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

R is thriving in Cleveland! We spoke with Alec Wong from the Cleveland R Users Group about career planning, hiring in an AI world, and building bridges with local Python and open data communities. Read more: r-consortium.org/posts/expand... #rstats #opensource

Announcing {plumber2mcp} and {hgnc.mcp}: of model context protocol and vibe coding https://ergoso.me/ai/vibe/mcp/claude/hgnc/2025/11/21/plumber2mcp-and-hgnc-mcp.html #rstats #datascience

I'm *loving* structured outputs in {ellmer} for extracting data from text directly into R objects, removing the need to write pedantic prompts about output format! 😻 Here's a quick example - extracting info about Kendrick Lamar from his Wiki page. gist.github.com/thisisnic/e4... #rstats #llms

The next blog post in my series about performance optimization for Plumber APIs is now available. This post is about using async programming to improve concurrent request handling. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/perfor...

promises v1.5.0 https://shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/promises-1.5.0/ #rstats #datascience

I'm excited to share side::kick(), an experimental open-source coding agent for RStudio built entirely in R. It can interact with your files, communicate with your active #rstats session, and run code. Check it out: github.com/simonpcouch/...

We've made a blog post about a new major version of the #rstats tune package! Two main changes: parallel processing frameworks and the ability to tune postprocessors. tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

#rstats tidypolars 0.15.0 is available! tidypolars provides the tidyverse syntax while using polars for efficient computations. This release: - more support for string and date func. - two func. to export partitioned output - bug fixes Changelog: www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/news/#tidypo...

I've started working on an R package that makes it easy to write Typst markup dynamically! #rstats It's still in its early stages, but it implements: - ✅ all Typst functions - ✅ set rules - ✅ conversion from R to Typst (`NULL` becomes `none`, etc) - ✅ no dependencies github.com/y-sunflower/r2typ

Announcing plumber2 0.1.0! 🔧 The next-gen #RStats framework for building web servers and REST APIs is here. It's a rewrite of plumber with a modern foundation. Key features include async support via mirai, native WebSockets, and serving of Shiny/Quarto. Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

Hey y’all. I’m writing a blog series on performance optimization of REST APIs written in R using {plumber2}. First post is at the following link; it’s about speeding up endpoints by tweaking object serialization code. #rstats joekirincic.com/posts/perfor...

reticulate v1.44 is on CRAN! Positron integration is now enabled by default. Enjoy R and Python REPL consoles powered by concurrent threads in the same process, zero‑copy R↔Python data transfer, and full Variables Pane support. Full changelog: github.com/rstudio/reti... #rstats #python #pydata

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#nokings Portland frog brigade

August 2025's Top 40 picks are out, highlighting excellent #RStats packages from Differential Privacy to Toxicology to Causal Inference. This marks 1 year of Top 40 posts since we started R Works! 🎉 Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/august...

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package. The blog post will tell you more #rstats

If you were thinking about #ducklake in #rstats here is a blogpost that can help you get started.

Come find me at #PositConf2025 this week... when I'm not peopled out and hiding in my room 🙃 TOTALLY urelated: {stbl} 0.2.0 is on CRAN! stbl.api2r.org Want to make sure functions arguments have the expected properties (or fail informatively)? {stbl} can help! #RStats

At posit::conf(2025) this week, I’ll be giving a talk about optimizing REST API performance. If making fast web services even faster is your thing, this talk’s for you. We’ll focus on APIs written in R with {plumber}, but the strategies can be used with APIs written in any language. #rstats #python

yessssss, arm64 linux binaries in posit package manager!! #rstats packagemanager.posit.co/client/#/wha...

Are you an RStudio user thinking about trying Positron? We put together some resources to help with the transition. Learn how to import your keybindings and handle projects while gaining a more flexible environment for both #RStats and Python. Check out the guide: positron.posit.co/migrate-rstu...

David Kreitmeir and I published the synthetic matching method from Kreitmeir et al. (2025) as an #rstats package on CRAN (cran.r-project.org/package=synt...). Whereas my other recent R packages are primarily wrappers of my C++ code, synthReturn is a full R package (Fortran only in dependencies).

This is exactly what I love about #rstats: A pain point for many in the community (rJava is notoriously difficult to install) Developers finding ways to solve it, in turn helping out with so many downstream projects

This week on What's New in R, we're featuring: ✅ {truffle}, developed by Ian Hussey, for creating messy teaching datasets ✅ {sasquatch} by Ryan Zomorrodi for integrating SAS with R ✅ Databot — a new AI assistant for exploratory data analysis Read the issue: buff.ly/jlPnl4b #rstats

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0 www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements. We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual! #Rstats #tidyverse

“Vibe my database!” He cries, a silent answer Of empty records #haiku

his devops weak, marketing pretty there’s “no records” in his db already vibe spaghetti but the chatbot claims all is steady he’s talking to replit, screaming “my website is down” and the techbro hubris rings so loud he’s trying to CODE FREEZE but the support won’t help out

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet? Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so... Boss: What's the point of Copilot then? Me: Exactly.

#RStats #C #assembly gurus Would be great to get rdyncall back on CRAN github.com/hongyuanjia/... i.e allowing R to be a lowkey systems programming language without the usual C API boilerplate

tidyverse blog: Breaking down language barriers in data science nanonext is a messaging and concurrency toolkit, connecting R to polyglot data science pipelines involving modules written in Python, Rust, Go and C++ etc. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... #RStats #tidyverse

#r2u: Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three. New (quick) demo (on new machine with fast(er) disk): Install the whole of the `tidyverse` in _nine seconds_ including all dependencies thanks to #r2u. #rstats More as usual at eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

The July 2025 Top 40 New CRAN #RStats Packages blog post is now out! Check out great picks from @revojoe.bsky.social in 13 categories, including Causal Inference, Ecology, Mathematics, Medical Statistics, Pharma, Statistics, and Visualization. rworks.dev/posts/july-2...

Slides from my #rstats talk “Measuring LLM Effectiveness” at #dataconfAI with @simonpcouch.com. topepo.github.io/2025_NYR/ Video in about a month. Great conference!

tiny ( <400loc) implementation of Gemma3 270M using torch for #rstats github.com/mlverse/minh... Includes support for loading weights from hugging face hub.

tok is back on CRAN! tok is @hf.co tokenizers for #rstats. It uses the same Rust libray as the python interface. It's pretty fast and fully compatible with tokenizers.json available on hub. See the release notes: github.com/mlverse/tok/...

New TUI for interactive coding in the terminal! 🔥 🌀 steer — A coding agent for local dev, scripts & automation. 💯 Supports MCP, persistent/remote sessions, themes & more! ⚡ Run headless via stdin/stdout 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/BrendanGraha... #rustlang

I was loving Claude Code... until I tried it with #rstats. Constant errors, wouldn't use the tidyverse even when asked, "optimized" functions were slower. Frustrated, I started a session just to teach R to Claude and summarize what it learned into a CLAUDE.md file gist.github.com/sj-io/3828d6...

Today I was looking for economic data in several places and came across #WDI. #WorldBank data in #R that allows users to search and download data from over 40 datasets hosted by the World Bank, WDI, Debt, #HCI , and Sub-national #Poverty indicators. Just install.packages('WDI') #Rstats

After I set up a Python environment to run LLMs locally with Docker Model Runner, I wondered if you could use the same workflow with R. The short answer is, "Hell Yeah!" It took me 5 minutes to run LLMs with R using the ellmer library. Working on a step-by-step tutorial... #RStats #LLM #Docker

I haven't posted much on it, but I'm a big fan of Typst and built the #rstats `typr` pkg (github.com/christopherk...) to render Typst docs. The R community can gain a lot from using Typst's near-instant rendering for PDF/PNG/SVG file formats. I'm working on some new pkgs using Typst's versatility...

#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)

New blog post: @posit.co Positron Assistant provides inline completions with GitHub Copilot and chat/agent using Claude 4 Sonnet. Demo: using agent mode to create an #Rstats package with Roxygen2 docs and testthat unit tests. doi.org/10.59350/gkj...

#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

#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...

Microservices are great until you realize your “simple” feature now requires 4 deploys, 3 queues, and a prayer. Sometimes monoliths are underrated. #softwarearchitecture #buildinpublic

vitals, an R package for LLM evaluation, is now on #rstats CRAN!🧸 Specifically aimed at folks building with ellmer, the package will help you engineer prompts, choose models, and measure cost/latency/performance rigorously. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/06...

svglite 2.2.0 is here, bringing significant enhancements to your #RStats graphics! This update focuses on making your SVG visualizations more versatile and professional, especially with improved text rendering and font handling. Read about it here: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05...