I've been quietly re-recording all of the core R for the Rest of Us courses to use Positron. They're dropping tomorrow with a big discount. #rstats
If you want to be the first to know when they're live, you can sign up here:
This is one area I find AI to be incredibly helpful. It writes WAY better commit messages than I do.
Yeah I've had the same experience with shinylive. In fact, we've been starting to make dashboards totally outside of R because the UI and speed are just so much better for interactive stuff.
I assume it has some Javascript as well? In any case, very cool that CC did that for you!
What are you using to make the filters in the sidebar?
Case in point: Currently building this in Laravel (a PHP framework I'm only sort of familiar with).
Checking whether your PDFs are accessible is important, but the tools to do so aren't great. That's why @joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I built a new R package: {pdfcheck}. Check it out and let us know what you think!
rfortherestofus.com/2026/02/intr...
For grouped summaries in #rstats, do you use group_by() + summarize() or the .by argument in summarize()?
If you can't, it's a huge compliment to the work done by Typst master @joseph-barbier.bsky.social.
One of these reports was made in InDesign. The other was made in Quarto + Typst. Can you tell which is which?
6 years of R for the Rest of Us! 🎂
2025 highlights:
✅ Spun off consulting into Clarity Data Studio
✅ 10 cohorts of R in 3 Months (400+ people!)
✅ $3,000+ donated to social & environmental causes
Full year in review 👇
buff.ly/zDySVOU
With our R in 3 Months program, we give out multiple scholarships. However, some recipients barely participate at all. This is frustrating because we pass over other recipients who likely would participate further. Any ideas for how we can ensure that scholarship recipients actively participate?
Just donated over $2,000 to the @nilc.org as part of our Black Friday fundraiser for @rfortherestofus.com. Thanks to everyone who bought courses!
Ever since we started making documents in Quarto and Typst, I've wanted to make EVERYTHING in Quarto and Typst. Curious to learn how make documents like these? Boy, do I have the blog post for you! #rstats
rfortherestofus.com/2025/11/quar...
At 10:00am Pacific time, @joseph-barbier.bsky.social and I are doing a livestream answering your questions about making reports using Typst and Quarto. Join us and ask questions! Or, if you can't make it, ask your questions below! #rstats
Looks like it's back up for me now.
It's because of the global Cloudflare outage. :(
I spent several days working on this blog post and video. Behold everything I know (aka everything @joseph-barbier.bsky.social has ever taught me) about making high-quality PDFs using Quarto and Typst. #rstats
Post is up! #rstats
rfortherestofus.com/2025/11/quar...
Screenshot of notes saying: Trump administration increased enforcement of accessibility laws
AI note takers do many things well. Irony is not one of them.
Screenshot of genzplyr package
Do I even want to know why @hadley.nz?
Oh man, wish I had a solution for that problem. In this case, we were actually just implementing the template that the client provided in Canva so there was very little back and forth.
I appreciate that!
I'm actually going to record an additional lesson showing this exact thing. Let me know if there's anything in particular you figured out that would be useful to share.
It does!
Yes, that's exactly what the blog post I'm writing is covering! Have you created a Typst template yourself?
Screenshot of reports showing status of childhood immunization in Colorado
I'm writing a blog post on making high-quality reports with Quarto and Typst like the ones we recently made for the Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center.
Anything in particular you want to know about how we make reports like these? #rstats
Are you attending posit::conf this week in Atlanta! 👋
If you spot me, come say hi. I’ve got R for the Rest of Us and Clarity Data Studio swag to share.
#rstats
So smooth (if you get that joke, you are an #rstats nerd).
