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.

Share R objects across processes on the same machine via a single copy in POSIX shared memory (Linux, macOS) or a Win32 file mapping (Windows). Every process reads from the same physical pages through...

On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.

Back in 2022, I promised that R Markdown wouldn’t die. In this post, I’ll give a summary of notable updates in rmarkdown v2.26–v2.32 (2024–2026). For the full changelog, please...

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Addresses #18718. Root cause The reporter's core dump shows the rsession main thread parked forever in __cxa_guard_acquire, five (stripped) rsession frames below Rf_ReplIteration, with no other...

Just in time for the Fall 2026 semester, I am excited to share that my first R package is on CRAN! "brfssdata: Access CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data" BRFSS is one of the largest...

Recently I have released a new package on CRAN: lt, short for lightweight tables (or less than). Its origin story is a small moment of shock. About two years ago a project required gt, so I ran &helli...

Attentive package authors already noticed something new in their r-universe page over the past few weeks: R-universe has quietly started building and checking packages for Windows ARM64. https://rope...

A dependency management toolkit for R. Using renv, you can create and manage project-local R libraries, save the state of these libraries to a lockfile, and later restore your library as required. Tog...

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`ir` is a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and rendering Quarto documents whose package requirements, and optional R selection, live inside the file itself.

dbplyr 2.6.0 is now on CRAN, with new ADBC and JDBC backends, IBM DB2 support, more translations, and a bunch of minor fixes and improvements.

querychat now supports ggsql-powered visualizations — users can ask "show me" questions and get charts rendered directly in the chat, alongside SQL queries and reactive filtering, all without arbitrar...

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.

What we learned from Positron Assistant and Databot

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

This project presents a minimal reproducible workflow template for cognitive neuroscience research using Positron, R, Bayesian modelling, and Docker. - rich-ramsey/positron-workflow

Many of the most upvoted RStudio feature requests are already implemented in Positron, and we explore ten of them.

After four years of daily use, Quarto has replaced R Markdown across my reports, slides, websites, and books. I reflect on what made it stick: cleaner defaults, real multi-language support, the extens...

Shared Memory for R Objects. Contribute to shikokuchuo/mori development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this technote we look at a few recent additions that make R-universe a little nicer, faster, or more convenient to use.

The party is ending for subsidized AI tokens. Posit AI is sustainably priced and built for data work.