Just finished my first #rstats #TidyDevDay! It might have been a net negative on open issues, because I: * opened an issue each in {pak}, {roxygen2}, and {gitcreds} * submitted a PR to {forcats} * submitted a PR to {usethis} (needs corrected test) But at least I got this selfie with @hadley.nz 🫠😆

OK #PositConf2025 -- I acquired most of the stickers I heard were available; here's my final score! (Thanks for the assists @ivelasq3.bsky.social ({dtplyr}!!!) @kellybodwin.com and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social ). I'll be re-distributing many of these to my students as leaderboard prizes 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #rstats

Woah! It seems that this release unraveled some of the more perplexing mysteries in {ggplot2}. I'm teaching my "Practical R Programming" course again this Fall (finishing a September term iteration tomorrow)... I can't wait to write up an updated set of notes!

I'm talking about reproducibility in class today, and was inspired to make this last night after reviewing some of @brodriguesco.bsky.social 's book, raps-with-r.dev (I'm operating on about 3 or 4 layers of reproducibility)

My favorite part is the default LaTeX font making it into a ggplot. Who needs tikz when you can use ggdiagram? If it can output to .svg well, you even get vectorized graphics.

With my first act on Bluesky, I'd like to congratulate Greg Matthews (@statsinthewild.bsky.social) on earning the ASA Significant Contributor in Sports award — he deserved it! I wish I could have been at JSM for his talk. (See y'all at posit::conf or NESSIS?) With my second act, this meme I made: