What's New in R

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...

What’s New in R: June 29, 2026

June 29, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a big update to a package for building advanced ggplot2 legends and guides, the highlights from Positron's latest release, and a fun statistical look at how long wars actually last. Let's dive in!‍Symbolic update Teun van den Brand has released version 0.3.0 of {legendry}, his package for building advanced guides and legends in {ggplot2}. The update adds a whole batch of new guides, including guide_legend_manual()...

What’s New in R: June 22, 2026

June 22, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring an argument for why Quarto pairs so well with LLMs, a Quarto extension that saves you from repeating headings across slides, and a package for wrangling nested lists into tibbles. Let's dive in!The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quarto John Paul Helveston makes the case that Quarto is the ideal format to reach for when you're working with an LLM. Rather than asking a tool like Claude to produce a Word doc or PDF...

What’s New in R: June 15, 2026

June 15, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a talk on keeping your R package environments from breaking over time, a community session packed with productivity tips and real-world lessons, and a guide to migrating your PDF reports from pagedown to Typst. Let's dive in!Great Scott! A chronicle of the dangers of time traveling in R In this talk, Malcolm Barrett (who created our package development course) digs into one of R's quietly frustrating problems: you...

What’s New in R: June 8, 2026

June 8, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package for compositing ggplot graphics into images with perspective and transparency, a video from Posit announcing their new AI tooling for Positron and RStudio, and a practical guide to map projections in R. Let's dive in!{overlay} {overlay}, created by Luis D. Verde Arregoitia, lets you composite {ggplot2} plots, {gt} tables, or syntax-highlighted code snippets onto background images, complete with perspective...

What’s New in R: June 1, 2026

June 1, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a blind taste test that uses R to find the best decaf coffee, an interactive data viewer that upgrades the default View() experience, and a Quarto extension that lets you draw on your slides while presenting. Let's dive in!Using science to find the best decaf Giles Dickenson-Jones runs a double-blind taste test to figure out whether decaf coffee can really hold its own against the caffeinated stuff, and whether...

What’s New in R: May 26, 2026

May 26, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a look at how Posit arrived at its new AI tooling, a video walkthrough of Posit Assistant in RStudio from Hadley Wickham, and an R package for adding narrative roadmap footers to your Quarto presentations. Let's dive in!2026-03-27 AI Newsletter Sara Altman and Simon Couch trace the path Posit has taken in thinking about AI tools for data science, from early experiments like Shiny Assistant and Databot through to the...