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=simPDF ↪
CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-30): New CRAN package simPDF with initial version 0.1.1
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=simPDF ↪
Gavin Simpson (@gsimpson.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-29): Doubt it’s anything to do with quarto; knitr uses longtable by default ↪
Gavin Simpson (@gsimpson.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-29): But before that issue even rears it’s head, the LaTeX now produced by Quarto + Pandoc + knitr::kable() wasn’t even parsing properly as it wrapped everythintg in { }:
{
\begin{longtable}
… stuff …
\end{longtable}
} ↪
Barry R (@geospacedman.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2026-07-29): I understood knitr. I wrote custom chunk headers. Made it generate stuff it was never meant to. Today, had to figure out why quarto was splitting my tables across PDF pages. Some weird interaction between quarto’s options and kable’s output. Tried umpteen things until it worked. shrug emoji ↪
rstats
Vincent Arel-Bundock (@vincentab.bsky.social; 143/6/38; 2026-07-20): Here’s a useful page with a ton of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base.
arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_…
#rdatatable #tidyverse ↪
Vincent Arel-Bundock (@vincentab.bsky.social; 42/1/7; 2026-07-20): I’ll be in Ann Arbor next week to talk about marginaleffects and how to interpret statistical models. Let me know if you’re around! pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/
#RStats #PyData ↪
Yutani (@yutannihilation-en.bsky.social; 38/1/7; 2026-07-21): If you are too familiar with ggplot2, you might wonder how we can reproduce the same geospatial visualization on QGIS. {ggplot2qgis} is an R package for this! #rstats #qgis
github.com/yutannihilat… ↪
Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 33/2/4; 2026-07-23): oh yeeeaaaahhh
that’s the good stuff
3D roads generated from #OpenStreetMap data in #RStats with #rayshader and rendered with #rayrender ↪
Donald Szlosek (@dszlosek.bsky.social; 26/1/2; 2026-07-24): Lovely Set of #rstats color pallets:
ltc-color-palettes ↪
GoldenViz (@goldenviz.bsky.social; 24/1/10; 2026-07-22): 📣 GoldenVizR v0.1.0 is now available on GitHub.
An R package providing rule-based quality checks for ggplot2 visualizations, based on the 25 Golden Rules of Data Visualization.
to try : 🔽
github.com/WajdiBenSaad…
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday ↪
Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 22/1/2; 2026-07-23): This was a brilliant talk on trustworthy #DataViz from @kjhealy.co for the Ross Ihaka Lecture Series
#RStats ↪
Jakub Nowosad (@jakubnowosad.com; 21/0/4; 2026-07-22): A resource from Jérôme Guélat for anyone working with spatial data in R.
Spatial Data Processing with R combines GIS fundamentals with practical, reusable workflows for analysis and map making. 🗺️
jguelat.github.io/spatial-r/
#rspatial #rstats #SpatialAnalysis #OpenSource ↪
troy_phd (@troyhernandez.bsky.social; 20/0/2; 2026-07-22): Anyone can cook.
Now anyone can cut out a background in #rstats.
rembg is on CRAN via ONNX and the onnxr package.
png::writePNG(rembg(“remy.jpg”), “remy_rembg.png”)
cran.r-project.org/web/packages… ↪
Ben Harrap (@bharrap.bsky.social; 16/3/1; 2026-07-25): Has anyone made a gamified version of either drawing DAGs or selecting the correct covariate set from a DAG for the estimand of interest?
I’m thinking of something like ggplot battles
www.ggplotbattles.dev
#rstats ↪
Olivier Simard-Casanova (@o.simardcasanova.net; 13/0/1; 2026-07-19): My position on AI consciousness is you should use #Rstats instead of Stata ↪
Luis Apiolaza (@ojala.bsky.social; 12/1/0; 2026-07-24): My approach to #rstats environments: once a year or once every year-and-a-half I install a new version of R, so I install all the packages again. That’s my new environment. ↪
Ben Zipperer (@benzipperer.org; 11/1/2; 2026-07-24): a new project launcher for the #Rstats prefab package
starting a new project with your preferred scaffolding is now only a keyboard shortcut away in #Positron ↪
Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 9/0/1; 2026-07-22): reminder that this is tomorrow, so don’t miss your chance to register!
#Rstats #Econsky #AcademicSky ↪
Rob Thomas (@robthomasbirds.bsky.social; 8/1/8; 2026-07-23): If your new academic year resolution is to improve your statistical knowledge and coding skills in “R” in a friendly and supportive online learning environment, check out our forthcoming courses for autumn and winter 2026-27. #rstats #RStats www.ecoexplore.co.uk/ourcourses ↪
RLadies+ Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 8/1/3; 2026-07-26): 📝 “Exploring other ggplot2 geoms”
Level up your R data viz with these amazing ggplot2 plugins.
👤 Isabella Velásquez (@ivelasq3.bsky.social)
🔗 https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/other-geoms/
#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie #reference ↪
Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 7/0/0; 2026-07-25): This is how you can add normal data ellipses in #tidyplots 🐣
#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪
James Laird-Smith (@jameslairdsmith.bsky.social; 4/0/0; 2026-07-25): Why is this the first time I’m hearing of ggplot2-battles?! #rstats ↪
Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 3/2/0; 2026-07-25): really want to start an #rstats blog – just don’t have the time! ↪
John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 3/0/0; 2026-07-26): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “splendid” today!
Wordle 1,863 4/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪
tinytex
Elin Waring (@elinwaring.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-07-29): I’m in the last 6 days of summer undergraduate research and with them also in the “tiny” world of tinytex, tinytable and tinyplot for making nice looking posters. ↪
dan 🌿🌷🌻 (@abetterdan.swifties.social; 1/3/0; 2026-07-27): yes i had no idea about this or git integration either until i started this job!!! the latter has changed my life. for latex, i haven’t used it much yet but R markdown seems great and supports latex and other formats rmarkdown.rstudio.com/index.html or there are other packages for it like tinytex ↪
Christophe Dervieux (@cderv.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-07-27): Same for TeX: quarto install tinytex now pulls from tlnet.yihui.org, refreshed daily, not whichever CTAN mirror is stale that week. Same mirror R’s tinytex took in March.
Font fallbacks also stopped crashing LuaLaTeX on TeX Live 2026.
quarto.org/docs/download/changelog/1.10/ ↪