I'd like to make a shout-out to the people who run the CRAN (central R repository)--- especially Kurt Hornik, Uwe Ligges and Brian Ripley. They are doing a tremendous service for the scientific community, enforcing and maintaining the quality standards for R packages.

Thanks to their (volunteer!) work, the more than 2 million R users worldwide can seamlessly access the CRAN collection of over 10,000 R packages. Thank you for your invaluable work.

We would like to extend our warm thanks to the organizers of useR! 2019 for an excellent programme. #useR2019

So much FOMO about missing #JSM2019 for only the 2nd time in the past decade!! Overwhelmed by the number of parallel sessions? Jacob Bien put together a website that creates a custom schedule based on your citation network: jsmscheduler.com

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track position in data science at the rank of assistant professor starting August 19, 2020. For more information and to apply, visit: jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/7…

Kevin McConway and I just published our "Top tips to statisticians communicating through the media, especially in the time of COVID-19". link.medium.com/IbDJx9kktdb Hoping that other statisticians might learn from all our mistakes

Might be good to also consider how this could map to structured error classes. x.com/hadleywickham/…