This is a really neat idea but I'll never remember the commands, so I created a little `git-recon` bash script that runs them in series, complete with some ascii bar plots.
gist.github.com/gadenbuie/46...

I 💚 this especially the first one: "The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code" by Ally Piechowski

piechowski.io/post/git-com...

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025.

48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

The rise and fall of Byron, in maps | Antoine Vernet Using OpenStreetMap historical data to map the rise and fall of burger chains in London.

New blog post on maps of burger places in London over time (yes, I am fun at lunch, wdym?)

#rstats

antoinevernet.com/blog/2026/04...

The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.

I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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

Kermit the frog screaming with excitement

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Today is the last day to apply for an Opportunity Scholarship for posit::conf(2026)! Our Opportunity Scholarship provides travel, lodging, & registration to attend posit::conf for underrepresented groups in data science.

Learn more & apply by midnight tonight: posit.co/blog/apply-t...

We’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

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Smith College is hiring for a 3-year lecturer position in data journalism. apply.interfolio.com/182785 I can attest to Smith being a great place to work. Folks at #NICAR26 should check out the posting.

Alright class, #rstats #dataabs, a question, and this will be on your exam:

Code quality, in particular readability, and the management of complexity is *much* more important in data analysis than software engineering in general. Why?

R-Ladies branded graphic with purple-to-indigo gradient background. The classic R-Ladies logo (purple R in a gray oval) is centered at the top. Large white text reads "We Are R-Ladies." Below, three statistics are displayed: 200+ chapters, 60+ countries, 100k+ members. A tagline reads "Promoting gender diversity in the R community worldwide." The bottom bar shows rladies.org, #RLadiesIWD2026, and #IWD2026.

We Are R-Ladies

200+ chapters. 60+ countries. 100,000+ members.

Since 2012, we've been promoting gender diversity in the R community — building a global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers.

This is who we are.

rladies.org

#RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

I feel like we could collectively come up with some great bond flick names re: #rstats, #GitHub, etc 😂

I submit for your approval: terrible ideas only.

"MIT License to Kill"
"Rebase Another Day"
"The Dev Who Reviewed Me"

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

My maths professor said “Trivial doesn’t mean easy, it means you’ll spend 3 days working on it and then feel ashamed it took you so long”. So I’m not the biggest fan on calling things trivial.

Screenshot of both sides of the printable version of the cheatsheet

Screenshot of the web version of the recipes cheatsheet

#tidymodels now has its very first cheatsheet! "Preprocessing data with {recipes}" is now available in Web and PDF versions here: rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets/... #rstats #posit #rstudio

The future of #DataScience is at #positconf 2026. Check out our keynote lineup:
Wes McKinney: Future of high-performance computing
Christine Zhang: Data storytelling at NY Times
Emily Riederer: Scaling open-source at Capital One
Sara Altman & Simon Couch: AI-driven workflows
Register: pos.it/conf

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)

sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

Organized by @dariia.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

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!

Jakub, @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy you got some press!

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 😀

❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 15 , 6 pm CET titled R package development in Positron by
@stephenturner.us

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

tidypredict 1.0.0 tidypredict 1.0.0 brings faster computations for tree-based models, more efficient tree representations, glmnet model support, and a change in how random forests are handled.

I'm excited to announce the newest release of {tidypredict}!
This release brings for standardization to outputs, faster trees for parsing and prediction, and glmnet support

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/12...
#rstats #tidymodels

A festive digital illustration features the blue R logo wearing a red Santa hat with white trim on the left. To its right stands a green Christmas tree made entirely of curly braces arranged in a triangular shape. White and light-blue %>% pipe symbols float across a dark blue, starry background like snowflakes. A speech bubble above the R logo says “Ho Ho Ho! 📦” in red text. At the bottom, white text reads: “R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025” and below it, “25 Days of Coding Magic • Dec 1–25.”

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄

Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵

#rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest. The conference took place in the National Institute of Statistics which is very close to the Palace.

Just got back from the great uRos (The Use of #RStats in Official Statistics) 2025 conference in Bucharest. 🇷🇴 🙏

- My Git tutorial "Painlessly Improve Your Git History" masalmon.eu/talks/2025-1...

- My keynote talk "R Packages, good vibes only" masalmon.eu/talks/2025-1...

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.

Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.

Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.

Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

Example of using `filter_out()` on the `penguins` dataset, showing how it is much easier than `filter()`, especially with `NA`s

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions!

We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family:

- `filter()` to keep rows
- `filter_out()` to drop rows
- `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers

Read more and leave feedback here:
github.com/tidyverse/ti...

Oh. My. Gosh. Data Science Lab was SO FUN today! Just casually sharing screens to walk through settings live was incredible.

I'm gonna start a thread here of some of the stuff we shared/learned together as a community. Great stuff was shared by all! #databs #rstats #python

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