🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3 w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh #econtwitter #econsky

BASE R GIRLIES OUR TIME HAS COME Come hang with us, ask Ella questions (I know Isabella and I will), and learn something new. Don't think you use base R? You use it pretty much each and every time you use R! #baseRgirly Also, we're a delight ✨

Hello 👋🏻 I'm a Principal Research Software Engineer in Advanced Research Computing at the University of Birmingham, UK. I lead the international project “Enabling the next generation of contributors to R” and manage research software development projects at UoB. * R Core member * Chair of R […]

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.

📢 CFP Deadline Extended: useR! 2026 Warsaw! 📅 New Deadline: Saturday, 14th March 2026 🚀 Submit projects on #rstats, ML, or data viz for the global #Rstats community stage in Poland. Standard/Lightning Talks, Posters, Tutorials & Panels wanted! CFP Link: user2026.r-project.org/call/

Have you used the CAST R package? We’re running a short survey on use cases, challenges, and feature needs. Your input will guide CAST priorities during developer days in Mar 2026. 🔗 uni-muenster.sciebo.de/apps/forms/2... #RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource

Really excited about this new release of {survey}. I can't wait to test the multiphase support (vs twophase only in older versions). #rstats

I love R for everything statistics, but I've always been a little jealous of statisticians using SPSS Complex Samples or SAS SURVEYSELECT to design their samples. So I decided to build samplyr, a tidy and pipe-friendly grammar for survey sampling design in #rstats. dickoa.gitlab.io/samplyr/inde...

#rstats bat signal: If any of y'all have experience with multilevel multinomial logistic regression, with {brms}, Kruschke and I could use your help. This is your chance to influence the upcomming textbook. discourse.mc-stan.org/t/problem-in...

Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees

So excited for this! As well as ‘C for R users’ I’ll be talking about contributing to base R more generally, and doing a live demo of the R Dev Container. #RStats

Just published: our new data story on efforts to protect South Sudan’s most vulnerable — including children, women, and persons with disabilities. Explore how protection monitoring and partnerships are making a difference: dataviz.unhcr.org/product-gall... #refugees #unhcr #protection

rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊 👉 rspatialdata.github.io

Maps aren't just eye candy—they uncover patterns unseen in other data viz. Our upcoming Mapping with R course offers practical insights into static, interactive & complex maps, all using R. Coming soon! 🧭 Follow us or sign up for updates to stay informed. buff.ly/B0dtY66 #rstats

If one wanted to hire a professional #rstats #rshiny developer to work work with qualitative/text data in particular (so many involve a dashboard for search/semantic/sentiment analyses), do you have any recommendations of individuals or companies? (please repost)

📢 Postdoc position in the GeoHealth group at KAUST Spatio-temporal models for disease mapping, forecasting & early detection of outbreaks 🌍📊💻 PhD #statistics, #maths, #epidemiology. Experience in spatial stats/machine learning & #rstats 👉 www.paulamoraga.com/opportunitie...

I wrote a thing about coupling streams of random numbers: "the same" number with different parameters notstatschat.rbind.io/2025/03/04/c...

🚨 The "penguins" data is coming to the base #rstats{datasets} in 4.5.0! @ellakaye.co.uk & @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy r prepared an adapted and a raw version of the data set based on the {palmerpenguins} 📦 by @allisonhorst.bsky.social @apreshill.com and Kristen Gorman. 📈 Scatter plot:

- Handles remote packages with remote deps much better! - IDEs are now handled more consistently and are better documented (there's a new vignette "Using an IDE with Nix shells) - Many bugfixes and overall improvements! Quick 5 minute video to know what's this about youtube.com/watch?v=OOu6...

Thanks for all your work on bringing Nix to the #rstats world for reproducibility. I'll give it a try for my next analysis!

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Tidier.jl 1.5.0 for #JuliaLang is officially released. What is it: tidierorg.github.io/Tidier.jl/dev/ What’s new: discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-belate...

If you know simulation based calibration checking (SBC), you will enjoy our new paper "Posterior SBC: Simulation-Based Calibration Checking Conditional on Data" with Teemu Säilynoja, @marvinschmitt.com and @paulbuerkner.com arxiv.org/abs/2502.03279 1/7

DuckCon #6 starts in just two hours. Looking forward to seeing you in Amsterdam or online! duckdb.org/events/2025/...

The tidymodels team is hiring an intern to work on preprocessing and feature selection! Please get in touch by Feb 15 and/or share with #RStats folks who might be interested. The blog post links out to posts by previous interns and the job posting, of course. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

Join @statsteph.bsky.social, RJP, & me on Feb 25 11am CT for a session on Analyzing Complex Survey Data in #RStats! Learn how to use srvyr and tidyverse for weighted survey analysis. Thanks to @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social & R-Ladies RTP for hosting! ⚖️ Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-amst...

Join us at the R Dev Day @ Rencontres R 2025! 🏢 University of Mons, Belgium 📅 Thu 22 May, 09:00 - 17:00 CEST We'll collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation & translations of base R, or infrastructure that supports such contribution. Free and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

UNHCR published its ggplot2 theme and color palettes in their {unhcrthemes} #RStats 📦 unhcr-dataviz.github.io/unhcrthemes/ By @cvidonne.bsky.social & @ahmadoudicko.com

Come be my colleague! Public Health Entomology faculty position at Penn State (Assistant/Associate). 70% research, 30% extension. (I am not on the search committee but happy to answer any questions that I can) psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

🚀 {unhcrdown} is now on CRAN! 🎉 This R package adds UNHCR-branded R Markdown templates for reports, presentations, and websites. It’s tailored for UNHCR but shows how R packages can support consistent branding across organizations. 🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

For branded charts, check out {unhcrthemes}, shared yesterday! Together with {unhcrdown}, it forms a complete ecosystem for UNHCR data viz and reporting. 🔗 cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstats #rmarkdown #dataviz

Looking for a longitudinal (ideally intensive) dataset where missing data is expected to be problematic, i.e. MNAR, anyone have pointers to good examples?

If you’re an existing/aspiring R contributor and want to gain/refresh basic skills in C programming, please do join our C Study Group! contributor.r-project.org/events/c-stu... If interested, please fill in the poll by Jan 20th to help us find the best time for the sessions: whenisgood.net/jqfrg3j

reaching out to the #rstats / #databs hivemind --- I'm looking for a maintainer! nplyr is a small R package I shipped to CRAN a few years ago that allows users to perform dplyr-like operations on nested data frames. If you'd like to take over, please follow up here: github.com/markjrieke/n...

Why is #JuliaLang a great home for a flavor of the tidyverse? What does Tidier.jl do? Will you get sent to Julia jail for using an ecosystem inspired by #rstats? In this convo with @chrisrackauckas.bsky.social and Michael Tiemann, I don’t have answers, but I have thoughts! youtu.be/oLnAiCqYjzw?...

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata

Really excited to be taking the lead on this next year. If you’re an existing/aspiring R contributor and want to gain/refresh basic skills in C programming, please do join! If interested, please fill in the poll to help us find the best time for the sessions: whenisgood.net/jqfrg3j

Don't miss this episode of the @rfortherestofus.com podcast with our very own @cvidonne.bsky.social. He's sharing some of the cool stuff he's doing building reproducible humanitarian data products with #rstats #quarto and other open source tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypf9...

🌍 #30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Only circular shapes Inspired by @bjnnowak.bsky.social work, today's map visualizes displacement across Africa in 2024. Each bubble is split to contrast those displaced within a country with those who have sought refuge there. Code: shorturl.at/TZMkZ #maps #rstats

CmdStan & Stan 2.36 release candidate is now available with new constrained types, improved diagnostics, and a new distribution for heavy-tailed count data. See more at discourse.mc-stan.org/t/cmdstan-st... and test with your own models! #Bayesian #mcmc_stan

What are the key methodology readings on the quantitative measurement and projections of loss and damage related to climate change? I'm interested in what models are used, what data is needed, and where the data comes from. Technical is good. Both disasters and slow onset. #EconSky, #ClimateCrisis?

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

I am #hiring 2 analysts for the Statistics for Development Division at the Pacific Community (SPC). Skills: #rstats and/or Stata; Git; complex household surveys; development issues relating to Pacific Islands. Based in either Fiji or New Caledonia (and we will relocate you and your family there).

📢 Calling all African colleagues 🌍 The fantastic @boghuma.bsky.social is kindly putting together a starter pack of African scientists working on health. If you would like to be added - please reply to her post here ⏬ bsky.app/profile/bogh...

🌍 #30DayMapChallenge Day 17: Collaborative Map! Today’s map was a family creation! Using LEGO bricks, my kids and I built a map of Switzerland highlighting its four distinct language regions: German, French, Italian, and Romansh. #maps #LEGO

🌍 #30DayMapChallenge Day 08: HDX Data! Today’s map shows the evolving patterns of internal displacement across Lebanon from May to October 2024, with data by IDMC downloaded from HDX with the help of the rhdx package. Code: shorturl.at/bzGXW #maps #GIS #rstats

Looks like a bunch of StanCon vids are up now youtu.be/lcsGRToOHPE?...

A few things I've been working on lately: elmer, elmer.tidyverse.org, is a new package to make it easier to work with LLMs (hosted and local) from #rstats. It includes helps for structured data extraction and tool calling, and an easy way to upload a plot. Joint work with Joe Cheng.

R in Production, r-in-production.org, is a new book that will help you put R into production, coupled with (in the near future) new tools to make the process less painful. I'm working on this with @thomasp85.com , @gaborcsardi.bsky.social, and @hfrick.bsky.social.