"Great news, I booked a weekend away." <Zen master: we'll see> "Bad news. We have to miss Springboks v France." <ZM: we'll see> "Good news. The Boks get a first half red card, so we miss that at least." <ZM: we'll see> "So, about the actual result..."

Zen master vibes as my farsighted wife booked family travel weeks ago, causing me to miss the second half. #FRAvRSA

The non rugby mind cannot comprehend these two images.

🎨 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-...

Beyond dispute IMO. And it's funny to see people twist themselves into knots trying to argue otherwise--including far too many of my fellow 🇿🇦 countrymen--for precisely the reason that Squidge points out: we all instinctively *feel* that they are the greatest.

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

Old ground, but I still cannot believe how poorly 🐍 plays with other languages. Okay, we're going to force you to do everything in a venv (b/c otherwise we break everything...) But that venv is going to auto instantiate and override any system level env vars or processes that you've set ☠️

Successfully nerdsniped myself into writing a little script for this. gist.github.com/grantmcdermo... (Longer than it probably needs to be bc of annoying Wiki table formatting, but I'm too lazy to find another source.)

No. (Carry on.)

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

Clearly not the most important news coming out of Oregon tonight, but I just added a recession bars example to the tinyplot “Tips & tricks” vignette. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... #rstats

Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in

`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

Update: it won't see us through the winter, but a respectable harvest through the season.

Word. Whenever someone asks me for career advice these days, I reply without irony: "Work on your core."

#rstats #econsky fixest v0.13.0 is finally out! It's still about making OLS and GLM estimations easy. Some major changes: - *default* VCOV becomes iid always! - singletons are removed by default! See all the changes here: github.com/lrberge/fixe...

one amazing feature here is simply loading the entire dataset would probably freeze your laptop! instead you can run this regression quickly and not worry about memory problems, thanks to the magic of duckdb and dbreg

Good on Lisa Cook. As the first rule states, do not obey in advance.

{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/

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo... Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯 This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood. #rstats #econsky

Nice post by @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social on the scaling benefits that come from offloading your big regression jobs to a database. jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h... (Showcasing some new-ish 📦 s that he, @apoorvalal.com & myself have been working on, but haven't really advertised yet.)

#rstats Seen over at Mastodon: the `terminalgraphics` 📦 let's you render R plots _directly_ in a terminal window (e.g., R process launched from the command line, neovim or emacs). codeberg.org/djvanderlaan... Get it: `remotes::install_git(url = "https://codeberg.org/djvanderlaan/terminalgraphics")`

economic models are surprisingly fun devices for expressing strident opinions with no empirical basis. attempt to bait theorists into working on platform design in tech with a caveman model of my own. apoorvalal.github.io/lalgorithms/...

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...

I had a blast at #useR2025. Here are my slides on `tinyplot`. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... (Rendering of the title slide is a bit off on mobile. I'll fix when when I get sec.)

mcptools, a package implementing the Model Context Protocol in #rstats, is now on CRAN!🌉 We see significant opportunity with MCP and, at the same time, want to note that it's still a nascent ecosystem with serious security risks. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

First world + expat problems... But it genuinely vexes me that CBS/Paramount acquired the rights to all rugby content in the US just as they began their pitiful campaign of self capitulation before the current regime. www.nytimes.com/athletic/637... Guess it's VPNs for the long haul.

In other news, <Operation Autarky> in full swing here in the Willamette Valley. More "Dig for Idiocracy" than "Dig for Victory", but needs must.

#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.

{tinytable} is a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dependency-free #Rstats 📦 to turn data frames into beautiful tables: html, word, pdf, latex, typst, markdown, etc. v0.10.0 has cool new features and important bug fixes. Check out the detailed tutorials at: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

#ragnar 0.2.0 is on CRAN #rstats! It has a MUCH improved chunker; markdown_chunk() picks better boundaries, builds context, segments by headings, and handles overlapping chunks. Oh, and ragnar_retrieve() can deoverlap retrieved chunks now. Website got a big update too: ragnar.tidyverse.org

After a month or so of not using Claude Code much to write R code, I recently returned to using the tool most days. Giving coding assistants the ability to peruse #rstats package documentation via MCP is so, so helpful: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2025-07...

I'll be there, presenting on {tinyplot}...

`tinyplot` v0.4.2 is now available on CRAN + R-universe 🎉 Mostly bug fixes, but includes some important integration improvements for Positron IDE users. Release notes: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats

True to form for World Rugby to make the Lions series available via their app... Only to force reset every user password and make it, literally, impossible to log in afterwards. (Maybe they're using conda?) Head => vice

#rstats Laurent recently shared a demo of 'sircon' (his new R console written from the ground up in C++) with me and I was blown away. Think of it as a better 'radian'; faster, more features and without all of the dependency cruft (🐍). Just waiting on the Unix version now...

Have now lost two days to a mixture of conda / uv / pip woes. Each one more bizantine and childish than the last. It will never cease to amaze how godawful 🐍's dependency + toolchain system is. Please allow me this rant, as I will not be taking questions.

Watching South Africa play Australia in a cricket knock-out game with hope in my heart, like some kind of masochist.

De-horning rhinos dramatically reduces rhino poaching, for cheap. Other stuff does not. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Over the last twelve months, the Sacha Feinberg-Mgomezulu hype has gone from "The next Damian Willemse" to "The next Dan Carter". With the Springboks' first game of the year just weeks away, we dig into just how good this kid might be, in what could be a landmark year for him... youtu.be/rTjdYoxqMHg

Fighting that feeling of existential dread by working on open source hobby projects.

300 GitHub stars now and counting for the "clean" Quarto presentation theme. So you know it's good. github.com/grantmcdermo...

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

#rstats A few weeks ago I gave three R classes at Universitat Innsbruck: 1. Webscraping part 1: static webscraping 2. Webscraping part 2: dynamic webscraping 3. Handling large data with Python and R Details and links to the slides in the 🧵 (1/5)

"Portable binary packages should be compatible with more Linux distributions than we currently support, such as Amazon Linux 2023." Oh, yes please 🙏

#rstats Stoked to say that a new release of {tinyplot} is available on CRAN and R-universe. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/ Grab it with: ```{r} install.packages("tinyplot") ``` A quick 🧵 showcasing some new features...

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats