"Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen" Built in Rust with Apache DataFusion sedona.apache.org/latest/blog/...

100 stars🎉 Savvy is a niche framework for those who want to use Rust in an R package yet extendr is not their fit, so I didn't expect to see so much stars! github.com/yutannihilat...

Observable Plot has crossed 100,000 weekly downloads (and very close to 5,000⭐️s)! observablehq.observablehq.cloud/oss-analytic...

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package. Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code. Read online: tmap.geocompx.org #rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

New to the Arrow blog: ADBC 20 is out: arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/09.... This release adds support for ADBC Driver Manifests, splits up the Rust crates, and much more. Have a read!

🧵@carpentries.carpentries.org was set to get an US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to make an open source (computer coding) ecosystem from a proposal submitted last fall. The Trump administration told them they had to cease all DEI activity to receive the funds. They withdrew the grant.

📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes. For more details, read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...

And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

📢 R Dev Day @ Australia 🏢 Monash University, Melbourne 🌐 Remote, Australia 📅 Fri 21 Nov It's happening! Apply to attend this free event, to collaborate on contributions to #RStats! You don't need to be an R guru! Deadline Sunday 16 Nov: pretix.eu/r-contributo... #RDevDay #RSEng

The Notebooks 2.0 gallery now has a dedicated page! observablehq.com/notebook-kit...

Yay, accepted!🎉 See you at FOSS4G 2025 in Auckland! talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-2025/...

A little demo of reactive SQL in Observable Notebooks 2.0, first using (native) DuckDB to bake data from a remote source, followed by DuckDB-Wasm to create and query reactive views in the client. Should be released this week!

Dev and deploy require of diff skills. @getdbt.com bridges the gap for #data pipelines, but what about MLOps? I explored how @posit.co {orbital} + dbt delivers "good enough" zero-infra MLOps for batch model scoring in database from python or #rstats models www.emilyriederer.com/post/orbital... 1/

PSA for anyone beginning to use #wasm #webR to share R code snippets: We have a new short URL for the webR app: webr.sh!

Woo hoo! The nloptr package is now supported in webR, which means we now have access to the lme4 package for mixed effects modeling! This brings a great deal of statistical modeling power to serverless R workflows. Great work @gws.phd! #RStats #webR

We’re excited to announce the release of {arrow} 21.0.0 for R 🏹📦. Here’s a roundup of the new features and changes, in a 🧵 Full details can be found at arrow.apache.org/docs/r/news/ #rstats

I had a blast at #useR2025. Here are my slides on `tinyplot`. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig... (Rendering of the title slide is a bit off on mobile. I'll fix when when I get sec.)

So happy to talk about our work on sparsity at #useR2025 today! Slides for anyone interested emilhvitfeldt.com/talk/2025-08...

Thanks to some joint work with @jeroenooms.bsky.social the latest dev build of webR now supports the {curl} package, along with many other packages that rely on it! 🎉 If you're able to use a WebSocket SOCKS proxy (outside of the browser), you can now use {curl} to make HTTP requests in webR.

Making libcurl work in webassembly https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-curl/

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

savvy v0.8.13 is released!🎉 This version contains a small improvement to handle a scalar NA nicely. This is what I felt a bit boring when I ported a package from extendr to savvy. github.com/yutannihilat...

📣 Join us for our AGU2025 session IN029 "Open Source Geospatial Workflows in The Cloud"! Can't wait to see you there :) Submissions are due *Wednesday, July 30*! Visit our website for more details and to submit: events.geojupyter.org/conferences/...

#rstats tidypolars 0.14.0 is now available! tidypolars provides the tidyverse syntax while using polars for efficient computations in the background. This release brings compatibility with polars 1.0.0, released earlier this week, and several features and bug fixes. (1/2)

🐘 ellmer 🐘 makes it easy and fun to use LLMs from #rstats, and 0.3.0 is out now. Read about the new streamlined chat() function, improvements to tool specifications, and more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07....

Glad to see another proof that Rust-powered R packages work fine on webR! For those who are wondering what "savvy" is, it's a framework to use Rust in an R package. #rstats yutannihilation.github.io/savvy/guide/...

#rstats polars 1.0.0 is now available! polars provides bindings to the eponymous Rust library, a very efficient dataframe library. This is the outcome of a 1-year long rewrite led by @eitsupi to refactor the internals and match the API of Python polars. pola-rs.github.io/r-polars/ Details ⬇️

#ragnar 0.2.0 is on CRAN #rstats! It has a MUCH improved chunker; markdown_chunk() picks better boundaries, builds context, segments by headings, and handles overlapping chunks. Oh, and ragnar_retrieve() can deoverlap retrieved chunks now. Website got a big update too: ragnar.tidyverse.org

mcptools, a package implementing the Model Context Protocol in #rstats, is now on CRAN!🌉 We see significant opportunity with MCP and, at the same time, want to note that it's still a nascent ecosystem with serious security risks. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

A new version of @arrow.apache.org is out! I'm personally excited about the Parquet support for Geometry/Geography but there's a lot of other great features in this release...check out the release post for all the details! arrow.apache.org/blog/2025/07...

Voting started! I hope my proposal of a talk about GeoArrow is attractive enough 🙏

`tinyplot` v0.4.2 is now available on CRAN + R-universe 🎉 Mostly bug fixes, but includes some important integration improvements for Positron IDE users. Release notes: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats

Super exciting! Related news: we’re hooking up mirai to tidymodels too.

Another @posit.co Positron blog post! To make it easier to work with some huge data in one of my projects, I've loaded it into @duckdb.org. The Connections Pane makes it really easy and convenient to connect to and explore databases with #rstats. Here's how: www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/07...

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

It's Prime Week! "The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon" h/t Hacker News blog.thenewoil.org/the-prime-re...

Apache Arrow Summit 25 is happening! Join us in person on October 2nd, in Paris (hosted by @pydataparis.bsky.social ). The Call For Proposal is open, submit your talks before July 26th: sessionize.com/arrow-summit...

They say Zig is once again gaining async/await. I'm afraid it's time for me to learn Zig seriously... youtube.com/watch?v=x3hO...

Wow, big news!

Ooh, @posit.co's Positron is no longer in beta as of this week(!), and it recently added support for DuckDB databases in the Connections Pane positron.posit.co/connections-... - any db connection you add with {connections} shows up there—this is magical! #rstats

For the early adopters of acquaint, a package implementing the Model Context Protocol in #rstats: the package has been renamed to mcptools and no longer exports btw's tools by default. See the package website for more info posit-dev.github.io/mcptools/

Introducing {zap} - a new serialization framework for #rstats * uses type-specfic transformations + #zstd * for 'diamonds' dataset, it is more compressed than 'saveRDS(xz)' and faster than 'saveRDS(compress=FALSE) https://github.com/coolbutuseless/zap https://coolbutuseless.r-universe.dev/zap

mapgl for #rstats now includes full support for PMTiles as a data source in both @maplibre.org and @mapbox.com maps! Try out the example in the docs where you can visualize the 64 million places hosted by @overturemaps.bsky.social: walker-data.com/mapgl/refere...

I published the slides for "New features and developer experience with enhanced Amazon Location Service" that I presented at "AWS Summit Japan 2025" (This is in Japanese). 🎉 speakerdeck.com/dayjournal/q...

At Posit, we've been busy making async first class within #RStats with mirai. Now it's time to make High-Performance Computing a first class option for distributed computing within mirai! mirai 2.4.0 includes a cluster launcher for: Slurm, SGE, Torque, PBS, LSF. shikokuchuo.net/posts/27-mir...

🚀 Overture’s GERS is now GA! #GERS makes data sharing, onboarding, and joining easier via common, open, accessible IDs. ⏱️Cut data integration time & cost 🔓No vendor lock-in with open ecosystem 🧩Simple joins, not complex conflations 🔗 Learn more: overturemaps.org/uncategorize...

Tomorrow! Matthew Kay will be our guest speaker at the #ggplot2 extension meet up, next Wednesday June 25 at 3pm Eastern! 🎉📊📣 Matthew's work on uncertainty is worth checking out! www.mjskay.com Want to join? ggplot2-extenders.github.io/ggplot-exten... -> 'Please leave your contact info'

This was so fun! Check out the slides/repo if you missed it or would like to connect! 🛝 @ dewey.dunnington.ca/slides/rspat... 🐈‍⬛ @ github.com/paleolimbot/...

Are any of you going to attend FOSS4G global in Auckland?