The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Isabella @ivelasq3.bsky.social, formerly a data analyst, now at @posit.co, and your curator this week! There’s always something new in #RStats. I'll be sharing: ✨ Favorite R packages + workflows ✨ News + tools you might have missed ✨ #PositConf2025 recaps ✨ A decade of R memes 🎉

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

I'm considering writing a proposal for R Consortium ISC funding to write a free & open source book on LLMs/AI in R. Advice out there is scattered between different resources. Wondering if this is something the wider #rstats community would be interested in, & what folks would like to see in there?

Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

for once i have managed to write a short blog post on a lazy sunday arvo, picking up on a suggestion from @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy for generating procedural palettes in #rstats. it works better than i expected blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats

In case you didn't know: You can run your package unit tests with {testthat} in parallel with two simple steps (see testthat.r-lib.org/articles/par...): tldr: 1. Add `Config/testthat/parallel: true` to DESCRIPTION. 2. Add `TESTTHAT_CPUS=8` to your .Renviron and restart R. #rstats

Hello #dataBS (& especially #TidyTuesday) fam! I'm trying to organize a thing to help me keep TidyTuesday running smoothly, but first I need to get a bit of a runway. Every week I curate a TT dataset, and it's wearing me down. Please see github.com/rfordatascie... for some ways you can help! #RStats

❗️Our next workshop will be on August 28th, 6 pm CEST, on Efficient R by @selina-b.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Ever wonder how an actuary becomes a data science educator? 🤔 Tune into the latest episode of The Test Set with @minecr.bsky.social. We discuss everything from her #RStats journey to her use of LLMs to give students feedback on their code. Listen: thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts

#AcademicLife in Ukraine: preparing for lectures at night during a massive missile attack on Kyiv in an overcrowded underground station #EconSky #UkrainianView #RStats

Making libcurl work in webassembly https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

This workshop is tomorrow, so don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

❗️Our next workshop will be on June 20th, 6 pm CEST, on Building fully reproducible DS env for R and #Python with Nix, rix, rixpress by @brodriguesco.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Just 3 days left until this workshop, so don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

finally learnt how to use to {cli} spinner bars thanks to @djnavarro.net blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-0...

Hi #rstats! Does anyone know of any good free online self-paced comprehensive R video courses for complete beginners? Ideally, with interactive exercises that would be automatically checked, and the ability to gain certificates. Thanks!

Excited to share a new #rstats project: ggplot2 layer explorer #shiny app! My latest experiment in demystifying ggplot2 internals gives you interactive control over the rendering pipeline. I hope this helps make the internals more accessible and, most importantly, fun! 😄 github.com/yjunechoe/gg...

At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats

For this week's #TidyTuesday, we're looking at Dungeons and Dragons monsters! 📊 Obviously had to make a small multiple alignment chart 🔍 Magnified version to show labels ❓ Radar charts: the chaotic evil of chart types alignment? #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

❗️Our next workshop will be on May 29th, 6 pm CEST, on surveydown:An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Interactive and Reproducible Surveys by @jhelvy.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works

Really looking forward to today’s data visualisation class, where I’ll be going behind the scenes to walk through the little design decisions that can transform a chart. Free to watch for anyone interested: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-... (Recording will be available later)

An upd report on our workshops for Ukraine series on #RStats, #Python & more. So far, we have raised >96k euro & the workshops have been attended by > 4300 ppl! 👇you can find more info on how you can help & a detailed report. All info on workshops: bit.ly/3wBeY4S 1/n

I'm delivering a Workshop for Ukraine on 5 June about {shinyscholar} cran.r-project.org/web/packages... a template for creating reproducible shiny apps for complex analyses in #rstats . More info and sign up here: sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

The Trump administration continues to ignore the courts. 278 men are still in CECOT prison without a trial, sentence, or any form of due process. Here's one of their stories. Dad is in CECOT. Mom, deported to Venezuela. Their beautiful toddler, in foster care in the US, whereabouts unknown.

If you are not personally interested in attending this workshop, you can also sponsor participation of students! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats #dataviz

❗️Our next workshop will be on May 1st, 6 pm CEST on Smart Extraction: converting PDF tables into usable data with R by @flaviaerius.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats #dataviz

I've just signed up! What a great opportunity to learn about using LLMs in #R with @hadley.nz, the creator of the {ellmer} #RStats 📦(and others, like ggplot2). Only $20 or €20! And you're supporting Ukraine! June 13 online, 18:00 - 20:00 CET / noon to 2 pm ET bit.ly/4jmEAJW #GenAI #Ukraine ⬇️⬇️⬇️

On June 13, we will have a workshop on Using LLMs by @hadley.nz More info: bit.ly/4jmEAJW Please share! #RStats #EconSky #AcademicSky

Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I'm working with that's 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)

❗️Our next workshop will be on April 25th, 6 pm CEST on Dealing with Duplicate Data in R by @astroeringrand.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats #dataviz

R 4.5.0 is released and includes the `penguins` data popularised by {palmerpenguins} 📦! Some variable name changes means that scripts need editing to use the built-in datasets. The new {basepenguins} 📦 automates that! ellakaye.github.io/basepenguins #RStats

❗️Our next workshop will be on April 10th, 6 pm CEST on Effective data viz in R in scientific contexts by @christiangebhard.com! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats #dataviz

We heard from the community that CatBoost is the way do go. We listened and learned! here is the first batch of updated hexes for #tidymodels

⚠️WANTED⚠️ Dirty datasets that can be used in training courses! Have you got any great examples of datasets (preferably CC0 or CC-BY) that you think demonstrate some of the key issues with dirty data? I'm interested in teaching how to improve data collection, & about cleaning data once you have it. 📊

Thanks everyone who came to the API Workshop for Ukraine! Materials are here: laderast.github.io/intro_apis_u... And GitHub repo is here: github.com/laderast/int... Thank you to @dariia.bsky.social for organizing this! #rstats #databs

❗️Our next workshop will be on April 3rd, 6 pm CEST on Devops for Data Scientists (R & #Python) by @rika-gorn.bsky.social! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Reasonable to ask if we are now oppressing the Russian opposition at Putin’s behest. theins.press/en/news/280037

This project may be the single best piece of journalism we did in my time at FiveThirtyEight (to be clear, my involvement was minimal verging on nonexistent). Sad ABC killed it, but so glad it gets to survive in some form.

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated. Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

The development version of #rstats {keras3} has a new `[` method for tensors! You can now use *both* R-style and Python-style slicing. Two ways to get the first element of tensor `x`: x@r[1] x@py[0] Try it out and share your feedback before it goes to CRAN! keras3.posit.co/dev/referenc... #keras

R 4.5.0 is coming in less than a month! You can easily test the alpha with rig: rig add next R-next This works on macOS (arm64, x86_64), Windows (x86_64), Linux (aarch64, x86_64) with Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, RHEL & derivative distros. github.com/r-lib/rig#re... #RStats

I had never heard of this book before today. But thanks to Lil Caesar pulling a Streisand, I just bought the audio book.