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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey #rstats folks! How do you debug internal R functions like `lm()` in RStudio? I want it to open up the R script so I can step through it, but currently it prints to the console. I swore there used to be a way to show this. I know positron does this automagically (!) but ppl I teach use RStudio.

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What email service do you use/recommend? I saw "hey.com" and was curious about changing away from gmail. Tagging a few people I think have opinions about such things! @johnaugust.bsky.social @hadley.nz @milesmcbain.bsky.social @b0rk.jvns.ca @hspter.bsky.social @rdpeng.org @karthik.io

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Has anyone made a gamified version of either drawing DAGs or selecting the correct covariate set from a DAG for the estimand of interest? I'm thinking of something like ggplot battles www.ggplotbattles.dev #rstats

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ggplot battles

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Any hacky #rstats workaround for the {gt} package? I want the interactive search feature to include columns that are hidden. I tried making a px(0) width column instead of hiding it, no luck. Gimme your hacky ideas!

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 15/07/2026

Lightweight Text Analytics Workflows with DuckDB In this blog post, Petrica Leuca demonstrates how to use #DuckDB for keyword, full-text, and semantic similarity search with embeddings. Learn how to use DuckDB to efficiently perform advanced text analytics in Python: duckdb.org/2025/06/13/t...

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just migrated my #rstats blog from blogdown/hugodown to quarto using claude! Was quite straightforward, if a bit iterative. Have a look at the new (nearly identical) website here: www.njtierney.com

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Credibly Curious

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I recently gave a talk, "The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher" (njtierney.github.io/talk-teacher...) at "Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research" My argument was: your time is time higher value than content, so put your content up for free #rstats

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The value in teaching is not the content it’s the teacher

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Was great to cross paths with @njtierney.bsky.social @emitanaka.org (virtually) @aidybarnett.bsky.social (virtually) @analyticaledge.bsky.social And please 🙏🏼 @ tag (below) anyone else that was there as I'd love to stayed connected with everyone but searching @s is ... 🫣🤫

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If you're still wondering about the slick new functions in dplyr 1.2.0, join me for a "Working smarter with dplyr 1.2.0" redux with R-Ladies Abuja! 📅 Wednesday, 24 June 2026 🕐️ 6pm WAT 🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-abuj... See you there! ⚒️ #RStats

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Working Smarter with {dplyr} 1.2.0, Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Discover how the latest features in **{dplyr} 1.2.0** can help you write cleaner, faster, and more maintainable data transformation workflows. This session explores practic

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I really think the "AI echo-hype chamber" is A Thing. Example: You talk to an AI about Your Idea and it is your hype-person: AI: "Yeah! That's a great idea, and the thing is NO ONE ELSE is doing it, you're really leading the field" Your idea: A pizza slicer holster. (It's still a good idea)

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What are the current views on extending #rstats data.frames with S7 vs S3? I like the idea of attributes on my data frames, so I could do: dat@attribute_1 Instead of an accessor: attribute_1(dat) But then you need to do: dat@data to get the df, unless I define a `$` method?

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'd like to make positron look as much like RStudio as possible, do people have settings/configs that they feel approaches something like this? #rstats #positron

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I am SO looking forward to this event! Come along!

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Have #rstats folks run into this issue before: ``` Check: re-building of vignette outputs, Result: NOTE Re-building vignettes had CPU time 4.1 times elapsed time ``` I'm starting to go mildly insane trying to fix! If you happen to have a solution, let me know! at forum.posit.co/t/cpu-time-x...

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CPU time xx times elapsed time

Hi folks, I'm working on re-submitting {greta} onto CRAN after it was archived last year. (this PR: Address cran patch i792 by njtierney · Pull Request #793 · greta-dev/greta · GitHub) I keep running...

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 18/01/2026

Doing something a bit different this year. I’m writing blog posts that have nothing to do with code or corporate. Just a guy posting whatever he wants to his own website because that’s how the internet should be. So here’s a post about painting Warhammer! mdneuzerling.com/post/paintin...

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Painting Skaven with oils - David Neuzerling

My local wargaming club was hosting a Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Spearhead tournament with a twist: if you could paint your entire army between the time the tourn

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Rob Hyndman @robjhyndman.com · 12/01/2026

After 9 years, I thought it was time for another major release of the forecast package for #rstats! New modelling functions, missing values now handled in ETS models, and a more consistent interface. robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/fo...

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forecast package v9 – Rob J Hyndman

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Before I go and try building this myself, is there a general colour palette assessment shiny app in #rstats? I love the apps in colorspace.r-forge.r-project.org/articles/hcl... by @zeileis.org et al. But I want to provide my own vectors of colours, and get the lovely assessment/example plots etc.

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

#rstats raster logic without pixels, introducing {vaster} #GDAL www.hypertidy.org/posts/2025-1...

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Is there an #rstats best practices for including a shiny app in an R package? I see mastering-shiny.org/scaling-pack... by @hadley.nz and github.com/daattali/ddpcr by Dean Attali (couldn't find his handle!) - just curious on understanding best practices, bunding data, app, and the www folder etc.

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Chapter 20 Packages | Mastering Shiny

If you are creating a large or long-term Shiny app, I highly recommend that you organise your app in the same way as an R package. This means that you: Put all R code in the R/ directory. Write a...

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Posit @posit.co · 05/12/2025

📢 Announcement: We are sunsetting the bookdown.org public hosting service. If you have #RStats docs on bookdown.org, please migrate them to a new platform by January 31, 2026, to maintain control over your content. (We recommend Posit Connect Cloud!) Learn more: posit.co/blog/bookdown-org-sunset

Bookdown.org Sunset, January 31, 2026, over a stylized landscape with mountains and a lake.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

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John Fox: Books and Software

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Martin Mächler @mmaechler.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I remember John Fox as one of the most kind R Foundation #rstats members (ca. 2006-2023) giving wise and kind words often. The 1-1 interview he held with several of us, resulting in a useR!2008 pres and the article journal.r-project.org/articles/RJ-... It is sad to miss him. May he rest in peace!

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 25/11/2025

I don't know how I've missed it because it's *right on the documentation home page*, but if you use {glue} for nice string interpolation in #rstats and you have {stringr} loaded (likely through the tidyverse), you can use str_glue() instead of glue::glue() or loading library(glue) glue.tidyverse.org

$Geordi LaForge rejecting this code library(tidyverse) penguins |> mutate( nice = glue::glue( "{species} on {island} Island ({body_mass} g)" ) ) |> select(nice) #> nice #> 1 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3750 g) #> 2 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3800 g) #> 3 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3250 g) Geordi LaForge approving this code library(tidyverse) penguins |> mutate( nice = str_glue( "{species} on {island} Island ({body_mass} g)" ) ) |> select(nice) #> nice #> 1 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3750 g) #> 2 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3800 g) #> 3 Adelie on Torgersen Island (3250 g)$

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

1/ I had the honor of giving a keynote at #useR2025 🎉 at Duke University: “We R Together – How to learn, use, and improve a programming language as a community” 💜 Slides here 👉 docs.google.com/presentation... Video here: www.youtube.com/live/CTTvTQ-... #rstats #useR2025

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WeRTogether-useR!2025Keynote

We R Together Yanina Bellini Saibene useR! 2025 Duke University How to learn, use and improve a programming language as a community

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Darakhshan Nehal @darakhshann.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Okay, so anyone here joining R Dev Day AUS (21st Nov 2025)? #rstats #rdevday

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I'm reminded of how handy the usethis::browse_*() functions are and thought I'd remind people they exist. Choose from a menu of links or go straight to CRAN or GitHub. #rstats

Screenshot showing usage of usethis::browse_package(), usethis::browse_cran(), and usethis::browse_github().

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Saras Windecker @smwindecker.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

R dev friends - I am updating a package that implements an analytical method. The update will mean a fundamental change in the outputs compared to the current version of the pkg (but is based on consult with experts).

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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

#rstats fam -- is there any way to create something this in R? eg you can create the graphs separately and then stitch together it together like below?

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Jo Potts @analyticaledge.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

OK nothing like proclaiming in a public space and then quickly finding solution 🤪 If anyone else is stuck on this, sf seems to not work with plotly. If you put your coords in as a df, and use geom_path to plot with geom_tile it renders (and saves output correctly with .png) #rstats soln next comment

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Christian Knudsen @chrbknudsen.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

An #rstats mystery. Or maybe more #ggplot2. These histograms are generated with the exact same code and data. What has changed from R 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 that caused this change?

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

new #dplyr filtering function who dis 😍 meet filter_out()! 👍 GO PUT A THUMBS UP ON DAVIS'S TIDYUP THINGY ON GITHUB TO SHARE MY ENTHUSIASMMMM!! #rstats #databs And, you know, provide your thoughts on this newly-proposed function if you have them 😌

A screenshot of code that uses the dplyr function called filter, which is built to include rows, in order to exclude them instead. The result also filters out rows where values are NA, which isn't helpful usually. It then shows the messy code you'd need to use to not exclude those NAs, and compares it to some very clean code using a newly proposed function called filter_out, which does not exclude NAs. Libby has drawn silly illustrations all over this screenshot, like yucky faces for dropping NAs and a smily face saying, "new filtering function?"

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number: 🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method

Model is:

b3 <- scasm(
y ~ s(x0, bs = "bs", k= k) + s(x1, bs = "sc", xt = "m+", k = k) +
s(x2, bs = "bs", k = k) + s(x3, bs = "bs", k = k),
family=poisson, bs=200
)

The second smooth `s(x1) is a shape constrained smooth with a positive monotonicity constraint (xt = "m+").

The `bs = 200` arguments uses 200 boostrap samples, which generates bootstrap distributions for each coefficient in the model. These bootstrap samples respect the shape constraints, while the usual +/- 2 SE credible intervals may not.

The uncertainty in the partial effects is shown by two credible interval bands; a dark blue central band is a 68% Bayesian credible interval, while the lighter blue outer interval is a 95% Bayesian credible interval.

The background of each panel is light grey with white grid lines, in a similar style to ggplot2's default theme.

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Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We've made a blog post about a new major version of the #rstats tune package! Two main changes: parallel processing frameworks and the ability to tune postprocessors. tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

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tune version 2.0.0

A new version of tune brings significant updates for model tuning and parallel processing.

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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The detectCores() apocalypse is creeping up on us 👻🐛 As more people are getting access to 128+ CPU cores, code spinning up parallel cluster with detectCores() workers fails - not enough #RStats connections available Friends, do *not* default to detectCores(), bc www.jottr.org/2022/12/05/a...

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Please Avoid detectCores() in your R Packages

The detectCores() function of the parallel package is probably one of the most used functions when it comes to setting the number of parallel workers to use in R. In this blog post, I’ll try to explai...

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Lucia Walinchus @walinchus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There are a lot of great posts out there that aren't very highly ranked. Don't rely on bluesky to find you great content; you can find it on your own! Here's how: #Rstats via @northeasternu.bsky.social's Storybench www.storybench.org/how-to-analy...

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How to Analyze bluesky Posts and Trends with R - Storybench

If all you're doing on bluesky is scrolling, liking and posting, then you're riding a bike with training wheels. Here are simple tools using its open-source skeleton.

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oh. My. Gosh. Data Science Lab was SO FUN today! Just casually sharing screens to walk through settings live was incredible. I'm gonna start a thread here of some of the stuff we shared/learned together as a community. Great stuff was shared by all! #databs #rstats #python 🧵 1/n

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Day 2: Lines #30DayMapChallenge Sticking with walks of NZ, this time plotting the Te Araroa Trail, a 3000km hike that goes from the top of the North Island to the bottom of the South Island. #rstats jenrichmond.github.io/maps/2025-11...

Map of Te Araroa Trail showing the 3000 km walking route through New Zealand from Cape Reinga in the north to Bluff in the south. The trail is depicted as a colored line indicating elevation changes, with deep blue representing sea level areas, transitioning through purple and pink to yellow at higher elevations up to 2000m. Two key landmarks are labeled: Tongariro Alpine Crossing at Red Crater (1861m) in the North Island, and Two Thumb Track at Stag Saddle (1934m) in the South Island. The trail winds along both islands, showing significant elevation variations throughout the journey.

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

{brandthis} is ready to install. Try it and let me know if anything breaks: github.com/durraniu/bra... Here's an example site that uses the generated _brand.yml and color palettes: dru.quarto.pub/brandthis-de... #RStats

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Etienne Bacher @etiennebacher.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

#rstats tidypolars 0.15.0 is available! tidypolars provides the tidyverse syntax while using polars for efficient computations. This release: - more support for string and date func. - two func. to export partitioned output - bug fixes Changelog: www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/news/#tidypo...

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Changelog

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I can see {targets} evolving past tar_assign to an actual new language syntax that's just R (its successor) I bet some are already thinking about this #rstats it's been an inexorable series of improvs and the foundation's so solid This is the edge, actual reproducibility and scaling

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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 31/10/2025

#rstats people I'm sure I remember someone had recently developed a package or at least a hack for getting around the fact that geom_ribbon can't map the fill aesthetic to a variable (continuous or not), but now I can't find it, can anyone point me to it?

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Come along to my slightly silly and hopefully informative talk on how data go from some scribbles on a paper questionnaire to a nice, clean dataset Thanks to the ARDC for having me! #databs #rstats 📅 Nov 5 at 12pm AEDT 📍 Online webinar 🔗 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/where-do-d...

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Where do data come from & other difficult questions your children might ask

Join us to learn about data cleaning and management in the Mayi Kuwayu study.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Looking for an overview of different #RStats packages for visualising spatial data? 📊 Here's a previous blog post of mine: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/r-packa... This blog post is almost three years old now, but all of the code still works! #DataViz #RSpatial #30DayMapChallenge

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R packages for visualising spatial data – Nicola Rennie

Throughout the #30DayChartChallenge I made most of my maps with R. This blog post details the R packages I find myself using most often when visualising spatial data.

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 28/10/2025

Fun fact: you can host PMTiles on GitHub pages, so if you are on Windows you can move the creation to a GH Actions runner. 👇🏻Toy #rstats code that scrapes @oceantracking.bsky.social receiver locations, converts them to PMTiles using sf/GDAL, and pops it up on GH Pages for use elsewhere.

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GitHub - mhpob/otn-ghpages-demo

Contribute to mhpob/otn-ghpages-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#rstats I'm looking for tidy tools for categorical / frequency data. Data sets in frequency form or case form can be tidy, but have different model & graphics syntax. What about tables, matrices and arrays, often so convenient frequency data? Does anything exist? Seems like a big tidy gap.

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I am giving 2 talks abt making your data analysis outputs into polished products with the power of #RStats and #Python pkgs + my pkg {brandthis}. Talk 1: DevFest 2025. Register here: wedevfest.com Talk 2: R+AI 2025 organized by R Consortium. Register here: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here's to World Statistics Day 📊 Yes that's right, we've already got our eye on wrapping up 2025. #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience

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Umair Durrani @transport-talk.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

{brandthis} progress: Generate _brand.yml and see the results in the live app. Still work-in-progress. Building on the brand.yml app from {bslib}. #rstats

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