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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 30/09/2026

I’m pleased to announce that Vol 18 Issue 3 of The R Journal is out now! 🥳 Free & open access, R journal is made possible by our volunteer editors, reviewers + contributing authors. Thank you all! journal.r-project.org/issues/2026-3/ 🧵 20 articles 👇 #rstats journal.r-project.org/issues/2026-3/

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The R Journal: Volume 18/3

Articles published in the September 2026 issue

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fun fact: That one time I took a class with Axelrod at Michigan he told us the Evolution of Cooperation had initially been rejected by two reviewers with contrasting views: (1) "everyone knows this" and (2) "this can't possibly be true".

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wife took this picture half an hour ago. Cat fills the entire table.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One can go pretty deep, of course. But I've found that most people can answer 94% of their questions with just 2 commands and 2 arguments: avg_predictions(model, by="group") avg_comparisons(model, variables="treatment", by="group") Most of the time, I just stop there. It's easy and it's enough.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

feels crazy that there was still that much to wring out at this stage!

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just need to design a logo I actually like first :)

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks! Should be just `vcov="unconditional"` or using the `vcovUnconditiona()` function (similar to sandwich package). Note that it doesn't support everything, but it has good coverage and should raise informative errors.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🎙️ New Podcast! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I are launching Regression to the Mean Girls where we go way too deep into silly data side quests! In our first episode Sarah deep dives on time to first kiss in romance novels! open.spotify.com/episode/73wC... regressiontothemeangirls.com

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Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

Regression to the Mean Girls · Episode

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Etienne 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.com

Jarl 0.6.0 | Etienne Bacher

Personal website of Etienne Bacher: blog posts about R, research, and software.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.18.0 📦 for #RStats is out! The new version is faster, has lots of bug fixes, and some beat new features. Check it out if you need a dead simple, ultra-flexible, and dep-free package to draw tables: (interactive) html, typ, tex, pdf, and png. vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

BTW, i'm working on a way to display interactive graphics and movies on top of Typst PDF slides.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On our family road trip this summer, we accidentally visited the mansion of the first president of GM Canada in Oshawa. As soon as we get through the door, oldest daughter screams: "I've seen this on Murdoch Mysteries!" Big fans of cosy murder mysteries in this house.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Barely related, but I recently learned that my neighbors taught their cats to use the toilet. I thought this was impossible and just an internet myth! (Good luck with the training weekend!)

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For sure, but it can be quite difficult to match the rest of a document with a converted html table. In my experience, manuscripts tend to look more polished when the tables are "native." That said, your new package looks super cool. Love the design! I expect it to be very useful to a lot of people!

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Please note that this is still "Alpha", so small.changes to the interface may happen, especially to unreleased stuff like presentation mode.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is wonderful news! All this is still pretty experimental, but I really want to improve. So please report bugs and feature requests.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes, absolutely! I was actually working on it this morning and I have a few good leads. This will certainly be part of the next release.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Typst pitches itself as a LaTeX replacement with instant rendering (which gives you live preview as you type), and a modern-feeling programming language. Docs look clean and simple like markdown, but you can also define ultra-powerful and elegant functions and "show rules" to control everything.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10/08/2026

New issue of WiP just arrived and I genuinely can’t decide what to read first — What medicine could be, will farm animals always suffer, what if everything we know about recycling was wrong, a piece about how Thailand was never conquered, daycare pseudoscience.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh, the paper copy looks suuuuper nice! Just signed up.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you use #Typst and want to create beautiful slide shows, using a simple interface, check out my new Mosaic package! The website hosts tons of tutorials and examples. Please let me if you try, find bugs, or have feature requests. I'm very eager to improve Mosaic!

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My wife came up with the Zoolander memes, I think. She has that gift.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I like that it's kind of hidden, way down the table of contents. Mostly a collection of stuff people have posted here. (That moth looks crazy! Lucky you!)

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Becks Spake @spakey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today I was delighted to discover the meme gallery on the marginaleffects website 😂 marginaleffects.com/bonus/meme.h...

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Bigger daughter made a photo montage of herself at the Detroit Institute of Art, 13 years apart.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Issue 55 of #rdmweekly is out! 📬 ➡️ The Rapid Rise of Bayesian Inference and Open Science Practices in Psychology @ejwagenmakers.bsky.social ➡️ data.table, base, dplyr, pandas, and polars @vincentab.bsky.social ➡️ SQLite Query Explainer @simonwillison.net rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

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RDM Weekly - Issue 055

A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

wow, that's amazing! Can't wait to see that cover and read the book!

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ah thanks! I really look forward to meeting everyone!

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm not very familiar with maketabs(), but with a quick skim it seems like this is somethign that should be pretty easy. If that Gist doesn't actually do what you need, please open a Github issue with more detail on the problem and I'll be happy to take a look gist.github.com/vincentarelb...

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maketabs in calepin

maketabs in calepin. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This page was created in Typst using my Calepin app. How to specify synced tab "groups" changes is documented on the website below. But this feature was inspired by Quarto, which also allows groups in tabsets. vincentarelbundock.github.io/calepin/

vincentarelbundock.github.io

Calepin

A Typst-native computational notebook and static website generator.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

great minds, etc etc 😂 But seriously, I wish I'd run into your page before sinking that much time into this 😱

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