Look who I ran into at a pub in Melbourne @yabellini.bsky.social

Jeroen also represents CRAN, btw.

#rstats SSA SCV section is excited to bring a panel discussion on “where do R packages live?” May 20, 5pm AEST Sign up to join at statsoc.org.au/event-6653060 @fontikar.bsky.social

Giving me ideas for writing class exams now.

I suspect you’ll be sorely disappointed 😜

Slides for these talks are at: harriet-mason.github.io/talk-dicook2... , cynthiahqy.github.io/talk_SSA-202... , danyangdai.github.io/SSA-Di-Cook-... . The video will be posted soon.

25 YeaRs: Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics <em>Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics</em> is an international statistics journal covering statistical theory, methodology, applications and computing.

Would you like to read all the articles from the 25 years of R special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics? They are all freely accessible for the next month or so at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #rstats

"Ozone hole" in grant descriptions by year, with two regression lines over a scatter plot

Bergogram plot: line plot of money awarded by year by NSF. 2025 and 2026 trail other years

Table of grants by US academic semester by state. In Spring 2026, New York has received 37 grants in total, Florida only 24

Word cloud of words in "formicidae" grants at NSF. "Ants" is most promient, also "species," "specimens," "project," and "collections."

Inspired by @jeremymberg.bsky.social & grant-witness.us, I've updated my rnsf #rstats package to include:

• Cache of public data on every #NSF grant (>500K)
• Info on every #GRFP

Tools for viz, examples of use, etc.

Blog post: brianomeara.info/posts/rnsf/

Pkg: bomeara.github.io/rnsf/index.h...

Love these plots!

Poster for an R-Ladies Remote panel event titled “Working Smarter in R: Tips, Tricks & Real-World Lessons.” The event takes place on April 22, 2026, at 6:00 PM UTC. It features a panel discussion with Meghan Harris, Nicola Rennie, Soraya Campbell, Isabella Velásquez, Crystal Lewis, and Pao Corrales. The session will cover practical tips for working in R, including workflows, data cleaning, data visualisation, debugging, and advanced programming practices. The poster has a purple R-Ladies themed design and includes a QR code for registration.

Join us for “Working Smarter in R” 💜
📅 Apr 22
⏰ 6–7 BST / 11–12 PDT

A global panel sharing tips on workflows, data cleaning, debugging & more in R.

Featuring: @nrennie.bsky.social, Pao C., @meghansharris.bsky.social, Soraya C., @ivelasq3.bsky.social & @cghlewis.bsky.social

#RStats #RLadies

SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science

In one week I'll be talking about tips for reproducible R code and why science would love you to try these tips on your own code too 🧪😍🌏

It's an online talk, so feel free to watch comfortably from your couch. Hope to see you there!
@sortee.bsky.social #rstats

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I appreciate the post, Mans, and hope this leads to fixes. I do like using tidy models in teaching because it coordinates the vast disparities in different machine learning software. It helps the students better see similarities and differences.

Bumping this up because I’m sure you’re out there somewhere…

Dariia Mykhailyshyna - Workshops for Ukraine Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

"Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes" 🙈

Come learn some Git with me and {saperlipopette} at Workshops for Ukraine!

Thursday, March 19th, 14:00 - 16:00 CET (Rome, Berlin, Paris timezone)

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Organized by @dariia.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

❗️Our next workshop will be on Feb 12th , 6 pm CET titled The Art of Research by @markgsheppard.com

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
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#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Just change the date. We would all like to celebrate together.

We are responding to this call for evidence:
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors?

Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value.

Thanks!

Hi Ben, I hadn't seen this before so it's a nice addition to the list of reference papers. This work is summarised in projecteuclid.org/journalArtic... which we do reference. And also this one ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1953ApJ.... for comparing galaxy photos is delightful!

Didn’t try this one

We tried, and it's not as good. It could be made an option in the package though.

Looking forward to useR! 2026 in Warsaw, Poland 6-8 July @user-conf.bsky.social @rladies.org @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy #rstats

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#RStats #useR2026

It is designed to use with ggplot2 graphics, and builds on the plot code and also brailleR, in addition to ChatGPT. It is very rudimentary so we need help testing and developing #rstats

Back in the top 10, baby!

Eat your heart out, "#rstats is dying" thinkpieces. 😜

www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

GitHub - numbats/autoAlt Contribute to numbats/autoAlt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Are you interested in adding alt text to your publications? It helps share your data visualisations with vision impaired readers. Try out github.com/numbats/auto... to get a reasonable first draft or maybe complete text. @r-forwards.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy @rladies.org @rconsortium.bsky.social

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

He looks like he’s brought the audience to tears!

I got to hear a sneak peek of Stephanie’s keynote, and it was so good! Definitely recommend watching if you work on teams adopting or transitioning to #RStats.