Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hey #RStats! You love #Positron but you miss the .Rproj files from #RStudio to launch your project? Well, did you know that a single .cmd file could do the trick? carbon.now.sh?bg=rgba%2817... 021
Reposted by Dan ChaltielGoldenViz @goldenviz.bsky.social · 22/07/2026📣 GoldenVizR v0.1.0 is now available on GitHub. An R package providing rule-based quality checks for ggplot2 visualizations, based on the 25 Golden Rules of Data Visualization. to try : 🔽 github.com/WajdiBenSaad... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday 12410
Reposted by Dan ChaltielJumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 21/04/2026R 4.6.0 "Because it was There" is set for release on 24 April. @russhyde.bsky.social writes up the more interesting changes — %notin% in base R, neater character column summaries, and more. Full breakdown with code: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n... #rstats #datascience #rprogramming 03011
Reposted by Dan ChaltielRajo @rajodm.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Very early #TidyTuesday for 2026 week 10 😂 Data: Cap-phrases, when someone says something is "likely", what probability do they actually mean? Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT... #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2 5333
Reposted by Dan ChaltielHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/03/2026These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats 8630141
Reposted by Dan ChaltielStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/02/2026ggannotate: interactively add annotations to your {ggplot2} plots by pointing and clicking github.com/MattCowgill/... #Rstats 2339
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Hey #rstats 👋 I’m preparing a revealjs slide about browser() and looking for a good GIF to illustrate the idea. Any suggestions? 010
Reposted by Dan ChaltielDaniel Sjoberg @ddsjoberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I’m hiring! 🎉 I’m building out my team and looking for someone who enjoys working in R (tidyverse), is comfortable with Git, and is excited about data. 🤓 #rstats #tidyverse #datascience roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/roche-ext/jo...roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.comRVA SpecialistAt Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted an... 3245
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026The thing I didn’t know I needed — and it’s brilliant! 010
Reposted by Dan ChaltielStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 20/01/2026Prime numbers 2-4999, animated with ggplot2+gganimate. #Rstats code: gist.github.com/stephenturne... 56621
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Hey #Rstats! What is your favorite #tidyverse way to turn a logical into a factor? I'm using `factor(ifelse(x, "Yes", "No"))`, but it feels a bit ugly, and `fct_recode()` doesn't work on logicals. 121
Reposted by Dan ChaltielFrancisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Still fascinated with #webR and its potential for teaching stats Here students can play (even from their phones) and find out themselves how the p-value depends on sample size pakillo.github.io/LM-GLM-GLMM-... #rstats 24713
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Salut tout le monde ! On cherche un·e stagiaire M2/ingé pour un projet R. Pas besoin de formation pointue en stats. À Gustave Roussy, près de Paris (métro 14). Le/la stagiaire apprendra plein de choses ! oncostat.github.io/internships_... N'hésitez pas à partager ou à me demander des précisions 😊oncostat.github.io 111
Reposted by Dan ChaltielNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Wondering if you can outsource your data viz work to ChatGPT? 📊 I tested out a few different generative AI tools, giving them prompts to visualise two different data sets. If you're interested in the results, you can read them here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/gen-ai-... #RStats #Python #DataViz #GenAInrennie.rbind.ioGenerative AI for Data Visualisation – Nicola RennieCan generative AI create good data visualisations? This blog post compares the performance of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini when presented with a generic request to visualise a dataset. 66521
Reposted by Dan ChaltielDaniel Gutierrez @ddgutierrez.bsky.social · 01/10/2025When I see a report filled with p-values and no effect sizes, I worry. When I see model metrics and no baseline comparison, I worry. Statistics is more than math. It’s the discipline of contextual honesty. #DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats 042
Reposted by Dan ChaltielFrancois Keck @francoiskeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2025If doughnuts are coming back into fashion, let me bring this one back. #rstats #ShowYourStripes #ShowYourTorus 163
Reposted by Dan ChaltielEmily Riederer @emilyriederer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...jtibs.substack.comIf all the world were a monorepoThe R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance 612550
Reposted by Dan ChaltielJames Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 07/09/2025By request: Same #rshiny app → native #electron desktop app workflow now on #Windows11 shinyelectron::export() → #rshinylive → installer → app.exe [Worth the Parallels license to record this from my Mac] Still no #rstats dependencies for end users. Living the cross-platform life (virtually). 74413
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 31/07/2025💡 Tips wanted! #RStats You're working on a package 📦 and improving a function. What's your development workflow? I usually put a minimal example in a helper file, so every time I run `devtools::load_all()` it loads my changes and shows their effect. But I wonder if there's a cleaner way to do it... 110
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Hey #Rstats! Just discovered `testthat::describe()`, it seems so much cleaner and more structured than `testthat::test_that()` for organizing tests🤩 But… why isn’t it more common? Even tidyverse packages barely use it. Am I missing something? 062
Reposted by Dan ChaltielMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 13/05/2025#RShiny devs, don't miss this post by Mike Page about an useful and simple tool to draft your apps! "Introducing shinydraw: a no-code tool for shiny wireframing" cynkra.com/blog/2025-05... #RStatscynkra.comIntroducing shinydraw: a no-code tool for shiny wireframing - cynkraStreamline your Shiny app design: Introducing shinydraw for effortless wireframing 0103
Reposted by Dan ChaltielKelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 25/04/2025New unhinged #rstats rant about NSE just dropped: 🔗 kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po... tl;dr - some cute (?) tricks for iterating over unquoted columns see below to skip the stream-of-consiousness blog and go straight to code snippetskbodwin.github.ioPunctuation and Other Problems – paRticles 115412
Reposted by Dan ChaltielMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 28/04/2025The #rstats alignment chart - what's your ethical and moral persuasion? 6275
Reposted by Dan ChaltielAlex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025New visualization tool alert! The vayr package version 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. It contains position adjustments for ggplot2 that help with overplotting in pleasing ways. My favorite is position_sunflower(). - install.packages("vayr") - alexandercoppock.com/vayr #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz 319353
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Hey #rstats, time for a poll! What's your go-to name for a folder that stores your saved plots? I use "plots", "graphs", "figures", … and I crave convergence 😩 110
Reposted by Dan ChaltielMatthew B. Jané @matthewbjane.bsky.social · 10/03/2025When you say something is an assumption (e.g., linear regression assumes conditional normality) you need to specify what properties are actually being preserved with this assumption. 1/3 1337
Reposted by Dan ChaltielThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/03/2025Decades from now, the Covid-19 pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today. Here’s an incomplete collection of charts that capture that break — across the economy, health care, education, work, family life and more.nytimes.com30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us. 381114339
Reposted by Dan ChaltielAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/02/2025Collider bias is the trickiest one of these—I use this example too: If the true relationship between niceness & appearance is zero but you only look at people you've dated (i.e. adjusted for that collider) you're missing a whole quadrant—the result is wrong and only valid for part of the population 78313
Reposted by Dan ChaltielBruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 14/02/2025#RStats francophones, les prochaines Rencontres R Les auront lieu du 19 mai au 21 mai à l'Université de Mons (UMONS): soumettez une communication aujourd'hui! rr2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...rr2025.sciencesconf.org11ème Rencontres R - Sciencesconf.org 033
Reposted by Dan ChaltielSociété Française de Statistique (SFdS) @statfr.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Extension de la deadline des soumissions aux Rencontres R 2025 : rr2025.sciencesconf.org Alors, si vous avez un #package R, si vous avez une #méthode #stat codée en R ou juste si vous appliquez les #programmes de R, il est encore temps de soumettre. L'abstract ne fait que deux pages en plus.rr2025.sciencesconf.org11ème Rencontres R - Sciencesconf.org 066
Reposted by Dan ChaltielMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 13/02/2025New R-hub blog post! "Lazy introduction to laziness in #RStats" by @frick.ws, @drmowinckels.io &me Read about lazy as in... 🦥 lazy evaluation 🦥 lazy database operation 🦥 LazyData 🦥 frugal file modifications 🦥 {lazytest} 🦥 quantifiers in regular expressions blog.r-hub.io/2025/02/13/l...blog.r-hub.ioLazy introduction to laziness in R - R-hub blogIn the programming world, laziness can often be a good thing: it is both a human quality that can motivate automation efforts, and a programming concept that avoids wasting resources such as memory. N... 02911
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Petit délai supplémentaire pour soumettre aux Rencontres R 2025 Venez nombreux 😁 Site web : rr2025.sciencesconf.org #RStats #RStatsFR #DataScience #RR2025 x.com/PhilGrosjean...x.comx.com 111
Reposted by Dan ChaltielBruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 15/02/2025New release of rix on CRAN! rix generates Nix expressions which are then used by the Nix package manager to build reproducible #RStats development environments. Many new features in this release: 1/3 1187
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Hey #Rstats! Tired of manually adding @importFrom all over your 📦 #Rpackage? Say hello to {autoimport}, now on CRAN! 🚀 It parses your code and adds the necessary tags automatically, at the function or package level. Less typing, more coding! 🔥 github.com/DanChaltiel/... 0115
Reposted by Dan ChaltielMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 03/02/2025{lintr} is so helpful! Here's a workflow suggestion: masalmon.eu/2024/08/28/l... #RStatsmasalmon.euGet your codebase lint-free forever with lintr · Maëlle's R Blog 054
Reposted by Dan ChaltielMaëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 20/01/2025Je viens de soumettre un résumé pour les 11èmes Rencontres #RStats à Mons, en Belgique, du 19 au 21 mai 2025. 🇧🇪🐉 À bientôt ? rr2025.sciencesconf.org?lang=frrr2025.sciencesconf.org11ème Rencontres R - Sciencesconf.org 021
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025The M-opened vs M-closed problem is what keeps me up at night 😱 blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2023-0... 000
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024This is the best regex tutorial ever written. It doesn’t get much better than this 💪 010
Dan Chaltiel @danchaltiel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024This is one of the greatest presentation I've read this year! 🤩🤩I heard you could many things **without a server** using #quarto dashboards, but I was far from thinking there was so much. The presentation is also very easy to read and understand. I have to read more about crosstalk 📦 now. 031
Reposted by Dan ChaltielJan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 01/12/2024Tidyplots lets you freely combine layers of information to generate custom visualizations 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd tidyplots.org 1101
Reposted by Dan ChaltielJeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Working in your editor and want a quick peek at rstats bluesky? Here is the #rstats code I mentioned yesterday. This uses the bskyr 📦, retrieves the latest rstats posts from bluesky, ranks by likes, constructs a URL, and prints them to your console gist.github.com/jeremy-allen...gist.github.comRank latest rstats posts from Bluesky and print to consoleRank latest rstats posts from Bluesky and print to console - rstats.R 2337
Reposted by Dan ChaltielGeorge Savva @georgemsavva.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Mathematical art using modular arithmetic, #rstats code below. Change some numbers and see what happens! N=115 par(mar=rep(5,4)) set.seed(118) outer(-N:N,-N:N, \(x,y) ((x^4+y^4+x^2*y^2)%%53)%%23) |> image(asp=1,axes=F,col=sample(c("red","blue",rep(c("white","black"),5)))) #mathart #generativeart 1164
Reposted by Dan ChaltielKelly Bodwin @kellybodwin.com · 23/11/2024Wrote up a lil #rstats opinion post based on an interesting discussion on here about where aes() should go in a ggplot. kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po... (Useful, or did I just want to title a post "Move your aes"? You decide.)kbodwin.github.iopaRticles - Move your aes 5019340