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Quarto

Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc

5.3k

Best Practices Publishing

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Diagram of a structured reproducible research project layout with folders for data, code, and manuscript

Structuring Reproducible Research Projects in R: A Workflow with renv, Quarto, and GitHub

A practical guide to structuring reproducible academic research projects using Git, renv, Quarto, and GitHub — from data cleaning to manuscript preparation

Dianyi Yang

Apr 13, 2026

Quarto Publishing Best Practices Renv GitHub Reproducibility

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Positron

Positron, a next-generation data science IDE

Best Practices Interactive Apps

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April Release Highlights

Welcome to the first Positron newsletter! This month: AI-powered notebook suggestions, Agent Skills, Azure Foundry support, R debugging upgrades, and more

Cindy Tong

Apr 7, 2026

Positron Best Practices

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Comparison of Python type checkers: Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban

How we chose Positron’s Python type checker

We tested four open-source Python type checkers to find the best default for Positron. Here’s how Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban compare on features, correctness, performance, and development velocity

Austin Dickey

Mar 31, 2026

Positron Best Practices Positron Python

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pointblank

Data validation toolkit for assessing and monitoring data quality

392

Best Practices Data Wrangling Publishing

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testthat

An R to make testing

923

Best Practices

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Screenshot of the Positron Notebook Editor interface

Native Jupyter Notebook Support Has Arrived in Positron

Positron now includes a native Jupyter Notebook Editor in alpha, built from the ground up for data science workflows. Here’s what is in alpha, why we build a new Notebook editor and what’s coming next

Cindy Tong

Mar 16, 2026

Positron Best Practices Positron Jupyter

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Great Tables

Make awesome display tables using Python

2.6k

Best Practices Publishing Visualization

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vitals

Large language model evaluation for R

Artificial Intelligence Best Practices AI

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usethis

Set up commonly used components

901

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shinychat

Chat UI component for Shiny

127

Artificial Intelligence Best Practices Interactive Apps AI

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rmarkdown

Dynamic Documents for R

Best Practices Publishing

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reticulate

R Interface to Python

1.7k

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plumber

Turn your R code into a web API

1.4k

Best Practices Interactive Apps MLOps and Admin Visualization

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devtools

Tools to make an R developer’s life easier

2.5k

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roxygen2

Generate R package documentation from inline R comments

634

Best Practices

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Rapp 0.3.0

Rapp is an R front-end (like Rscript) that turns simple scripts into polished CLIs, with automatic argument parsing, generated help, and support for commands and installable launchers

Tomasz Kalinowski

Feb 18, 2026

tidyverse yaml Best Practices Rlib Packages Programming Tidyverse

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air

R formatter and language server

393

Best Practices Data Wrangling

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mirai 2.6.0

mirai 2.6.0 brings an HTTP launcher for cloud and Posit Workbench, a C-level dispatcher for near-zero overhead task dispatch, and new tools for racing and debugging async tasks

Charlie Gao

Feb 12, 2026

tidyverse mirai Best Practices Parallelism Rlib Tidyverse Packages

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nanonext 1.8.0

nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R’s web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation

Charlie Gao

Feb 9, 2026

tidyverse nanonext Best Practices Rlib Tidyverse Packages

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cli

Tools for making beautiful & useful command line interfaces

697

Best Practices Data Wrangling Tidyverse

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Shiny

Easy interactive web applications with R

5.6k

Best Practices Interactive Apps Publishing Visualization

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plumber2

Easy and Powerful Webservers in R

112

Best Practices Interactive Apps MLOps and Admin

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yaml12: YAML 1.2 for R and Python

We’re pleased to announce two new YAML 1.2 packages: yaml12 for R and py-yaml12 for Python. Both are implemented in Rust and designed for fast, predictable YAML 1.2 parsing, with safe opt-in tag handling and document stream support

Tomasz Kalinowski

Jan 7, 2026

tidyverse yaml Best Practices Python Rust Tidyverse Packages

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testthat 3.3.0

testthat 3.3.0 brings improved expectations with better error messages, new expectations for common testing patterns, and lifecycle changes including the removal of local_mock() and with_mock(). It also includes a write-up of my experience doing package development with Claude Code

Hadley Wickham

Nov 13, 2025

tidyverse testthat devtools Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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pkgdown 2.2.0

The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website

Hadley Wickham

Nov 6, 2025

tidyverse pkgdown Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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config

config package for R

261

Best Practices Data Wrangling

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renv

renv: Project environments for R

1.1k

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rstudio-conf

Materials for rstudio::conf

746

Best Practices Community Data Wrangling Interactive Apps Machine Learning Visualization

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rlang

Low-level API for programming with R

559

Best Practices Data Wrangling Visualization Tidyverse

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mirai 2.5.0

mirai - minimalist async evaluation framework for R - brings production-grade parallel and distributed computing to the ecosystem

Charlie Gao

Sep 5, 2025

tidyverse mirai Best Practices Parallelism Tidyverse Packages

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nanonext 1.7.0

nanonext is a communications and concurrency toolbox that facilitates fast, powerful and reliable data exchange in polyglot data science workflows

Charlie Gao

Sep 2, 2025

tidyverse nanonext Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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code-review

Best Practices Data Wrangling Machine Learning

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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

Jun 11, 2025

air Positron Best Practices Tidyverse Programming

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systemfonts

System Native Font Handling in R

Best Practices Visualization

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Fonts in R

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

Thomas Lin Pedersen

May 12, 2025

tidyverse systemfonts ragg svglite Best Practices Textshaping Graphics Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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chromote

Chrome Remote Interface for R

178

Best Practices Data Wrangling

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shinylive

Run Shiny on Python and R (compiled to wasm) in the browser

244

Best Practices Interactive Apps MLOps and Admin

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bslib

Tools for theming Shiny and R Markdown via Bootstrap 3, 4, or 5

552

Best Practices Interactive Apps Publishing

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shinytableau

Extend Tableau dashboards using Shiny

Best Practices Interactive Apps Visualization

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marquee

Markdown Parser and Renderer for R Graphics

Best Practices Publishing Visualization

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S7 0.2.0

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

Tomasz Kalinowski, Hadley Wickham

Nov 7, 2024

Best Practices S7 Tidyverse Packages

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shinytest2

121

Best Practices Interactive Apps Machine Learning

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Rapp

Build CLI applications in R

106

Best Practices Interactive Apps

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DT

R Interface to the jQuery Plug-in DataTables

618

Best Practices Interactive Apps Publishing Visualization

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shinydashboard

Shiny Dashboarding framework

923

Best Practices Interactive Apps Visualization

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py-shinyswatch

Bootswatch themes for py-shiny

Best Practices Interactive Apps Visualization

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pkgdown 2.1.0

pkgdown 2.1.0 includes two major new features: support for quarto vignettes and a “light switch” that lets the reader switch between light and dark mode. It also contains a bunch of other improvements to both the user and the developer experience

Hadley Wickham

Jul 8, 2024

tidyverse devtools pkgdown Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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workflowsets

Create a collection of modeling workflows

Best Practices Data Wrangling Machine Learning

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rsconnect-python

The Posit Connect command-line interface

Best Practices Interactive Apps MLOps and Admin Publishing

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rsconnect

Publish Shiny Applications, RMarkdown Documents, Jupyter Notebooks, Plumber APIs, and more

145

Best Practices Interactive Apps MLOps and Admin Publishing

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withr 3.0.0

withr is the tidyverse solution for automatically cleaning up after yourselves (temporary files, options, etc). This milestone makes withr much faster

Lionel Henry

Jan 18, 2024

tidyverse withr Best Practices Rlib Tidyverse Packages

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withr

Methods For Temporarily Modifying Global State

177

Best Practices Visualization

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roxygen2 7.3.0

This release automatically warns if you forget to export an S3 method, regenerates the NAMESPACE before documenting the rest of the package, and does a better job generating aliases for the package documentation topic

Hadley Wickham

Jan 11, 2024

tidyverse roxygen2 Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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shinyuieditor

A GUI for laying out a Shiny application that generates clean and human-readable UI code

227

Best Practices Interactive Apps

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Three ways errors are about to get better in tidymodels

Three ways errors are about to get better in tidymodels

The tidymodels team’s biannual spring cleaning gave us a chance to revisit the way we raise some error messages

Simon Couch

Nov 10, 2023

tidyverse tidymodels tune parsnip Best Practices Package Maintenance Tidyverse Programming

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TMwR

Code and content for “Tidy Modeling with R”

622

Best Practices Data Wrangling MLOps and Admin Machine Learning

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testthat 3.2.0

Catch up on the last two years of testthat development which includes improved documentation, new expectations, a new style for error snapshots, support for mocking, a new way to detect if a test has changed global state, and a handful of UI improvements

Hadley Wickham

Oct 8, 2023

tidyverse testthat devtools Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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pak 0.6.0

pak installs R packages from various sources. pak is fast, safe and convenient. This post shows the improvements in system requirements support on Linux, in the just released pak 0.6.0 version

Gábor Csárdi

Sep 5, 2023

pak Best Practices Tidyverse Packages

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