Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

If you manage #Rstats with rig, make sure you use the new rig 0.8.1 to install the new R 4.6.1 version on macOS: github.com/r-lib/rig#id... github.com/r-lib/rig/re...

Excited to present at EEA Dublin in August - until I found two invited presenters affiliated with Russia's Higher School of Economics. HSE has backed the invasion of Ukraine and fundraised for its military. I feel unsafe sharing a room with people raising money to kill my family. #EconSky

If you install #Rstats on macOS with rig, would you like to be able to install different patch versions at the same time? E.g. R 4.6.0 and 4.6.1? See the options below.

Extremely proud and excited that @ropensci.org's community manager @yabellini.bsky.social has been selected for a @sovereign.tech fellowship! It's a much-deserved recognition of her work making #rstats open to all, and a key endorsement of community-building as a fundamental pillar of open-source.

#Rstats package update: zip 3.0.0 with some very cool new things: password protected zip files, vectorized and concurrent unzip(), unzip over HTTP, progress bars. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/zip/re...

I'm alive *AND* I wrote a blog post?! Unheard of! Much 💖 to @abbycabs.dev, and @grafana.bsky.social's David Allen and Amanda Wagner whose FOSDEM talk's were a huge source of inspo!

#Rstats package update: callr 3.8.0. OpenTelemetry, carrier::crate(), pseudo terminals, plus I fixed (well, closed) all issues, but one. See the changes at github.com/r-lib/callr/...

I updated the gh #Rstats package last week to version 1.6.0. It won't fail with GitHub's new token format now. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/gh/rel...

Really excited to be on today's #DSLab! If you've ever wondered about what Parquet is and why you should use it, join us later today! 🎉 #rstats

💻 RStudio addins now run in Positron through the command palette, including the addins from my annotater package (despite relying heavily on the rstudioapi pkg for modifying open files!) Nice! #rstats

Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst. Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz. Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend. One toolchain, data straight to PDF. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz

I completely agree with opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... TOML seemed like a good format, until I learned the gory details while writing github.com/gaborcsardi/...

PSA: if you need X11() in #Rstats on macOS Tahoe, then update to Tahoe 26.5, delete xquartz if you installed it with brew, and install the latest beta from github.com/XQuartz/XQua... You might also need launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.startx.plist and logging out and back in.

We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

The Tufte LaTeX class is pretty, but it hasn't been updated for years and doesn't work with well with Quarto/lualatex. But with #QuartoPub you can replicate it on your own in HTML/PDF with just a little bit of customization with CSS and some preamble-y things! github.com/andrewheiss/...

I'd love to learn more about how y'all are using AI for data science, so I've set up some times where you can chat with me: scheduler.zoom.us/hadley-wickh.... I'm interested in it all, whether it's your struggles, your successes, or what you're still trying to get your head around. #rstats

"Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking.... The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy" www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-... #AI #infosec

PSA: if you are on R 4.4.x or older and suddenly the pak #Rstats package fails to install from source, then here are some workarounds: github.com/r-lib/pak/is... I am also submitting a new version right now to fix this.

💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

Every message is parsed, threaded, and indexed. You can browse threads, see who replied to whom, and actually follow conversations that shaped the language. Here's a recent R-SIG-Mac thread about macOS 26: r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com/lists/r-sig-...

Our list of 2026 #rstats and #python summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...

🤯You can't make this up: amid Kremlin meddling in Hungary's election, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly sends Putin's former interpreter Daria Boyarskaya – sanctioned by Poland, detained by Lithuania – on an election observation mission to Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-puti...

The newest edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Read a roundup of major #RStats & #Python updates: ggplot2 4.0.0, dplyr 1.2.0, ellmer 0.4.0, Positron native Jupyter Notebook support , and more. 🎟️ Plus, registration for posit::conf(2026) is officially OPEN! Find it here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...

Uh-oh, these might be the droids you're looking for... The number one request after every webRios demo was Android support. Early stage, but we have a working R console inside a native Android view. #rstats #webr #android

I’m happy to announce Rapp v0.3.0 — a package that makes it easy to build and share polished CLI applications written in R. Read more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

"The core of the library is written in C. However, major modern languages like C++, Java, and C# are not supported." :D Gem from a rejection for a paper on a project I no longer work on.

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

I won't miss this one!

This is a very cool way to learn something and support Ukraine! 🇺🇦

poisonfrogs: Color Palettes Inspired by Neotropical Poison Frogs laurenoconnelllab.github.io/poisonfrogs/ #Rstats

My #RPackageAdvent2025 recap is live! 📦✨ Get the complete guide to modern R package development: setup, docs, testing, CI/CD, and CRAN submission. All 25 days of tips, tools, and best practices in one place! Dive in! #RStats #RPackageDevelopment Link: https://drmo.site/8ny3eU

Day 23: cli - Beautiful Command Line Interfaces Create user-friendly messages and progress indicators. Pro Tip: Use semantic markup like {.fn function_name} and {.val value} for consistent formatting. Resources: cli.r-lib.org #RpackageAdvent2025 #rstats

❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 8 , 6 pm CET titled Inference for non-probability samples with nonprobsvy package in R by @mberesewicz.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

❗️Our next workshop will be on Dec 11 6 pm CET titled A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Simulation in R by @damiepak.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

I'm doing a workshop on R package development with Positron on Jan 15 2026. Register for the virtual workshop here: sites.google.com/view/dariia-... I'll cover devtools, usethis, testthat, covr, and a few AI tools along the way to help. #Rstats

In which use cases does #RStats excel for you compared to other languages? If you've done it other ways and speak from experience, even better.

This workshop is tomorrow, don’t miss your chance to register! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

woohoo this was super easy to do for course website Nº2 #QuartoPub - now I'm finally in compliance with Georgia rules PDF: datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/PMAP-8551-HE... Site: datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com Code: github.com/andrewheiss/...

❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 16th, 6 pm CEST titled Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics in R& Stan by @jamesbland.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

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 🎉

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

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