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Here's a functional programming trick for #rstats that I wish I started using sooner: if you need a #ggplot2 scale to be reusable across multiple plots and dynamically configurable without relying on global state, consider using a function factory (a function that returns a function) to build it

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

mirai - minimalist async framework for #RStats - released as an 'r-lib' package. Blog post: Advancing Async Computing in R. shikokuchuo.net/posts/26-mir... mirai provides event-driven async for #RShiny and parallel processing for purrr #tidyverse. Really excited to be working on this at Posit!

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

There's so much polarization around LLMs. They are way overhyped, I agree. But I also use them semi-regularly now. Here's a thread of genuine use cases where I find them helpful. Please add your own!

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

📦 I’m excited to share a new #rstats package I’ve been working on: {shinyfa} built to help folks working on large or unfamiliar #rshiny apps ✨ The package scans your app folders and extracts out details on render*(), reactive() and input$ to a dataframe! 📖 www.dalyanalytics.com/blog/shinyfa...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Playing around with satellite imagery of #madison to make some office art. #Rstats

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✨Use llms from #rstats with ellmer ✨Version 0.2.0 is on CRAN now. No blog post yet because I'm about to go on vacation, but in the meantime you can check out the release notes: github.com/tidyverse/el....

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

The kind of Friday morning content I needed to see. ❤️

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Registration for the posit::conf(2025) virtual experience is now open! Join us virtually, Sept 16–18, and access live-streamed keynotes and 100+ talks, on-demand recordings, Q&A sessions, and our virtual networking platform. Learn more in the blog post: posit.co/blog/posit-c... #RStats #Python

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

In case you missed it, we recently updated some of our packages, including many new features (again) in the #rstats #easystats {modelbased} package: easystats.github.io/modelbased/n... The last weeks we were working a lot on improving support and performance for Bayesian models and especially

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I'm still thinking about my favorite quote from the Posit Data Science Hangout today. It perfectly sums up what I hope I provide to the researchers I work with: a trusted partner, who is there to support them in their work. Earn a reputation for being a good person to work with - Cara Thompson

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Great news! R/Medicine 2025 is providing a forum for sharing R based tools and approaches used to analyze and gain insights from health data. Join us for the premier R conference for health and medicine. 🔗 Register today: rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #RMed25

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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

submitted 31 days ago • 248 comments

I’m happy to share that I’ll be giving a talk at R/Medicine 2025! 🎊 I work with a BIG REDcap database for substance use treatment (200+ locations) which makes extraction difficult. I developed {redquack}, an #rstats 📦 that transfers REDCap data to DuckDB, and will talk about how to use it. 🦆

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

📊 🕵️‍♂️ #rstats community! Do you sometimes feel like you're just pretending to be a data scientist? I'm researching imposter syndrome for my upcoming talk at posit::conf(2025) 🔍 I'd love to hear YOUR experiences in a short 5-10 minute anonymous survey: forms.gle/YkJtwZWquyKM... Please share! 🔄

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Since it's in Atlanta, I'll be here at my first posit::conf! I'll be speaking here with @gosterhout.bsky.social about election night reporting with #rstats and #QuartoPub (showing off {targets} and other neat tricks like this: www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/11... )

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

States spend too much on clunky election night reporting. We just replaced ours using #rstats. dbplyr backend + reactable & leaflet viz + #quartopub site. Real magic happened with programmatic code chunks & targets pipeline done by @andrew.heiss.phd. #dataviz results.voteidaho.gov

submitted 204 days ago • 4 comments

Another q for the stats people! People worry about collinearity (cf blog post below). Consider a scenario in which the collinear predictors are just controls to account for confounding. Including both of them doesn't impair the precision with which the effect of interest is estimated, does it?

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

Happy reinstalling-all-your-R-packages day to all those who celebrate #rstats

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

Hive mind, please help me out! I need a more informative and explicit subtitle for my upcoming #RStats book "Model to Meaning" The premise is that analysts should often transform coefficient estimates into more meaningful / interpretable quantities like predictions, risk differences, slopes, etc.

submitted 41 days ago • 25 comments

My amazing independent study student wrote me a thank you card and drew this laptop with #rstats code on it 🥹

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When planning for data collection, especially in longitudinal studies, first consider how that data will be used. Ask yourself: - How will we combine data for analysis? - What unique IDs will allow us to do this? - How will we name/code items to combine data? - Will our data need restructuring?

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Recently I posted a draft of my essay on banishing p-values/NHST. I've now refined and expanded it, partly based on feedback I received here. Please take a look and comment, matloff.github.io/No-P-Values

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

If you're using LLMs to write R code, @simonpcouch.com's blog posts are the best way to keep up with which model is best

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Childhood lead exposure can cause serious developmental delays, hearing loss, and behavioral problems. The CDC has long had the technology and the people power to efficiently and effectively mitigate lead exposure. RFK Jr. cut the program. What's more un-American than that? #StandUpForScience

submitted 53 days ago • 7 comments

use() is a pretty cool addition!

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

It’s a good day. I got my first suit and ran my first stan (brms) model in the same day. Except the full model is still running lol.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview: Say hello to plumber2 🎉 plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Visualizing git commits for ellmer using hellmer for batching with structured data refinement. 📦 #rstats gist.github.com/dylanpieper/...

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today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

submitted 59 days ago • 27 comments

Madison, Wisconsin, this afternoon: wow! #Handsoff #Protest (Photo via @captimes.com)

submitted 59 days ago • 9 comments

ADHD — Attention Deficit Hey Dude

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this week in #rstats 🔥 - evaluating LLMs in R 🧪 @simonpcouch.com - Observable JS for R users 📊 @nrennie.bsky.social - a new Docker pkg for R 🐳 @coatless.bsky.social - using duckdb & duckplyr 🦆 @rorylawless.com - R pkg risk & QA 🚧 @jumpingrivers.com and more! 🥳 www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-r...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments