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...