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

The first release of vitals, a package for large language model evaluation in R, just made it to CRAN. Read more ...

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. Read more ...

Read all about Air 0.7.0, including: even better Positron support, a new feature we call autobracing, and an official GitHub Action! Read more ...

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() helper standardises model settings across providers and chats now report how much they cost. The release also tidies chat_* names, bumps default models and adds Hugging Face, Mistral AI, and Portkey connectors. Read more ...

Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity Read more ...

A new release of svglite has arrived, and with it full support for all the latest capabilities of the R Graphics Engine. Further, it finalizes the new approach to handling web fonts and font embedding in the created SVGs. Read more ...

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

The new 1.4.0 release of the scales package adds some colourful updates. Read about colour manipulation, palettes and new label functions. Read more ...

Tips and recommendations for learning the tidyverse with AI tools. Read more ...