A request for #rstats help. Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice. I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN

Once again asking the good people of Bluesky to understand that "generative art" is not the same thing as "AI art". The image below is generative art. There is no AI involved whatsoever. Adding generative artists to blocklists because you don't understand the distinction is a dick move

Happy 2026! 🎆 My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing. I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday! patreon.com/DSLC #RStats #DataBS

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

Power lines of Italy. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Getting a fancy wooden playhouse for your kid for Christmas is all fun and games until you realize there’s 100+ pieces and 48 “steps” to putting it together. 🫩

Planning a friendly intro to dbt for the 1st DS Lab of the year w/ Michael Chow, & the question came up of who the episode will be for. It'll rock for anyone curious about #dbt & data eng, obvs, but if you're a dbt pro, it will be a chance to come help others learn!! #databs #rstats #duckdb #pydata

I like to give small, subtle hints when I am not happy with something I'm working on.

YEAAH GENUARY 2026⋆˚꩜.ᐟ.ᐟ genuary.art GENUARY is the most GENERATIVE (creative code based) ART month of the entire universe // There are 31 creative coding prompts for you to play with for daily challenge // beepboop // please enjoy // time travelers welcome #genartclub #generative #creativecoding

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

I just need 1 more dataset for #TidyTuesday 2025! Thank you so much to those of you who have submitted datasets! The submissions have allowed me to make progress on a long-planned huge maintainability and usability improvement for TT, coming in 2026!

I'm excited to announce the newest release of {tidypredict}! This release brings for standardization to outputs, faster trees for parsing and prediction, and glmnet support tidyverse.org/blog/2025/12... #rstats #tidymodels

New releases for tidymodels! 📦 We've launched filtro and important for supervised feature selection in #RStats. These tools simplify predictor ranking, reduce overfitting, and include advanced dynamic importance calculations. Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

Today I'm talking about contributing to base R 💻 Are you curious about how to improve the language we love, at its core? This is a thread for you! #RStats

My first #TidyTuesday data submission! Check out the accompanything #rstats package too at profmusgrave.github.io/qatarcars/ - the data there has label metadata + functions for converting between QAR/USD/EUR + documentation for other unit conversions

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

We're getting a native R %notin%!! "after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages" 😂😂 #rstats #databs

Huge thanks to @posit.co and hosts @mchow.com and @wesmckinney.com for having me on The Test Set!!! posit.co/thetestset/e... My favorite part was learning that I've been pronouncing "pandas" correctly all along. I've never felt more vindicated. And y'all are wrong about candy corn. 😜

I'm trying out a Quarto website for my blog! What do you think? #rstats eringrand.github.io/new_blog/pos...

Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄

I have a December gift for you all 🎁 I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this! Indicate your interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#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

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter. Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds. Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more. Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats

One thing that’s helping me on my polyglot journey is using small visual things that make my brain feel “at home” after seven years in R and the tidyverse. Emojis in my test results do exactly that. testthat will always be my ride-or-die, but pytest-emoji is fun. 🐍 pypi.org/project/pyte...

If you are a local SLC data person, join me and other folks this Saturday, Nov 15, at Big Mountain Data & Dev, a free, one-day conference with a broad scope! 🏔️ I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics: www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-m...

Listen, I love fun. I love memes, emojis, gifs, and it’s still a wonder how I’ve fooled most of you into thinking I’m a professional…but please..oh please, NO ✋🏾

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Posit Table Contest! 🏆 The data community showcased stunning work in #RStats/ #Python using gt, Reactable, and #Quarto, transforming complex data into beautiful, effective communication. Congrats to all the winners! See the innovation: posit.co/blog/2025-ta...

My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with #Python is now available to watch! - Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩 - I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌 youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE

Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪. Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍

POV of me: Learning the hard way how important indentation is in Python... and then discovering extensions exist to visualize control flow chunks. You know. After the fact. 🫠

Dr. Cat Hicks (@grimalkina.bsky.social) gave one of my very favorite keynotes of all time at #positconf this year 🥹 It really made my heart glow, and now that all the conf talks are on YouTube, you can watch it even if you missed conf!! #databs #rstats #python www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-bM...

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org

30DayMapChallenge - Day 5: earth Protected areas vs oil & gas extraction using Latam datasets and oil concessions in 5 Latam countries (Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Argentina). Data: Global Energy Monitor, Global Forest Watch, World Database on Protected Areas #dataviz #map

Day 5 #30DayMapChallenge - Remember, remember, the fifth of November... Bonfire night here in the UK but there are some other public holidays going on earth (see what I did there?) today. #rstats #dataviz

I'm excited to share side::kick(), an experimental open-source coding agent for RStudio built entirely in R. It can interact with your files, communicate with your active #rstats session, and run code. Check it out: github.com/simonpcouch/...

PSA: If you see someone learning in public, maybe don’t lead with ‘wow you really are a beginner.’ We know. That’s why we’re learning. In public. To help others who are also learning. Gatekeeping and condescension helps no one. Also, did Mastodon get toxic all of a sudden, or is it my algo?! 😅

TOMORROW, I'm hosting what I'm calling Data Science Lab. This debut session will be our fave Positron settings for #rstats & #python 😍 I called it DS Lounge at first, but that doesn't feel right. You'll see "Lounge" when you register at pos.it/dslab, but future sessions will be "Lab" 🧪😎 #databs

Been getting comfy in Python lately. Made this with Pillow. It was fun, clunky, and sprinkled with a lil' scrutinized vibe code 😅. “Pythonic” docs still trip me up (tidyverse spoiled me), but I’d love to help make them feel more approachable as I build in python more. Code: tinyurl.com/2ec7v6fn

purrr 1.2.0 out now — mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats

This summer, I sat down with my friend Saumita & give her an intro to ggplot2. She's a capable pythonista, so I skipped the fluff & just showed what plotting with #ggplot2 in #rstats can look like. If you're in a similarly Just Curious re: ggplot2, lemme know! #databs #python #matplotlib

Debated whether I should participate this year—a crisis of confidence and purpose and all that—but here I am again. #30DayMapChallenge · Day 1 · Points: Threats to global shipping as measured by anti-shipping activity messages. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

Happy Halloween if you celebrate 🕸️🎃

When researchers bring up confounders without ever having declared the actual analysis goal

The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here

Do you enjoy playing chartle.cc? We’re opening up to the community! Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!

Would any fluent speakers of Korean or Chinese have a couple of minutes to review some updated pkgdown translations at github.com/r-lib/pkgdow... ? These were generated by claude code, so they're probably ok, but I'd love a human to double check.