🗞️ Roundups & Community

Applied Epidemiology in R: Cape Town R User Group’s Contribution to Global Immunization (r-consortium​.org). Cape Town R User Group, MASHA, DTPBoost, Shiny apps, R, Tidyverse, deSolve, CDC/WHO collaboration

Crops, Code, and Community Build R-Mob User Group in Australia (r-consortium​.org). R-Mob in Australia uses community-driven learning, R programming (R, drc, R Markdown) and machine learning to empower agricultural and environmental research

Serving the Public: See How Government Agencies Use R, Python, Shiny, and Quarto to Drive Research and Data Science Modernization (posit​.co). Government analytics teams use R, Python, Shiny, and Quarto with Posit tooling to modernize data science pipelines and publish dynamic dashboards

rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review (ropensci​.org). rOpenSci reviews its Code of Conduct processes, committee updates, templates, and transparency in incident handling across platforms

R Weekly 2026-W03 R & Python Pluralism, RAG Setup, tinyshinyserver (rweekly​.org). R and Python pluralism, Retrieval-Augmented Generation setup, and tinyshinyserver release coverage

Weekly Recap (January 9, 2026) (blog​.stephenturner​.us). Explores responsible-by-design in tech, RV package for R, quit-waves in science, open science, biosecurity insights, and 2025–26 R tooling updates

📦 R Tooling & Infra

Packages 2025 Wrapped (christophertkenny​.com). Reflection on 2025 R package development, updates to CRAN, new packages flexoki and typr, and notable project work in dplyr-like tools

rtopy: an R to Python bridge – novelties (thierrymoudiki​.github​.io). rtopy enables translating R to Python via an enhanced RBridge and call_r, showcasing SVM with e1071, forecast ARIMA, randomForest, dplyr, and clustering examples in Python

Using rv in a container (deadsimpletech​.com). Using rv, a Rust-based declarative package manager for R, inside a Docker container for reproducible workflows

Apache Arrow ADBC 22 (Libraries) Release (arrow​.apache​.org). Apache Arrow ADBC 22 libraries update introduces URI-based connections, improved Windows linking, reduced memory usage, async runtime option, OAuth constants, and broader language support

yaml12: YAML 1.2 for R and Python (tidyverse​.org). yaml12 brings YAML 1.2 parsing/emitting to R and Python, using Rust, with shared design goals and explicit tag handling

LazyMouse – R package for randomly moving mouse cursor (tomaztsql​.wordpress​.com). LazyMouse: an R package for randomly moving the mouse cursor, installable via remotes and GitHub for R IDEs and breaking sleep mode

📊 Visualization in R

✚ Visualization Tools and Resources, December 2025 Roundup (flowingdata​.com). Curated December 2025 visualization tools, resources, and tutorials across languages like Python, R, D3, and Tableau for better charting

The Prescription Takeover (stevenponce​.netlify​.app). GLP-1 drugs outpace fad diets in US Google Trends, using R (tidyverse, gtrendsR) and ggplot2 for visualization and annotation

Africa’s Indigenous Language Families Span the Continentr (stevenponce​.netlify​.app). Atidy Tuesday visualization using R with tidyverse, ggplot2, showtext, ggrepel; Steven Ponce analyzes Africa language families

How to create a more accessible line chart (nrennie​.rbind​.io). Accessible line charts with ggplot2 in R: color palettes, labeling, scales, and small multiples

🗺️ Spatial & Mapping

Clustering Spatial Data with DBSCAN (jmsallan​.netlify​.app). DBSCAN clustering of Barcelona nightlife data in R, using sf, dbscan, and BAdatasetsSpatial for maps and visualization

Ready4R (2026-01-08): Being Curious and Being Wrong (buttondown​.com/ready4r). Being Curious and Being Wrong emphasizes data curiosity, embracing mistakes, and applying tools like Databot, sf, and leaflet in R

Directional markers in R/leaflet (nsaunders​.wordpress​.com). Using R/leaflet with GPSImgDirection and Font Awesome icons to indicate photo orientation

🤖 LLMs & RAG

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Setting up a Knowledge Store in R (jumpingrivers​.com). RAG workflow in R using ragnar and ellmer to build a knowledge store from Open-Source content and test with Google Gemini

Building Natural Language & LLM Pipelines, Spopt Project & AI Resources | Issue 70 (ramikrispin​.substack​.com). Weekly update featuring the Spopt open-source R library, NLP/LLM pipelines, learning resources, and a book on building NLP systems with Haystack

The D-AI-LY: An Autonomous Statistical Digest (dshkol​.com). Autonomous data journalism using Claude, R cansim, and a three-skill editorial pipeline to replicate StatCan’s The Daily with reproducible code

📚 Learning & Methods

Using neural networks in R is still not obsolete in 2026 (joshuamarie​.com). Explores R's neural networks in 2026, focusing on torch, tidymodels, and the kindling package for streamlined deep learning in R

penguins: Cloze Quiz for Exploratory Analysis of Penguins Data (R-exams​.org). Explores exploratory analysis of penguins data using R, with cloze quizzes leveraging base R and exams package

R Coding for Ecology (numberwright​.com). R Coding for Ecology covers ecodist in R, with updates and features, plus worked examples from ecology packages

I need to stop crashing my computer with R: a blog about gc() (rforpoliticalscience​.com). Using R and gc() to manage memory in a large event-data project, with rm(), object.size(), and pryr::mem_used() techniques

Curso gratuito: introducción al análisis de datos con R (bastianoleah​.netlify​.app). Free introductory course on data analysis with R for social sciences and humanities, covering data work, visualization, and automation