"The CRAN Task View Initiative" - a publication by @rogerbivand.bsky.social (@nhhecon.bsky.social & @nhhnor.bsky.social), Achim Zeileis, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Kurt Hornik, Julia Piaskowski and Nathalie Vialaneix: journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-...

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community" user2026.r-project.org #rstats #useR2026

We are honored to announce Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social) as a Keynote for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! A postdoctoral researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics and a recent PhD graduate from the University of Bologna, Dariia has been an avid R user for seven years. user2026.r-project.org

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Earlier today I listened to a podcast where someone described their work "using a new AI method such as clustering". The relevant Wikipedia page has citations from the 1930s. And how is your day going?

An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f... Congratulations to the project team!

#rstats 4.5.2 "[Not] Part in a Rumble" scheduled for October 31. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org

The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes. Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline. #RStats #PyData

Yes, it's a QR decomposition, a bespoke one modified by Ross from LINPACK fortran code. The key difference from LINPACK (in src/appl/dqrdc2.f) is that it pivots only when really needed, so that computing sequential "this beta adjusted for the previous ones" is more straightforward.

this is my very favourite comment from the R code base: github.com/r-devel/r-sv... (this more than 28 years ago - I didn't feel like doing the archaeology to trace the code back through a file reorganization that was done in 1998 ...)

R version 4.5.0 "How About a Twenty-Six" (source version) has been released. (You can find it in cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/, or wait for CRAN to be updated.)

Clay Bennett nails it.

Stand with Ukraine: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#rstats 4.4.3 "Trophy Case" scheduled for February 28. Full schedule soon on developer.r-project.org

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Facebook is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa says decision to end factchecking in US means ‘dangerous times ahead’ for journalism and democracy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...