You may have heard of ROC curves, but what exactly are they? Learn the the basics of ROC curves using simple #RStats code and intuitive explanations. "ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code": rworks.dev/posts/Horton...

I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that @ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own! The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱: rworks.dev/posts/ggplot...

It's time for the Top 40 New #RStats Packages on CRAN for September 2025! Learn about new packages for data, statistics, finance, and more. These great packages come complete with great documentation, images, references. Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/septem...

Be Mindful of the Time: Estimating a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Incomplete Data In his latest post, @revojoe.bsky.social shows how data can implicitly define time scales and why that matters when modeling real-world processes. #RStats Read here: rworks.dev/posts/5-stat...

August 2025's Top 40 picks are out, highlighting excellent #RStats packages from Differential Privacy to Toxicology to Causal Inference. This marks 1 year of Top 40 posts since we started R Works! 🎉 Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/august...

A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution by @revojoe.bsky.social 🔗 rworks.dev/posts/note-o... #RStats

The July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages blog post is now out! Check out great picks from @revojoe.bsky.social in 13 categories, including Causal Inference, Ecology, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Pharma, Statistics, and Visualization. rworks.dev/posts/july-2...

On the R Works blog, @ivelasq3.bsky.social shares a short blog post on getting started with the ANES 2024 data in #RStats! rworks.dev/posts/anes20...

This month's Top 40 New CRAN packages includes ... some really awesome visualizations! Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's picks in 21 categories, including AI, chess, epidemiology, music theory, and more. Blog post: rworks.dev/posts/june-2... #RStats

In our latest post, Vidisha Vachharajani discusses the fundamental driver of successful AI agent use: prompting, or instructing an #LLM to perform a task with input text. See how to go from vague directions to specific #RStats guidance in #RStudio using GitHub Copilot. rworks.dev/posts/health...

Vidisha Vachharajani continues the "Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics" series! Part 2 evaluates the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and impact of patient-level variables on downstream outcomes while exploring the #RStats + AI! Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/health...

May was a big month for #RStats! 186 new packages landed on CRAN. We've got the top 40 highlighted on R Works, featuring an image from the GencoDymo2 package (human and mouse genomes!). Check it out here: rworks.dev/posts/may-20...

Markov Chains can model patient outcomes. This post walks through calculating transition probabilities and using absorbing states to estimate long-term health outcomes in #RStats. rworks.dev/posts/simple...

Using GitHub Copilot to analyze complex healthcare datasets comes with opportunities and challenges. Vidisha Vachharajani walks through an example and shares reflections in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/health... #RStats

We're delighted by the depth and breadth of #RStats packages released in CRAN! @revojoe.bsky.social shares April's Top 40 picks, including Olajoke Oladipo's cheetahR for super-fast table gen and Russ Conte's ClassificationEnsembles for building classification models. rworks.dev/posts/april-...

In a previous post, we presented an #RStats rjags version of a Bayesian model from Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Welton et al. This second post explores cost-effectiveness frameworks in healthcare using deterministic and stochastic models. rworks.dev/posts/ESDM-2/

Thanks for the shoutout, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!

Thinking about using VS Code for integrating both #RStats and #Python in your code? John Mark Agosta shares some considerations in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/r-pyth...

Thank you for the shout out on the R Weekly podcast ❤️ @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are always a great listen, and appreciate you @batoolmm.bsky.social for highlighting the Top 40 Packages post! Check out the other great highlights this week: rweekly.org #RStats

In March, 182 new packages made it to CRAN. Here are @revojoe.bsky.social's Top 40 picks in 16 categories, including agriculture, archaeology, biology, epidemiology, and more! rworks.dev/posts/march-... #RStats

Fall down an ARIMA model rabbit hole with @revojoe.bsky.social and explore a time series where forecast::auto.arima() and fable::ARIMA() chose very different models but gave nearly identical forecasts. A good case study in identifiability! #RStats rworks.dev/posts/arima-...

In February, one hundred fifty-nine new #RStats packages made it to CRAN. Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's top picks, including two in a new category, "Weather"! rworks.dev/posts/februa...

How many ways can you color a 2x2 grid of squares? Vidisha Vachharajani walks through a simplified version of the four color theorem: You paint each square one of four colors, but no two adjacent squares have the same color. Check out the solution, done with #RStats! rworks.dev/posts/math-p...

Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare is an exemplary presentation of healthcare decision analysis and Bayesian modeling. In this blog post, we present a JAGS version of a WinBugs model from the book using the jagsUI and rjags #RStats packages: rworks.dev/posts/eviden...

It's Friday, which means it's time for an #RStats puzzle! Can you arrange the digits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 in such order that they form a number that may be divided by every number from 2 to 18 without a remainder? Nina Zumel walks through it in "Digital Difficulties" 🔢 rworks.dev/posts/digita...

I am excited to present this Thursday, March 13, at the Bay Area useR meetup about analyzing time series data at scale with cluster analysis methods. Mariana Menchero, the author of the nixtlar R library from Nixtla, will present about forecasting foundation models using TimeGPT 🚀! #RStats

Interested in Bayesian Meta-Analysis with the brms package? Learn how to formulate complex Bayesian models without writing any stan code: rworks.dev/posts/bma-wi... #RStats

Very well deserved! Check out @liomys.mx's forgts package for converting formatted spreadsheets to presentation-ready display gt #RStats tables! luisdva.github.io/forgts/

📦 forgts made it into the latest top 40 CRAN packages list 😀 rworks.dev/posts/januar...

The Top 40 New CRAN Packages from January 2025 are now out 👀 #RStats rworks.dev/posts/januar...

ESMARConf 2025 has been announced - 11-13th June 2025! esmarconf.org

Great Time Series review by Joseph Rickert. He shows TimeGPT using nixtlar. I would love to see more use cases with different data sets. Who's next? #TimeSeries #rstats #TimeGPT #nixtlar rworks.dev/posts/revise...

Experimenting with TimeGPT, the new transformer model trained on time series data from Nixtla, is straightforward with the nixtlar #rstats package. See rworks.dev/posts/TimeGPT/

Our Simpson’s Paradox in a Logistic Regression post was featured on @dataelixir.bsky.social! Thank you for the shout out 🙌 Check out the post here! rworks.dev/posts/simpso... #RStats

It’s cold and grey out there if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, so why not start planning your vacations? 🏖️ Get a healthy dose of vitamin R by planning your trip around an #Rstats conference in 2025! Here's list of conferences rworks.dev/posts/r-conf... compiled by @ivelasq3.bsky.social

#spanishoddata #rstats is on the Joseph Rickert's (@rworks.bsky.social) top 40 list for December 2024 rworks.dev/posts/decemb... Get open human mobility data for Spain via #spanishoddata: ropenspain.github.io/spanishoddata/

In December, one hundred twenty-three new packages made it to CRAN. #rstats rworks.dev/posts/decemb...

We just published another puzzle: Dyson’s Algorithm: The General Case! Can you determine in n weighings on a balance scale: whether there is a dud coin, if so, which coin, and its relative weight (lighter or heavier than the good coins)? See the answer done in #RStats: rworks.dev/posts/dyson-...

@maxkuhn01.bsky.social and the tidymodels team are looking for an intern: "This year, the primary focus is on expanding our feature selection capabilities." www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01... #rstats

Missing Advent of Code, or just generally want to see how to solve more puzzles using #RStats? We have a Puzzle Corner series on R Works 🧩 Check out the latest post by Nina Zumel, "Dyson’s Algorithm for the Twelve Coins Problem": rworks.dev/posts/dysons...

SAVE THE DATES! Sreat news: useR 2025 will take place at Duke University, in Durham, NC, USA, August 8-10! #rstats

Episode 190 of R Weekly Highlights won't block your processing of awesome R content! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🚦 Parallel & Async Programming in #shiny @colinfay.bsky.social ⚖️ Four Weights Problem (Nina Zumel) @rworks.bsky.social 🎄 Advent of Code @kellybodwin.com#shiny h/t Colin 🙏 #RStats

Thank you for covering Nina's Four Weights post, @rpodcast.bsky.social! We hope that you enjoy the brainteaser 😈

We're so honored that our latest blog post, "Writing Signed Trinary: or, Back To the Four Weights Problem", was a highlight this week on R Weekly! ✨ Check out the highlights here: rweekly.org Read the blog post to run some modular arithmetic in #RStats: rworks.dev/posts/back-t...

Finished Advent of Code for today, and looking for more puzzles? In our latest blog post, learn how to solve Bachet’s Four Weights Problem using #RStats! rworks.dev/posts/four-w...

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

Meta-analysis synthesizes quantitative data from multiple independent studies. #RStats has many tools and workflows to make it happen! In this blog post, @revojoe.bsky.social and John Mount compare a traditional, frequentist random effects models to Bayesian methods. rworks.dev/posts/meta-a...

It's December, and #AdventofCode is here! We've already seen some amazing #RStats solutions, and if you're looking for a snazzy way of showcasing them, @ellakaye.co.uk created a template for making an AoC #Quarto website:

Seeing these classic-style #RStats posts warms my heart 💙

An amazing **181** new #RStats packages made CRAN’s final cut in October. @revojoe.bsky.social shares his Top 40 picks in 13 categories, including AI, Climate Analysis, Computational Methods, Data, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medicine, and more. rworks.dev/posts/octobe...