ragnar 0.2 introduces a tidy, transparent toolkit for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines in R. Read more ...

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. Read more ...

The newly released mcptools package makes coding assistants better at writing R code and applications built with ellmer more powerful. Read more ...

httr2 1.2.0 improves security for redacted headers, improves URL parsing and building, enhances debugging, and includes a bunch of other quality of life improvements. Read more ...

webR 0.5.4 brings the latest version of R to the browser, with sharing URLs, an upgraded Emscripten runtime, and filesystem support for JupyterLite. Read more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...