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...