Yay, @rpodcast.bsky.social and @mike-thomas.bsky.social are back! Their absence made it feel like there wasn't much news out of #RStats in the last month or so 🙃

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years.

pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g...

Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

Issue 2026-W09 Highlights Choice is good, but sometimes you may want a little help! Our first two highlights showcase approaches you can take to inform your next LLM for analyses…

Episode 222 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤔 Choosing LLMs with vitals @smachlis.bsky.social
👀 Pick a license (VP Nagraj)
📍 Git commits, mark your stitches @masalmon.eu

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#rstats #databs

Issue 2026-W08 Highlights A glimpse into the R Consortium Submissions Working Group's recent successes and future work, and a new way to view those nested lists from a familiar face…

Episode 221 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📰 Submissions WG successes and new plans @rconsortium.bsky.social
🕸️ Viewing nested lists @yihui.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

#rstats #databs

Man I really need to go back and watch this show again

It’s called R

@yannco.bsky.social Brilliant! 😂

Computer screen showing Zoom event where JD Long is speaking, with coffee mug sitting in front of the screen.

Coffee & @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com to start the day… it’s a good Wednesday

Live look in at my code somehow not throwing any errors in prod

nanonext 1.8.0 nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R's web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation.

nanonext 1.8.0 is out - R now has a streaming HTTP/WebSocket server with bundled TLS.

Runs alongside Shiny in the same process. We're already using it at Posit to explore new real-time capabilities.

#Rstats #tidyverse

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/nanonext-1-8-0/

Can’t wait for this! 😁

Issue 2026-W06 Highlights A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop…

Episode 220 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🎙️ @emilyriederer.bsky.social on Test Set @posit.co
💪 Git for data workflows @fgazzelloni.bsky.social @rladiesrome.bsky.social
🏗️ libdplyr @mrchypark.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #databs

"LLMs [only] do a great job at interpreting plots that _don't_ contradict their expectations—it's sort of antithetical to the spirit of science." - @mike-thomas.bsky.social. Thanks for the coverage, yall!

More on @sara-altman.bsky.social and I's bluffbench eval: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

Issue 2026-W05 Highlights The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way, and…

Episode 219 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📊 LLM Plot Interpretations @sara-altman.bsky.social @simonpcouch.com
🌎 Soil flux @phytobio.me & John Zobitz
🏎 futurize @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social @jonathankitt.bsky.social 🙏

#rstats #databs

How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible...

Hi Angelo! Nicola's blog post from last week's highlights shows a great example if you look at the title of the chart in this section of her post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi...

Issue 2026-W04 Highlights The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the myth on…

Episode 218 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤖 Semi-automating 200 PRs @davisvaughan.bsky.social
📈 Accessible Line Charts @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats #databs

Issue 2026-W03 Highlights It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great…

A new year of R Weekly Highlights begins with episode 217! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤝 Polyglot to pluralism @emilyriederer.bsky.social
📚 RAG knowledge store setup @jumpingrivers.com
📦 tinyshinyserver (Lars Bernhardsson)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#rstats #databs

logo of Risk 2026 conference

Announcing Risk 2026 (Feb 18–19) - 2-day, 100% online

For anyone using R to measure, report, or mitigate risk (finance, insurance, healthcare, climate, cybersecurity, supply chain, etc.).

Keynote: JD Long, author of R Cookbook. Tickets $25/$50/$70.

rconsortium.github.io/Risk_website

#rstats

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell YouTube video by Federal Reserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Pushed a bug fix to {migrate} for all of the risk analytics folks out there 🚀

Excited to see this post by Heather Turner with more details on their recent RSMF grant for enabling future contributions to R.

I'd encourage #rstats folks to give it a read: there are some much-needed modernisation ideas in here.

blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

mutagen was started six (!!) years ago, and has taken a little while to get rolling. I admit I haven't contributed much beyond the hex 😅 we truly appreciate the highlight, @batoolmm.bsky.social, @mike-thomas.bsky.social, and @rpodcast.bsky.social!

Check it out here: github.com/gvelasq/muta...

Thanks to LinkedIn and its "Easy Apply" functionality; it has promoted the ad to ~1'200 people, burned through CHF 400 in 72 hours so that I could obtain 156 resumes: none of which meet ... Thanks to LinkedIn and its "Easy Apply" functionality; it has promoted the ad to ~1'200 people, burned through CHF 400 in 72 hours so that I could obtain 156 resumes: none of which meet the few requir...

Reposting a great opportunity to work with @john-coene.com at Opifex doing R/Javascript/Shiny work 👀

www.linkedin.com/posts/johnco...

Issue 2025-W50 Highlights How the recent frontier LLM model releases compare for successfully generating R code, our take on the new Test Set data science podcast, and a surprising…

Episode 215 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤖 AI Newsl @simonpcouch.com @sara-altman.bsky.social
🎙️ The Test Set @mchow.com @hadley.nz @wesmckinney.com
🤔 Haskell for DS @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats #databs

FDA logo

A milestone for #rstats: FDA expands accepted eCTD file formats for R packages, based on joint work between industry, FDA, and the R Consortium Submissions WG. Details: r-consortium.org/posts/expand...

#fda #regulatory #clinicaltrials

photo of JD Long

The R Consortium is excited to announce James “JD” Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026, our new online event on using R for risk. Join us Feb 18–19, 2026!

It's not just for insurance—if you use R in climate, healthcare, lots more...

Details: r-consortium.org/posts/r-cons...

#rstats #risk

Thanks @eddelbuettel.com ! And thank you (from all of us) for r2u!

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