Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

There has been an explosion of package/environment/platform managers in the R ecosystem recently. Here, we explore {renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, and ir.

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.

Compile Time Regular Expression in C++. Contribute to hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressions development by creating an account on GitHub.

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.

.rs.exprMutatesPackageLibrary errors after evaluating a [ subset with an empty argument followed by a non-empty one (e.g. mtcars[, 1:3]) System details RStudio Edition: Desktop RStudio Version: 202...

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