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

This is a thread about Forwards, the R Foundation task-force on women and other under-represented groups. We work on accessibility, community, conferences, on-ramps, social media, surveys, and teaching. forwards.github.io

🚨 New paper and blog post together with my #gamlss colleagues. Refuting "Debunking the GAMLSS Myth: Simplicity Reigns in Pulmonary Function Diagnostics" (Letter to the editor of Respiratory Medicine) 📈 Blog post with replication #rstats code: www.zeileis.org/news/undebun...

🎉 Great news for #rstats users! If you love the native R graphics feel of #tinyplot AND you're a fan of the powerful #easystats #modelbased package, this is for you! Thanks to @gmcd.bsky.social, we significantly enhanced the tinyplot integration. 🔗 Read more: easystats.github.io/modelbased/a...

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!

I TA'd for John at ICPSR in 2017. He was very supportive of me early on in my career and so inspiring as someone bridging statistics education, methodological research, and statistical computing. He is certainly a giant whose shoulders I am honored to stand on.

Oh my this is a loss. I feel so fortunate to have interacted with John many times over decades. His contributions to the #Statistics and #RStats communities are mammoth. His insights about statistical modeling were profound. John Fox leaves behind a huge body of work for all to enjoy.

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number: 🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method

Das Gespräch gibt es bereits zum Nachhören im Cultural Broadcasting Archive: cba.media/743990

🎨 How to create elegant #dataviz with base #rstats and the #tinyplot pkg 📈 useR! 2025 presentation by Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB-...

Nice. Looks like my `tinyplot` talk from userR! 2025 is up on YouTube. youtu.be/MOB-QS-vMeY?... #rstats

We're expanding the Club Brugge Football Data Science team. As our Football Data Scientist, you'll work with one of the most advanced analytics infrastructures in football to help management, scouting, and analysis staff turn data into better decisions. jobs.clubbrugge.be/en/football-data-scientist

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Anomaly Detection #rstats #anomalydetection By Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Rob J. Hyndman @robjhyndman.com, Gaetano Romano URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Anomaly...

if someone wants to give feedback on a paper i’ll be submitting soon titled "Nix for Polyglot, Reproducible Data Science Workflows" that’d be greatly appreciated! github.com/b-rodrigues/...

📢 PSA for colleagues at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social 📈 New release of #latex and @quarto.org presentation styles in UIBK corporate design - LaTeX beamer theme with more banners - Quarto+beamer for PDF - Quarto+revealjs for HTML - Code with #rstats and #python Link: www.uibk.ac.at/de/public-re...

💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

What I'm listening to today: "Olson" Boards of Canada arranged to play on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. The PDP-1 doesn't have sound, but it does have front-panel light bulbs for debugging, so they rewired the light bulb lines into speakers to create 4 square wave channels www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

We're looking for a new actuarial professor. careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... @monashebs.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social #actuarial

📢 PSA: The R-Forge server is under attack from hackers and hence web access (e.g., for package installation) is currently down. #rstats The team at WU Wien is working on it. I'll report here when it is back up again.

Where was tinyplot alll my #rstats life?

Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org 🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social#markdown& Jon Carroll 🙏 #RStats #DataScience

🚨 PSA for R/exams users. New StackOverflow post showing how to generate interactive overviews of all your exercise files. In response to the question by @luca-scr.bsky.social #rexams #rstats stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

#dataviz #StatsSky A fun new game: dataguessr.com Place countries in order based on some variable

`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes. Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats #dataviz

Next year, we will host the VfS Annual Meeting in Innsbruck. I look forward to seeing many of you on our beautiful campus in the Alps. #VfS_Conf2026

The latest issue of @rweekly is now live! https://rweekly.org/2025-W39.html This week's highlights: ✏️ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents by @rOpenSci 🈂️ I Vibe Coded an R Package by @jonocarroll ☑️ Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams by […]

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

I was looking for a way to include quizzes in #Quarto and ended up writing down my thoughts in a brief blog post: www.andreashandel.com/posts/2025-0... Would love to hear from experts like @andrew.heiss.phd and others if I missed (or misinterpreted) anything 😀

📢 New #rexams tutorial: Quality control for scanned multiple-choice exams with nops_fix() in #rstats - Automatic display of problematic sheets - Prompting for manual corrections - Special checks for implausible answer patterns - Manual review of specific exam sheets www.r-exams.org/tutorials/no...

Every now and then someone is wrong on the interwebs. Every now and then we push back. A few years ago I set up github repo 'ldlasb' ('lies, damn lies, and selective benchmarks'). Today it was time for 'ldlasb2' which contains the note and four charts. #rstats eddelbuettel.github.io/ldlasb2/benc...

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular. "Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered." (with A+ co-authors)

Just want to play the quiz 💡 and test your flag skills ⁉️ Click on ↺ in the bottom right corner for new random versions of each question ⚡ www.r-exams.org/assets/posts...

🎉 R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags How to: Create standalone quizzes with #rstats #rexams #quarto Demo: Knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors (honoring Sheldon Cooper) 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🇧🇿 Useful for: Open educational resources for self-learning etc www.r-exams.org/general/fun_...

📣 New blog post: Creating and managing Canvas quizzes with R/exams and vvcanvas - Create quiz zip using exams2canvas() from #rexams - Import in #canvaslms via API and vvcanvas pkg - Manipulate settings programmatically from #rstats By Niels Smits www.r-exams.org/tutorials/vv...

#rstats #econsky PSA: The next release of `fixest` will include some important changes (plus cool new features). E.g. Fixed-effects regs will now default to 'iid' SEs rather than clustered. github.com/lrberge/fixe... You can install and test drive the dev version from R-universe; see the README.

Task views on CRAN have been amazingly helpful for many years. They are always getting better. #RStats

🚨 Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis #rstats Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in #clinicaltrials Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki @thomasjaki.bsky.social, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl cran.r-project.org/view=Clinica...

📈 Was waren die beliebtesten Mädchennamen der letzten 40 Jahre? 🌀 In der Vornamensstatistik hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten einiges verändert. #Vornamen

🎉 R/exams Presents: Fun with Flags How to: Create standalone quizzes with #rstats #rexams #quarto Demo: Knowledge quiz about the flags of countries and their neighbors (honoring Sheldon Cooper) 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 🇬🇹 🇧🇿 Useful for: Open educational resources for self-learning etc www.r-exams.org/general/fun_...

At next week's RSS conference I'll be presenting a poster (a first for me...it's about time!) "Tetraplot displays of UK General Election results" shows how to graph GE 2024 vote shares across 4 parties in a useful way. Full PDF poster at: github.com/DavidFirth/t...

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Sehr lesenswerter, umfassender und aktueller Sammelband zur (österreichischen) Neutralität. Und das Beste daran - es gibt alle 23 Kapitel als PDF frei zugänglich hier online: www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/78...

{tinytable} 0.13.0 for #RStats can now draw interactive tables with sorting, filtering & pages! And the 📦 is still an ultra-simple, powerful, and 0-dep way to create beautiful tables in basically any format: tex, typ, docx, pdf, png, md, etc Gallery & Docs: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

If you want to enjoy my #useR2025 post-spamming of last week's #rstats stuff, but a bit more organized and consolidated, then boy do I have a blog post for you: kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po...

Last but very definitely not least in the #useR2025 ⚡️talks: @vincentab.bsky.social showing us the power of {tinytable}! IMHO: {gt} is king for fancy reproducible html tables, but {tinytable} should be the go-to for quick formatting and other file formats. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

#rstats So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color! Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do. It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.

⚽ Probabilistic forecasts for the #WEURO2025 finale using our machine learning ensemble. #ENGESP #ENG #ESP Probability to win 51.2% vs. 48.8% 🥅 In normal time: Mean goals: 1.1-1.1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 36.4% Draw 29.3% 🇪🇸 34.3% Heatmap with probabilistic forecasts for the possible outcomes of the match in normal time: