Ulrich Atz

One more R coding skill for the pile: tidy-r. It includes all the cool new functions of dplyr 1.2! It also hooks into the r-btw MCP server for live docs, or falls back to R help when it's not available. You can install it in one line. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/tidy-r-skill

Now this is news I can get behind: Valve boss Gabe Newell admits his Mongolian throat singing phase was "annoying," and he's apparently not very good at it, either: "I am entirely self taught and it shows" www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-...

Das ist bitter. rundblick-niedersachsen.de/politikwisse... @philippkoeker.bsky.social philippkoeker.com

Incredible measurement “coincidence” … and stellar work by the data colada team again.

Amazing resource, and freely available with a NC license.

You can vote on the new euro money design: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... 💶💶💶

This game was absolute chaos. You need to know that the goal also meant Algeria would face Spain instead of Switzerland next, and they knew it.

Congratulations to the R Core Team and the five named laureates; I’m happy for them and everyone who supports the amazing #rstats community. Bravo! 👏

If you reprice $TSLA and $SPCX at reasonable, even generous, growth-company multiples, you get a net worth around $350B. Is that a reasonable amount for one person to have? No. Does the exact number matter much in the grander scheme of problems? Also no.

And the new compact bar icons for #Positron, which I much appreciate. 🙌

Did you recently update your #rstats to 4.6? Is your matrix algebra slow? Not #BLAS ting? `sessionInfo()` shows which BLAS library R uses. Switching from reference BLAS to Apple Accelerate is easily a 50x speedup. Let me know if this worked for you. 🚀 uatz.org/blog/2026-06-04-r-blas-macos/ #rstats

I thought the original design was best until I saw this one. *after all ... why not? meme*

The article on "collapse: Advanced and Fast Statistical Computing and Data Transformation in R" has now been published (open-access) in the Journal of Statistical Software: www.jstatsoft.org/article/view... #rstats #DataScience

The 📦 `wrds` dev version displays the official product names for a more human-readable version of the table names. The package now comes with a #rstats #pkgdown site: statzhero.github.io/wrds/news/in... All that's missing is a hex sticker? Send ideas.

🚨 @rmcelreath.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social & @avehtari.bsky.social are coming on the show mid-June to discuss their new book, Bayesian Workflow! ONE listener gets to bring a real Bayesian problem onto the recording and have the three of them work through it live. Here's how to enter 🧵

New version of the #typst template, now with more epigraph. typst.app/universe/pac...

What’s going on in this chart? Accounting and finance sit in a strange upper-right quadrant: jobs are available, but fields are highly exposed to AI. Are firms just slow to adapt, or do entry roles fulfill a different purpose vs. IT? Gift link below: www.economist.com/finance-and-... #AI #jobs

oof what happened to ebay? If you pay $100 for something shipped from New York, the seller might only keep around two thirds, so $66, after sales tax, shipping, and fees. What a haircut, feels like #ebay is cooked

Happy 100, big man

Join us in wishing a massive happy 100th birthday to the man who has inspired millions of people around the world to care about nature and look after our planet - the incredible Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

`wrds` 0.1.1 is out. It has better error messages for Duo 2FA issues, and a new `wrds_update_password()` function. Install from GitHub with `pak::pak("statzhero/wrds")`. Feedback welcome. #rstats github.com/statzhero/wrds

Hell yeah @zotero.org

for the targets #rstats fans: highly recommend some targets-specific keybindings for Positron/VSCode

Here are three agent skills for Typst typesetting. If you haven't tried Typst yet: it's the modern LaTeX replacement that compiles in milliseconds. #typst #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/typst-skill github.com/statzhero/typst-cetz-skill github.com/statzhero/typst-touying-skill

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One takeaway from the paper is that disclosure is necessary but not sufficient: Franchise Disclosure Documents make these restraints visible, but they do not undo switching costs,hold-up, or post-term noncompetes. The FTC's Franchise Rule emphasizes disclosure over substantive regulation.

@paulgp.com where do the 70-90% identification rates from the dashboard website come from? I can't find them in the paper (or I'm reading it wrong). paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Another day, another R coding skill: targets-r. Covers the amazing `targets` package by Will Landau fosstodon.org/@landau for reproducible analysis pipelines. You can install it in one line. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/targets-r-skill

`tidy-r` SKILL.md got a spring clean! I slimmed down the reference, added `tidyselect` coverage, and fixed a few things. It's one line to install. 📦 #rstats #claudecode #codex github.com/statzhero/tidy-r-skill

New blog post: The corruption of English. A very short rant, and my entry into the grumpy-old-man genre. uatz.org/blog/2026-04-06-corruption-of-english/

This made me chuckle @posit.co #positron #rstats

Send me your favorite #rstats hex tile. (And also the philosophy around it.)

unlocked new mobile browser tab count

This is live on the official IRS website and hasn't been fixed in a year.

Some juicy prizes for an essay.

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!

The #AI benchmark that matters github.com/petergpt/bul...

Vibecoding in #Rstats visualized

New \glitch{} #latex command just dropped to freak out your coauthors. Tells exactly how the paper is going. gist.github.com/statzhero/ea...