The documentation of base functions can be pretty terrible. But I do appreciate that CRAN imposes some minimum documentation requirements rather than being totally laissez faire.
Still thinking about this preprint. ~ 40% of Mechanical Turk responses were from AI bots. That means Mechanical Turk is now machines pretending to be people pretending to be machines.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I am so happy for this announcement!! Heather is such an incredible community partner and deeply knowledgeable of base R. This is great news for R core and the broader R community. 🎉❤️🙌🤩 #rstats
So very exciting and well deserved!
Absolutely fantastic news for #RStats 🎉 Heather has been integral in efforts to secure the long-term sustainability of The R Project, and building the R community, especially for folks from groups underrepresented in software. She's also an excellent R contributor herself. Very well deserved!
the non closed form integrals are the worst thing to ever happen to me or anyone
I built a GitHub issue classifier for Apache Arrow issue language using {ellmer} - super simple and almost 100% accuracy. Blog post: niccrane.com/posts/llm-issue-triage/
#rstats #ai #llms
“not one of the recommendations was a new idea to NCES,” said Peggy Carr. “Many had already been implemented or we were working on when the center was dismantled."
Great reporting by @jillbarshay.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
We released DuckDB v1.5!
This release comes with a “friendly CLI” client, a new (opt-in) PEG parser, support for VARIANT types and many lakehouse features. It also ships a new network stack, a reworked geospatial extension, Azure writes and an ODBC scanner.
Read more at duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a...
The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!
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Happy that I just released my first #quarto extension: quarto-envelope ✉️
I Had 100+ birth announcements letters to write, so I built a Quarto/Typst extension to generate print-ready PDFs programmatically from R.
I hope it will be helpful for the #rstats community !
github.com/Felixmil/qua...
Live and lapply()
The sapply() who loved me
A Quarto of Solace
Just learned about the delightful R package ‘fcuk’ to help users correct typos while coding:
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Usually I can find something to appreciate and treat it as a learning experience. Like when I first had to use Python I enjoyed learning about comprehensions and itertools. It helps counterbalance the ick from things like Pandas or overstuffed Jupyter notebooks.
It’s usually easy but sometimes it gets stressful to make the short turnaround time to address CRAN check warnings/notes or else have your package archived.
With very large numbers of n’s you don’t need randomization, and with LLM’s we can generate very large numbers of n’s, so I think all of science is solved by now. I don’t see any problems with this.
If only AI / ML had been around when I was training, I wouldn’t have had to learn about things like causal inference, how to evaluate prediction models or even, say, the importance of data quality. What a waste of time all that was!
#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
I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)
There's a moment in every data engineer's career when they discover they can query a 10GB Parquet file on their laptop in seconds.
That's the DuckDB moment.
It changes how you think about what requires a cluster and what doesn't. Spoiler: most things don't.
ssp.sh/blog/enterp...
……. Deep cut
THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE WAY TO CODE AND IT IS TIDY. All others will perish on the altar of messiness. MUAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The more I learn about #rstats the more excited I get. We have a rich ecosystem of tools / libraries such as #shiny or @quarto.org that I honestly feel like I can do anything
There's tremendous opportunity in corporations to improve and transform their workflow and reporting capabilities.
that’s a big selling point for weighted bootstraps (and things like Fay’s method), so that you don’t get a bad bootstrap sample that breaks your model
