Please, please, please do not use ‘dplyr::ntile()’ in an analysis that will be submitted to a regulatory agency. It’s secretly an ill-conceived SQL tool that doesn’t do what you probably want it to, a...

In which the author realises she doesn’t know how to write package release posts

Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.

Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...

The R Installation Manager. Contribute to r-lib/rig development by creating an account on GitHub.

Platform independent zip compression via miniz. Contribute to r-lib/zip development by creating an account on GitHub.

gh() now signals a classed gh_interrupt interrupt when a paginated call is interrupted (e.g. via Ctrl+C / Escape). The condition object carries the records fetched so far on its $gh_result field. I...

A common refrain among developers: YAML is bad and TOML is good. This post argues otherwise, tracing the history of configuration formats, examining what YAML 1.2 actually fixed, and introducing py-ya...

An X11 server and client libraries for macOS. Contribute to XQuartz/XQuartz development by creating an account on GitHub.

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user…

Steps to reproduce: try to install Pak package on fresh Debian or Ubuntu Docker container docker run -it --rm debian:bookworm bash -c "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install -...

Posit is sponsoring four summer internship positions in 2026.

This edition covers major updates from Posit, including new versions of ggplot2, ellmer, and dplyr.

Rapp is an R front-end (like Rscript) that turns simple scripts into polished CLIs, with automatic argument parsing, generated help, and support for commands and installable launchers.

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