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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wow. 6-4 has never happened in World Cup play! Scorigami!

Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yes; I was confused the first time I heard about this! I think this is a third, looser connection. But the spheres are the most obvious connection.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thanks! The first link redirects to a list of platform-specific RStudio downloads. First link I shared above now has a comparable page posit.co/products/ope..., which no longer auto-identifies the RStudio download needed. Will there be such a page at some point? Asking for my future students.

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RStudio IDE

RStudio is the premier free, open-source IDE for R, with support for Python, SQL, and other languages R programmers use. Now with Posit AI.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@posit.co looks like RStudio download page is down: posit.co/download/rst... docs.posit.co/ide/user/#rs...

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

😂 Maybe CowCowGo would be more to your liking? - signed, frequent cowplot and DuckDuckgo user

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Jeez! Can you imagine what would have happened if you had worked there straight out of grad school? Would we even have the tidyverse?

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

20 minutes*! He used his two 15-20 minute games on 12/18 and 4/6 (last night). It looked like he stayed in an extra few minutes last night to get credit for a 15-20 minute game, in spite of clearly being in pain. He kept walking over to the coaches during free throws, probably to check on minutes.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I use this every quarter I teach my course, "Practical R Programming;" thanks for the refresh @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social !

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Maybe blog post #8 or 9 could be you adding a toggle between yellowed and color-corrected? 🫨 I wrote up a post a few years ago on how to extract colors from an image with k-means clustering (might be helpful) blog.ryanmcshane.com/posts/2022-1...

blog.ryanmcshane.com

Ryan McShane, Ph.D.: Extracting Colors From an Image with k-means Clustering

A short demo using The Simpsons' Couch Gag

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Oh I thought I recognized this as soon as I saw the app output! This is at the Art Institute! I go there many Thursdays to work in the member's lounge.

Original artwork by Ellsworth from 1951 after which Libby modeled her app — collage on paper. "Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance IV"

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

😅 I wouldn't have asked if I didn't think you could come back with the goods

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

1. Image or it didn't happen! 2. Did you do it programmatically, or manually?

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Don't forgot Tom Hanks got covid on the same day: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Self-answer to the latter question: mostly no, sometimes yes according to a quick Google images search.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Did you generate random lines, then within regions randomly allocate one of five Bauhaus colors? I've seen a few Bauhaus works in the US/UK/EU. I don't recall whether any of them had adjacent regions with the same colors (?). Not that such rules need to be followed!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

R accepts exponentiation like a**b (equivalent to a^b), possibly to be nice to SAS users? I think a**b is pretty common. stat-37815-au24.ryanmcshane.com/l03-baserfun...

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3 Base R Fundamentals – STAT2/37815: Practical R Programming

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I love this hex sticker! (Also glad for this group and @ivelasq3.bsky.social 's scrollytelling!)

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Chris Newton @cd-newton.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Possibly weirded out my long-suffering colleagues with this idiosyncratic observation last week, and feel like it belongs in a meme. #RStats #Python #RIPDavidLynch

David Lynch (RIP) meme variation where in a conversation with fellow filmmaker Jason Barlow, David Lynch said, "Python feels like soldering; R feels like painting." When Barlow asks him to "Elaborate on that," Lynch smiles and says, "No."

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I would share for testing but all of my source repos are on private! ~~Github Copilot~~ Is the goal to run this before using Air on QMDs?

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Nabbed it! (Thanks; also enjoyed the read) I actually prefer the range bar to the box plot and have been scheming to write an M.E. Spear {ggplot2} extension since this exchange (I just haven't had the time), which probably benefited from your linked 2016 blog post: github.com/tidyverse/gg...

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`geom_boxplot` Whiskers never appear when IQR = 0 (`upper - lower = 0`) · Issue #5511 · tidyverse/ggplot2

I found a problem with ... geom_boxplot I expected ... Whiskers to appear. There's no convenient way to get whiskers to appear when IQR = 0 (upper - lower = 0) (that I am aware of*). Setting coef =...

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Ahhh! I've been looking for something like this for my blog! (Wait... it's in Distill... is Distill still .Rmd-only?)

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Yeah, I got a swag bag from #PositConf2025 and the Posit-branded S-Gel pen is in heavy rotation at the moment. I have dozens of other S-Gel pens, but this one has a special place in my heart. Will disassemble others for a refill. I still use a MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conf water bottle from 2017!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I wrote a wrapper around {knitr} kable and {kableExtra} kable_styling that I put at the top of every HW assignment I give to students (output is always PDF). I also have it in all of my Beamer slides 😬 It makes kable tables nice by default. You can still call, e.g. knitr::kable, too!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

abba, abc, xyz, xx, yy, and temp are my most commonly used placeholders/temporary names Are there even rules against this, though? "Thou shalt not have draft code!"?

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I came here to make this comment. Beat me to it! = forever

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

CHI - United Center is ~2 mi away MIL - 1.5 hr drive MIN - staying in IA with s/o's bro (7hr drive) DEN - staying in CO with s/o's other bro (flight) CLE - 5.5 hr drive (hotel req) IND - 3 hr drive (All on days that work nicely with academic calendar)

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

It's rough being away from home and a Spurs fan! NBA Team Pass has been helpful for the past decade, and I've been catching road games for the past couple of years, too! (This season: CHI, MIL, MIN, DEN, CLE, IND) #gsg

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I might need to do this to keep up with my collection. I have space for maybe two more, but I could fit even more if I moved some around; I'm scared to death of doing that! I know I've seen guides around the internet on how to convert these hex stickers to magnets, but I've lost track of them 🙈

Laptop cover featuring 15 hex stickers and three Spurs basketball stickers

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Did my neighbor and I immediately check to see if our coins stuck together like magnets? Yes. But also, the backside is a relief rendering of the {tidyverse} hex logo, so it feels trying to put a magnet on would undo one of the sides 🙃🫠

The backside of the coin from another post that features the front side of the tidydevday 2025 coin.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I also fixed the 2nd PR this morning. Both of my PRs were about transitioning from the {magrittr} pipe to the Base R pipe — one to clean up {forcats} examples/vignette, and one to deprecate a {usethis} function that makes it easy to add %>% to a package. github.com/r-lib/usethis/pull/2183

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Deprecate `use_pipe()`. Fixes #2124 by math-mcshane · Pull Request #2183 · r-lib/usethis

Completed: Added a short deprecation message when using use_pipe(), Added a longer bit of advice in the package documentation for common substitutions, including the 2023 blog post on the base pip...

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Just finished my first #rstats #TidyDevDay! It might have been a net negative on open issues, because I: * opened an issue each in {pak}, {roxygen2}, and {gitcreds} * submitted a PR to {forcats} * submitted a PR to {usethis} (needs corrected test) But at least I got this selfie with @hadley.nz 🫠😆

Hadley Wickham, me, and all of the post-it notes of completed PRs.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In the "super rare" section at the bottom next to flair!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

OK #PositConf2025 -- I acquired most of the stickers I heard were available; here's my final score! (Thanks for the assists @ivelasq3.bsky.social ({dtplyr}!!!) @kellybodwin.com and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social ). I'll be re-distributing many of these to my students as leaderboard prizes 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #rstats

Sticker haul from posit::conf(2025) (and a couple from USCOTS 2025)

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Why not both? I use Quarto *and* modify the theme with a .sty file (for mathy courses with less code where Beamer makes a little more sense). And my regular reveal.js slides attempt to mimic that Beamer style with css/scss 😬

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@grrrck.xyz I finally implemented {ggcheck} in my early {ggplot2} assignment autograders (in past 2 weeks, even!) Do you/a colleague know how this will impact {ggcheck}? Seems like there's some backwards compatibility currently built in, but Teun noted in post that will eventually be phased out.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Woah! It seems that this release unraveled some of the more perplexing mysteries in {ggplot2}. I'm teaching my "Practical R Programming" course again this Fall (finishing a September term iteration tomorrow)... I can't wait to write up an updated set of notes!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Interview trip to Amherst College (2019): I checked out a record store in Northampton. I asked the shopkeeper why they had so many KSE posters in the bathroom and he reported that they were from around there. Impressed me more than Frost, Webster['s], and Dickinson all being from there 😅

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I'm talking about reproducibility in class today, and was inspired to make this last night after reviewing some of @brodriguesco.bsky.social 's book, raps-with-r.dev (I'm operating on about 3 or 4 layers of reproducibility)

Four panel meme which is an exploited version of a classic meme. This one says,
1. How many layers of reproducibility are you on
2. Like, maybe 5, or 6 right now, my dude
3. You are like a little baby. // watch this
4. (Bruno Rodrigues' reproducibility iceberg meme saying "NIX"

The original iceberg meme is from his book, Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (2023). Since then, Bruno has recommended Nix.

I haven't started working at that level of reproducibility, so I couldn't compare old vs new, but I know there's some overlap.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Fun: I'm currently listening to Julia on Libby. (Feminist retelling of 1984 from Julia's perspective) @libbyheeren.bsky.social

Screenshot of the audiobook of "Julia" I am currently listening to on the library audiobook app called "Libby"

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My favorite part is the default LaTeX font making it into a ggplot. Who needs tikz when you can use ggdiagram? If it can output to .svg well, you even get vectorized graphics.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I do like that you're using the "old ways" instead of AI. FWIW, I don't know what the original image was or what it was supposed to represent. A wave? A sea snail coming out of a conch shell? IDK.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

No argument here (except my examples are apolitical) Firing one of your leading economists/statisticians because they gave the "wrong" numbers is something I thought I'd never see in the US. On a former Amherst colleague of mine (worse: his work was criminalized): www.amstat.org/news-listing...

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News Listing

The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians, the “Big Tent for Statistics.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I also try to keep things nonpartisan and talk about the values I think are objectively important in Statistics. If you're looking, here's at least one example of the left misusing statistics. See ALT text! Biden ex.: wanted to misrepresent truth. Trump 2025: wants to change Truth. (not the same)

Bottom chart/tweet is from Biden touting an "improvement" in the deficit, by only showing two years, the first being the first year of COVID. Worse is the choice of y-axis.

Top chart shows more accurate representation of the deficit over 21 years — the 2021 deficit was still orders of magnitude worse than all pre-COVID deficits.

Context, of course, is important: COVID was unprecedented in living memory and had a massive impact on the economy and the government's response to it.

In short, this is a misrepresentation of the truth by shifting the goalposts within the plot.

It also removes nuance from the conversation, and that strategy of denying the truth of a changing (worsened) economy was ultimately one of the most major contributors to the Biden/Harris loss in 2024 (Trump was "for" the economy, and some voters accepted that claim).

Trump, of course, has done nothing to help the economy, and has actively worked to make matters worse (tariffs, attempts to destabilize trust in institutions with DOGE and firing of BLS chief, etc)

(I still plan on being nonpartisan in class, but am interested in how you would confront these issues in the classroom)

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