#statsky #episky I'm reviewing a paper and a link is provided to a github with the analysis code. There are several R scripts (none annotated) and the main, complex analyses clearly not included in any of them. The data are available "on reasonable request". Is this a red flag? Does it matter?

Computing tool of the day: I've needed to have an elegant way to stitch together pieces of Quarto books to make a unified html file for teaching. In collaboration with Claude I now have a great yaml-driven tool for this. #RStats

I stand behind this #hatespeech #rstats #clang https://blog.r-project.org/2019/03/28/use-of-c-in-packages/index.html "A summary of the recommendation would be: don’t use C++ to interface with R. If you need to implement some computation in native code, use C (or perhaps Fortran), not C++"

And even if you send, I will use a chatbot to rewrite in base R and data.table as God intended

Stunning! Definitely, thanks for sharing.

terence@tterence.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Been questioning the point of sharing stuff lately. It feeds the machine and people use the machine to copy and profit. But I remembered why I started sharing initially so here's the topography of race in the conterminous United States. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

​Happy 20th Anniversary to #rdatatable! 🎂 ​Since 2006, DT[i, j, by] has been the gold standard for high-performance data manipulation in R. Speed, efficiency, and elegance! ​A huge thanks to Matt Dowle, Arun Srinivasan, and all the contributors! @rdatatable.bsky.social 🥂 ​#rstats #rdatatable

Outstanding work by @alexdgibson.bsky.social to uncover the use of highly dubious data sets from @kaggle.com being used in hundreds of research papers and potentially even informing clinical practice. If you're re-using data, take the time to confirm that it's real. www.nature.com/articles/d41....

Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data

The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

nature.com

The special issue of the Australian and New Zealand J. of Statistics commemorating the 25th anniversary of R (the language was developed in NZ) is finally out, with free access for the next 90 days (yes, an irony for an open source language), onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Nice! I have my own Vim macros for this kind of thing, but your system is more versatile.

Michael Friendly@datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#rstats Periodic reminder: if you are writing articles / books w/ matrix, vector notation, my {matlib} 📦 has a whole suite of functions to make your life easier. Want a matrix X? --> latexMatrix() |> Eqn() Eqn() renders too in #RStudio Viewer See the vignette: friendly.github.io/matlib/artic...

Here's a quick little project that I hope some will find interesting in misc. ways. I saw the below graph in The Economist, showing pre- and post-data, here 2025. thread 1/

200 treated patients. 800 controls. Five covariates to match on. How do you pair them? Propensity scores collapse those five dimensions into one number and match on that. Clean and well-understood. But you can also solve the pairing directly in the original covariate space. 1/4

Again, has the big advantage of being written by prominent researchers in the field.

Big Book of R@bigbookofr.com · 5mo ago

Spatial Data Science With applications in R by Edzer Pebesma and Roger Bivand #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/geospatial.html#spatial-data-science-with-applications-in-r

Great package. I am not a fan of using R6, like this one does and some others, but it has lots of sophisticated options, and it has the huge advantage of being written by some people who have done significant theoretical development of the field.

Big Book of R@bigbookofr.com · 5mo ago

Applied Machine Learning Using mlr3 in R by Bernd Bischl, Raphael Sonabend, Lars Kotthoff and Michel Lang #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/packages.html#applied-machine-learning-using-mlr3-in-r

I just had Claude build me an #rstats function and raised an error when reviewing the code. Claude responded with "No, the code is right because of X and Y", please run it and get back to me with any specific errors you are concerned about. Turns out Claude was right. ...

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

The R Foundation@r-foundation.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

#Gemini is killing me: I asked it to contrast the object oriented systems in #rstats and #perl and the surprising (I know ZERO about OO #rstats) is that the S6 classes are equivalent to Moo or the class feature in #perl (so learn that first I guess), but one should be using S3!!

While working full-time & raising a child, Grace Wahba earned advanced degrees, completing her PhD at Stanford and becoming the first female faculty member in statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. #womenshistorymonth #statwomen magazine.amstat.org/blog/2026/03... #statssky

Complex Surveys: A Guide to Analysis Using R by Thomas Lumley #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/social%20science.html#complex-surveys-a-guide-to-analysis-using-r

It is much easier to understand python code for data science if you know a bit of base R than if you only know tidyverse. #rstats #python

It's surprising that neither R CMD INSTALL nor R CMD check flag having two identically named functions in an #rstats package. It's easy to accidentally duplicate when refactoring code and can lead to much confusion!

They may talk about statistical software (" The package now accepts tibbles!") But not statistics.

Agree 100%.

Adam L@adam-lg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Pipes allow users to chain together a huge number of operations, with no visibility into intermediate steps. It makes code more difficult to read if someone else has to read/change/debug code. Write functions, assign the outputs to objects.

#rstats The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics will be running a special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the official release of R. (The Univ. of Auckland was the birthplace of R.) They invited various people to contribute articles, including me. 🧵 1/

Great writeup, should be required reading for students in Data Science and Statistics.

The Indian government released an MCP server that lets you query their survey data using plain English and get back aggregate statistics from national surveys. I explore some of its possibilities and limitations. #data #stats aman.bh/blog/2026/qu...

Querying India's MoSPI Data with Claude and MCP | Aman Bhargava

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a new tool for LLM-assisted querying of their survey data. I explore some of it's possibilities.

aman.bh

startup idea: wearable device app for automatic medication adherence with machine learning based reminders

What’s one data tool or concept you rediscovered in 2025 that surprised you with its usefulness? For me: data.table in R. Lightning-fast joins. Elegant logic. #RStats #DataScience #MachineLearning

Very disappointing, the FDA has now approved Bayesian methods for clinical trials. Someone put pressure on them, likely the drug industry. 🧵 1/

Around sunset, Outer Sunset 🌞

In all seriousness, it's not til you start reading the utterly bullshit attributions in the papers that cite your work that you realise scientists legitimately cannot read above a grade 6 level #statsky

Robin Blythe@rbly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My paper: Our validation shows that you should not use this tool as a predictive model. Papers citing me: The tool has been shown to be a validated predictive model. #statsky #episky #medsky