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...