ragnar 0.2

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

Tomasz Kalinowski

mall 0.2.0

The mall 0.2.0 update for R and Python introduces support for external LLM providers like OpenAI and Gemini. This version also features parallel processing for R users, the ability to run NLP on string vectors in Python, and a brand new cheatsheet

Edgar Ruiz

What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)

Welcome to The Shiny Side of LLMs: a blog series explaining large language models in plain English, without the fancy and difficult buzzwords. In this first part: what LLMs are, how they work, what they’re good at, and why they don't magically solve all your problems

quarto R package v1.5.0: Streamlined Workflows for R Users

The quarto R package 1.5.0 brings powerful new features for passing R values to Quarto metadata, inserting Markdown in HTML tables, working with R scripts, building paths from Quarto projects, and automating Quarto CLI from R

Christophe Dervieux

ellmer 0.3.0

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

Hadley Wickham

From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the `jupyter` engine

Learn how to transform a single Jupyter notebook into a parameterized report generator that automatically creates customized outputs for different scenarios

Charlotte Wickham

R and the Model Context Protocol

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

Simon Couch

Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

Max Kuhn

Great Tables `v0.18.0`: Easy Column Spanners and More!

Rich Iannone

httr2 1.2.0

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

Hadley Wickham

Posit at SciPy 2025

Shiny Team

webR 0.5.4

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

George Stagg

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0

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

Charlie Gao, Hadley Wickham, Davis Vaughan, Lionel Henry

Adding Plots to Great Tables

Jules Walzer-Goldfeld, Michael Chow

Introducing vitals, a toolkit for evaluating LLM products in R

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

Simon Couch

Great Tables + marimo = Interactive Tables

Rich Iannone, Jerry Wu

duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

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

Air 0.7.0

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

Davis Vaughan, Lionel Henry

Data Validation Libraries for Polars (2025 Edition)

Rich Iannone

C'mon C'mon: Let's Do a Pointblank Workshop!

Rich Iannone