Articles published in the September 2026 issue

Announcing ggsql 0.5.0, with new readers and writers for getting data in and out, and the project's graduation to beta status.

Usually, when we develop software, we know very well how to use it and how it works. This is not true for external users, people who will make mistakes and won't use your software correctly on the fir...

ellmer 0.5.0 is now on CRAN, with new ways to send files to the model, citations from web search tools, and new ways to update model price data.

Christine Zhang (New York Times) joins ⁠⁠Sarah Lotspeich⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Lucy D'Agostino McGowan⁠⁠⁠ with a data-driven side quest into the TV show Law and Order. Check out the full analysis here: ⁠⁠regression...

Feedback on the past workshops (if you want to learn how to make wordclouds, check out Text Data Analysis workshop below)

ADBC’s advantages start before the first query runs.

A talk from useR! 2025

You're usually better off doing plain old prompt engineering.

Listen and make your own on Suno.

A fast, correct, safe, and ergonomic YAML 1.2 parser and generator written in Rust. Convert between YAML and simple R objects with full support for multi-document streams, tags, anchors, and aliases. ...

cuda.ml 0.4.0 simplifies installation, expands tidymodels integration and tree-ensemble inference, and adds portable persistence for supported fitted models.