What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
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...
What’s New in R: May 18, 2026
May 18, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a package for accessing US price indexes in R, a deep dive into atmospheric light simulation for 3D visualizations, and a tool for generating synthetic data to safely share with AI assistants. Let’s dive in!{realtalk} The {realtalk} package, developed by Ben Zipperer at the Economic Policy Institute, provides clean, ready-to-use access to five major US price indexes covering annual, monthly, and quarterly data...
What’s New in R: May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a Claude Code skill for generating alt text for figures in Quarto, a video on building and automating serverless dashboards, and a behind-the-scenes look at how Kieran Healy used Quarto to write his data visualization book. Let’s dive in!Adding alt text to figures in quarto with Claude Code Emil Hvitfeldt demonstrates a workflow for automatically generating alt text for data visualizations in Quarto documents...
What’s New in R: May 4, 2026
May 4, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an introduction to Posit AI for RStudio, the newly updated second edition of a beloved data visualization book, and a Quarto extension for displaying times in readers’ local time zones. Let’s dive in!Introducing Posit AI Simon P. Couch announces the arrival of Posit AI. It’s a new AI service built into RStudio that brings the kind of AI capabilities Positron users have enjoyed for a while to a much wider audience....
What’s New in R: April 27, 2026
April 27, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive guide to making beautiful tables with {gt}, a tutorial on interactive beeswarm charts, and a look at how one R user is building a data infrastructure for Kenyan baseball. Let’s dive in!Creating Effective Display Tables with the gt Package Richard Iannone, the creator of {gt}, has published an online book that serves as the definitive guide to building publication-ready tables in R. It covers...
What’s New in R: April 20, 2026
April 20, 2026
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a video walkthrough of Andrew Heiss’s Positron workflow, a collection of Claude skills for R users, and a skill for auto-generating _brand.yml files for Quarto. Let’s dive in!How to make your data analysis life easier using Positron, Raycast, and Espanso Andrew Heiss, professor at Georgia State University and one of the R community’s most thoughtful workflow tinkerers, sat down with Posit’s Data Science Lab to...
