new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)
If you've submitted to Journal of Statistical Software in the last few years and have comments (good or bad) about the review process (time lag etc.) could you please DM me ... ?
Ben Bolker
#RStats challenge and potential community project:
* Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible!
Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues
Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...
Thinking about how this might go
Listener: My chains aren't converging
Andrew: Your model is bad
Aki: Your parameterization is bad
Richard: The Buddha teaches us that numerical integration is suffering
This is art. gillescolling.com/texanshootR/
today in "base R functions I didn't know about after 20 years": modifyList() (it was added in 2006 github.com/r-devel/r-sv... )
Looking back on the SVN repo on r-forge: r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.p... this started as "split original lmer.Rnw into parts I (lmer) and II ([gn]lmer)" on 13 Feb 2013 (!!)
Ben Bolker
FWIW this is for this: lme4.r-universe.dev/lme4/doc/glm... ; companion to Bates et al 2015 JSS lmer paper, which fell through the cracks for 10 years. Not too much new here (IMO), but it's the reference document for the implementation of glmer(). (Available as a vignette in dev version.)
Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker
Henrik Bengtsson
The International Statistical Ecology Conference is extending abstract submissions to May 29, 2026 (AoE).
Want to encourage more folks in 🇲🇽 & LATAM to participate. Spread the word to your colleagues in Latin America. Happy to answer any questions about the conference!
statisticalecology.org
