What’s New in R: April 27, 2026

April 27, 2026

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive guide to making beautiful tables with {gt}, a tutorial on interactive beeswarm charts, and a look at how one R user is building a data infrastructure for Kenyan baseball. Let’s dive in!Creating Effective Display Tables with the gt Package Richard Iannone, the creator of {gt}, has published an online book that serves as the definitive guide to building publication-ready tables in R. It covers...

What’s New in R: April 20, 2026

April 20, 2026

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a video walkthrough of Andrew Heiss’s Positron workflow, a collection of Claude skills for R users, and a skill for auto-generating _brand.yml files for Quarto. Let’s dive in!How to make your data analysis life easier using Positron, Raycast, and Espanso Andrew Heiss, professor at Georgia State University and one of the R community’s most thoughtful workflow tinkerers, sat down with Posit’s Data Science Lab to...

What’s New in R: April 13, 2026

April 13, 2026

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a living guide to LLM tools for R, a version control tutorial for data workers, and tips for creating publication-ready figures with {ggplot2}. Let’s dive in!Large Language Model tools for R The AI space moves fast, and Luis D. Verde Arregoitia has been keeping up with it so you don’t have to. His online book catalogs the ever-growing ecosystem of R packages for working with large language models, covering...