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

🗺️ New in the development version of the {tmap} R package: blending modes are now available! This makes it much easier to create more expressive terrain visualizations. github.com/r-tmap/tmap/... #rstats #tmap #GISchat #rspatial

Amazingly, the Scottish Government has an "Open Data team" and they're building a new public data platform (as one does): What is data.​gov.​scot and why are we doing it? blogs.gov.scot/digital/2026... data.gov.scot "will become the new home for open data about Scotland" 👍

{duckplyr} is amazing. Retrieve records from a large online database with several million rows in 1 second duckplyr.tidyverse.org #Rstats

🌍 Calling R, geospatial & Earth Observation enthusiasts! Take on the R-for-eaRth Data Challenge: methane emission estimation from Sentinel-2 data. Deadline: June 30, 2026 Url: https://github.com/CredibleAI/R-for-eaRth #RStats #RSpatial #EarthObservation #OpenScience

Installing stuff on a new M5 MacBook Pro and finally revisiting my old Makevars incantations and just learned that life is like a billion times easier nowadays for getting #rstats to work with OpenMP on macOS! Basically I just have this now and everything installs/compiles smoothly?

#Rstats #RSpatial #Duckdb ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Kyle Walker@kylewalker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Announcing {freestiler}: a high-performance vector tiling engine for R and Python. Generate vector tiles for your maps directly from R/Python spatial data, @duckdb queries, and local spatial files. Check out the docs here: walker-data.com/free... Some highlights:

I got a Garmin watch recently and went a rabbit hole trying to recreate its data viz in ggplot. It's so different from making regular report/dashboard plots! Recreating things made with other technologies is a great way to learn! Link: mic-wypych.github.io/posts/garmin... #ggplot2 #dataviz #rstats

My favourite way to incorporate {gt} tables in Quarto rendered typst reports, along with `#show figure: set block(breakable: true)`{=typst} #rstats #quarto

Me, explaining my R script with Base R, data.table and tidyverse code. #rstats

i guess this caddy setup should work too github.com/andrewheiss/... (nginx version given too)

Does anyone have a go-to guide for deploying {plumber} REST APIs on an on-premise server using Docker and Nginx? #rstats I used a tutorial earlier in the year, but I can't find it for some reason.

🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including: - Simplified YAML settings - Auto page navigation - Previous buttons! More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...

Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org

We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.

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#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 - 3 | Points, Lines and Polygons. #rstats

Github actions with R by Chris Brown, Murray Cadzow, Paula A Martinez, Rhydwyn McGuire, David Neuzerling and David Wilkinson, Saras Windecker #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/version%20control.html#github-actions-with-r

The new {marginaleffects} release for #RStats (0.30.0) comes with two new vignettes: 1. Speed up computation with automatic differentiation (often 10x gains) marginaleffects.com/bonus/perfor... 2. Power analyses with {marginaleffects} and {DeclareDesign}. marginaleffects.com/bonus/power....

Recreating each of the tables in Chapter 7 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Edition) tables in R with apa7 (Part 2 of 24) Featuring hanging indents, column spanners, and decimal alignment wjschne.github.io/posts/apatab... #rstats #apastyle

Excited to see this irl. #econsky #rstats

📢 Materials from the OpenGeoHub Summer School 2025 (“Data Science for Earth Observation”) by Krzysztof Dyba are now online. Discuss how to access, process, and analyze satellite data with #RStats. 👉 github.com/kadyb/OGH2025 #RSpatial #RemoteSensing #GISchat

Gas prices in the US for this week's #TidyTuesday Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

New conceptual review + tutorial on text embeddings out in #APA_Journals w/ @almogsi. Beginner-friendly, but experts will find spicy new takes as well. Tag a colleague who’s still counting words... #RStats #tidyverse #quanteda 1/

Here is a bit of #rstats analysis on the Bloemfontein property market. blog.sivuyilenzimeni.com/posts/2025_P...

Cape Town's Gini Coefficient using #rstats

Starting to look like I might not be able to work at Harvard anymore due to recent funding cuts. If you know of any open statistical consulting positions that support remote work or are NYC-based, please reach out! 😅

I'm happy to announce the addition of 15 books to @bigbookofr.com including 9 in Portuguese! #Rstats oscarbaruffa.com/bbof-20250518/

15 New Books added to Big Book of R - Oscar Baruffa

I’m very excited to announce that 6 English-language books and 9 Portuguese books have been added to the collection of over 400 free, open-source R programming books. Many thanks to Bruno Mioto for th...

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🔍 Interested in spatial machine learning with R?🌍 We compare caret, tidymodels, and mlr3 for spatial tasks — and show how their workflows differ. Read it here: geocompx.org/post/2025/sm... #MachineLearning #SpatialAnalysis #RStats #rspatial

🚨 New #rexams version 2.4-2 out on CRAN #rstats - exams2moodle: Fixed schoice evaluation in cloze exercises - exams2nops: New features in nops_fix, nops_eval, ... - exams2pdf: Facilitate customization See the NEWS for more details. cran.r-project.org/package=exams

exams: Automatic Generation of Exams in R

Automatic generation of exams based on exercises in Markdown or LaTeX format, possibly including R code for dynamic generation of exercise elements. Exercise types include single-choice and multiple-c...

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How does one deploy a {plumber} API using docker? I am looking to test an API preferably without having USD bill. #rstats I have seen a solution before however, I can't seem to find online.

Here it is with real data! A map of 550,000 foreign aid projects in just a few lines of #rstats code

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · last yr.

Thing I just learned in #rstats: unz() lets you connect to a .zip and load files from inside it without actually unzipping it (great for a file I'm working with that's 30 MB zipped and 1+ GB unzipped, with multiple CSVs in it)

Worth watching the talk by Maxime Bélanger de Blois if/when it's online. App: montreal.curbcut.ca GitHub: github.com/Curbcut/curb... #RShiny #RStats #ShinyConf2025 #ShinyConf #dataviz

Curbcut Montréal | Vers une ville durable

Curbcut est une plateforme d'exploration approfondie, dynamique et intuitive de la durabilité urbaine.

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