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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh! I've been looking for something like this for my blog!

(Wait... it's in Distill... is Distill still .Rmd-only?)

Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, I got a swag bag from #PositConf2025 and the Posit-branded S-Gel pen is in heavy rotation at the moment. I have dozens of other S-Gel pens, but this one has a special place in my heart. Will disassemble others for a refill.

I still use a MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conf water bottle from 2017!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 17d

I wrote a wrapper around {knitr} kable and {kableExtra} kable_styling that I put at the top of every HW assignment I give to students (output is always PDF). I also have it in all of my Beamer slides 😬

It makes kable tables nice by default.

You can still call, e.g. knitr::kable, too!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 18d

abba, abc, xyz, xx, yy, and temp are my most commonly used placeholders/temporary names

Are there even rules against this, though?
"Thou shalt not have draft code!"?

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 18d

I came here to make this comment. Beat me to it!

= forever

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 21d

CHI - United Center is ~2 mi away
MIL - 1.5 hr drive
MIN - staying in IA with s/o's bro (7hr drive)
DEN - staying in CO with s/o's other bro (flight)
CLE - 5.5 hr drive (hotel req)
IND - 3 hr drive

(All on days that work nicely with academic calendar)

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 21d

It's rough being away from home and a Spurs fan! NBA Team Pass has been helpful for the past decade, and I've been catching road games for the past couple of years, too! (This season: CHI, MIL, MIN, DEN, CLE, IND) #gsg

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22d

I might need to do this to keep up with my collection.

I have space for maybe two more, but I could fit even more if I moved some around; I'm scared to death of doing that!

I know I've seen guides around the internet on how to convert these hex stickers to magnets, but I've lost track of them 🙈

Laptop cover featuring 15 hex stickers and three Spurs basketball stickers

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22d

Did my neighbor and I immediately check to see if our coins stuck together like magnets? Yes.

But also, the backside is a relief rendering of the {tidyverse} hex logo, so it feels trying to put a magnet on would undo one of the sides 🙃🫠

The backside of the coin from another post that features the front side of the tidydevday 2025 coin.

Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22d

The first PR in {forcats}

github.com/tidyverse/forcats/pull/384

Base R pipe AND lambda notation. Fixes #381 by math-mcshane · Pull Request #384 · tidyverse/forcats

Searched all *.R and .Rmd files for examples using magrittr pipe, %>%. No examples needed, e.g., y |> (\(x) f(a = x, b = x))() nor y |> f(second_arg = _) etc. Finally, issue mentions tha...

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22d

I also fixed the 2nd PR this morning.

Both of my PRs were about transitioning from the {magrittr} pipe to the Base R pipe — one to clean up {forcats} examples/vignette, and one to deprecate a {usethis} function that makes it easy to add %>% to a package.

github.com/r-lib/usethis/pull/2183

Deprecate `use_pipe()`. Fixes #2124 by math-mcshane · Pull Request #2183 · r-lib/usethis

Completed: Added a short deprecation message when using use_pipe(), Added a longer bit of advice in the package documentation for common substitutions, including the 2023 blog post on the base pip...

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22d

A couple and the coin!

Three tidyverse/r-lib stickers and a commemorative coin for participating in tidy dev day 2025

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 22d

Just finished my first #rstats #TidyDevDay! It might have been a net negative on open issues, because I:

* opened an issue each in {pak}, {roxygen2}, and {gitcreds}
* submitted a PR to {forcats}
* submitted a PR to {usethis} (needs corrected test)

But at least I got this selfie with @hadley.nz 🫠😆

Hadley Wickham, me, and all of the post-it notes of completed PRs.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 23d

In the "super rare" section at the bottom next to flair!

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 23d

OK #PositConf2025 -- I acquired most of the stickers I heard were available; here's my final score! (Thanks for the assists @ivelasq3.bsky.social ({dtplyr}!!!) @kellybodwin.com and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social ). I'll be re-distributing many of these to my students as leaderboard prizes 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 #rstats

Sticker haul from posit::conf(2025) (and a couple from USCOTS 2025)

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · 24d

Why not both? I use Quarto *and* modify the theme with a .sty file (for mathy courses with less code where Beamer makes a little more sense). And my regular reveal.js slides attempt to mimic that Beamer style with css/scss 😬

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh. My.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Sep 12

@grrrck.xyz I finally implemented {ggcheck} in my early {ggplot2} assignment autograders (in past 2 weeks, even!)

Do you/a colleague know how this will impact {ggcheck}? Seems like there's some backwards compatibility currently built in, but Teun noted in post that will eventually be phased out.

Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Sep 12

Woah! It seems that this release unraveled some of the more perplexing mysteries in {ggplot2}.

I'm teaching my "Practical R Programming" course again this Fall (finishing a September term iteration tomorrow)... I can't wait to write up an updated set of notes!

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Aug 30

Interview trip to Amherst College (2019):

I checked out a record store in Northampton. I asked the shopkeeper why they had so many KSE posters in the bathroom and he reported that they were from around there.

Impressed me more than Frost, Webster['s], and Dickinson all being from there 😅

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm talking about reproducibility in class today, and was inspired to make this last night after reviewing some of @brodriguesco.bsky.social 's book, raps-with-r.dev

(I'm operating on about 3 or 4 layers of reproducibility)

Four panel meme which is an exploited version of a classic meme. This one says,
1. How many layers of reproducibility are you on
2. Like, maybe 5, or 6 right now, my dude
3. You are like a little baby. // watch this
4. (Bruno Rodrigues' reproducibility iceberg meme saying "NIX"

The original iceberg meme is from his book, Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (2023). Since then, Bruno has recommended Nix.

I haven't started working at that level of reproducibility, so I couldn't compare old vs new, but I know there's some overlap.

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Aug 22

Fun: I'm currently listening to Julia on Libby.

(Feminist retelling of 1984 from Julia's perspective)

@libbyheeren.bsky.social

Screenshot of the audiobook of "Julia" I am currently listening to on the library audiobook app called "Libby"

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Aug 21

My favorite part is the default LaTeX font making it into a ggplot. Who needs tikz when you can use ggdiagram?

If it can output to .svg well, you even get vectorized graphics.

W. Joel Schneider @w-joel-schneider.bsky.social · Aug 20

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other.
wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Trigonometric functions and a unit circle

A bivariate change model with structured residuals

A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities

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Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Aug 15

I do like that you're using the "old ways" instead of AI.

FWIW, I don't know what the original image was or what it was supposed to represent. A wave? A sea snail coming out of a conch shell? IDK.

Ryan McShane @ryanmcshane.bsky.social · Aug 12

No argument here (except my examples are apolitical)

Firing one of your leading economists/statisticians because they gave the "wrong" numbers is something I thought I'd never see in the US.

On a former Amherst colleague of mine (worse: his work was criminalized):

www.amstat.org/news-listing...

News Listing

The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians, the “Big Tent for Statistics.

www.amstat.org

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