R Weekly Highlights

The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever take on supplementing your prompts with R objects.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) R…

An exciting new way to search and discover R packages wrapping novel technology, how the new checktor package finds the key issues standard checks will miss, and yes, you can play Doom in R (what?) Episode Links  This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo)…

A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for new use cases. Episode Links  This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Testing Your Plumber APIs from R watcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for…

The R Core team receives a prestigious award in the world of Statistics, a month-long recognition of the rOpenSci package maintainers, and a collection of helpful tips for obtaining robust R code from AI agents.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast…

The evolution of Posit's data science agents, robust approaches to unnamed parameters in R functions, and the power of math and visualization collide in an unexpected way. Episode Links  This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) A brief and biased history of Posit data science agents Three small…

A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on various code smells you can prevent in your next testing suite.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) The Lurking Dangers of…

R is capable of many analyes in the world of data science, but can it build a computer? Also a massive usability feature landing in the latest bslib to power up your cards, and optimizing memory usage with the latest rleases of mirai and mori.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky) Building a…

The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigms to a Python session, and adding a larger safety net with your unit tests with {mutagen} 0.2.0.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) &…

Applying novel statistical and visualization techniques to predict war duration, why there is more than meets the statistical eye behind a classical model benchmarking statistic, and celebrating a major milestone for pioneers in open science with R.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] (Mastodon) &…

A massive milestone for the language that eventually led to the R we know and love, plus a comprehensive look at two popular workflow frameworks across the R and Python ecosystems.   Episode Links  This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) S at 50 Comparing R's {targets} and dbt for Data…