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

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

Coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex have taken the software engineering field by storm. What makes them tick?

What we learned from Positron Assistant and Databot

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

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...

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.

Conversations, turns, rounds, tools, agents and more!

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

A combined reflection on 2025, posit::conf(2025), and the necessity of diversity in open source

Posit's latest glimpse newsletter highlights new product releases, including the Positron IDE and several new LLM-powered tools.

The geom you always wished for adding cats to ggplot2 - R-CoderDotCom/ggcats

The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler `chat()` interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements.

See how to query documents using natural language, LLMs, and R—including dplyr-like filtering on metadata. Plus, learn how to use an LLM to extract structured data for text filtering.

Provides tools for implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows with Large Language Models (LLM). Includes functions for document processing, text chunking, embedding generation, storag...

The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

duckplyr 1.1.0 is on CRAN! A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for speed. It is the most dplyr-like of dplyr backends.

Advancing Async Computing in R

Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more

We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.

ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with `parallel_chat()` and `batch_chat()`. A new `params()` ...

Quarto 1.7 brings big improvements to dark mode along with updates to Typst, Pandoc, a new version shortcode, and improvements to the julia engine.

In this article, I highlight some pain-points when working with Python & Pandas and how R's ecosystem proves to be a great alternative.

This release brings changes for strings_as_factors, step_select(), step_dummy(), and step_impute_bag().

Two people died after their vehicle was trapped in floodwaters. Hail and strong winds were possible in parts of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma on Sunday, forecasters said.

LLM-Powered Shiny apps with ellmer and chatlas bit.ly/shiny-ellmer-chatlas Carson Sievert Senior Software Engineer Posit, PBC

What the package does (one paragraph).

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