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...