Reposted by Max kuhnPosit @posit.co · 31/08/2026Announcing cuda.ml 0.4.0: GPU-accelerated machine learning in #RStats! Bring #NVIDIA compute into tidymodels & parsnip workflows with 2 commands. • Accelerated XGBoost & LightGBM inference via nvForest • Portable model persistence Read more: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08...opensource.posit.cocuda.ml 0.4.0: GPU-accelerated machine learning from Rcuda.ml 0.4.0 simplifies installation, expands tidymodels integration and tree-ensemble inference, and adds portable persistence for supported fitted models. 0268
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Happy to announce this little release of recipes! This releases comes with a new way to look inside a recipe partway through, a speedup for steps that are applied to many columns, and multi-column support in step_regex() and step_count(). opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-08... #rstats #tidymodelsopensource.posit.corecipes 1.4.0recipes 1.4.0 is now on CRAN. This release adds a `stop_at` argument to `bake()` for inspecting a recipe partway through, makes `prep()` and `bake()` dramatically faster on wide data, and lets… 0126
Reposted by Max kuhnEtienne Bacher @etiennebacher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026#rstats I'm glad to announce Jarl 0.6.0! Jarl is a very fast R linter, written in Rust. This release brings many improvements and fixes. See the blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2026-0... And the full changelog: jarl.etiennebacher.com/changelog 🧵 to highlight some features below (1/5)etiennebacher.comJarl 0.6.0 | Etienne BacherPersonal website of Etienne Bacher: blog posts about R, research, and software. 1308
Reposted by Max kuhnEdgar @theotheredgar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026📰 Announcing #tidymodels brand new third cheatsheet! This one is about all the packages that make up #tidymodels, and where in the machine learning workflow they go. HTML and PDF versions found here: opensource.posit.co/resources/ch... #rstats #machinelearning 0428
Reposted by Max kuhnSimon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 03/08/2026Data analysis is often a branching and nonlinear process. We just shipped a feature in Posit Assistant to help with this; use /eda-log to keep track of loose ends in your analysis. @posit.co #databs #rstats opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...opensource.posit.coAI Newsletter: EDA log in Posit AssistantA higher-level view of your data analysis conversations. 0254
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026People have been asking me how one can use AI to help write quarto revealjs slides. Beyond pointing it at the static documentation, i have now created a number of skills that should be able to handle most tasks npx skills add emilhvitfeldt/slidecrafting.com github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quartogithub.comGitHub - EmilHvitfeldt/slidecrafting-book.comContribute to EmilHvitfeldt/slidecrafting-book.com development by creating an account on GitHub. 0244
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026A new release for Applied Machine Learning for Tabular Data at aml4td.org We've written a substantial chapter on (single) trees, a little more on neural networks, and fixed many typos. Another release will come soon, including the entire neural net chapter, covering DL and foundational models.aml4td.orgApplied Machine Learning for Tabular Data 0111
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026We're happy to announce our new #rstats package: lorax. If you fit tree-based models, lorax enables conversion to the party package's format (for making nice tree diagrams) and has methods to compute which features were used, the number of terminal nodes, etc. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...opensource.posit.coIntroducing lorax: Speaking for the Tree-Based Modelslorax is a new R package that characterizes fitted tree- and rule-based models: extract their decision rules, see which predictors they actually use, and convert trees for plotting with partykit. 26112
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Working in early drug discovery required some optimistic cognitive dissonance for me. My prior belief was higher (~95%) but we still had to work as hard as possible to see if we could make it work. 030
Reposted by Max kuhnMid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Realizing how much easier my life is now that I can use orbital to deploy my prediction models no need to save artifacts, build ETL pipelines to prep / featurize, github actions to deploy / push, wait times to load initialize and predict I'm in love. #rstats orbital.tidymodels.orgorbital.tidymodels.orgPredict with tidymodels Workflows in DatabasesTurn tidymodels workflows into objects containing the sufficient sequential equations to perform predictions. These smaller objects allow for low dependency prediction locally or directly in databases... 2133
Reposted by Max kuhnLibby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 16/07/2026@topepo.bsky.social and I got through an entire #DSHangout without ONCE talking about the #Cosmere, and for that, I think we deserve some sort of trophy. Maybe not a Nobel, but something 🏆 @scalzi.com did get mentioned at least once or twice, though 😂 Book people gonna bookstatic.klipy.comStephen Colbert: Nobel Prize Please!Alt: Stephen Colbert: Nobel Prize Please! 151
Reposted by Max kuhnSam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026hey sorry, looks like that original link hit a cap, here's a fresh one 🎁: as.ft.com/r/cb395b74-8...as.ft.comWho cleans up after the vibe-coding party?Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers 262
Reposted by Max kuhnCharlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 15/07/2026I've distilled my experience of useR! 2026 Warsaw into a blog post. Hoping that people who couldn't attend get a taste of it, and are motivated to participate in the next one - or come join us for posit::conf(2026) in Houston! #RStats #useR2026 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...opensource.posit.couseR! 2026: CRDTs, community, and contributing back to RReflections from useR! 2026 in Warsaw - talking about CRDTs and collaborative editing coming to Quarto 2, increasing adoption of mirai and mori, and a day spent contributing to base R at R Dev Day. 3154
Reposted by Max kuhnAaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Apropos of something I'm working on right now: It's great to use Claude to break down technical walls and perform tasks that you wouldn't have otherwise been capable of. But you MUST still fully understand what you're trying to do and how you (and Claude) are doing it. You need to be driving. 1242
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Beyond excited to share that catboost now has full native support in tidymodels!! This support should extend to all applicable areas of tidymodels, which means that orbital works as well 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... #rstats #tidymodelsopensource.posit.coCatBoost support in tidymodelsCatBoost is now available as a supported engine in tidymodels. This post shows how to train, tune, and use CatBoost models through the familiar parsnip interface. 1174
Reposted by Max kuhnMine Çetinkaya-Rundel @minecr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverseopensource.posit.coTidy Dev Day 2026Join us for a full day of collaborative open source work — whether you're a seasoned contributor or making your very first pull request. 23013
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026The #rstat brulee package added several tabular deep learning models (using R's torch package). More details and next steps are in the blog post. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...opensource.posit.cobrulee 1.0.0The first major version of brulee significantly expands tools for tabular deep learning models. We highlight five new model types, a `summary()` method, numerical precision changes, and GPU support 0125
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026I'm excited to announce a long overdue update to {tidyclust}! This release brings support for 3 new model types: DBSCAN, Gaussian mixture, and mean shift models. We also now support parallel processing with {future} and {mirai} opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... #rstats #tidymodels #dataBSopensource.posit.cotidyclust 0.3.0tidyclust 0.3.0 is now on CRAN. This release adds support for DBSCAN, Gaussian Mixtures, and Mean Shift Models, plus closer alignment with the tidymodels framework. 25213
Reposted by Max kuhnStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15/06/2026Figured out how to launch a project in Positron using Raycast, kind of like how I used to launch RStudio .Rproj files with Alfred. blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-p... #Rstats 151
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026- have you tried splines? 1111
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Having a visual component when you are teaching a new concept is always something I value. I went back and redid some old diagrams as animations This website has all mp4, gif and code for you to use yourself in slides of websites! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/tidy-animati... #rstats #quarto #dataBS 1495
Reposted by Max kuhnLibby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Max is gonna join us on the DS Hangout in July! Gonna ask him what his github handle means 🧐 #rstats #databs 0101
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I'm getting around to updating the #rstats caret package. No new features is still the rule. The goal is to keep the interface the same while making it much easier to support. Link to the initial plan below; add comments if you have thoughts on improving the upkeep. github.com/topepo/caret...github.comupkeep plan for summer 2026 · Issue #1418 · topepo/caretWe have a paid intern this year who is interested in helping modernize caret to make support and upkeep easier. The current overall plan of no new features is still in place. We just want to make t... 0141
Reposted by Max kuhnJohan Larsson @jolars.co · 09/06/2026Panache v2.52.0 is out! 🚀 A formatter, linter & language server for Quarto, Pandoc & Markdown. New: experimental math formatter (align + whitespace normalization) and hand-written YAML parser & formatter, fully lossless, even hashpipe YAML (Quaro chunk options) panache.bzpanache.bzPanache: Language Server, Formatter, and Linter for Markdown, Quarto, and R MarkdownPanache provides authoring tools for Markdown, Quarto, and R Markdown: a language server, formatter, and linter to help you write better documents, more efficiently. 3317
Reposted by Max kuhnRobin Lovelace @robinlovelace.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan! 14712
Reposted by Max kuhnEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I'm at #PyConUS 2026 🙌 if you are here too please come by and say hi! would love to hear what you are working on, will most likely be found at the Posit booth 031
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Posit Assistant and NES reflect our learnings from twenty years of building for data scientists and researchers. As the token subsidies end, the differentiator between products becomes more about the value those products provide, and we think we’re ahead in value for the data community." 031
Reposted by Max kuhnDr Di Cook @visnut.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Super excited to get this at my door today! Ursula Laa and my book on exploring high-d data and models is in print! Book website is www.routledge.com/Interactivel... if interested I think my 30% discount code might work for you - msg me. Time to update dicook.github.io/mulgar_book/ too! #rstats 415832
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026If I were Campar, I would insist on *Doctor* Sticks With Meat On Them. #CaptivesWar 010
Reposted by Max kuhnSimon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 08/05/2026The newest release of Posit Assistant, an agent for coding and data analysis, includes a "data cleaning mode." When enabled, the agent will run quality checks and surface decisions about e.g. import issues, factor levels, etc to the user. In the AI Newsletter: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... 2228
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Tom Morello and Bruce Springsteen is the best superhero team up ever. 141
Reposted by Max kuhnrOpenSci @handle.invalid · 06/05/2026🗒️ [blog] New Mentoring Team with Experienced Mentors and New Voices Meet the new team of mentors who will accompany our Champions in their projects for a year, sharing experience, guidance, and enthusiasm. ropensci.org/blog/2026/05/06/mentor… #RStats #Mentoring #RSE #FOSS 1157
Reposted by Max kuhnDr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026#statstab #526 Splines, B-splines, P-splines, and a disapproving kitten Thoughts: Nice R tutorial on splines with some explanations and illustrations. #splines #r #rstats #tutorial #guide #polynomial #nonlinear blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...blog.djnavarro.netSplines, B-splines, P-splines, and a disapproving kitten – Notes from a data witchNo, I do not care about splines. But I am trying to learn about GAMLSS regression, and yes, it is to this dark place that this topic has taken me 3206
Reposted by Max kuhnMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 04/05/2026We have friends everywhere. 321893381
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026We've had a flurry of new tidymodels #rstats releases. Here's a summary of what's been going on with a focus on ordered outcomes and quantile regression. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...opensource.posit.coNew tidymodels Releases for April 2026A small cascade of CRAN releases brings new model types to tidymodels. 0478
Reposted by Max kuhnAntoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 22/04/2026I managed to install panache (panache.bz) and for now I only got it to do one thing, but it is one thing that is really nice to do with a one liner: put every sentence in a quarto document on a newline. So the economy of a paragraph is visible at a glance. #writing #quartopanache.bzPanache: Language Server, Formatter, and Linter for Pandoc, Quarto, and R MarkdownPanache provides authoring tools for Pandoc, Quarto, and R Markdown: a language server, formatter, and linter to help you write better documents, more efficiently. 0145
Reposted by Max kuhnThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/04/2026I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.orgopensource.posit.coggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQLIntroducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries. 1338886
Reposted by Max kuhnJoachim Schork @joachimschork.bsky.social · 13/04/2026How to tell if a statistical method really works? Monte Carlo simulations give a clear answer. Instead of relying on one dataset, you generate data repeatedly and compare methods across many runs. New module in the Statistics Globe Hub: statisticsglobe.com/hub #Statistics #DataScience #RStats 193
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The panache #quartopub formatter and linter by @jolars.co is excellent! Very configurable and uses external tools (e.g., air or ruff) to format code blocks. panache.bzpanache.bzPanache: Language Server, Formatter, and Linter for Pandoc, Quarto, and R MarkdownPanache provides authoring tools for Pandoc, Quarto, and R Markdown: a language server, formatter, and linter to help you write better documents, more efficiently. 0172
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026#quartopub version 2 is being cooked up in the lab. @cscheid.net has a post discussing the why and when (with some hints about some related future projects) quarto.org/docs/blog/po...quarto.orgWhat’s next: Quarto 2 – QuartoWe’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust. 060
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 31/03/2026We've released the first version of our tabpfn #rstats package to CRAN. This is an interface to the Python #TabPFN package. tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... The model is a pre-trained deep learning model that has performed exceedingly well on every data set I've tested it on.tidyverse.orgtabpfn 0.1.0A new R package for tabular deep learning models. 1316
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Our list of 2026 #rstats and #python summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...tidyverse.org2026 Posit InternshipsPosit is sponsoring four summer internship positions in 2026. 12618
Reposted by Max kuhnPosit @posit.co · 18/03/2026We’re thrilled to welcome Sara Altman and Simon Couch of the Posit AI Core team to the #positconf 2026 keynote stage! They’ll be sharing a practical, hype-free look at how AI is being thoughtfully integrated into the tools you use every day. ✨ See what’s next for AI in open source: pos.it/conf 0175
Max kuhn @topepo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Cool little details about how to structure tree splits. And don't worry, the cat is not in the dryer. I checked. 042
