you can take ggplot2 from my cold dead hands, but I will also never stop being impressed by what @gmcd.bsky.social and crew have done with base R plots. It looks really good!

In news that the HHS should be shouting from the rooftops: Availability of the RSV vaccine for pregnant people and RSV shots for infants lead to a 50% reduction in RSV-associated hospitalization of newborns during the last year! 🥳 Spread the good word, folks! #Episky

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

when computer people say something has a ‘simple solution’ half the time it’s “change two things in system settings” and the other half it’s “first, install Linux”

Posit::conf(2025) "Purrrfectly parallel, purrrfectly distributed" The slides from the talk are available at: shikokuchuo-posit2025.share.connect.posit.cloud See why we now have parallel purrr, powered by mirai, and how to use it to distribute compute to other machines. #positconf2025 #tidyverse

it's me, i'm son #positconf2025

It was such a pleasure to speak today at #PositConf2025 about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade. You can check out my slides at: juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...

Shannon's slides are always so unbelievably clear and helpful!!! github.com/shannonpileg... I'm having "Ohhhhh that's what that means" moments every 10 seconds here. #positconf2025

tired: networking wired: making nerdy friends!

Good morning Posit, excited to share my keynote in which we will explore: - thinking traps - a gif that includes my dog (if you can spot him!) - data about your well-being you might REALLY want to send your boss #positconf2025

In development for the {air} #RStats 📦 for R code styling: # fmt: tabular to align code creating tabular data #Positconf2025

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

Just wrapped up a talk at #positconf2025 about LLM evaluation with R! Such a joy to hang out with #rstats folks in person and hear about what others are working on. Resources and slides: github.com/simonpcouch/...

rixpress is now an @ropensci.org package! Link: docs.ropensci.org/rixpress/

MC Stan is here! Follow for the latest Stan news, and tag if you want us to repost your posts about new papers, packages, courses, etc. about Stan

"How many of you have opened RStudio, one of the most advanced data science IDEs ever created, to add two numbers?" - Jonathan McPherson at #positconf2025 😆🙋‍♀️

"It places you in a powerful state of extreme empathy — that our user’s code is our responsibility"

If it were really about merit and fairness, the solution would be easy. After meeting some measure of merit, randomly accept some subset. But they would hate this, too, because fairness to them means the people they want get in and the people they don’t want do not.

Can't wait to see everyone at posit::conf(2025)!! Here's my annual "things to do" list for food, coffee, bakeries, and bars near conf! #positconf2025 #rstats docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Once again, @davisvaughan.bsky.social's extrachecks have saved me from a likely CRAN rejection for an upcoming #RStats package submission. Thanks Davis! github.com/DavisVaughan...

There are some really neat new features here! Better theme settings! Easier ways to set geom defaults! *Labels from labels stored as column attributes* #rstats

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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition. Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python. Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

People keep telling me they can't afford to attend #PositConf2025 next week, so I need to make a public service announcement: attending virtually is very affordable (or free!) & is amazing! Get registered & hangout with me on the Discord server!! #databs #rstats #python

bigrquery 1.6.0 is now on CRAN. Big feature is that it now uses bigrquerystorage (by Bruno Tremblay) if installed, which should make your downloads way way faster! #rstats

vintage LA R users group sticker spotting!

"If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away" —RFK Jr.

I'm looking into generating good syntax errors for our upcoming markdown parser. Do you have an example of a programming language implementation that you think emits syntax errors you particularly like? Negative examples are ok too, but I'm specifically looking for positive examples.

@dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social wrote an amazing paper about marginal effects. While preparing my advanced statistics and methods class, I (surprisingly) had fun reproducing their Figure 1, adapting it to their Example 1, and ploting the text and arrows directly using ggplot().

Approval of interracial marriage only passed 50% in, yes, the mid 1990s. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

Whether it's Democrats making it harder for kids to get cigarettes or Republicans making it harder for kids to get vaccines, both sides have imposed the will of government on America's children.

🎉 We added a Virtual Day to posit::conf(2025)! 🗓️ Tues, Sept 16 = talks, trivia, & hangouts. AMA with @richmeister.bsky.social & more. Also? Discord is open to all! Come join us. 🔗 Event portal: pos.it/conf-event-p... 🔗 Virtual Day info: posit.co/blog/posit-c... #positconf2025 #rstats #python

It turns out you can cleanly separate all studies based on whether I say “correlation is not causation” or “rigorous evidence”

There’s a unifying factor in this Confederacy of Dunces: freedom for me but not for thee

🧵 Skytorial 2 – Your profile on @github.com 1/ 🌟 The first thing on GitHub is your profile: your cover letter to the academic and scientific world. This is how colleagues, collaborators, and potential reviewers of your projects find you. Let's create it step by step 👇

In September, I will announce the cause of bias in observational studies

'tools that give medical advice should be regulated as medical devices'

📢 R Dev Day @ Australia 🏢 Monash University, Melbourne 🌐 Remote, Australia 📅 Fri 21 Nov It's happening! Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru! Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo... #RDevDay #RSEng

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This week on What's New in R: ✅ @ivelasq3.bsky.social shows how she brought her favorite RStudio color theme into Positron ✅ Quick tour of @posit.co 's next-generation IDE ✅ Tutorial by Daniel Lakens on downloading files from the Open Science Framework Read the issue: buff.ly/UpsCj1X #rstats

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Version 2.0.0 of quarto-revealjs-editable now lets you edit the text in divs github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

We still have spots available for tidyverse dev day on Sept 19: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07.... Please come along to contribute to the tidyverse and have a bunch of fun along the way! It's open to all, but is most convenient if you're coming to posit::conf or live near Atlanta #rstats