This made me chuckle @posit.co #positron #rstats

Send me your favorite #rstats hex tile. (And also the philosophy around it.)

One more R coding skill for the pile: tidy-r. It includes all the cool new functions of dplyr 1.2! It also hooks into the r-btw MCP server for live docs, or falls back to R help when it's not available. You can install it in one line. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/tidy-r-skill

unlocked new mobile browser tab count

This is live on the official IRS website and hasn't been fixed in a year.

Some juicy prizes for an essay.

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!

Estonians were truly ahead of the #AI curve: "in Estonia [the Kratt, a golemesque creature] is used as a metaphor for AI and its complexities. For instance, algorithmic-liability law is also called the Kratt law." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratt

The #AI benchmark that matters github.com/petergpt/bul...

Vibecoding in #Rstats visualized

New \glitch{} #latex command just dropped to freak out your coauthors. Tells exactly how the paper is going. gist.github.com/statzhero/ea...

Last week we released dplyr 1.2.0, but we left off something VERY important 🙂 `dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are now up to 30x faster and use 10x less memory! We dive into how we achieved these numbers in this new #rstats post! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

is github down?

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

It's also titled: "Olympic ski jumpers to be investigated for ‘injecting penises with acid’"

Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with a #Finance plugin. I tested it on capitalizing VW's R&D expenses. In one vague prompt I got a full spreadsheet with amortization schedules and ROIC calculations.

`seed(42)` is the new em dash.

One of the greatest tools for scientific production relaunched: #Zotero 8. www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/

Sure, buddy. #rstats #mcp

📦 I've released an *alpha* version of wrds, an R package that simplifies access to Wharton Research Data Services. 🔗 github.com/statzhero/wrds This is an alpha release. I'd appreciate feedback on the API design, missing features, or bugs. Open an issue on GitHub or comment here. #rstats

I looked at the social science–relevant Claude Code skills in this library. They didn’t convince me, and the sample “papers” on the website were even less compelling. But I’m happy to hear success stories and be proven otherwise. github.com/K-Dense-AI/c...

Tired of littering your R code with `na.rm = TRUE`? I put together 📦 tidyna 📦: it masks common R functions so they handle missing values by default. It also catches base R edge cases, like `sum(c(NA, NA), na.rm = TRUE)` returns 0. Feedback welcome! github.com/statzhero/tidyna #rstats

Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation. r-consortium.org/posts/650K-f... #rstats

@paulgp.com this is a useful (and nice!) overview, can the slides be remixed? paulgp.com/assets/prese...

I drew an "almost perfect circle" with this #Anthropic Artifact example. Nothing important, #AI just made me laugh.

Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores? We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.

So confident, so wrong. I'm actually not sure why ChatGPT gets this basic #RStats behavior wrong.

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

What is happening? The newest and hottest 🫟 #emoji befuddles #AI.

It is very funny that this is a clip from a famous movie. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOH...

NYT with the deep insights here. #tariffs