Bug reported: github.com/quarto-dev/q... Confirmed by @mickael.canouil.fr as a regression in Quarto, plus some options for workarounds. As frustrated as I was yesterday with this, the @quarto.org devs are quick to respond to issues & incredibly helpful in identifying & fixing problems 🙏 #RStats

Gavin Simpson@gsimpson.bsky.social · last wk.

It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats

Now, I could try to address this upstream with @posit.co and the @quarto.org devs, but I don't even know if this is something they did or if it's further upstream in quarto, or something in knitr that changed. And right now my minimal working example is a 2000 line qmd file 😭

Gavin Simpson@gsimpson.bsky.social · last wk.

It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats

It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats

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Well done 🇪🇸

'They'll be kicking themselves. They've kicked everybody else'. 🤣

Yes ⚽️

That’ll teach you to mouth off at the ref (Although that challenge deserved a straight red in its own right)

The Argentine rugby union team should sign up a few of these 🇦🇷 players

Didn’t have 🇫🇷 0–4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 at half time on my #WorldCup bingo card today

The Lego for an in class experimental design activity just arrived. So I guess I’m done for the day; time to play! The various plates are for blocking structures, and the 1x1 pink blocks are animals ( 🐷 )

Not sure where my permute 📦 comes in this list of most downloaded packages, but consider me one grateful #RStats 📦 dev who was on the receiving end of a bug report and a PR fixing it no less! Thanks @scholzmx.bsky.social

Maximilian Scholz@scholzmx.bsky.social · 3w ago

And another 6 PRs filed. This will take a while...

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You can now make chord diagrams in #ggplot2 🎉 Here's a short blog introducing the 'ggchord2' package and showing you how to make chord diagrams 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/chord-d... #RStats #DataViz #RLadies

Chord diagrams in R with ggchord2 – Nicola Rennie

Chord diagrams can be used to show relationships or flows between and within categories. This blog post introduces ggchord2, a new package that makes it possible to create them using ggplto2 in R.

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Just bought 2000 Kr. (~300 USD) of #Lego for an in-class activity on the experimental design course I'm developing for our 3rd year Animal Science students Can't wait to reconcile this transaction on my university credit card with the finance folks 😬

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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WTH @posit.co ! I just updated my positron install and now I'm getting spammed by copilot suggested text while I'm trying to write prose. I am not subscribed to Posit AI or to Copilot though I am logged in to GitHub. Why do you turn this sh*t on by default in a new version!? Antisocial BS 🤬

“Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing” xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/s...

Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing

I recently learned that Springer Nature is about to make the reference journal Statistics and Computing, where I published close to twenty papers over the years, fully “open access”, wh…

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𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

🇺🇸Fun Facts: 1) The bald eagle LOVES landfills & 2) most tv/movies play a red-tailed hawk sound when showing a bald eagle, since eagles sound ridiculously silly. So, bald eagles are the perfect USA mascot: v pretty but secretly just a trash animal who steals other people’s things. Happy 250! 🦅🌎🧪

AI is a tool that *can* create value when used correctly for the right problem, it is NOT a value in and of itself.

🆘 Help! 🆘 How should we treat subjects lost to follow-up in an agricultural trial & does it change if H0 being tested is some form of "assuming the subject makes it to time period x, there is no diff between treatment & control groups"? stats.stackexchange.com/q/676127/1390 #statistics #RStats

Interpretation of subjects lost to follow-up in a trial as missing data?

I've been mulling this on and off for a little while. Colleagues ran a trial in production animals; they recruited a number of farms and a number of the animals in these farms herds were randomised...

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Stan embedded Laplace was a long project and happy that it's finally released. We are not competing with INLA and TMB software, as they are orders of magnitude faster and scale better with data size for models that you can implement with them 1/

MC Stan@mc-stan.org · 3mo ago

CmdStan 2.39 has been released! - embedded Laplace approximation - new yule_simon distribution - gamma_lccdf more stable - optimization convergence status in output - length-1 tuples See more at blog.mc-stan.org/2026/05/19/r...

Related courses: 1- The upcoming GLLVMs course with @vdveenb.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... 2 -The GLMM in R with @florianhartig.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... 3 - The GAMs in R with @gsimpson.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Closing the Generalised Linear Models in R course, with a look at powerful extensions of GLMs such as GAMs and GLMMs. A big thank you to @vdveenb.bsky.social for delivering another outstanding edition of the GLMs in R course! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

I made Conway–Maxwell–Binomial regression on #TMB + #glmmTMB. A bounded-count family that handles both over- and under-dispersion through one parameter.. Demo on coral fertilization data from @benoitpujol.bsky.social #rstats #STEM #biology jbogomolovas2.github.io/Julius-s-Blo...

Conway–Maxwell–Binomial regression: two-directional dispersion for bounded counts – Julius’s Blog

Data Science, Swimming Analytics, and R Programming

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Great paper that underpins this work, as well as models used for the waste water surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Ireland. bsky.app/profile/stat...

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you want to see me get flustered, but recover to give a banger talk about RSV prophylaxis, the magic of GAMs, and the vital importance of survellence data, then this is the talk for you. With shout-outs for @gsimpson.bsky.social, @vincentab.bsky.social, and @hpscireland.bsky.social

#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful! doi.org/10.7717/peer... Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net

Thanks ❤️ Writing this paper with Eric, Noam & Dave (order determined by `sample()`) was a pleasure & has resulted in not just a thing that has proven useful to a wide range of folk, but to long lasting friendships with some genuinely nice people who also happen to be very knowledgeable about stuff

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez@frodsan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful! doi.org/10.7717/peer... Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net

R-universe now generates social media preview cards for each package, like this one: ropensci.r-universe.dev/targets. You can also get the card manually from the /{package}/card.png API (or svg).

targets: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Pipelines

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