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Steen Flammild Harsted
@steenharsted.bsky.social
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Researcher/Lecturer | Biomechanics, Motion Capture, & Pain Drawings | R Programmer | Exploring human movement and musculoskeletal health 🌍👣📊
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cedricscherer.com
I ignored the strip.clip argument in #ggplot2 for way too long 😲

Combined with a small negative margin tweak, you can place facet labels inside each panel. A tiny trick that makes small multiples feel so much cleaner.

🔵 no manual coordinates
🔵 inherits theme styling
🔵 scales nicely when resizing
Side-by-side comparison of two multi-panel bubble charts faceted by world region. The left column shows the default facet labels placed above each panel (“Africa”, “Americas”, “Asia”, “Europe”, “Oceania”). The right column shows the same charts, but the facet labels are moved inside each panel at the top-left using a negative margin. In the center, there is a title reading “Want to place your facet labels inside each panel?” with an arrow pointing right, followed by a short ggplot2 theme code snippet demonstrating how to move strip text inside the panel.
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
steenharsted.bsky.social
You can help Ukraine and learn R at the same time. What's not to like?

Check out the workshops - seriously they look amazing
dariia.bsky.social Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Oct 29
This workshop is tomorrow, don’t miss your chance to register!

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
dariia.bsky.social Dariia Mykhailyshyna @dariia.bsky.social · Oct 24
❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 30, 2 pm CEST titled Data Literacy in Julia for Rtists by
@dwinkl.bsky.social

Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Reposted by Steen Flammild Harsted
coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
#rstats Dev Diary: Realization about this rendering technique: I'm not warping the object, I'm warping space to be non-euclidean!

"It is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself."

#thereisnospoon
October 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
steenharsted.bsky.social
Am I wrong, or does Positron default to the same ‘I do not care about reproducibility’ settings as RStudio?

For those who remember the good old Twitter days—here’s a throwback to a classic tip for settings in RStudio.

Can we get a similar guide for Positron?

@posit.co @hadley.nz
#rstats
October 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
I just spent an entire day with ChatGPT-5 trying to fix a Shiny app that mysteriously crashed when deployed to our server.
We tried everything. Nothing worked. We even broke the app worse. Then spent hours slowly resurrecting it.

At 00:30 I suddenly remembered: Shiny Assistant by @posit.co
Shiny Assistant
gallery.shinyapps.io
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
steenharsted.bsky.social
In ellmer, is there any way to inspect the actual JSON schema that type_* creates? e.g. the opposite of type_from_schema()

type_array(
type_object(
x = type_boolean(),
y = type_string(),
z = type_number())) |>
type_to_schema() # <- what I need, but dont have

@posit.co
#rstats
September 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
That circle + angles is going to help me sooo much 🤩
w-joel-schneider.bsky.social 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...
An arrow with a LaTeX equation Trigonometric functions and a unit circle A bivariate change model with structured residuals A hierarchical model of cognitive abilities
September 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?

Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities Abstract Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models). Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve. A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals). Illustrated are 1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals 2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and 3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.
August 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
What an awesome update. 100% going to use this when making slides for lectures.
emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 20
Happy to announce ✨quarto-revealjs-editable✨

This fully supersedes the imagemover extension, as I back then didn't realize the potential. You can now also move, resize, change font size and alignment for text in your slides

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting
August 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
steenharsted.bsky.social
Happy to say that 'mocapr' now supports import of joint center positions via .trc files from OpenCap.

github.com/steenharsted...

#rstats #mocap #opencap
August 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
steenharsted.bsky.social
Dear @posit.co,
I'm thinking about switching to Positron, but I heard the `here` package only works with RStudio projects.
I am afraid someone will set my computer on fire if I make the switch?
Please advise before the flames start. 🔥💻🧯

#rstats
July 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
steenharsted.bsky.social
I love hos Posit seems to be working non-stop on making packages that integrate LLMs into R and data-science workflows
July 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
I am looking to build a speech-to-speech chat-bot in Shiny.
Is this possible with the current ellmer and shiny-chat architecture?

Thanks

#rstats #shiny
July 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
Better repost this one...
June 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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politicsgirl.bsky.social
Yay AP called the NJ Governor Dem primary for our girl Mike Sherrill!!!
youtube.com/shorts/iUFWG...
One More Badass!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
🤩patchwork 1.3.0 makes it possible to combine gt tables and plots 🤩

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/09...

Thank you @thomasp85.com and @teunbrand.bsky.social

#rstats
June 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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hadley.nz
Want to easily use LLMs from R? ellmer 0.2.0 provides:

• Batch & parallel processing
• A universal parameter interface
• Cost tracking
• Support for Mistral, Hugging Face, & Portkey

And much more! Read all about it at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05... #rstats
ellmer 0.2.0
ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with `parallel_chat()` and `batch_chat()`. A new `params()` ...
www.tidyverse.org
June 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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stephenturner.us
The Modern R Stack for Production AI: doi.org/10.59350/z9f...

Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more #Rstats
The Modern R Stack for Production AI
Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more
doi.org
June 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
steenharsted.bsky.social
How can I change the assisant logo/image/icon in shinychat?

This is not working:
chat_ui("chat",
placeholder = "The patient is in front of you...",
assistant_img = "logo.png"
)

#rstats
May 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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jazzreads.bsky.social
My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
It’s strange how we cannot make policy to protect Americans from Russian and Chinese disinformation without elements of the American far right identifying with and protecting Russian and Chinese disinformation.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...
Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics
Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, and right-wing buzzwords for a “Twitter files”-style document dump about alleged conservat...
www.technologyreview.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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motherjones.com
According to Kash Patel’s own financial disclosure statement, he pocketed $25,000 from a production company operated by a filmmaker associated with a Kremlin-subsidized propaganda project, a pro-Putin oligarch, and a pro-Kremlin disinformation agent.

@davidcorn.bsky.social's NEW video explains:
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
YouTube video by Mother Jones
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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rickylongthread.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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posit.co
We’re thrilled to announce the release of rsample 1.3.0!

rsample makes it easy to create resamples for assessing model performance. New updates include flexible grouping for bootstrap intervals and updates from tidyverse developer day.

Learn more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/04...

#RStats
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April 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM