Big news! πŸŽ‰ πš–πšŠπš›πšπš’πš—πšŠπš•πšŽπšπšπšŽπšŒπšπšœ 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin…

2026/09/13

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DataScience+ (@datascienceplus.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-09-11): Update: Can we predict flu outcome with Machine Learning in R?

#rstats β†ͺ

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Eric Leung (@erictleung.bsky.social; 1/1/1; 2026-09-11): others have shared the data science book by Hadley, but he also has an advanced R book that might be useful adv-r.hadley.nz β†ͺ

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Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 28/2/8; 2026-09-11): working on R Markdown and knitr in 2026…

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 3/1/0; 2026-09-07): I’m very glad that the dev version of knitr helps! Actually the new version just landed on CRAN this morning :) β†ͺ

eitsupi (@eitsupi.bsky.social; 3/1/0; 2026-09-06): Wow, thank you so much!

I was actually a sponsor of yours until a few months ago (knitr helped me a lot!), and I never imagined the sponsorship would come full circle like this. :) β†ͺ

Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 3/1/0; 2026-09-06): Hey Yihui! It means I’m benefitting a lot from your development version of knitr with its .Rtyp support. Plus I’m emitting customized Typst markup for tables (using tinytable), small graphics, and pandocs’s automatic LaTeX->Typst equation conversion for equations for fitted stat models. #RStats β†ͺ

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 3/1/1; 2026-09-06): I battled with the dark side of me for days on whether I should support .Last.value in knitr/litedown. Some may feel relieved that the dark side didn’t win. β†ͺ

Frank Harrell (@f2harrell.bsky.social; 2/0/0; 2026-09-07): Fantastic - I was about to ask when you expected that. An update to the Hmisc package with @typst.app methods just landed on CRAN today also. options(prType=‘typst’); describe(mydata) has the output formatted in Typst for use with knitr / Quarto. β†ͺ

Miles McBain (@milesmcbain.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-09-11): Good sources would be packages in a domain you know something about. Or Papers that ship code. For example, I remember really enjoying:

richardbeare.github.io/GeospatialSt…

When I was first getting into catchment problems.

Also learned a lot by working the internals of knitr and Rmarkdown. β†ͺ

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 1/1/0; 2026-09-06): That’s very cool. By “Sweave/knitr inserts R output”, I’m curious if you have some Typst magic (extension) to call Sweave/knitr inside Typst, or you are using the minimal .Rtyp support in knitr? β†ͺ

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-09-06): Updates on CRAN: knitr (1.52), mboost (2.9-14) β†ͺ

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-09-06): CRAN updates: knitr #rstats β†ͺ

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Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 1/0/0; 2026-09-12): Yes, you can use it in Quarto, R Markdown, Shiny, litedown, and Jupyter. β†ͺ

GitHub Projects (@githubprojects.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-09-06): A simpler way to turn code and writing into documents without heavy extras.

Explore it here:
osp.fyi/litedown β†ͺ

rstats

Vincent Arel-Bundock (@vincentab.bsky.social; 416/16/97; 2026-09-04): Big news! πŸŽ‰

πš–πšŠπš›πšπš’πš—πšŠπš•πšŽπšπšπšŽπšŒπšπšœ 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step.

I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey.

arelbundock.com/posts/margin… β†ͺ

Andrew Heiss (@andrew.heiss.phd; 268/7/81; 2026-09-05): You can use this UN-approved Equal Earth projection right now in #rstats #gis #databs β†ͺ

Matt Wilkins (@mattwilkins.galacticpolymath.com; 53/3/38; 2026-09-01): Preventable diseases getting out of control! Check out this visual of measles cases in 2024 & 2025. I made this in #Rstats with ggplot2 + gganimate with CDC data. (Yep, still here πŸ‘‰ www.cdc.gov/measles/data…) πŸ§ͺ
Connected to an upcoming unit from @galacticpolymath.com! Stay tuned! β†ͺ

Miles McBain (@milesmcbain.bsky.social; 40/6/1; 2026-09-05): A good ol fashion #rstats keyboard war? On MY birthday? You shouldn’t have! ❀️ you all. β†ͺ

Eslam Maher (@eslammaher.bsky.social; 29/0/4; 2026-09-06): I’m all for the base R pipe. #rstats β†ͺ

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 28/1/7; 2026-09-04): A fly-by ski trip generated entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender, featuring realistic lighting for that location at a specific date and time, properly marked roads, trails, ski trails, streams, lakes, houses, and 2 million (!) individually rendered trees! All generated from {sf} data! β†ͺ

Laurent BergΓ© (@lrberge.bsky.social; 26/3/0; 2026-09-02): Just found out a seemingly good website to learn how to program for beginners…

And then there’s a “using = is poor style” in the wild…

I will die on that hill: using ‘=’ is actually good!

#Rstats β†ͺ

Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. (@usrbinr.bsky.social; 23/1/2; 2026-09-03): i love #rstats.

that is all. that is the post. β†ͺ

Josiah (@josiah.rs; 20/1/0; 2026-09-05): I just accidentally came across {htmxr} @htmx.org + #rstats πŸ‡??
I’m actually so hyped?!

#rstats
github.com/hyperverse-r… β†ͺ

Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social; 18/1/3; 2026-09-01): DO YOU CRAVE REPRODUCIBLE DATA DEV ENVIRONMENTS?! Come hang out with us, #rstats friends! β†ͺ

**** (@tiddlydump.bsky.social; 16/0/0; 2026-08-31): Divorced entirely from the context of this thread, recommending marginaleffects is good to do, as a thing, in general.

#rstats β†ͺ

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 12/0/1; 2026-09-04): Long awaited: pretty (and funky) arrows in #rstats β†ͺ

Michael Chirico (@michaelchirico.bsky.social; 12/1/0; 2026-09-01): my favorite #rstats typo in a while

witchCallingHandlers β†ͺ

Mattan S. Ben-Shachar (@mattansb.msbstats.info; 10/0/0; 2026-09-02): Also, related shoutout to #rstats raw string syntax:
r"( STUFF )"

stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-d… β†ͺ

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 6/10/3; 2026-09-05): Very important #RStats survey:

BOBYQA:

  1. Boh-by-…
  2. Boh-bee-…
  3. Bah-by-…
  4. Bobby-…

A) kwah
B) ka β†ͺ

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 6/0/0; 2026-09-04): All key features at a glance – with the #tidyplots cheatsheet 🀩

https://tidyplots.org/cheatsheet

#rstats #dataviz #phd β†ͺ

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 5/1/0; 2026-09-03): This is how you can highlight data in #tidyplots πŸ’‘

#rstats #dataviz #phd β†ͺ

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 4/0/0; 2026-09-06): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “great” today!
Wordle 1,905 5/6
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James Laird-Smith (@jameslairdsmith.bsky.social; 4/0/1; 2026-09-03): Another bit of R history found on eBay. #rstats β†ͺ

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 4/0/0; 2026-09-05): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “splendid” today!
Wordle 1,904 4/6
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