RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family. stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years. pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g... Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

Wrote up the details on how this works under the hood, including how R discovers Rtools through RTOOLS{VER}_HOME and how to point any R installation at a custom Rtools location. Blog post: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/portab...

Holy (native) Grail update: we cracked open the #Shiny temple and eight desktop apps tumbled out. #rstats, #python, native, containerized, shinylive, you name it. One #Electron shell, every runtime mode we could dream up, all from one R package. {shinyelectron}, coming soon to a desktop near you.

Portable #Rstats for #Windows now ships with Rtools built in. Extract, compile from source, done. No installers, no PATH wrangling, no registry. Just R + gcc in a folder. So, running: install.packages("Rcpp", type="source") Now, works out of the box! github.com/portable-r/portable-r-windows

Welp, went to install the #rshinylive #rstats package today and CRAN archived it for a "policy violation" about a week after posit shipped v0.4.0. looks like they're already on the fix, but oof. Farewell for now little buddy...

Making #rstats portable on #macOS has been the community's Sisyphean boulder since 2009. Now, download a tar.gz, extract, run from: github.com/portable-r/p... Signed, notarized, 4.3.0 - 4.5.3. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Need #rstats on a #Windows machine where you can't run an installer? Locked-down workstation, USB drive, embedded app? It's 2026. You just need a URL: github.com/portable-r/p... R 4.3.0 - 4.5.3, x64 + ARM64. install.packages() works. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Yeah, we’re finally chasing the Holy (native) Grail...

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

#rstats 4.6.0 "Happy Hop" scheduled for April 24. Full schedule on developer.r-project.org (or the svn if you're impatient.)

This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly

R version 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Posit finally adds AI to #RStudio after somehow sleeping through every alarm, and what lured them to the dark side wasn’t cookies. It was a $20/mo rate-limited ‘frontier-grade model’ that’s just Claude in a trench coat you can’t even bring your own key for. #rstats

Small update on the python-on-iOS front: the unnamed notebook app now has a name -- Pyodios -- and a new trick. Swap between a local Pyodide kernel and a remote Jupyter backend mid-session. Want offline? Stay local. Want GPU? Call home. No drama either way. #Python #iosdev #wasm #Pyodide #Jupyter

webRios started as "what if #rstats just worked on your iPhone or iPad" and now it has a whole documentation site. Feels like the app grew up a little today. webrios.caffeinatedmath.com #webr #ios #webassembly

Graphics are... inline!??

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

#webRios 1.1 is live! The big additions: code completion, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and a Data Import Wizard. Plus a better iPad four-pane layout (still a work in progress, more coming). #RStats on your iPhone and iPad keeps getting better. Best experience on #iOS 26.

webRios v1.1 is in the queue. Soon. #rstats #webR #iOS #AppUpdate

"import this" hits different when you're running it from your phone. notebook mode. coming soon. #python #jupyter #pyodide #wasm

They say the key to fighting addition is to find a replacement. NA beer over regular beer. A coffee instead of smokes. So stop doomscrolling the "For You" feed here and start writing and running #Rstats code on your phone apps.apple.com/us/app/webri.... Cool work @coatless.bsky.social 🎩

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad. I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review. apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...

So, #rstats does work natively on #iOS with plots and all. Genuine question though: has the GPL vs App Store situation ever been resolved or are we stuck in "cool demo forever" territory?

Just had a frustrating experience with @Airbnb that I think other travelers should know about. It's about third-party ID verification requirements that aren't clearly disclosed during booking. Thread: #Airbnb #TravelTips

{surreal} 0.0.2: now featuring the "oh that would be convenient" update 1. Load images directly with surreal_image() 2. Explore everything in a Shiny app with surreal_app() Sometimes the sequel has better quality-of-life features. #rstats #rshiny #dataviz

{webrarian} walked so {pyrarian} could... also walk? Ported #webr 's 4-panel editor to Pyodide. Already loading pandas and plotting with matplotlib in the browser. The librarians are going multilingual. #pyodide #python #wasm

{toggle} does one thing: adds a button to hide code output in #quarto docs. Took two versions to do that one thing well. Now it works everywhere... tabsets, callouts, nested containers, you name it. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/toggle/ 🐙 github.com/coatless-qua...

{livelink} walked so {webrarian} could run. Mini browser-based #rstats environments powered by #webR and its 4-panel editor. YAML config, build, preview. Done. R package coming soon. #pyodide folks, stay tuned.

Shiny for R: GPL-3 → MIT ✨ Your dashboards are now legally chill. Deploy without consulting three lawyers and a ouija board first. #rstats #rshiny

Consider submitting a proposal to the (open access) Psychometrika special issue on Variable Selection for Complex Psychometric Data, with a proposal deadline of Jan 15. Full details:

Released a #Quarto extension for collapsible content blocks. Why? The {details} are inside. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/details/ 💻 github.com/coatless-qua...

Turning another year older tomorrow and celebrating by releasing Quarto extensions into the wild. Gift to me, gift to you. And yes, if you've been peeking at my GitHub, you already know what's coming. Act surprised!

{ripper} dissects your #Quarto documents, extracting code blocks by language and leaving executable scripts behind. Supports #rstats, #python, #julia, and 13 other victims. For those who never stopped celebrating Halloween. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/ripper/ 💻 github.com/coatless-qua...

One does not simply stay away from social media. I return with: R packages, portable R, Shiny/shinylive apps, Electron integrations, Python packages, Quarto extensions, LLMs, and blog posts. The code has been reforged. The roadmap is full.

Still fascinated with #webR and its potential for teaching stats Here students can play (even from their phones) and find out themselves how the p-value depends on sample size pakillo.github.io/LM-GLM-GLMM-... #rstats

@coatless.bsky.social also did that few months ago using another approach based on JavaScript. "Pick your poison" 🙃 github.com/coatless-qua...

Quarto has a way to collapse code, but what if you want to collapse code OUTPUT? The amazing @mickael.canouil.fr created an extension that does just that!!! Check it out! github.com/mcanouil/qua...

Nothing makes you feel vintage like your license getting moved to the retirement home directory. GNU put GPL 2.0 in /old-licenses/ causing #rstats packages to throw URL warnings. Somewhere a CRAN maintainer is rubbing their hands together, ready to trigger 847 email requests...

Flying to Istanbul to meet my SO's family felt like nervous excitement. Flying to California felt like possibility. Flying back home for a funeral feels like gravity remembering how to work. Now Illinois feels like living in a house where all the furniture is made of memories.

macOS 26 Tahoe + R 4.5.1: Keeps #rstats moving along on #macOS. Upgrade confidently, just remember to update Xcode CLI afterwards if using stan & compiled code.

R that travels light on #Linux: Portable R AppImages. Now working everywhere: your Ubuntu, friend's Fedora, cousin's Arch setup (btw) No sudo, no tears, just base R science ✨ (package support coming soon!) #RStats #AppImage #DataScience

RcppEnsmallen 0.2.22.1.2 on CRAN: Upstream Armadillo Changes blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/software-rel... #rstats #rcpp #rcppensmallen #ensmallen

Linux support 🐧 Same #rshiny → desktop workflow on #Fedora 42 aarch64: shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → #AppImage → portable #Linux app Plot twist: no more "go buy yourself a real computer" moments - you get zero #rstats dependencies too! The condescending Unix users have won this round.

Core Shiny Application (Shinylive Layer): 61.9 MB This represents the base Shiny application code and dependencies Platform-Specific Packaging Overhead (ARM64): Windows: 300.1 MB macOS: 264.1 MB Linux: 304.9 MB Total Application Size by Platform: Windows: 362 MB macOS: 326.4 MB Linux: 366.8 MB

By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe [Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac] Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually).

JJ Allaire & Charles Teague (of Posit fame) launched Meridian Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to frontier AI research and evaluation tools. Early focus: LLM evals + visualization & SWE Agent tooling for Inspect AI. meridianlabs.ai | github.com/meridianlabs-ai #AI #Research

Prototyping #rshiny apps to native #electron desktop apps: shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive conversion → .dmg → Native Mac app Zero #rstats dependencies for end users! Early days but promising 👀

TIL about SciServer.org: Free scientific computing platform with persistent accounts (#NSF-funded). All the power of #JupyterHub without the setup hassle. Focus on building great teaching + research notebooks, not infrastructure! #OpenScience