What's New in R

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...

What’s New in R: August 31, 2026

August 31, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring an Australian government report on AI and employment made entirely in R, a data-driven look at how much hotter Spain has gotten, and a primer on agent skills from R/Pharma. Let's dive in!AI and employment in Australia Matt Cowgill shared on Bluesky that this report from the Australian Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was made entirely in R: every word, table, and chart. The report, written by the...

What’s New in R: August 24, 2026

August 24, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a new package for making chord diagrams the ggplot2 way, a gloriously unnecessary package that lets you play Doom in R, and a clever tool for searching the R ecosystem by what functions do rather than what packages are called. Let's dive in!Chord diagrams in R with ggchord2 Nicola Rennie introduces {ggchord2}, a new {ggplot2} extension for drawing chord diagrams, which are a unique way to visualize the flows and...

What’s New in R: August 17, 2026

August 17, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a rundown of your options for collaborating on Quarto documents, a tool that lets non-technical collaborators edit those documents in a Word-like interface, and some thoughtful reflections on the state of geocomputation with R. Let's dive in!Collaborating on Quarto documents Nicola Rennie tackles a problem a lot of us run into: how do you collaborate on a Quarto document with people who don't write code? She lays...

What’s New in R: August 10, 2026

August 10, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a beginner-friendly workshop on reproducible research with R and Quarto, some very well-deserved recognition for the R Core Team, and a clever trick for making your color palettes accessible. Let's dive in!From Data Analysis to Publication: Reproducible Research with R and Quarto In this R-Ladies+ Rome workshop, Betsabé Cohen and Jesica Formoso walk through how to build a reproducible research workflow by combining...

What’s New in R: August 3, 2026

August 3, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a practical guide to getting better R code out of your AI coding agent, a video on connecting R to the cloud, and an overview of agentic skills and how they can level up your work with agents. Let's dive in!10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent Sharon Machlis rounds up ten practical tips for getting better R code out of AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Posit Assistant. She covers...

What’s New in R: July 27, 2026

July 27, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a video tour of Positron's settings, a look at whether AI is flooding CRAN with new packages, and a slick way to launch your projects in Positron with Raycast. Let's dive in!Exploring Positron settings In this video, Isabel Zimmerman and Davis Vaughan walk through a range of settings you can use to customize your experience in Positron. Being able to tailor the editor to how you actually work is one of the things I...