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Summary of #Rstats posts on bluesky from 2024-12-18 to 2024-12-24 using claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022

Summary

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Here's a summary of the top #rstats posts on Bluesky from the past week:

Key Announcements and News:

  • Posit (formerly RStudio) joined the Open Source Pledge, committing $2000/year per developer to support open source software
  • The RStudio IDE and Posit Workbench received a major update with Positron Pro support
  • useR 2025 will be held at Duke University in August 2024
  • Several notable package releases including rms 6.9-0, {chopin} for spatial analysis, and {rayrender} v0.38.0

Popular Topics and Themes:

  1. Package Development & Updates
  2. Data Visualization
  3. Tutorials & Learning Resources
  4. Statistical Methods
  5. Mobile Development
  6. Generative Art

Notable Tutorial Content:

  • Jarrett Byrnes shared a tutorial on Bayesian SEM using brms
  • Danielle Navarro wrote about regular expressions in R
  • Multiple posts about the easystats ecosystem for Bayesian analysis

Innovation & New Tools:

  • Colin announced Rlinguo, a mobile app for running R on phones
  • New developments in web-based R applications using webR and Shinylive
  • Various updates to visualization packages and tools

Community Engagement:

  • Active TidyTuesday participation analyzing D&D spell data
  • Significant discussion around generative art and visualization
  • Strong focus on teaching and learning resources

The overall tone of the R community on Bluesky is overwhelmingly positive and collaborative, with a mix of technical discussion, creative applications, and mutual support. There's a strong emphasis on sharing knowledge and resources, particularly around data visualization and statistical methods.

Common Hashtags: #rstats #dataviz #tidytuesday #pydata #statistics #dataBS #rtistry #bayesian #shiny #ggplot2

Notable Authors:

  • Hadley Wickham
  • Danielle Navarro
  • Frank Harrell
  • Tyler Morgan-Wall
  • Sharon Machlis
  • Colin Fay
  • Nicola Rennie

The community appears to be particularly excited about new developments in mobile and web-based R applications, as well as advances in statistical computing and visualization tools. There's also a strong strain of creativity running through the posts, with many sharing artistic applications of R programming.

Top posts

Top 10 posts:

  • Hadley Wickham: Very proud to announce that @posit.co has joined the opensourcepledge.com. We're committing to spending $2000 / developer / year to support open source software that we use (but don't develop): posit.co/blog/posit-p... #rstats #pydata
  • Jarrett Byrnes: OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)
  • Danielle Navarro: Some words on regular expressions in #rstats. In which I finally wrap my head around the fact that there are at least three different regex engines in widespread usage in R, they support different features, and they all hate me blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2024-1...
  • Colin 🤘🌱🏃‍♀️: #RStats I'm so, so thrilled to finally share the release of Rlinguo, a mobile app that runs R 📱 This is a fully, native mobile app that uses #webR in the backend to run R functions. Available on the App Store (iPhone) & Play Store (Android) rtask.thinkr.fr/introducing-...
  • Erik Reinbergs: These bayes tutorials are the first ones i've actually understood. Looking forward to the rest of the being finished. Go @easystats.bsky.social teams! easystats.github.io/bayestestR/i... #rstats
  • Dave H: Just pushed a Christmas update to {ggblanket}. I decided to support colour blending. It uses {ggblend} under the hood (thanks @mjskay.com), which uses graphics features developed by Paul Murrell. Give {ggblanket} and {ggblend} a star, if you find them useful. Oh, and have a merry Christmas #rstats
  • Owen Phillips: I created a thing that puts every player's box score stats from the night before in one interactive table. Ive been using it every morning to quickly check who had a good/bad game instead of looking at 10 different box scores updates nightly #rstats #gt #quarto thef5.quarto.pub/boy/
  • Hadley Wickham: I discovered that the original plyr website still exists: had.co.nz/plyr/. It's hard to imagine that this used to be a better than average package website #rstats
  • Frank Harrell: 1/2 Major release 6.9-0 of #RStats rms package now available on CRAN w/complete re-write of the binary/ordinal logistic regression function lrm. lrm began in 1980 as SAS PROC LOGIST so it was time for a re-do for iterative calculations. Details are at fharrell.com/post/mle
  • Joe Chou: As far as I’m concerned, #webr and #shinylive is indistinguishable from magic. I can’t believe that since first installing #quarto-webr a few hours ago till now, I’ve gotten a relatively complicated #shinyapp exported, deployed, and running serverless. This is magic. #rstats
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