Discover @revojoe.bsky.social's picks for top #RStats CRAN pkgs released in February, including ✅ quallmer v0.3.0: Tools for AI-assisted qualitative data coding 🏥 nhanesdata v4.1.0: Access to NHANES data 📏 ggInterval v0.2.4: Visualize intervals w/ ggplot2 Read the post: rworks.dev/posts/Feb-20...

🎉 ggauto is now on CRAN 🎉 An #RStats package that selects better chart types, and provides more accessible styling for #ggplot2 plots 📊 Blog post explaining why I made it and how it works: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #DataViz

I made a Typst + Quarto template for academic posters. It lets you embed/render code output inside your poster, so that if you ever make a code update you don't need to spiral into screenshot-copy-paste hell. I'm really loving Typst! repo codeberg.org/edenian-prin... #quartopub #typst #rstats

My and @max-web.bsky.social 's #rstats 📦 {rollama} just got an update with some bug fixes and several cool new features! Now using open weight models for text and image annotation in R is even easier!

The prefab package provides a theme system for setting up #RStats projects Here's an example setting up a bare bones data analysis project with some guidance for claude code

In exploring ways to use AI agents to help write R code I found that it was hard to extract profiling information in a way that they could interact with easily. Presenting {debrief}!! provides text-based summaries and analysis tools for {profvis} profiling output github.com/r-lib/debrief #rstats

New blog post is up. Ever had to manage a bunch of R-based ETL pipelines and wanted a better way to maintain them? I wrote about how {S7} classes and generics can turn a pile of scripts into a more extensible, composable system. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/this-r-script-could-ve-been-an-s7-class/

#Positron and #VScode #rstats folks who have muscle memory of creating reprexes from highlighted code in RStudio: I made an extension to do basically the same thing, with HTML preview and all: open-vsx.org/extension/je...

Announcing Rapp 0.3.0: Turn your #RStats scripts into polished command-line tools. 🛠️ 💻 Rapp turns R scripts into polished command-line tools. New in 0.3.0: R expressions for CLI options & switches, support for switch() blocks, help menu from comments. Read more: tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Humans AI Agents 🤝 CLI tools Coming soon to btw, an #RStats cli tool for agents and humans

I'm over the moon excited to the release of 0.5.0 of orbital 🛰️ This release adds full support for boosted tree, faster creation of orbital objects, optimization of execution! We can finally reliably predict with a xgboost model from a database! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03... #rstats #tidymodels

Same ICD codes. Same patient. Different risk profiles. Encounter-level comorbidity logic assumes ICD codes are re-reported every visit. They usually aren’t. medicalcoder handles this 📦install.packages("medicalcoder") #rstats #HealthInformatics #EHR #ClinicalResearch #RiskAdjustment #PublicHealth

Over the weekend, I started collecting/organizing a list of cool #rstats skills for LLMs at github.com/christopherk.... Please open an issue or PR in any awesome additions you see! Includes a section for helpful posts like @ivelasq3.bsky.social's⬇️

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users. Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI. Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡 rworks.dev/posts/claude...

#tidymodels now has its very first cheatsheet! "Preprocessing data with {recipes}" is now available in Web and PDF versions here: rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets/... #rstats #posit #rstudio

We live in a magical time for #dataviz. This map is just a static html page served on GitHub pages 🤯 It uses the incredible {pmtiles} #rstats package by @kylewalker.bsky.social to quickly filter through ~21M rows of data hosted on Cloudflare vehicletrends.github.io/hhi-map/

Josh Goldstein emailed me a nice tip for @rdatatable.bsky.social chaining: if we start a chained `data.table` operation inside a set of parens, we are no longer subject to the 'REPL constraint' and can keep each operation on a line. See ALT text. #rstats Now in the pdf at github.com/eddelbuettel...

📦 medicalcoder v0.8.0 is now on CRAN. medicalcoder is a unified and longitudinally aware framework for ICD-based comorbidity assessment in #rstats CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=medi... GitHub: github.com/dewittpe/med... Website: peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/

I’m happy to announce Rapp v0.3.0 — a package that makes it easy to build and share polished CLI applications written in R. Read more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Announcing plumber2 0.2.0 for APIs in #RStats 🔧 plumber2 0.2.0 brings essential observability and authentication features to your R workflows: Native support for traces and metrics, streamlined request handling for higher throughput, and more! Read more: tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01...

#webRios 1.1 is live! The big additions: code completion, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and a Data Import Wizard. Plus a better iPad four-pane layout (still a work in progress, more coming). #RStats on your iPhone and iPad keeps getting better. Best experience on #iOS 26.

#rstats In very non-Superbowl news, here's an experimental 📦 for nice graphics display and UX in VS Code (and other potential front-ends). github.com/grantmcdermo...

Do you all have a need to encrypt files you generate before sending? I’ve been working with honeycakefiles.com to protect files. Just seeing if there might be interest in an r package to use it to protect your files if I can get one put together (with permission of the company)? #rstats

🎉 Excited to announce that typeR is now on CRAN! typeR simulates typing animations for R scripts - perfect for live coding demos and presentations. Install: install.packages("typeR") Docs: fgazzelloni.github.io/typeR/ #rstats #RPackage

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

#rstats I've been testing out `arf`, a new R console written in Rust. Early days, but a v. smooth experience so far. Much simpler to install and link from VS Code than radian, for example, with better features too. github.com/eitsupi/arf

Mood in minneapolis right now

I spent way too long on this package and ultimately had to pull back on some ambition. But the {fpa} package is on its way to CRAN. If you do lots of time intelligence functions in #rstats- this package comes in very handy as it provides sugar syntax for common needs usrbinr.codeberg.page/fpa/

Hi guys! I've spent the last 5 years building interactive reports for clients in RMarkdown and Quarto and looking at now creating Shiny apps. Curious what people would recommend as best practice frameworks, golem, rhino, or something else? #RStats #Shiny

gqlr v0.1.0 is now on CRAN! 🎉 A @graphql.org server for #rstats New in 0.1.0: ✨ GraphiQL interactive IDE support ✨ Verbose error messages for easier debugging 🐛 Fixed mutation execution validation 🔧 Removed pryr dependency 📚: schloerke.com/gqlr/ 🐙: github.com/schloerke/gqlr #RStats #GraphQL

Excited to share that orbital 0.4.0 is now on CRAN with post processing support for tailor and a new show_query() method #rstats #tidymodels tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01...

New blog post. There's a really cool function in {purrr} called modify_tree that makes working with complex nested lists easier. Read about it here: joekirincic.com/posts/managi... #rstats

Hey #rstats, what’s one blog post you wish you could’ve found last year? Maybe it was a tutorial you needed that hasn’t been written yet, a review of similar packages, whatever. I’m curious what folks want to learn about R in 2026.

Alpine 3.23 #rstats binaries are now available at rpkgs.com. Subsequently, 3.21 entered EOL. Binaries will continue to be built until 3.24 has been released.

Turn Claude into an expert on writing {testthat} #Rstats 📦 version 3 R tests with the Claude Testing R Packages skill by @posit.co github.com/posit-dev/sk... That repo has other skills including how to use brand.yml with Quarto and Shiny github.com/posit-dev/sk... #GenAI

Async programming won't save your Plumber API from long-running jobs. The ML model training endpoint finishes in 10 minutes, but the client times out after 1. Retries create more jobs that overwhelm CPU/RAM, killing performance. Polling and webhooks fix this. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/perfor...

Generative animation built entirely in R from clothoid curves, rendered offline and intentionally broken via PNG glitch post-processing. #creativecoding #RStats

Shiny for R: GPL-3 → MIT ✨ Your dashboards are now legally chill. Deploy without consulting three lawyers and a ouija board first. #rstats #rshiny

We are excited to see that xgboost recently had a big CRAN release! We have worked hard on the tidymodels team to make sure you all have a smooth transition. Please yet us know if you are experiencing any issues with the releases tidyverse.org/blog/2025/12... #rstats #tidymodels

New Post on @ropensci.org: Better #RStats Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI Edited by @etiennebacher.bsky.social & Steffi LaZerte Read about: ✨ {lintr} for detecting lints ✨ Air for formatting code ✨ jarl for detecting+fixing lints ✨ {flir} for refactoring ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...

Day 12: README.Rmd Automation Create dynamic READMEs that stay up-to-date with your code. Setup: usethis::use_readme_rmd() Include these sections: 󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Installation instructions 󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Basic usage example 󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Lifecycle badges 󠁯•󠁏󠁏 Build status badges #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025

Shiny for R v1.12 is here with built-in OpenTelemetry support! 🎉 Trace sessions and reactive calculations in production with zero code changes. Just install {otel}/{otelsdk} and set your env vars. Learn more: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RStats #RShiny #OpenTelemetry

I'm excited to announce the newest release of {tidypredict}! This release brings for standardization to outputs, faster trees for parsing and prediction, and glmnet support tidyverse.org/blog/2025/12... #rstats #tidymodels

New releases for tidymodels! 📦 We've launched filtro and important for supervised feature selection in #RStats. These tools simplify predictor ranking, reduce overfitting, and include advanced dynamic importance calculations. Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

New CRAN package famish with initial version 0.2.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=famish

New blog post is up; this one’s about creating a burst reporting application using R, Quarto, and Typst. If you’ve ever wanted to generate PDF reports tailored to thousands of entities, but didn’t know how, this post will show you how to get started. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/burst-...

Every month, @revojoe.bsky.social reviews and summarized 40 #RStats packages that landed on CRAN, based on their topics, documentation, applicability, and more! Check out the picks from October: rworks.dev/posts/octobe...

Happy `tinyplot` v0.6.0 (codename "Thanksgiving") release day to all those that celebrate. Some new features, but mostly bug fixes and internal improvements. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats