SEE YOU FOLKS ON MONDAY #positconf #rstats

2026/09/20

blogdown

RLadies+ Bot (@rladies-bot.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2026-09-16): 📝 “Using blogdown”

Get started with blogdown: install and set up your repo.

👤 Pao Corrales

🔗 https://paocorrales.github.io/collection/day02/02-blogdown/

#rladies #rstats #oldiebutgoodie ↪

bookdown

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 ↪

knitr

SMT (@pp0196.bsky.social; 0/0/1; 2026-09-20): #RStats heads-up CRAN Macos binaries are zstd compressed now (at least for some recently built ones, including knitr), this might break some CI setups

github.com/r-lib/pkgdep… ↪

rstats

travis gerke (@travisgerke.bsky.social; 79/2/5; 2026-09-11): SEE YOU FOLKS ON MONDAY #positconf #rstats ↪

Josiah (@josiah.rs; 38/1/2; 2026-09-10): geodesic distance between 6 million points in < 2 seconds in
{geoarrowrs}

Its under 1 second for euclidean distances…
Arrow + GeoArrow + Rust + R = vrooooom!

github.com/JosiahParry/…
#rstats ↪

Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermw.com; 28/1/4; 2026-09-12): Finally: #rayshader will soon have the beautiful sunsets made in #RStats I’ve always dreamed of, along an actual sense of scale for your landscapes, thanks to some big updates I’m pushing to #rayrender and #skymodelr 😀

You can ask me more in Houston at #positconf 👋 ↪

Jakub Nowosad (@nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 26/0/18; 2026-09-09): Working with OpenStreetMap data in R? 🗺️

Louis Laurian and Timothée Giraud have put together a “Cheat sheet for using OpenStreetMap with R”.

https://zenodo.org/records/20842874

#rstats #OpenStreetMap #RSpatial ↪

Kenny Vaden (@kennyvaden.bsky.social; 22/0/4; 2026-09-12): Detachment (R code)

New artwork created with Rstats

Orderly at a distance, but full of chaos and imperfections

#charlestonsc #generativeart #proceduralart #genartclub #codeart ↪

Josiah (@josiah.rs; 22/2/1; 2026-09-11): It looks like {geoarrowrs} is even competitive with {sedonadb}?!

Do we got a new fast spatial contender! #rstats
josiahparry.github.io/geoarrowrs/a… ↪

Sam Goldstein (@samschuelstein.bsky.social; 21/10/6; 2026-09-10): Okay, real talk:

What books, resources, workshops, courses, etc., would all my #rstats folks recommend for someone with intermediate experience in R programming language? Basically I know enough to run analyses. I want to be more experienced so I can rely less on AI to debug code when I am stuck. ↪

Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist (@seafloorscience.bsky.social; 17/1/2; 2026-09-12): After ribbing my colleague for making figures in excel all day I produced this beauty with R.

Bet you can’t make that in excel can you??!

#rstats #accidentalaRt @accidentalart.bsky.social ↪

Deepali Kank (@deepalikank.in; 16/1/5; 2026-09-09): #TidyTuesday week 36 - The Cappuccino Index
#DataViz #Rstats ↪

Josiah (@josiah.rs; 15/3/1; 2026-09-06): tmp <- .Last.value is my #rstats bad habit 🫣 ↪

Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social; 13/2/2; 2026-09-11): Join me on October 1 for a #ggplot2 workshop as part of the @rinpharma.bsky.social conference! 📊

#RStats #DataViz ↪

Jakub Nowosad (@jakubnowosad.com; 12/0/4; 2026-09-09): Working with OpenStreetMap data in R? 🗺️

Louis Laurian and Timothée Giraud have put together a “Cheat sheet for using OpenStreetMap with R”.

zenodo.org/records/2084…

#rstats #OpenStreetMap #RSpatial ↪

iMARES_group (@imares-group.bsky.social; 10/1/9; 2026-09-13): 🚨 Paper alert! A new paper by iMARES researcher Jorge Mestre presents GeoThinneR, an R package for faster and more flexible spatial thinning of species occurrence and point data.

🔗 doi.org/10.32614/RJ-…

ICM-CSIC
#RStats
#SpatialData
#SpeciesDistributionModels

🧵👇 ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 10/0/1; 2026-09-10): These are the discrete color schemes in #tidyplots 🌈

The default scheme colors_discrete_friendly is inspired by Okabe and Ito (2008) and was designed to be accessible for individuals with color vision deficiencies.

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 9/1/3; 2026-09-13): ❗️Our next workshop will be on September 17th 6 pm CET
on From Raw Data to Regulatory Results: Clinical Trial Programming in R using the pharmaverse
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats ↪

Jan Broder Engler (@jbengler.de; 7/0/0; 2026-09-09): This is the grammar for summary statistics in #tidyplots 🤩

You can mix and match as you like.

#rstats #dataviz #phd ↪

Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social; 6/0/5; 2026-09-08): This workshop is in two days so don’t forget to register !

Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 5/0/1; 2026-09-12): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “impressive” today!
Wordle 1,911 3/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪

Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka (@gp-pulipaka.bsky.social; 5/1/0; 2026-09-13): The Book of #Kubernetes! #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #IoT #IIoT #PyTorch #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java #JavaScript #ReactJS #GoLang #CloudComputing #Serverless #DataScientist #Linux #Books #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode
geni.us/The-Book-Kub… ↪

John S. Erickson (@bitwacker.com; 4/0/0; 2026-09-13): WordleR, the #Rstats-powered #Wordle Helper, was “splendid” today!
Wordle 1,912 4/6
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bit.ly/WordleR ↪

tinytex

Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 7/1/0; 2026-09-19): I’m an Old Hand LaTeX guy, now writing more in #Quarto, with {tinytex} at my side. Who’s this new Typst kid? Do I want to learn a new language?
Donald Knuth was so confident of TeX– design frozen, vers 3.14, 3.145, only approaching \pi.

Enter: A newer kid on the block, “ratex”
bit.ly/4h1jP7Z ↪

CRAN Updates (@cranupdates.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-09-17): Updates on CRAN: atime (2026.9.17), dataseries (1.1.0), netmeta (3.7-0), nnR (0.2.0), roundRobinR (2.0.0), RTMB (2.0), tinytex (0.61) ↪

CRAN Package Updates Bot (@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2026-09-17): CRAN updates: atime netmeta nnR roundRobinR tinytex #rstats ↪

yihui.org

Yihui Xie (@yihui.org; 29/2/8; 2026-09-11): working on R Markdown and knitr in 2026…