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The Statistical Computing with R subreddit

A subreddit for all things related to the R Project for Statistical Computing. Questions, news, and comments about R programming, R packages, RStudio, and more.

103k subscribers77 posts / mo in Sep 202666 authors / mosince 2009

r/rstats has 103k members (+8.0% over the last 12 months). It gets about 77 posts a month from 66 people. Top topics: Power BI Dashboards & Data, LLMs and AGI Progress and Testing Practices.

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+8.0%in 12 months · +1.2% in 3 months · +0.3% in 1 month
Oct 2026103k
Growing103k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−50%vs Sep 2025 · −18% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202677
QuieterPeaked at 287 in Aug 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/rstats

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Power BI Dashboards & Data0.3%
  2. LLMs and AGI Progress0.2%
  3. Testing Practices0.2%
  4. Legacy Code Refactoring0.2%
  5. Excel Shortcuts and Learning0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. R
  2. Stack Overflow
  3. Doi
  4. Quarto
  5. Medium

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