That's a heck of a graphic www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Promotional graphic for the USER! 2026 Conference Warsaw. The top shows the event title beside four colorful geometric squares, followed by large yellow text reading “Early Bird is open!”. The lower half displays a sunset view of Warsaw’s skyline with the Palace of Culture and Science centered among modern skyscrapers.

useR! 2026 is for data scientists, statisticians, researchers, R devs, students, and anyone who loves R.

Warsaw, July 6–9. Three universities. One great conference.

Early Bird ends April 20 👉 user2026.r-project.org

#useR2026 #RStats

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 1 April of Tomáš Kalibera, a valuable member of the R Core Team for close to 10 years, after a short but aggressive illness.

Tomáš is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time.

Positron plus JupyterHub logo, with the Posit logo in the corner.

We are thrilled to announce that Positron Server is now available for academic use via JupyterHub!

This gives students a robust #RStats & #Python data science IDE without needing a local install or new infrastructure.

Learn more: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

Bill’s early work had an incredible influence on my career, especially his studies on perception and coplots. It’s so sad to hear that he passed away. May his memory be a blessing.

We co-hosted the Geo-Embeddings Sprint with Planet & Clark University to establish shared standards for Earth observation embeddings – storage formats, metadata & access patterns.

Find the best practices & docs at geoembeddings.org.

For full recap of sprint 👇🏽
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/04...

How fast does road transport get electrified in Europe ?

To answer this question, #Eurostat just published a new digital #map on the #accessibility of electrical vehicle (EV) charging points in Europe for 2025 and 2023.

➡️ ec.europa.eu/assets/estat...

#gischat #mapping #cartography #gis #transport

Homepage of the R Mailing List Archives showing a search bar, three popular lists (R-help with 398,500 messages, R-devel with 63,425, and R-package-devel with 12,125), and a full directory of core lists and special interest groups.

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it.

Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data.

r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

📣 Call for Sponsor #useR2026 in Warsaw! 🇵🇱

Support the premier #Rstats conference (July 6–9) and connect with global data experts.

Tiers:
🏆 Platinum (€25k) to 💜 Violet (€1k) + custom options! 🧩

Champion open-source innovation with us.

Full details here:
🔗 user2026.r-project.org/about/sponso...

Satellite company @planet.com has announced a *14 day delay* to the release of imagery in the MidEast.

This will be a huge setback for those trying to verify events in the region.

U.S. allies haven’t forgotten about Trump’s tariffs, his threats against NATO, and his curtailing of aid to Ukraine—so he shouldn’t be surprised that they’re unwilling to help him in Iran, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues.

Scene from R Dev Days, showing people working together

R Dev Days are short events to work collaboratively on contributions to base R, the core functionality of the R programming language.

Check out the list of R Dev Days in 2026!

contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev...

#rstats #opensource @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy

Attention #RSpatial community: NAD83 → NSRS and ETRS89 updates are hitting PROJ/GDAL/etc., potentially affecting sf, terra, gdalraster, vapour.

Roger Bivand is seeking feedback on his talk proposal.

Details:

#RStats #GISchat

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

The Technical Debt of Earth Embedding Products Every geospatial foundation model team solves the hard problem — training on petabytes of imagery. Nobody solves the easy one: letting other people use the output.

Foundation models solve training on PB of imagery but usability is a struggle when comparing or stacking them. Isaac Corley from Wherobots shares lessons learned working with Earth embeddings products, requiring patches for GDAL, Rasterio & TorchGeo
cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2026/02...

Job opportunity Assistant Professor, tenure track, qualification agreement at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal others in Wien

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing:

wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr...

As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R.

Deadline Mar 18!

We released DuckDB v1.5!

This release comes with a “friendly CLI” client, a new (opt-in) PEG parser, support for VARIANT types and many lakehouse features. It also ships a new network stack, a reworked geospatial extension, Azure writes and an ODBC scanner.

Read more at duckdb.org/2026/03/09/a...

Summer school poster with dates and location

Apply now to be part of Earth Observation Summer School 2026
Learn Earth observation using Python, R, and Julia

📅 17–21 Aug 2026, Istanbul, Turkey
🔔 Registration deadline: 15 Mar 2026
🔗 opengeohub.org/2026/01/29/e...

#EarthObservation #OpenSource #RStats #GeoPython #JuliaGeo

A few years ago, I was on a commission here in the Max Planck Society that tried to motivate the society to stop wasting millions of Euros on Microsoft licenses for bad calendar and email software. That and Elsevier subscriptions are just wasteful use of public funds imo. >

Thanks to everyone that replied to this, we submitted our response last week: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet....

You can view all responses, including several from other foundations supporting OSS projects (full comments are often in a download).

Doctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)

stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2...

dplyr 1.2.0 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...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

#rstats ANNOUNCE: The ASA John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award to
Harriet Mason (Monash Univ)
For ggdibbler, an R graphics (ggplot2 add-on) package that enables rich visualization of uncertainty across raster, contour, stack, and spatial plots.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

eos.org/opinions/wha...

Interested in satellite image time series? version 1.5.4 of the open source SITS package is available on CRAN and conda-forge. An end-to-end solution for LUCC mapping of big Earth observation, with APIs in R and Python. Online book available (e-sensing.github.io/sitsbook/)

Excerpt with a table from the Initial Editorial Assessment Document linked in the subsequent post.

At R2, we take both quality assessment and transparency seriously. This is why we do not only publish peer review reports and reproducibility certificates for all articles but also conduct thorough initial checks. They are done by the EiC and an editorial assisstant before peer review.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

CRAN updates: laminr LLMTranslate lwgeom mapgl #rstats

CRAN updates: m61r sf statpsych #rstats

The Geography of the Labour Force Composition in the Netherlands by Ate Poorthuis (doi.org/10.1111/tesg...). One of the best uses of the centered ternary balance scheme (www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...) I've seen so far. Build with tricolore github.com/jschoeley/tr... @ikashnitsky.phd