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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m looking forward to seeing folks in Ljubljana next summer for the 27th World Conference! Hope to see you there! World-gifted.org/register27 #gtchat #edchat #gifted #talentdevelopment #creativity

Conference attending image - Ljubljana, Slovenia, World Council for Gifted and Talented Children

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hey, #rstats friends! I'm trying to make a poster using Quarto (quarto.org/docs/output-...). It is pulling images from a subsub...directory. I'm wanting it to pull from the upper level. Am I doing something wrong? Or do you have a different way you make posters?

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Custom Typst Formats – Quarto

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It was a busy day! I’m please with this project!

Trellis with edging and landscape fabric

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 16/03/2026

Full list of updates and new features here prerelease.quarto.org/docs/download/

prerelease.quarto.org

Download Quarto – Quarto (Pre-release)

Install a release or pre-release build of Quarto.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This week I received copies of my first book! It was fun to collaborate with Julia Link Roberts on editing a book with international perspectives about acceleration practices. Check it out at www.routledge.com/Internationa... #gtchat #edchat #gifted #giftededucation #talentdevelopment #creativity

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Do you all have a need to encrypt files you generate before sending? I’ve been working with honeycakefiles.com to protect files. Just seeing if there might be interest in an r package to use it to protect your files if I can get one put together (with permission of the company)? #rstats

honeycakefiles.com

Honeycake - Enterprise File Security. For Everyone.

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Dariia Mykhailyshyna @handle.invalid · 10/01/2026

I am very happy to announce that I will be a keynote speaker at useR!2026 in Warsaw! Hope to see many incredible members of #RStats community in person there 😀

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I’m looking to develop a research agenda. Do you all have resources for doing it or have one you’d be willing to share? #academicchatter #rstats

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

@jonthegeek.com I’m looking at the book clubs. Are there any listings of upcoming book clubs? I see several already going but would love to know if there are any scheduled to start soon.

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Does anyone on #rstats teach an undergraduate linear algebra for data science course? If so, what textbook or resources do you use?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 09/12/2025

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

Will you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course in the future?
No.

Why won’t you incorporate LLMs and AI prompting into the course?
These tools are useful for coding (see this for my personal take on this).

However, they’re only useful if you know what you’re doing first. If you skip the learning-the-process-of-writing-code step and just copy/paste output from ChatGPT, you will not learn. You cannot learn. You cannot improve. You will not understand the code.

In that post, it warns that you cannot use it as a beginner:

…to use Databot effectively and safely, you still need the skills of a data scientist: background and domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability.

There is no LLM-based shortcut to those skills. You cannot LLM your way into domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, or coding ability.

The only way to gain domain knowledge, data analysis expertise, and coding ability is to struggle. To get errors. To google those errors. To look over the documentation. To copy/paste your own code and adapt it for different purposes. To explore messy datasets. To struggle to clean those datasets. To spend an hour looking for a missing comma.

This isn’t a form of programming hazing, like “I had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow and now you must too.” It’s the actual process of learning and growing and developing and improving. You’ve gotta struggle.

This Tumblr post puts it well (it’s about art specifically, but it applies to coding and data analysis too):

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner’s roadblock to art isn’t even technical skill it’s frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach’s capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That’s how you build on the technical skill. Throw that “won’t even start because I’m afraid it won’t be perfect” shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck. (The original post has disappeared, but here’s a reblog.)

It’s hard, but struggling is the only way to learn anything.

You might not enjoy code as much as Williams does (or I do), but there’s still value in maintaining codings skills as you improve and learn more. You don’t want your skills to atrophy.

As I discuss here, when I do use LLMs for coding-related tasks, I purposely throw as much friction into the process as possible:

To avoid falling into over-reliance on LLM-assisted code help, I add as much friction into my workflow as possible. I only use GitHub Copilot and Claude in the browser, not through the chat sidebar in Positron or Visual Studio Code. I treat the code it generates like random answers from StackOverflow or blog posts and generally rewrite it completely. I disable the inline LLM-based auto complete in text editors. For routine tasks like generating {roxygen2} documentation scaffolding for functions, I use the {chores} package, which requires a bunch of pointing and clicking to use.

Even though I use Positron, I purposely do not use either Positron Assistant or Databot. I have them disabled.

So in the end, for pedagogical reasons, I don’t foresee me incorporating LLMs into this class. I’m pedagogically opposed to it. I’m facing all sorts of external pressure to do it, but I’m resisting.

You’ve got to learn first.

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Seeing this years @posit.co table contest winners was inspiring: posit.co/blog/2025-ta.... It's amazing to see the functionality others came up with. My favorite? Leo Ohyama's: github.com/leoohyama/po... . The ticker at the top was a really neat idea. #RStats #dataBS

posit.co

Winners of the 2025 Table Contest - Posit

We had many submissions to the Posit 2025 Table Contest and this post will show you the winners, the special prize recipients, and the runners up!

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 16/11/2025

Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.

exceedance plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf(aes(fill = duo_exceed(value, sd)))

bivariate plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf(aes(fill = duo(value, sd)))

glyph plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf_glyph(mapping = aes(v1 = value, v2 = sd))

pixel plot

ggplot(nc) + geom_sf_pixel(mapping = aes(v1 = value, v2 = sd))

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

#rstats friends -- What tools do you use for planning through and diagramming a workflow before you actually start your coding?

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Rémi Thériault @remi-theriault.com · 08/11/2025

{report} #rstats package version 0.6.2 is now on CRAN! MANY bug fixes in this version! Including corrected duplicated text outputs and dramatic speed increases for brmsfit models (which used to refit the model entirely every time). easystats.github.io/report/ With the @easystats.github.io team

easystats.github.io

Automated Reporting of Results and Statistical Models

The aim of the report package is to bridge the gap between R’s output and the formatted results contained in your manuscript. This package converts statistical models and data frames into textual repo...

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Josh Persi @joshpersi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge makes things 3D! I took my elevation map from yesterday and made it so with the {rayshader} package. #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 04/11/2025

purrr 1.2.0 out now — mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats

tidyverse.org

purrr 1.2.0

This release tightens up the package by removing long-deprecated functions, making `map_chr()` and predicate functions more type-safe, and requiring a newer version of carrier to make `in_parallel()`...

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

So I was at work today and looked down to realize I had put on two completely different shoes! Later I was talking with a parent about his child. As we were finishing he said, “you probably know, but you have two different shoes on.” By that time I already knew but kudos for him saying it to me!

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Me: The least-helpful workshops are often the ones given by people who just Know Too Much 🥹 Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this? Me: No, show me! Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-... Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂 #rstats #python #databs

anniemueller.com

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Any tips for getting Quarto to save the PDF output in a subfolder when using a script to generate multiple reports from Positron?

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

@dgkeyes.com I'm watching the course "Using Git and GitHub with R." Do you have any references for what is different between using RStudio and Positron with this?

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Big Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 24/10/2025

Quantitative methods in the context of education research by Peter EJ Kemp, Richard Brock, Amy O’Brien, Carla Finesilver, Lulu Healy and David Pepper #RStats bigbookofr.com/chapters/social%20sc…

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Jen Richmond @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

How great is the #rstats community? Lots of good suggestions if you like @econmaett.github.io have decided that it is now time to learn git/github.

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#statstab #441 Bayes-by Shower Thoughts: Comprehensive (read: long) tutorial on bayesian analysis and how to think about research. #bayes #rstats #bayesian #tutorial #DAGs #estimand #observational #design betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...

betanalpha.github.io

Bayes-by Shower

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

@themockup.blog is that a Boston you have? I have a Frenchie. :)

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Jose V. Die @jdieramon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

True survivors of the Text Mining & Sentiment Analysis in R course! 💪💻 You’re all awesome — thanks for hosting us in such a beautiful classroom! 🙏 #DataScience #RStats #NLP #tidytext Computational linguistics will rule the world! 🌍

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 01/10/2025

WHOA I just discovered the kbd shortcode in #QuartoPub, which automatically creates an OS-specific <kbd> element, You can specify different OSes and it'll show them in an HTML title element, or expand them in print formats - documentation here: quarto.org/docs/authori...

---
title: "Magical `kbd` shortcode"
format:
html: default
typst: default
---

Press {{< kbd mac=Command-Shift-K win=Ctrl-Shift-K linux=Ctrl-Shift-K >}} to render the document; use {{< kbd mac=Command-Shift-P win=Ctrl-Shift-P linux=Ctrl-Shift-P >}} to open the Command Palette in Positron

Magical kbd shortcode
Press ⌘⇧K to render the document; use ⌘⇧P to open the Command Palette in Positron (with a title element showing all the other OS-specific shortcuts)

Typst PDF with
Magical kbd shortcode
Press Command-Shift-K (mac), Ctrl-Shift-K (linux), Ctrl-Shift-K (windows) to render the document; use Command-Shift-P (mac), Ctrl-Shift-P (linux), Ctrl-Shift-P (windows) to open the Command Palette in Positron

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

#rstats friends, do you know if there is a comparable command in Positron for selectFile() that works in RStudio?

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I got introduced to @randyau.com's 'Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work' post during the #dataBS Conf this week: www.counting-stuff.com/data-cleanin... . I just finished--it was a great read. Here are some quotes and thoughts I'm walking away with 👇 1/9 #RStats

counting-stuff.com

Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Also, most data cleaning articles suck

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Here's a little #rstats script I wrote to automate creating Google docs for my students for an assignment. The idea is that the history in the Google doc will help secure the integrity of the assignment by discouraging gen AI use. #academicsky Link: gist.github.com/saudiwin/986...

gist.github.com

Automate the creation of google documents for class

Automate the creation of google documents for class - auto_google_docs.R

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Simisani Nokulunga Ndaba @simisani.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE? This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC) #RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

meetup.com

Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I’m looking at some demographic data of AP computer science participation by gender and FRL status in KY. And wow oh wow! The gaps are HUGE! #rstats #advancedplacement #gifted #gtchat

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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 20/09/2025

Just added @posit.co Conf 2026 to the list of conferences. Let us know if we've missed any! #rstats jumpingrivers.github.io/meetingsR/ev...

jumpingrivers.github.io

Events | A list of R conferences and meetings

Events | A list of R conferences and meetings.

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Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

apc.unl.edu

Fall 2025 Budget Reduction Feedback Form | Academic Planning Committee | Nebraska

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I’m going to have to stop following @bigbookofr.com… they post nonstop and ALL of the books are ones I want to read. My reading list is getting toooooo long from them alone! 🤣😂 But for real, thanks for all the recos! #rstats

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This is super cool! Thanks for sharing!

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

You know you messed something up in your code when four of your variables correlate perfectly... 😂 #rstats

r ggplot showing perfect correlation between four variables

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W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Recreating each of the tables in Chapter 7 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) tables in R with apa7 (Part 3 of 24) Featuring indented columns, decimal alignment, and alignment on an en-dash! #rstats #apastyle wjschne.github.io/posts/apatab...

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Tyler Clark, EdD @tylerclark12.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

@hadley.nz - will ellmer give logprobs by any chance?

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hey #PositConf2025: One of the projects I'll be walking through at my Sept 11 Workshop for Ukraine is building a RAG chatbot with the {raghar} #RStats 📦 to ask natural-language questions of next week's #PositConf schedule. Not too late to register! Details: sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

Workshops for Ukraine
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in R with ragnar
by Sharon Machlis, tech journalist and former director of editorial data & analytics for Foundry

All proceeds going to support Ukraine

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

BBC's #dataviz cookbook with ggplot2 is amother nice resource. While it focuses on their {bbplot} #RStats 📦 to create plots in the BBC style, it also explains how to customize that style. bbc.github.io/rcookbook/

bbc.github.io

BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

By 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).

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Posit @posit.co · 05/09/2025

Announcing a new blog series on LLMs from @veerle.hypebright.nl! In Part 2, “Talking to LLMs: From Prompt to Response”, we get hands-on with LLM-powered apps. This guide is for #Python & #RStats users who want to go beyond the basics. Check it out here: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s...

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Måns Thulin @mansthulin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thanks for the kind words Martin! Anyone interested can find the open access book at modernstatisticswithr.com and/or get physical copies where books are sold (the second edition, published by Chapman & Hall last year, has a different cover than the first edition seen in the image).

modernstatisticswithr.com

Modern Statistics with R

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