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Episode 245 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🌐 Contribute to R Core @r-foundation.bsky.social @rconsortium.bsky.social 📦 Package/Env tools @ivelasq3.bsky.social @rworks.bsky.social 🧬 Comp Bio & Shiny @samuelbharti.com h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social #rstats #databs

{renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, ir... so many new #RStats tools! I wrote up a blog post if you've want to unpack (haha) how they work and how they are different. Inspired by @rpodcast.bsky.social's wonderful Data Science Lab episode (thank you, Eric!). Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/r-mana...

If you’re a fan of Top 40 lists, check out my startup’s Top 40 countdown playlists on YouTube! They’re generated entirely in #rstats using our AI packages; diffuseR, chatterbox, and whisper! Links below. Thanks for the diffuseR shoutout @rworks.bsky.social!

The CRAN Top 40 is a monthly attempt to sort through the new packages submitted to CRAN and find 40 quality packages that demonstrate the #RStats language and appeal to a wide audience of potential users. We hope you find something interesting and maybe even useful. rworks.dev/posts/august...

Another month, another incredible 300+ #RStats packages on CRAN! Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's Top 40 picks for July, spanning Causal Inference, Chemistry, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, and more. rworks.dev/posts/july-2...

An astounding 412 (!) #RStats packages made their way to CRAN last month, and @revojoe.bsky.social picked out forty that he thinks you should know about. Check them out on R Works: rworks.dev/posts/june-2...

323 (!) new #RStats packages were submitted to CRAN in May. Here are @revojoe.bsky.social's Top 40 picks in eighteen categories: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, Ecology, and more. Read here: rworks.dev/posts/may-20...

CRAN continues to be the most accessible repository for statistical knowledge on the planet, and the number of new packages being accepted by CRAN is growing faster than ever. But, is the #RStats community benefiting from this new growth? @revojoe.bsky.social explores: rworks.dev/posts/too-ma...

An incredible 376 #RStats packages made it on to CRAN in April. Do you want to know which had the most interesting applications, thorough documentation, innovative functions? No need to ask Claude, @revojoe.bsky.social already looked through them all meticulously for you: rworks.dev/posts/april-...

Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages: an idiosyncratic, unabashedly biased, time-constrained attempt to capture the depth and breadth of the new packages submitted to CRAN in a single month entirely without the use of AI: clearly unsustainable, but maybe entertaining and somewhat useful.

We often see Healthcare Economics Models from the practitioner's perspective, but what if we view them as a practitioner, instead? @revojoe.bsky.social explores the continuous-time Markov chain behind this new paradigm in #RStats: rworks.dev/posts/oscc-p...

I wrote a post on Claude Skills for #RStats users, and I got asked if they work with Posit Assistant for RStudio. Absolutely! You can also add custom Skills by putting them in your skills directory, or asking the Assistant to create one. I wrote a bit about it here: rworks.dev/posts/skills...

Discover @revojoe.bsky.social's picks for top #RStats CRAN pkgs released in February, including ✅ quallmer v0.3.0: Tools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding 🏥 nhanesdata v4.1.0: Access to NHANES data 📏 ggInterval v0.2.4: Visualize intervals w/ ggplot2 Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/Feb-20...

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users. Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI. Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡 rworks.dev/posts/claude...

The kuzco package from @frankiethull.bsky.social made the January 2026 Top 40 CRAN #RStats packages by @revojoe.bsky.social! Congratulations, Frank, on such a great package ❤️🦙 rworks.dev/posts/januar...

196!! #RStats packages hit CRAN in December 2025. Interested in a curated selection? @revojoe.bsky.social has you covered with the Top 40 New CRAN Packages. rworks.dev/posts/decemb...

Take a fresh look at ROC curves with this mathematical take from @revojoe.bsky.social. By using ideas from differential geometry, like curvature and arc length, it offers new insights into a familiar tool. rworks.dev/posts/roc-an... #RStats

Every month, @revojoe.bsky.social reviews and summarized 40 #RStats packages that landed on CRAN, based on their topics, documentation, applicability, and more! Check out the picks from October: rworks.dev/posts/octobe...

You may have heard of ROC curves, but what exactly are they? Learn the the basics of ROC curves using simple #RStats code and intuitive explanations. "ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code": rworks.dev/posts/Horton...

I wrote a lil post on the amazing work that @ginareynolds.bsky.social does championing ggplot2 extension developers and teaching others to build their own! The post features the Scrollytelling Quarto extension and the group's cute #RStats hex 🐱: rworks.dev/posts/ggplot...

It's time for the Top 40 New #RStats Packages on CRAN for September 2025! Learn about new packages for data, statistics, finance, and more. These great packages come complete with great documentation, images, references. Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/septem...

Be Mindful of the Time: Estimating a Continuous-Time Markov Chain from Incomplete Data In his latest post, @revojoe.bsky.social shows how data can implicitly define time scales and why that matters when modeling real-world processes. #RStats Read here: rworks.dev/posts/5-stat...

August 2025's Top 40 picks are out, highlighting excellent #RStats packages from Differential Privacy to Toxicology to Causal Inference. This marks 1 year of Top 40 posts since we started R Works! 🎉 Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/august...

A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution by @revojoe.bsky.social 🔗 rworks.dev/posts/note-o... #RStats

The July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages blog post is now out! Check out great picks from @revojoe.bsky.social in 13 categories, including Causal Inference, Ecology, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Pharma, Statistics, and Visualization. rworks.dev/posts/july-2...

On the R Works blog, @ivelasq3.bsky.social shares a short blog post on getting started with the ANES 2024 data in #RStats! rworks.dev/posts/anes20...

This month's Top 40 New CRAN packages includes ... some really awesome visualizations! Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's picks in 21 categories, including AI, chess, epidemiology, music theory, and more. Blog post: rworks.dev/posts/june-2... #RStats

In our latest post, Vidisha Vachharajani discusses the fundamental driver of successful AI agent use: prompting, or instructing an #LLM to perform a task with input text. See how to go from vague directions to specific #RStats guidance in #RStudio using GitHub Copilot. rworks.dev/posts/health...

Vidisha Vachharajani continues the "Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics" series! Part 2 evaluates the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and impact of patient-level variables on downstream outcomes while exploring the #RStats + AI! Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/health...

May was a big month for #RStats! 186 new packages landed on CRAN. We've got the top 40 highlighted on R Works, featuring an image from the GencoDymo2 package (human and mouse genomes!). Check it out here: rworks.dev/posts/may-20...

Markov Chains can model patient outcomes. This post walks through calculating transition probabilities and using absorbing states to estimate long-term health outcomes in #RStats. rworks.dev/posts/simple...

Using GitHub Copilot to analyze complex healthcare datasets comes with opportunities and challenges. Vidisha Vachharajani walks through an example and shares reflections in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/health... #RStats

We're delighted by the depth and breadth of #RStats packages released in CRAN! @revojoe.bsky.social shares April's Top 40 picks, including Olajoke Oladipo's cheetahR for super-fast table gen and Russ Conte's ClassificationEnsembles for building classification models. rworks.dev/posts/april-...

In a previous post, we presented an #RStats rjags version of a Bayesian model from Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare by Welton et al. This second post explores cost-effectiveness frameworks in healthcare using deterministic and stochastic models. rworks.dev/posts/ESDM-2/

Thanks for the shoutout, @bsky.chrisbrownlie.com!

Thinking about using VS Code for integrating both #RStats and #Python in your code? John Mark Agosta shares some considerations in our latest blog post: rworks.dev/posts/r-pyth...

Thank you for the shout out on the R Weekly podcast ❤️ @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are always a great listen, and appreciate you @batoolmm.bsky.social for highlighting the Top 40 Packages post! Check out the other great highlights this week: rweekly.org #RStats

In March, 182 new packages made it to CRAN. Here are @revojoe.bsky.social's Top 40 picks in 16 categories, including agriculture, archaeology, biology, epidemiology, and more! rworks.dev/posts/march-... #RStats

Fall down an ARIMA model rabbit hole with @revojoe.bsky.social and explore a time series where forecast::auto.arima() and fable::ARIMA() chose very different models but gave nearly identical forecasts. A good case study in identifiability! #RStats rworks.dev/posts/arima-...

In February, one hundred fifty-nine new #RStats packages made it to CRAN. Check out @revojoe.bsky.social's top picks, including two in a new category, "Weather"! rworks.dev/posts/februa...

How many ways can you color a 2x2 grid of squares? Vidisha Vachharajani walks through a simplified version of the four color theorem: You paint each square one of four colors, but no two adjacent squares have the same color. Check out the solution, done with #RStats! rworks.dev/posts/math-p...

Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare is an exemplary presentation of healthcare decision analysis and Bayesian modeling. In this blog post, we present a JAGS version of a WinBugs model from the book using the jagsUI and rjags #RStats packages: rworks.dev/posts/eviden...

It's Friday, which means it's time for an #RStats puzzle! Can you arrange the digits 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 in such order that they form a number that may be divided by every number from 2 to 18 without a remainder? Nina Zumel walks through it in "Digital Difficulties" 🔢 rworks.dev/posts/digita...

I am excited to present this Thursday, March 13, at the Bay Area useR meetup about analyzing time series data at scale with cluster analysis methods. Mariana Menchero, the author of the nixtlar R library from Nixtla, will present about forecasting foundation models using TimeGPT 🚀! #RStats

Interested in Bayesian Meta-Analysis with the brms package? Learn how to formulate complex Bayesian models without writing any stan code: rworks.dev/posts/bma-wi... #RStats

Very well deserved! Check out @liomys.mx's forgts package for converting formatted spreadsheets to presentation-ready display gt #RStats tables! luisdva.github.io/forgts/

📦 forgts made it into the latest top 40 CRAN packages list 😀 rworks.dev/posts/januar...

The Top 40 New CRAN Packages from January 2025 are now out 👀 #RStats rworks.dev/posts/januar...

ESMARConf 2025 has been announced - 11-13th June 2025! esmarconf.org

Great Time Series review by Joseph Rickert. He shows TimeGPT using nixtlar. I would love to see more use cases with different data sets. Who's next? #TimeSeries #rstats #TimeGPT #nixtlar rworks.dev/posts/revise...