Gradient Boosting Parameters In this post I’ll walk through how you can use the same principles behind Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM) to predict parameters of models in the same way traditional GBMs predict 1-dimensional target...

I have a new blog post out today that I'm really excited about. I walk through how you can use Gradient Boosting to fit entire vectors of parameters for each observation, not just a single prediction. statmills.com/2026-04-06-g... #pydata #rstats

Explainable Linear and Generalized Linear Models by the Predictions Plot Multiple linear regression is a basic statistical tool, yielding a prediction formula with the input variables, slopes, and an intercept. But is it really easy to see which terms have the largest e...

#rstats #dataviz

A new kid on the dataviz block is the predictions plot, showing how predictors in lm()/glm() contribute to
the predicted response. A novel and useful idea!

TAS: doi.org/10.1080/0003...
Implemented in the {classmap} package.

My #rstats #shiny app is finally online. Take a look at fjell.dk (domain name to prevent traffic 😅). My private ski trip planning tool with 2D and 3D maps #mapgl with weather history and forecasts, route planning and map downloading for offline use #mbtiles

Yes, quite surprised and something I will likely remember for a while.

Future self - how to corrupt #sqlite

Mount .db, -wal and -shm as separate files. SQLite recreates the WAL on checkpoint - new inode. #docker still points to the old deleted one. Container & host silently drift apart.

Result: corrupted database.

Fix: - /host/db:/container/db
No fix: stress level

A Few Claude Skills for R Users – R Works The community has come together to create some great Claude Skills that you can try out today.

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.

Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.

Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡

rworks.dev/posts/claude...

#rstats #mapgl #shiny
Just finished integrating mapbox into my R Shiny app using the mapgl R package, including a steepness layer.That library is a true find! Picture from mountains in Lyngen where I should be more often rather than in front of a computer 😅

#rstats
A single line of code that made my day! Just added FROM rocker/r2u:jammy to my Dockerfile and my image that used to take 90 minutes to build took 1 minute 🤯❤️

Simulated null distribution for data with a sample size of 100, difference in group means of 5, and a p-value of 0.142

Simulated null distribution of a slope of 0.8 and p-value of 0.002

Finally, we have to decide if the p-value meets an evidentiary standard or threshold that would provide us with enough evidence that we aren’t in the null world (or, in more statsy terms, enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis). There are lots of possible thresholds. By convention, most people use a threshold (often shortened to α) of 0.05, or 5%. But that’s not required! You could have a lower standard with an α of 0.1 (10%), or a higher standard with an α of 0.01 (1%). Statistically significant The p-value is < 0.001 and our threshold for α is 0.05 In a world where there is no relationship between x and y, the probability of seeing a slope of at least 0.901 is < 0.1% Since < 0.001 is less than 0.05, we have enough evidence to say that the slope is statistically significant.

Evidentiary standards When thinking about p-values and thresholds, I like to imagine myself as a judge or a member of a jury. Many legal systems around the world have formal evidentiary thresholds or standards of proof. If prosecutors provide evidence that meets a threshold (i.e. goes beyond a reasonable doubt, or shows evidence on a balance of probabilities), the judge or jury can rule guilty. If there’s not enough evidence to clear the standard or threshold, the judge or jury has to rule not guilty. With p-values: If the probability of seeing an effect or difference (or δ) in a null world is less than 5% (or whatever the threshold is), we rule it statistically significant and say that the difference does not fit in that world. We’re pretty confident that it’s not zero. If the p-value is larger than the threshold, we do not have enough evidence to claim that δ doesn’t come from a world of where there’s no difference. We don’t know if it’s not zero. Importantly, if the difference is not significant, that does not mean that there is no difference. It just means that we can’t detect one if there is. If a prosecutor doesn’t provide sufficient evidence to clear a standard or threshold, it does not mean that the defendant didn’t do whatever they’re charged with†—it means that the judge or jury can’t detect guilt.

I just whipped up this little #QuartoPub site last week that demonstrates how I teach p-values/hyp-testing through simulation both with live OJS and with #rstats, and I think it's super neat! It has examples for diff-in-means, diff-in-props, and regression slopes nullworlds.andrewheiss.com #statsky

nanonext 1.8.0 nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R's web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation.

nanonext 1.8.0 is out - R now has a streaming HTTP/WebSocket server with bundled TLS.

Runs alongside Shiny in the same process. We're already using it at Posit to explore new real-time capabilities.

#Rstats #tidyverse

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/nanonext-1-8-0/

My first go at Claude Code. Quite scary and quite useful! Any good #rstats advice for getting along with RStudio?

Facilitate Citation of R Packages Facilitates the citation of R packages used in analysis projects. Scans project for packages used, gets their citations, and produces a document with citations in the preferred bibliography format, re...

#statstab #466 {grateful} Facilitate citation of R packages

Thoughts: Great little package to easily cite all the packages you use in a script. (doesn't cite itself unless you ask it)

#rstats #r #packages #acknowledgement #credit #quarto

pakillo.github.io/grateful/ind...

Finished teaching my new Advance Stats for Psych graduate course today with a heavy emphasis on both DAGs and shifting away from coefficient interpretation and towards models as prediction machines.

Both went great!

The latter was extremely helpful for logistic regression (for obvious reasons 😵‍💫)!

rspatialdata: a repository of spatial datasets & tutorials for spatial analysis & visualization in #rstats, supporting real-world applications such as estimating air pollution, quantifying disease burden, and monitoring progress toward the SDGs🌍💻📊

👉 rspatialdata.github.io

New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer

obumbratta.com/colour

We just read a ~180 million row dataset (from disk!) and did a group-by aggregation on it. In < 1 second. On a laptop.

Benchmark plot showing minimal data I/O cost of duckdb and polars relative to other options (alongside very fast compute time)

A few months ago, I gave a workshop on “(Pretty) big data wrangling with DuckDB and Polars”.

Slides, notebooks etc. are all available here: grantmcdermott.com/duckdb-polars/

#EconSky

Mapping Europe’s rooftop photovoltaic potential with a building-level database - Nature Energy This resource presents an open per-building dataset of rooftop solar photovoltaics potential for the European Union. The results show that potential capacity could cover approximately 40% of electricity demand in a 100% renewable scenario for 2050.

A new resource presents an open per-building dataset of rooftop solar PV potential in the EU, finding that potential capacity could cover around 40% of electricity demand in a 100% renewable 2050 scenario.

Soooo if you use #RStats and Claude Code:
R console: install.packages("btw")
Terminal: claude mcp add -s "user" r-btw -- Rscript -e "btw::btw_mcp_server()"
And now Claude Code can answer questions about ANY R package installed on your system.

GitHub - brownag/gdalcli: An R Frontend for the GDAL CLI An R Frontend for the GDAL CLI. Contribute to brownag/gdalcli development by creating an account on GitHub.

Introducing gdalcli by Andrew Brown -- an R frontend to GDAL’s unified CLI (≥3.11) 🌐

Compose and execute GDAL workflows with pipe-friendly functions.

Learn more: github.com/brownag/gdal...

#RStats #GDAL #Geospatial #OpenSource #RSpatial

How well do LLMs generate R code?
skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud #rstats #llm

🚀 Watch the Earth Change: New QGIS Plugin Creates Satellite Timelapse Animations in Seconds 🌍

A QGIS plugin for creating timelapse animations from satellite and aerial imagery using Google Earth Engine. Supports NAIP, Landsat, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1, MODIS NDVI, and GOES weather satellite imagery.

My favorite #Python package to use is spopt, a library for spatial optimization.

It helps you with:

📊 Facility location planning;
📊 Sales territory design;
📊 Maximizing market share;

And much more! Check it out here:

pysal.org/spopt/

Working with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/...
In a benchmark against, {sf}....

Better Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI Useful local, free, deterministic tools to improve your code

New Post on @ropensci.org: Better #RStats Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI

Edited by @etiennebacher.bsky.social & Steffi LaZerte

Read about:

✨ {lintr} for detecting lints
✨ Air for formatting code
✨ jarl for detecting+fixing lints
✨ {flir} for refactoring

ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...

Creating polished PDFs from Quarto can be challenging.

At @claritydatastudio.com, we now use Typst for high-quality, branded reports.

@joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I have created a detailed walkthrough to show you how we do it.

Learn more: buff.ly/hRuUEqR

#rstats

library(dplyr) library(gm) golden <- tribble( ~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric, "E4", "q", "I’m", "G4", "q", "done", "C5", "q", "hid-", "B4", "q", "-ing", "D4", "q", "now", "G4", "q", "I’m", "E5", "q", "shin-", "D5", "q", "-ing", "G4", "q", "like", "B4", "q", "I’m", "A5", "q", "born", "F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to", "G5", "q/3", "be._", "G5", "h", "" ) music <- Music() + Key(1) + Tempo(125) + Meter(2, 4) + Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) + Tie(13) + Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) + Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) + Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) + Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) + Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) + Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) + Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13) show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

The @maprva.org surveillance map, ported to #Rstats using mapgl, osmdata, sf, and dplyr.

gist.github.com/mhpob/17782b...

Not 1:1 in terms of Ultra/Mapbox GL JS -> R, but pretty close!
Original query: overpass-ultra.us#query=url%3A...

cc @mackaszechno.bsky.social @kylewalker.bsky.social

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition.

Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python.

Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demonstration: using agent mode to create an R package with Roxygen2 docs and testthat unit tests.

Positron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and Claude-Powered Agentic Coding in R blog.stephenturner.us/p/positron-a...
#rstats

Positron connected to a not-really-remote remote session inside a Docker container

*Another* blog post about @posit.co's Positron! Its Remote Explorer feature lets you connect to other computers via SSH, including locally-running Docker containers, which means you can write and run code in version-locked #rstats environments! www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...