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 ...

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 ...

This release brings more flexibilty to the grouping of bootstrap confidence intervals. It also contains many contributions from the tidyverse developer day. Read more ...

The tidymodels ecosystem now fully supports sparse data as input, output, and in creation. Read more ...

nanoparquet 0.4.0 comes with a new and much faster read_parquet(), configurable type mappings in write_parquet(), and a new append_parquet(). Read more ...

httr2 1.1.0 introduces powerful new streaming capabilities with req_perform_connection(), as well as comprehensive URL manipulation tools, improved AWS support, and a bunch of bug fixes. Read more ...

orbital 0.3.0 is on CRAN! orbital now has classification support. Read more ...

S7 is a new package that simplifies object-oriented programming (OOP) in R. It combines the simplicity of S3 with the structure of S4 to create a clearer system that’s accessible to everyone. Read more ...