Hey #Rstats #Rmarkdown hive mind: trying to do something that should be simple but I can't seem to figure it out: How do I make all the tables align to the left when I knit my PDF?

Why quantitative understanding of effect sizes matters, even if all you care about is the presence of the effect statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/01/h...

Today we launch the first stable release of RegCheck: v1.0.0. RegCheck makes it easier and quicker to compare study registrations to published papers for consistency - something we know is important in principle, but rarely done in practice. A 🧵 on what's new: regcheck.app

RegCheck

RegCheck is an AI tool to compare preregistrations with papers instantly.

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just got out of a course design meeting and now I kinda want to poke the #rstats hivemind on something: is there a way/approach to dynamic/reactive alt-text in shiny apps? (yes, i'm posting before searching. roast in replies, i suppose)

🤩 bingkaiwang.github.io/RCT_Bench-ma...

Checking on an R package usually takes five open tabs: CRAN, GitHub, download counts, reverse deps, check results. R Observatory collects all of that on one page, for every CRAN and Bioconductor package. r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com #rstats

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

Anyone care to recommend a book/set of tutorials on Optimisation in #rstats? I am interested in scheduling/operations management.

I have been tinkering with how to quickly modify a Quarto theme, and I think I have a decently fast solution. Introducing the Quarto Theme Tweaker Run the `Open Theme Tweaker` command in an active qmd file. Modify the settings to your liking. Save the results. github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Update to blog article on accuracy of confidence intervals for central tendency measures for asymmetric distributions. Even a triple boostrap-t interval didn't help: fharrell.com/post/aci #Statistics #StatsSky

Measures of Central Tendency for an Asymmetric Distribution, and Confidence Intervals – Statistical Thinking

There are three widely applicable measures of central tendency for general continuous distributions: the mean, median, and pseudomedian (the mode is useful for describing smooth theoretical distributi...

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Do you have a favourite resource on pair programming? Please drop a link 🙏 I'd like to do some pair programming with our student worker over the summer and he is a bit avoidant. Which is common - people don't like the idea of someone looking over their shoulder and judging them. #dataBS

“Detractors might scoff at Musk’s ambition to die on Mars, but at least the dying part would be easy.” — @henrywismayer.bsky.social #mars #spaceexploration #spacex

The Mars Delusion | NOEMA

Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?

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Just finished studying the topics covered in Spatial Data Science with applications in R (r-spatial.org/book/). Thought I'd share some of the charts I made along the way. Mostly recreations of some of the plots from the sources along with some context. 1/14 😬 #rstats #rspatial #geospatial #gis 🧵

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

If you have access to any the following stats software, would you be willing to run some chi squared tests on a handful of simulated datasets and send me results? I need to verify that that my R implementation of what other software does is correct. - Stata - SAS - StatXact - SPSS DM me :)

Sooo #rstats, I built a thing... Deploying R shiny to your own cloud server is still too hard in 2026. Lightbulb.is is my answer - connect to your digital ocean account, click to create a server, and point it at a shiny GitHub repo. That's it - spend the time you save making your customers happy!

Help pls #rstats I'm using {mice} to impute values of factor variables. My end-goal is to keep one row per obs, with the most common imputed value being retained but there are ties I could keep imputing one additional value until the tie is broken, but is there another way to go about this?

#OTD 1754 Colonel Sir John Sinclair b (d 21 Dec 1835) Introduced the words ‘statistics’ & ‘statistical’ for the first time in English in his 1791 21-vol magnum opus 'Statistical Account of Scotland'. He apologized for anglicizing German words rather than coining real English words 1/3

I've made some big changes to the fastglm package with version 0.1.0 on cran: cran.r-project.org/package=fast... - updates that further improve speed - three new models for more complex outcome (neg binom, hurdle, zero infl) - First bias correction - big data support ** Details outlined below:

fastglm: Fast and Stable Fitting of Generalized Linear Models using 'RcppEigen'

Fits generalized linear models efficiently using 'RcppEigen'. The iteratively reweighted least squares implementation utilizes the step-halving approach of Marschner (2011) &lt;<a href="https://doi.or...

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Red Lobster is bringing back its famed Endless Shrimp promotion—with a few strings attached. on.wsj.com/42l1tqa

Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp Is Back—With a Few Strings Attached

The seafood chain is bringing back the promotion for the first time since bankruptcy, with some limits.

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Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

🚨 #RStats and #PyData devs! I'm looking for β testers for this thing I just built: A unified dashboard + orchestrator for code and data quality checks. It has lots of neat features and I'm super eager for feedback and bug reports. Check out the video demo: vincentarelbundock.github.io/scrutin/

Excellent tweetorial by @ericjpedersen.bsky.social on Simon Wood’s new Neighborhood Cross Validation smoothness selection method, which is especially useful when fitting data with temporal and spatial dependence among observations

Eric Pedersen@ericjpedersen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've been working with NCV this last week; it's a powerful tool for modelling data with dependencies that are poorly/inefficiently modelled via stochastic process priors like cov functions or low-rank smoothers. However, it's a complex topic, so I thought I'd summarize the key ideas in a thread 1/n

I've been working with NCV this last week; it's a powerful tool for modelling data with dependencies that are poorly/inefficiently modelled via stochastic process priors like cov functions or low-rank smoothers. However, it's a complex topic, so I thought I'd summarize the key ideas in a thread 1/n

@tiddlydump.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Saw that "neighborhood cross validation" was recently added to `mgcv` but I haven't had the chance to kick the tires. It sounds useful, but the effort of setting up neighborhoods vs modeling the correlation directly is something I'll have to sit with! stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-d... #rstats

🗺️ Bivariate choropleth maps blend two colour scales to show the spatial relationship between two variables. It easier now with improved support in tmap -- see a blog post by David O’Sullivan. geospatialstuff.com/posts/2026/0... #RStats #RSpatial #DataViz

Hard core #Rstats parents

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I just found out today that draft prospect R Mason Thomas’ first name is “R Mason.” The R doesn’t stand for anything. Still processing this information.

Making #rstats portable on #macOS has been the community's Sisyphean boulder since 2009. Now, download a tar.gz, extract, run from: github.com/portable-r/p... Signed, notarized, 4.3.0 - 4.5.3. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...

Need #rstats on a #Windows machine where you can't run an installer? Locked-down workstation, USB drive, embedded app? It's 2026. You just need a URL: github.com/portable-r/p... R 4.3.0 - 4.5.3, x64 + ARM64. install.packages() works. Blog: blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/programming/...