{
  "title": "Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣",
  "date": "2024-11-24"
}

# blogdown

**Ben Harrap** (@bharrap.bsky.social; 10/5/0; 2024-11-22): I've been too lazy updating blogdown and Hugo that it's easier to just migrate to a #quarto website.

Fun weekend project? #rstats #dataBS  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/bharrap.bsky.social/post/3lbjcbuqcms2b)

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**Daniel Redondo Sánchez** (@danielredondo.com; 3/0/1; 2024-11-17): He actualizado mi handle a @danielredondo.com 😀

Si tú también tienes un dominio propio, puedes seguir la guía de BlueSky (bsky.social/about/blog/4...). Y si tienes una web hecha con R ({blogdown} GitHub + Netlify), Netlify tiene una guía propia: www.netlify.com/blog/change-...  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/danielredondo.com/post/3lb572mf6os2x)

- <https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial>
- <https://www.netlify.com/blog/change-bluesky-handle-to-custom-domain-with-netlify/>

# bookdown

**Michael Höhle** (@mhoehle.bsky.social; 1/0/0; 2024-11-21): Available without charge and also in HTML Bookdown format:

statistics4ecologists-v2.netlify.app  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/mhoehle.bsky.social/post/3lbhetprivk2u)

- <https://statistics4ecologists-v2.netlify.app>

# knitr

**tj mahr 🎅** (@tjmahr.com; 6/2/1; 2024-11-21): someone asked me about which table-making package to use. (i usually make tables that end up in Word-document scientific manuscripts, so I don't need all of gt's features.) i usually use knitr::kable() as much as possible and tweak by hand in the end. i think i'll recommend this package.  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/tjmahr.com/post/3lbhtutdbq22z)

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**Peter Ellis** (@freerangestats.info; 2/0/0; 2024-11-23): Quarto is basically next generation Rmarkdown. You can also knitr to include output and code in LaTeX if PDF is the needed output. Harder work than Quarto.  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/freerangestats.info/post/3lblfqttow22e)

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**Gonzalo Claros 🫵🏻👻🌳** (@mgclaros.bsky.social; 1/0/1; 2024-11-20): Ve más allá de knitr::kable() y DT::datatable() en #R, y crea tablas atractivas con la librería {gt} con muy pocas líneas de código. El resultado es espectacular porque ofrece enormes posibilidades de personalización #rstats  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/mgclaros.bsky.social/post/3lbf66drz6c2j)

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**Yann Büchau :nixos:** (@nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy; 0/0/0; 2024-11-20): [R bashing / rant]

Holy cow is #Rmarkdown #RStats #knitr inferior to #Jupyter. 😠

- WHY does it need to rerun EVERYTHING for hours when making a HTML/PDF?
- WHY is the apparent solution (caching) so weird? No clear instructions, only blog posts with broken formatting everywhere.
- WHY don't […]  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/nobodyinperson.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy/post/3lbfq64xjttz2)

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**Thomas Speidel** (@thomas-speidel.bsky.social; 0/0/0; 2024-11-15): Me too... and I had no luck with gt. At the moment, for pdf, cross referencing breaks when knitr::kable(., longtable=TRUE) is used.  For simple/short tables you can get away with one chunk targeting both. For long multipage tables it's still a nightmare.  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/thomas-speidel.bsky.social/post/3layv2tatpc2t)

# litedown

**Yihui Xie** (@yihui.org; 3/0/0; 2024-11-18): I've thought about this problem many times in the past, and have also come up with a simple solution early this year (no need to repeat the object name after the assignment or use a special pipe or explicit print()). I just need to find time to document it (among many other things in litedown)...  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/yihui.org/post/3lbb2yhg6ik2x)

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**Yihui Xie** (@yihui.org; 1/1/0; 2024-11-18): You might be interested in litedown (my current best effort in making things lightweight), and if you don't need executable code, you can just write plain .md posts instead of .Rmd (of course, math and bibliography are supported for .md, too).  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/yihui.org/post/3lbatrhboqc2e)

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**Michael Friendly** (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social; 0/1/0; 2024-11-19): Looking forward to checking out {litedown}.
My goal in asking this Q is to have a simple way to
show the code & see the results.

I'm favoring the pipe, |> print() at the moment, which relies on the fact that every print.class function must return it's input unchanged.  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/datavisfriendly.bsky.social/post/3lbbboca7j22e)

# rstats

**Hadley Wickham** (@hadleywickham.bsky.social; 579/29/68; 2024-11-14): Bluesky really is the new #rstats twitter because we have the first base R vs tidyverse flame war 🤣  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/hadleywickham.bsky.social/post/3lawelexzwk2w)

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**Noah Greifer** (@noahgreifer.bsky.social; 204/6/37; 2024-11-16): #Rstats `MatchIt` v4.6.0 is out! `MatchIt` implements propensity score matching and other matching methods for causal effect estimation. This isn't a major release, but here are the main updates: 🧵

#causalsky #econsky #episky #statsky  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/noahgreifer.bsky.social/post/3lb3iqh6w7225)

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**Emily Riederer** (@emilyriederer.bsky.social; 204/14/22; 2024-11-14): #rstats is actually fighting about Base versus Tidyverse again on this platform. We are so back  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/emilyriederer.bsky.social/post/3lawzmdj7622t)

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**Stephen Turner** (@stephenturner.us; 165/29/58; 2024-11-16): Bluesky for Science

Starter packs for genomics, bioinformatics, #Rstats, Nextflow. Moderation lists. Feeds. Let's rebuild the old scitwitter community and keep this place nice 

blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesky-fo... 🧬🖥️🧪  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/stephenturner.us/post/3lb2ogoddjc25)

- <https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/bluesky-for-science>

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**Peter Tennant, PhD** (@pwgtennant.bsky.social; 156/14/14; 2024-11-15): Badge to commemorate the first #Rstats shitstorm on Bluesky! 
#StatsSky #EpiSky  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/pwgtennant.bsky.social/post/3laxkf3mfdk2v)

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**Johannes B. Gruber** (@jbgruber.bsky.social; 120/6/54; 2024-11-16): As more #rstats folks arrived here recently: you can use the Bluesky API for free and there are several packages for it. You can find the one @benguinaudeau.bsky.social @favstats.bsky.social and I wrote here:

jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/

And a fun bot project: www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01...  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/jbgruber.bsky.social/post/3lb2uhedhsc2f)

- <https://jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/>
- <https://www.johannesbgruber.eu/post/2024-01-18-building-r-bloggers-bluesky-bot-with-atrrr/>

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**Quarto** (@quarto.org; 115/10/17; 2024-11-15): Excited to join the Bluesky community! We're here to connect with everyone who uses Quarto to share their ideas. What have you been creating lately?

#DataScience #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch #rstats #pydata #julialang  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/quarto.org/post/3laziz4knes2t)

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**Paula Moraga** (@paulamoraga.bsky.social; 107/6/20; 2024-11-16): Hi BlueSky! 👋 I am a spatial statistician & university professor working on methods & #rstats packages for disease surveillance 🌍💻📊 I wrote books on #Geospatial Health Data & Spatial Statistics for #DataScience 📚

👉 bit.ly/bookspatial

Excited to connect, share, and learn with you all here! 💜 ✨  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/paulamoraga.bsky.social/post/3lb3ipey3zc2b)

- <https://bit.ly/bookspatial>

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**David Keyes** (@dgkeyes.com; 99/12/7; 2024-11-15): Thinking about doing some live streaming next week to recreate this Financial Times graph in ggplot. #rstats  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/dgkeyes.com/post/3laz7q7iwbk27)

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**milos makes maps** (@milos-makes-maps.bsky.social; 97/4/18; 2024-11-16): Happy to share my new elevation and land cover map of the Iberian peninsula. Can you spot the most dominant land cover type? 🌲🏙️🏔️

🎥 Learn how to make your own 3D maps in this video 👇🏻

youtu.be/y_Kzg24Ciuo

#maps #rstats #dataviz #GIS #rayshader  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/milos-makes-maps.bsky.social/post/3lb2gljicys23)

- <https://youtu.be/y_Kzg24Ciuo>

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**Dr. Dominic Royé** (@drxeo.eu; 62/1/9; 2024-11-15): New smoothed climate frost day probability (minimum temperature < 0ºC) throughout the year for Europe based on ERA5-Land. #rstats #dataviz  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/drxeo.eu/post/3lays7pkhwc2i)

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**Nick Clark** (@njclark.bsky.social; 56/5/24; 2024-11-16): Using Generalized Additive Models in #rstats but unsure how to interpret them? The {marginaleffects} 📦 by @vincentab.bsky.social is your friend ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/interpr...  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/njclark.bsky.social/post/3lb3ks4ier22e)

- <https://ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/interpreting-gams/>

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**terence** (@tterence.bsky.social; 56/4/9; 2024-11-16): Uluṟu in lines.

#ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/tterence.bsky.social/post/3lazns2cbu222)

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**Jeremy Allen** (@jeremy-data.bsky.social; 54/11/5; 2024-11-15): but have you seen the #rstats heretics who use aes() outside the ggplot() function? keep an eye on those ones 
🕵️‍♀️  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/jeremy-data.bsky.social/post/3lazetuczcj2z)

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**milos makes maps** (@milos-makes-maps.bsky.social; 42/1/4; 2024-11-17): Check out my dot-density map of Poland's🇵🇱 population by powiat (admin level 2). 

1 dot = 10,000 people, randomly placed within their powiat.

Can you spot the most populated regions? 🧐

Learn to create maps like this with my YouTube tutorial!
youtu.be/aUA1Sb6IBVQ

#maps #dataviz #rstats #Poland  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/milos-makes-maps.bsky.social/post/3lb54vuviek2i)

- <https://youtu.be/aUA1Sb6IBVQ>

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**Crystal Lewis** (@cghlewis.bsky.social; 27/1/0; 2024-11-16): Spending my Saturday morning testing out some sample #rstats code for an upcoming project. 

It's an exciting life I live. 😅  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/cghlewis.bsky.social/post/3lb2z5youps2q)

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**Prof Andy Field** (@profandyfield.bsky.social; 26/1/7; 2024-11-16): Reminder that I’ve written some learnr tutorials and helper functions for meta-analysis in #rstats github.com/profandyfiel...  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/profandyfield.bsky.social/post/3lb2hifvrh22t)

- <https://github.com/profandyfield/metahelpr>

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**terence** (@tterence.bsky.social; 20/1/1; 2024-11-16): Thanks to @brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social who pointed out that names matter, here's Namibia's highest mountain once again.

#ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/tterence.bsky.social/post/3lb345xdnh22z)

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**Rami Krispin** (@ramikrispin.bsky.social; 16/0/3; 2024-11-16): The weekend edition of my newsletter is dedicated to Bluesky data starter packs 👇🏼

www.linkedin.com/pulse/bluesk...

#data #datascience #machinelearning #rstats #python #dataviz  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/ramikrispin.bsky.social/post/3lb3h6xl2bc2i)

- <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bluesky-data-starter-packs-rami-krispin-cyldc/>

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**Egor Kotov** (@egorkotov.bsky.social; 12/1/0; 2024-11-17): #30DayMapChallenge #Choropleth #DANA #Spain Impact of DANA on displacement from the usual residence in Spain. Interactive map: www.ekotov.pro/2024-30DayMa... | Code: github.com/e-kotov/2024... #rstats #spanishoddata (ropenspain.github.io/spanishoddata/) + #mapgl (by @kylewalker.bsky.social)  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/egorkotov.bsky.social/post/3lb4ddh3afc2u)

- <https://www.ekotov.pro/2024-30DayMapChallenge/16-choropleth.html>
- <https://github.com/e-kotov/2024-30DayMapChallenge/blob/main/R/16-choropleth.R>
- <https://ropenspain.github.io/spanishoddata/>

# yihui.org

**** (@vitalydruker.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2024-10-24): You can also modify the '##' that's used by setting the comment option for the rmarkdown chunk and set it to an empty string. yihui.org/knitr/option...  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/vitalydruker.bsky.social/post/3l7calxgdy622)

- <https://yihui.org/knitr/options/#chunk-options>

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**Jon B.** (@jon-b.bsky.social; 1/1/0; 2024-06-18): I was not prepared to solve problems with TinyTeX/Tex Live. It was a painful experience, but somehow I made it out alive. I now understand why there's a "Hall of Pain" section of the website: yihui.org/tinytex/pain/ #rstats  [&#8618;](https://bsky.app/profile/jon-b.bsky.social/post/3kv7tytxvjo2h)

- <https://yihui.org/tinytex/pain/>

