I remember John Fox as one of the most kind R Foundation #rstats members (ca. 2006-2023) giving wise and kind words often. The 1-1 interview he held with several of us, resulting in a useR!2008 pres and the article journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-... It is sad to miss him. May he rest in peace!

The #rstats community has given me so much, and I give back enthusiastically! I love this stuff. It's easy to talk and teach about stuff you love ❤️❤️❤️ But you're right, this community is just the best, most generous group ✨

Ok, that's it. Just a story about how much I love R, how much I miss teaching, my love for stats, and my amazing friend on her PhD journey 😌 I hope you spent your weekend doing things that feel magical, too!! 🪄✨ 8/8

Niall Ferguson: Without Books We Will Be Barbarians www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferg... quiet convincing & frightening. Will we (mankind) "turn around"?

🚨 Big news for the R Community! The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested $450,000 in the R Foundation to strengthen R’s sustainability, security, and modernization. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/sovere... #rstats #opensource #datascience

EFF thanks DuckDuckGo for their generous support as we continue the fight to protect your privacy online!

They tried to kill us (a missile hit like three blocks from us), We survived (but are very tired), Let's eat (pancakes!)

You're right ... but it's fun and somewhat insightful, I love it!

REMINDER!!! Early Bird Registration for useR! 2025 is open until April 30th! Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in #R. user2025.r-project.org/register #useR2025 #RStats #coding #statistics #coding #data

After a massive Russian missile strike on Kyiv, teens waited 12 hours at the rubble of their friend’s home. He was found dead. Three children were killed in the attack. One friend said simply, “He was good. I want people to know that.” Photo: UNICEF Ukraine

Early Bird for useR! 2025 is open until April 30th! Join this gathering of leaders in industry, academia, and the government to network while you increase your expertise in #R. useR! will be held from August 8th to August 10th at Duke University. Conference page: user2025.r-project.org #rstats

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

Government spreadsheets sometimes add asterisks next to a few numbers in a large data set. Why worry about that when I can handle it automatically? x <- c("10.1", "74%", "23*") as.numeric(x) [1] 10.1 NA NA Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion readr::parse_number(x) [1] 10.1 74.0 23.0

"When a clown moves into a castle, he doesn't become a king. The castle becomes a circus" - Turkish proverb

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

never to be forgotten..

i love Andrew Heiss but that’s not his creation; Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social has plots along these lines in Chapter 8 of Discrete Data Analysis in R

UseR! 2025 Call for Proposals is now open! We invite R users and developers from around our region and the world to submit abstracts for useR! 2025. Deadline: Monday 3rd March 2025 useR! will be held from August 8th to 10th at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA. user2025.r-project.org/call #RStats

The amazing #RStats CRAN team demonstrating that they (exponentially!) scale

🎉 R scholarship applications open on January 20! If your team (government or nonprofit) works in applied epidemiology in a low- or middle-income country, you could get access to our Intro to R course and Support Desk! Details: appliedepi.org/training/sch... #Rstats #epitwitter

Proof that I sometimes emerge from the shadows of social media: a blog post about using Python and R to analyze Bluesky posts... about Python and R. Truly, the ouroboros of sentiment analysis. 🐍📊 #Python #RStats jmclawson.net/posts/bluesk...

This one bit me recently. I know I saw something similar here before. Do you get why this happens? #Rstats

Exactly. If you're teaching, teach something they can use for free at home. Skills are transferrable :) #Rstats

Teaching real-world economic & financial data analysis in #Rstats has helped my SAIS students get jobs at the IMF/WB, The White House, and lots of other kick ass places. Why are we still burdening students with $925/year software when open source is the future?

I think this might be one of the most impactful applications of LLMs inside a developer environment since the rise and rapid adoption of Copilots. Use an LLM to translate help documentation on-the-fly https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/llm-translate-documentation #rstats

A few weeks late to this, but this is an excellent piece of analysis on the economics LLM companies. LLMs as airlines, not Coca Cola calpaterson.com/porter.html

Daily number of Bluesky posts with the #RStats hashtag (case insensitive) Sept. 1 - Dec. 5, excluding the CRAN Package Updates bot. Coded with the {bskyr} and {ggplot2} R packages

The #latinr2024 videos are up already! Watch by the day, session or individual talks: https://www.youtube.com/@LatinR Talk title indicates the language: Spanish/Portuguese/English

A little bit of weekend #Rtistry 🎨 #RStats #GenerativeArt

1 December 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl, Eva Edith Heimans, was born in Zutphen. In September 1944 she was deported to Theresienstadt ghetto from where in October she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

27 November 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Ina da Costa da Fonseca, was born in Amsterdam. In September 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

It's the same as !1 + !1 but *NOT* the same as what you *may* think, (!1) + !1. The reason is called "precedence rules", and the nice table for that is in `?Syntax` aka `help(Syntax)` or just, say stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-d...

#RStats puzzle. What happens after the third call, and why? #DataScience #StatsSky

We've put together a CRAN Task View for the paleontological community - a curated list of R packages relevant for paleontological research 📦🦕. You can install the CRAN Task View via: ctv::install.views("Paleontology") Docs: cran.r-project.org/web/views/Pa... #Paleontology #Rstats #Palaeoverse

Daniel Romanchuk of the U.S. won his third New York City men’s wheelchair marathon, sprinting away from David Weir and Tomoki Suzuki for the 5-second victory in 1:36:31. Romanchuk won the race in 2018 and 2019. nyti.ms/3YOi2K9

Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the New York City Marathon's women's race. She finished in 2:24:35 for her first major marathon win, leaving Hellen Obiri and Vivian Cheruiyot in her wake. nyti.ms/4e9q8lf

❗️Our next workshop will be on November 7th, 2 pm CET on Standardising R Projects with the ProjectTemplate package! Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

We use 30 year averages to show climatology (average weather conditions). During the 20th century the UK climatology followed a path around a confined box. With #globalwarming and #climatechange they have escaped out the box. This #dataviz shows UK rainfall and temperature.