What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
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...
What’s New in R: July 20, 2026
July 20, 2026
Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a look at how Positron is answering long-standing RStudio feature requests, a guide to the ... syntax for writing more readable functions, and one biostatistician's take on why Quarto stuck. Let's dive in!RStudio's Top Feature Requests … In Positron Jonathan McPherson runs through ten of the most upvoted feature requests from RStudio's issue tracker and shows how each one has been built into Positron, from...
What’s New in R: July 13, 2026
July 13, 2026
Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package that adds guardrails to your LLM workflows, a new Shiny component for packing controls into cards and inputs, and a Quarto extension for creating styled diagrams. Let's dive in!llmshieldr {llmshieldr}, created by Indraneel Chakraborty, is an R package that adds a layer of guardrail protection to your large language model workflows. It scans prompts, context, conversations, tool inputs and outputs, and...
What’s New in R: July 6, 2026
July 6, 2026
Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a look at generating personalized exams at scale by going straight to Typst, a Quarto extension for shifting heading levels, and a package for building 3D plots with familiar {ggplot2} syntax. Let's dive in!Personalised Exams at Scale: From Quarto to tynding Nithin M walks through how to generate student-specific exam papers, each with randomized questions and unique datasets, and compares two approaches for...