Recommended reading if you feel you’ve lost your way , or if you’re having more fun than ever

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...

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky

This looks like a spectacular public good #econsky (Full disclosure: @packlesshepherd.bsky.social is a co-author but my main skin in the game is maybe we'll finally finish our paper together now...) github.com/Davidvandijc...

arg! I wish R packages had better error messages! Now they can, thanks to my newest #Rstats package, {arg}! 😉 {arg} produces clean, simple, error messages for checking function arguments, similar to {checkmate}, {dreamerr}, and {chk}, using {cli} formatting.

JUMPSCARE! #RStats

Jared Huling@jaredhuling.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The most relieving 6 words that you can ever read in an email:

I am very excited that PyFixest 0.50.0 is on PyPi, including a new graph-based solver for demeaning that makes fixed effects estimation in PyFixest significantly faster for "sparse" fixed effects structures.

Very excited for this Friday's Chamberlain Online Seminar, where we'll muse about "The Future of Econometrics." Check out this panelist lineup! Friday 3/27 at Noon ET. Come see! t.co/pE1gZCMI7a

Hey #rstats & #econsky: fixest v0.14.0 is out! In particular, it fixes a very annoying, false positive, warning message regarding the positive definiteness of the VCOV (when clustered). Please update! github.com/lrberge/fixest cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

fixest: Fast Fixed-Effects Estimations

Fast and user-friendly estimation of econometric models with multiple fixed-effects. Includes ordinary least squares (OLS), instrumental variables (IV), generalized linear models (GLM), maximum likeli...

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#rstats I've been testing out `arf`, a new R console written in Rust. Early days, but a v. smooth experience so far. Much simpler to install and link from VS Code than radian, for example, with better features too. github.com/eitsupi/arf

One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade

ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM)@paperposterbot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

arXiv📈🤖 Fast and user-friendly econometrics estimations: The R package fixest By Berg\'e, Butts, McDermott

I'm excited to share the release and rOpenSci publication of dfms 1.0 (docs.ropensci.org/dfms), a high-performance, feature-rich implementation of Dynamics Factor Models for R, supporting mixed-frequency estimation and news decomposition for nowcasting. See also blog post: sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/

Dynamic Factor Models for R

Efficient estimation of Dynamic Factor Models using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm or Two-Step (2S) estimation, supporting datasets with missing data and mixed-frequency nowcasting applic...

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Research Notes of the AAS in particular, which was set up to handle short, moderated contributions especially from students, is getting swamped. Often the authors clearly haven’t read what they’ve submitting, (Descriptions of figures that don’t exist or don’t show what they purport to)

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

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Happy anniversary to my most successful tweet in 2020 The creator didn't like it :D (RIP my account since)

At the beginning of my teacher's career I taught mostly for the best students in the class. As I get older, I can see I'm lowering my standards and teach more and more for the weaker students. I also grade more generously as time passes. => is this a common pattern? Or is it just me? I'm curious.

Any good ressource for LEARNING PROGRAMMING for students who know NOTHING about programming (really nothing)? It would be great in R/python (final obj. is data analysis). Any help appreciated! Thanks! @andrew.heiss.phd @gmcd.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social @vincentab.bsky.social

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Happy `tinyplot` v0.6.0 (codename "Thanksgiving") release day to all those that celebrate. Some new features, but mostly bug fixes and internal improvements. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes. Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats #dataviz

Sarcasm, but actually something brought up by one of the deans, that having statisticians around is *less* important in the age of AI because AI can just do experimental design and data analysis for researchers. No joke. #sendhelp

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

If all the world were a monorepo

The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance

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Important note for Mac users: make sure your installation properly exploits `fixest` multi-threading capabilities: 1. Follow @coatless.bsky.social's simple shell script and OpenMP instructions here: github.com/coatless-she... 2. Install from source: `install.packages("fixest", type = "source")`

#rstats #econsky fixest v0.13.0 is finally out! It's still about making OLS and GLM estimations easy. Some major changes: - *default* VCOV becomes iid always! - singletons are removed by default! See all the changes here: github.com/lrberge/fixe...

fixest: Fast Fixed-Effects Estimations

Fast and user-friendly estimation of econometric models with multiple fixed-effects. Includes ordinary least squares (OLS), generalized linear models (GLM) and the negative binomial. The core of the p...

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The EEA conference starts tomorrow in Bordeaux! I'll be around, so if you want to meet, just reach out! #rstats #econsky www.eeassoc.org/events/eea-b...

#rstats #econsky PSA: The next release of `fixest` will include some important changes (plus cool new features). E.g. Fixed-effects regs will now default to 'iid' SEs rather than clustered. github.com/lrberge/fixe... You can install and test drive the dev version from R-universe; see the README.

Announcing sircon: a new R console! (for Windows) It's in beta and actively developed (new patched version just released). I've been using it for a while now and I think it's rather bug free. But if you encounter some: let me know! github.com/lrberge/sircon

GitHub - lrberge/sircon: Simple R Console

Simple R Console. Contribute to lrberge/sircon development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Laurent Bergé@lrberge.bsky.social · last yr.

There are a few productivity bonuses at the end of the presentation (which was fully written in typst btw), in particular: - a new way to handle reproductibility in R - a new R console (!) Although both projects are in active dev, they work: github.com/lrberge/rmake github.com/lrberge/sircon