`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

I think MCP will be a big deal for a lot of folks in my orbit. Think of it as a way to constrain LLM output to more specifically match your needs & use cases. That could be better understanding your data, or focusing on a set of casual inference tasks supported by your favourite libraries.

Children briefly fascinated by this rare piece of steampunk technology. ("Why doesn't it know about Spotify?")

Squirreled away in coastal BnB with dodgy wifi. Minecraft-like feed but at least audio is clear. Much as I (genuinely) like Saints, I feel UBB deserve this because of @lrberge.bsky.social's prolific output.

The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package. See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more. #rstats

Good time for me to start posting again now that people are craving South Africa + USA content.

Really thorough rundown of `tinyplot`, with comparison examples in (vanilla) base plot and `ggplot2` too.

What can you say, really? Just an endless series of disgraceful lows.

🚨 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:

🚨 New zoo 📦 on CRAN with some small improvements. #rstats 📈 New tinyplot method for zoo series! z <- as.zoo(EuStockMarkets) tinytheme("clean2") tinyplot(z, facet = NULL) tinyplot(z, facet = ~ Series) tinyplot(z, facet = ~ Series, facet.args = NULL) tag: @gmcd.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social

Like Vincent says, this is a big release with a shedload of new features. Same small footprint, though ;-) Here’s quick rundown of some of my favourites... #rstats #dataviz

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

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