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Hello #rstats folks. Any idea when I try to update R to 4.6.0 on Fedora Linux using sudo dnf install R. It says the 4.5.3.1 is already installed. But the latest version is 4.6.0. Do I need to wait for it to be pushed to wherever dnf gets it from? Much obliged

Keep meaning to fully transition over to Positron but now RStudio has the data summary I've stepped further away. I'm just too comfortable with it, it's like a good pair of Boots

If a colleague keeps quotes prevalence data by asking Claude/ChatGPT for important publications, what should I be allowed to throw at said colleague?

David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 2mo ago

I need to carve out some time to migrate all my terrible code to Gitlab/Codeberg

regular reminder that it's never too late to get off GitHub eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html

Peter Gray@pgdataviz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In the interest of balance. The UK healthcare system isn't perfect either www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In the interest of further balance, I could not see this even behind contemplated in Germany

First debate on NHS single patient record after data concerns

Reforms to the NHS records system could result in 20,000 fewer visits to A&E annually, according to government projections.

bbc.co.uk

After having spent 6 months with German public healthcare data, I've never been more patriotic about the NHS and the data it produces

After having spent 6 months with German public healthcare data, I've never been more patriotic about the NHS and the data it produces

I'm not saying my workplace is old fashioned but I've just had to spend an hour explaining to my boss (30 years statistical programming experience) git from the beginning (in my second language) and why it's not a "scheiss komplizierte System"

Neuroskeptic@neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yeah ok. A couple of things here...

"Considering children - a population known to be more cognitively flexible than adults - as a proxy psychedelic group..." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42190161/ Hmm

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 3mo ago

The companies which made the Internet are burning it down. It’s very weird.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Job rejection after 3 different interviews and a four hour technical assessment. Honestly, what is the point?

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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"ChatGPT shows strong potential as a supportive tool for econometric coding tasks in health economics, especially in Python and R. However, its output still requires human interpretation and validation" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can AI write your code? A case study of chatgpt’s statistical coding capabilities for quantitative research - Health Economics Review

Health Economics Review - Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have extended its applications well beyond...

link.springer.com

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Clients when I tell them this and should adjust their expectations accordingly and not get to granular with their inclusion criteria, but I end up trying to identify patients with recorded metastases on the third Sunday in the month from incomplete claims data anyway.

a man is laughing and covering his ears with his hands while looking at himself in a mirror .

Alt: a man is laughing and covering his ears with his hands while looking at himself in a mirror .

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It is mind boggling how messy and low quality so much data is. Companies whose entire job is to provide data will turn in shit that barely works.

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"If you don't care about the methods, I don't care about the results"! Most observational research published in biomedical journals is very weak. That's why the methods section is the single most important section, and why it's so ridiculous that Nature journals relegate the methods to the end!

T-shirt that says 'if you don't care about the methods, I don't care about the results'

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3mo ago

Nice reminder that because a study is published in a journal does not mean it’s a good study or that its stated conclusions are reasonable! When people say they are “doing their own research,” even if reading primary literature, missing the context & subtleties can lead to wildly wrong conclusions.

Increasing your daily consumption of ultraprocessed foods by 10% — basically the equivalent of a small bag of potato chips — may raise your risk of dementia even if you normally eat a healthy plant-rich diet, according to a new study. https://cnn.it/4n0zNR6

Authors when you go to the Methodology section to see how they have defined "Ultra processed food"

homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

Alt: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

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CNN@cnn.com · 3mo ago

Peter G @dwyfor16.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I heard a quote recently "and software engineers loved git so much they did the only thing that made sense, consolidate everything into a single point of failure"

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 4mo ago

Looks like GitHub silently corrupted some index. PR #237 definitely exists and is closed (github.com/C2SP/C2SP/pu...) but is just... not in the list (github.com/C2SP/C2SP/pu...) regardless of filters. I briefly doubted my own sanity. This is bad.

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

Saturday night ✅ Mid thirties ✅ Reading about the evolution of the pipe in R ✅

#rstats The idea of a pipe (`|`) operator goes back to early Unix. Eg: `hist | head -5` to see your most recent commands. But, where & how did arrive in R #tidyverse thinking and, importantly: in R syntax? Here's an interesting post that describes this history. adolfoalvarez.cl/blog/2021-09...

Ansgar Wolsing@ansgarw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wait it's all grammar of graphics

Always was

The Grammar of Graphics for SQL – and it’s for real! 😅 #ggsql brings the Grammar of Graphics to SQL - developed by the team behind ggplot2 at Posit. No need to switch to another tool to create nice charts once you have queried your database. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 22 - New tool #dataviz 📊

A chart showing how the new registrations of BEV developed in Germany between January 2017 and March 2026. From a share below 1 % there were major drivers that a highlighted with annotations:
- June 2020: Purchase incentive introduced.
- Fall 2021: Rush to secure purchase incentive before scheduled 2021 expiry and government change.
Dec 2022: Last chance for maximum incentive before rates decreased in Jan 2023.
Aug 2023: Final month for incentive for commercial buyers; private buyers only thereafter.
Dec 2023: Immediate termination of all EV subsidies following federal budget ruling.
2024-25: Organic growth from 10 percent to 24 percent.
Share of Tesla cars is added from 2021 onwards, showing a typical pattern of a weak first month of the quarter, followed by two stronger months. The share increased up to 6 percent until mid 2023, since then it has declined. Strong uptick in March 2026 (about 3 percent of total new registrations).

Peter Gray@pgdataviz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The dtplyr package saving my behind a lot as well dtplyr.tidyverse.org

Data Table Back-End for dplyr

Provides a data.table backend for dplyr. The goal of dtplyr is to allow you to write dplyr code that is automatically translated to the equivalent, but usually much faster, data.table code.

dtplyr.tidyverse.org

I'm on the very skeptical side of the AI hype train but, because my boss/colleagues have been asking Claude to build SQL queries forwarding them on to me - that don't actually do what we need them to do and are full of errors- I've had to learn SQL to do it properly. So, it's helped that way #rstats

For this week's #TidyTuesday, I have messed around with #Shiny for the first time in a while. #rstats App Here: eh1prp-dwyfor16.shinyapps.io/Global_Healt... Code Here: pgdatavizandstats.netlify.app/data_visuali...

TidyTuesday (2026) Week 16: Global Health Spending

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Sitting in a meeting internally shouting "Real world data won't solve all your problems"

Waffle chart this week. Had a time adding the logos to the char but I got there in the end. Code here: pgdatavizandstats.netlify.app/data_visuali... #TidyTuesday #PyDyTuesday #Dataviz #rstats

freeCodeCamp.org@freecodecamp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The R programming language is commonly used for statistical computing & data science. And you can learn it from Harvard in this Intro to R course. You'll use the RStudio IDE and learn about filtering data, writing functions to modularize code, and lots more. www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-r...