R Weekly Highlights
The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.
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October 23, 2026 • 58 mins
We learn about the variety of ways you can contribute back to the core of R, a roundup of the excellent choices available for package and environment reproducibility, and an amazing collection of Shiny applications and packages addressing massive needs in bioinformatics … all created in a single internship!
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- This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) &...
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October 9, 2026 • 52 mins
A roundtrip between formatted tables and spreadsheets is now very much possible, how {shinyreact} represents a new path for user interface development in Shiny, and a candid take on ownership of code and the products we build from it (including very awesome art).
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- This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
- From spreadsheet to gt and back again
- I...
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October 2, 2026 • 37 mins
After a massive backlog issue sprint, the foundational {knitr} gains terrific updates to supercharge SQL code chunks. The R Project moves to an open source platform for asynchronous communication, and a key technique for bringing the user's perspective on error messages when you test your R package.
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- This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Tw...
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September 25, 2026 • 51 mins
Have you found a rogue line of rm(list=ls()) in your R scripts? Then we have a terrific update to a package to find those environment issues and much more. Plus a candid take on the lifecycle of spreadsheet-creating packages, and how to take matters to your "R" hands when faced with a perplexing reviewer comment. Mike and I also share our takeaways from an eventful posit::conf(2026)!
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September 11, 2026 • 39 mins
A data-driven investigation on how September is a dangerous month for bikers in Wisconsin, a novel look at the distribution of castles across the globe, and the fundamentals behind an influential analysis method commonly used in experimental designs.
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- This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)
- Madison bike crashes peak in September
- An Atlas of Stone
- Repeated measures A...
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September 4, 2026 • 27 mins
The newest linter on the R block gains a bold new feature in version 0.6.0, and a new package documentation framework altdown enters the world.
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- This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
- Jarl 0.6.0: A fast R linter
- A new take on documentation sites for R packages
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W36
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August 28, 2026 • 41 mins
A collection of techniques to unlock creativity for your next visualisation, a look at the exciting present and future of the futurize transpiler package, and how to avoid an all-to-common pitfall managing database connections in mirai daemons.
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- This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
- Why creativity ma...
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August 14, 2026 • 45 mins
A collection of tips to ensure reproducibility for R-based clinical submissions, a modern architecture lands in R-Universe, and going beyond the built-in mtcars set to educate students with NYC Open Data.
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- This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
- Making R Submissions Reviewable for FDA
- Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe
- The Journey of {nyc...
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August 7, 2026 • 33 mins
Orchestrating multiple package quality checking frameworks all within a single R package, and how learning in the world of AI has fundamentally shifted once you get over that initial hump (inspired by a quick quote from one of your hosts).
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- This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)
- rsonar: The R equivalent of SonarQube - centralizes cod...
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July 31, 2026 • 48 mins
The value of community and sustainability in full view at UserR 2026, a new tool ready to equip reproducibility and more for command-line utilities built with R, and the conclusion to LLM-prompting black magic that draws upon the awesome glue package.
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- This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @colinfay.bsky.social (Bluesky) & [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.c...
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July 24, 2026 • 45 mins
The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever take on supplementing your prompts with R objects.
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- This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
- R Consortium Awards First Round of 2026 Technical Gra...
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July 17, 2026 • 42 mins
An exciting new way to search and discover R packages wrapping novel technology, how the new checktor package finds the key issues standard checks will miss, and yes, you can play Doom in R (what?)
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- This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter)
- Searching the R Ecosystem by Function, Not Package Name
- The Check Pa...
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July 10, 2026 • 32 mins
A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for new use cases.
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- This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
- Testing Your Plumber APIs from R
- watcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for R, and the engine behind Shiny auto-reload
- Entire issue available a...
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June 26, 2026 • 33 mins
The R Core team receives a prestigious award in the world of Statistics, a month-long recognition of the rOpenSci package maintainers, and a collection of helpful tips for obtaining robust R code from AI agents.
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- This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
- 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded ...
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June 19, 2026 • 40 mins
The evolution of Posit's data science agents, robust approaches to unnamed parameters in R functions, and the power of math and visualization collide in an unexpected way.
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- This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
- A brief and biased history of Posit data science agents
- Three small dots for more readable code
- Little useless-useful R functions &ndash...
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June 12, 2026 • 40 mins
A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on various code smells you can prevent in your next testing suite.
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- This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)
- The Lurking Dangers of the R Version Update
- Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat
- 11 Te...
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June 5, 2026 • 39 mins
R is capable of many analyes in the world of data science, but can it build a computer? Also a massive usability feature landing in the latest bslib to power up your cards, and optimizing memory usage with the latest rleases of mirai and mori.
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- This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)
- Building a Computer in R
- Introducing Toolbars: Supercharge your Cards and Inputs
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May 29, 2026 • 44 mins
The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigms to a Python session, and adding a larger safety net with your unit tests with {mutagen} 0.2.0.
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- This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (...
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May 22, 2026 • 37 mins
Applying novel statistical and visualization techniques to predict war duration, why there is more than meets the statistical eye behind a classical model benchmarking statistic, and celebrating a major milestone for pioneers in open science with R.
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- This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @colinfay.bsky.social (Bluesky) & [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_Co...
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May 15, 2026 • 30 mins
A massive milestone for the language that eventually led to the R we know and love, plus a comprehensive look at two popular workflow frameworks across the R and Python ecosystems.
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- This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
- S at 50
- Comparing R's {targets} and dbt for Data Engineering
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W20
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