What's New in R

What’s New in R: November 2, 2026

November 1, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package that turns an R project into a static website where R runs in the browser, a guide to the growing crowd of R package and environment managers, and color palettes inspired by everyone's favorite Blue Heeler. Let's dive in!R Workspaces as Static Websites James Balamuta (The Coatless Professor) introduces {webrarian}, a package that bundles your R packages, scripts, and data into a static website where R runs...

What’s New in R: October 26, 2026

October 25, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a project that puts your Positron shortcuts on Stream Deck buttons, a new book on automating repetitive data work with R, and (yes, really) an ASMR video on the basics of RStudio. Let's dive in!Positron Deck Jan-Hendrik Weinert built Positron Deck, a community project that maps 192 Positron actions to the buttons of an Elgato Stream Deck. Things like running the next line of R, opening the data viewer, rendering a...

What’s New in R: October 19, 2026

October 19, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring an analysis of why bike crashes in Madison peak in September, a one-liner for using the Equal Earth projection the UN just adopted, and a new framework from Posit for building trustworthy data analysis agents. Let's dive in!Madison bike crashes peak in September Harald Kliems digs into police-reported crash data from the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory to ask why bike crashes in Madison peak in...

What’s New in R: October 13, 2026

October 13, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package that writes alt text for your ggplot2 charts automatically, a package for downloading administrative boundaries for any country, and a gorgeous scrollytelling map of nearly 6,000 castles made with Quarto. Let's dive in!ggalttext The {ggalttext} package by Joseph Barbier automatically generates alternative text for {ggplot2} charts, which is a big help for accessibility since alt text is one of those things...

What’s New in R: October 5, 2026

October 5, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a new approach to building package documentation sites with Quarto, a free guide to building AI agents you can actually trust, and a package that writes your gt tables straight into Excel workbooks. Let's dive in!A new take on documentation sites for R packages Bjarke Hautop Kristensen was frustrated that {pkgdown}, the standard tool for building R package websites, has only limited support for Quarto (callout...

What’s New in R: September 28, 2026

September 28, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a fully open course on quantitative methods that starts with data instead of formulas, an R-Ladies Rome workshop on typesetting with Typst and Quarto, and a package that gives ggplot2 more accessible defaults out of the box. Let's dive in!Quantitative Methods for International Politics Andrew Heiss has posted the full site for his Fall 2026 course on quantitative methods at Georgetown University in Qatar, and like...

What’s New in R: September 21, 2026

September 21, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring the Quarto 1.10 release and its improved accessibility checking, a package for making really interesting maps with simple syntax, and the highlights from Positron's August release. Let's dive in!Quarto 1.10 Charlotte Wickham walks through what's new in Quarto 1.10, which brings a number of smaller fixes along with one thing I really like: easier accessibility checking. The accessibility checker now works offline,...

What’s New in R: September 14, 2026

September 14, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package that adds tinting and shading aesthetics to your ggplot2 charts, a tool that reviews your code quality in a single report, and the second edition of a beloved book on statistical inference with R. Let's dive in!ggtintshade The {ggtintshade} package by William Kumler extends {ggplot2} so you can map the tint or shade of a color to an aesthetic, in addition to its hue. Why is that useful? It lets you...

What’s New in R: September 8, 2026

September 8, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a book on crafting beautiful slides with Quarto and Reveal.js, a side-by-side reference for translating between data manipulation styles in R and Python, and a new package for making poster-worthy maps of your favorite city. Let's dive in!Slidecrafting ‍Emil Hvitfeldt has written a whole book on slidecrafting: making functional and beautiful Quarto Reveal.js presentations. It goes into great detail across theming...