Hi twitfriends,

I know most of you follow me for R reasons, but I'd appreciate if you'd bear with me for a different kind of thread.

(It'll have a little bit of statistics, at least.)

[0] I live in San Luis Obispo, California.

It's almost exactly halfway between LA and San Jose, along the coast.

The town has about 50,000 people, not counting the 20,000 students at Cal Poly.

[1]

Gather round, ye children, and I shall tell you the merry tale of...

👩‍💻Introduction to R
📊for Statistics and Data Science

All course materials are free and open-source here: 👇
adventures-in-r.com

🌠BUT WAIT! There's more... ... this time, I am ALSO running a Patreon associated with the course!

Subscribing gets you a class Discord channel to hang out with me and your classmates. You can also get office hours, feedback on assignments, etc. 👩‍🏫

Subscribe here: 👇
patreon.com/kbodwin

I've been seeing some articles make the rounds about Stanford studying "herd immunity" in California.

I looked into it, and these headlines are patently false. They have their origins in right-wing propaganda.

Read on for a timeline of details and links.

[1/?] April 2: Rush Limbaugh first floats the idea that CA has "herd immunity" due to the magnitude of travel flow from Asia.

rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/04/…

"California, they’re already bragging about having flattened the curve out there. [...] I think they’ve already gone through it."

Pssssttt..... hey kids.... wanna learn some Advanced Statistical Computing with R?

@hglanz and I are making our course materials public. We'd like to invite you to follow along with our superstar Cal Poly students over the next 9 weeks:

cal-poly-advanced-r.github.io/STAT-431/

#rstats Of course we won't be able to grade your assignments or hold office hours.

But we have set up a public Discord channel where you can work with your peers: discord.gg/4VCPtxU

We may even hop in and answer questions from time to time (especially MW afternoons!) 🤗

I’ve been trying to get @hglanz to tweet more at #rstudioconf.

He keeps saying funny things and then refusing to tweet them.

This thread is now a livestream of Hunter quotes as he drinks more and more fancy cocktails. "I already tweeted twice! What if those are like... the top 2 of the 5 thoughts I have right now."

Teaching a Faculty #rstats Workshop with @hglanz.

Question 1: "Is Kelly livetweeting this?"

I am now, I guess. 🤷‍♀️ Confirmed: 2+2 still equals 4 in R.

I've come to the conclusion that in #rstats, it is not possible (without editing primitives, anyways) to pass "frozen" expression objects, except as strings.

Please someone prove me wrong.

[1/n] What I mean is, I want to pass as an expression something like

foo <- mean(1:10

[omission of closing para intentional]

and have that be evaluated (and throw an error, of course).

[2/n]

Okay so let me just start by saying: This is a wonderful straightforward breakdown of R vs. Python, thank you to all the contributors and especially @matloff!

However, I (predictably) have some bones to pick on the Tidyverse points. [1/7]

https://twitter.com/matloff/status/1140039353621594112

First: "I am not including [...] ggplot2 and dplyr. Instead, I am referring to things such as tibbles and pipes."

1. dplyr without pipes? what? ggplot2 without `+`, which is pipe in disguise?
2. Is it really fair to say, "I don't like X, except the parts I like"?

[2/7]

{purrr} has the best function names of any #rstats package. Change my mind. 'pluck' and 'zap' I mean can you beat those?

and 'insistently' is delightful

the #tidyverse emphasis on precise language gives me warm fuzzies

I paid for internet to get work done on this cross-country flight, but instead I am bonding with the unaccompanied minor next to me. Prepare to learn about Ezra, the almost-6-year-old. Ezra is on his way to California to play Minecraft with Daddy. His favorite color is pink. He just graduated Kindergarten and he got FOUR diplomas.