What’s New in R: November 2, 2026

November 1, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package that turns an R project into a static website where R runs in the browser, a guide to the growing crowd of R package and environment managers, and color palettes inspired by everyone's favorite Blue Heeler. Let's dive in!R Workspaces as Static Websites James Balamuta (The Coatless Professor) introduces {webrarian}, a package that bundles your R packages, scripts, and data into a static website where R runs...

What’s New in R: October 26, 2026

October 25, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a project that puts your Positron shortcuts on Stream Deck buttons, a new book on automating repetitive data work with R, and (yes, really) an ASMR video on the basics of RStudio. Let's dive in!Positron Deck Jan-Hendrik Weinert built Positron Deck, a community project that maps 192 Positron actions to the buttons of an Elgato Stream Deck. Things like running the next line of R, opening the data viewer, rendering a...

What’s New in R: October 19, 2026

October 19, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring an analysis of why bike crashes in Madison peak in September, a one-liner for using the Equal Earth projection the UN just adopted, and a new framework from Posit for building trustworthy data analysis agents. Let's dive in!Madison bike crashes peak in September Harald Kliems digs into police-reported crash data from the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory to ask why bike crashes in Madison peak in...