Featured this week on What's New in R:
✅ A package for compositing ggplot graphics into images
✅ Posit announced their new AI tooling for Positron and RStudio
✅ A practical guide to map projections in R
Read: https://rfortherestofus.com/2026/06/whats-new-in-r-june-8-2026
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I've just tried Posit Assistant on the free plan and must say, I'm impressed. Using the super-cheap Gemma 4 26B model (10% cost of Sonnet) on free plan it worked instantly. Hats of to the #posit team for integrating this into RStudio and allowing people to test with free plan!
#Rstats package update: callr 3.8.0. OpenTelemetry, carrier::crate(), pseudo terminals, plus I fixed (well, closed) all issues, but one. See the changes at github.com/r-lib/callr/...
When we started working on Positron, we began by asking "what did we always want to do in RStudio, but couldn't"?
Years of community upvotes on RStudio's issue tracker helped us form that wishlist. Here's how some big ideas made their way to Positron:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share some of what's in it! 🙌 Read about how we improved startup performance, the ongoing migration from Positron Assistant to Posit Assistant, and more:
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
I'm back with a hackathon demo driven quarto extension!
Fun animated checklists in revealjs slides through fragments
github.com/EmilHvitfeld...
#quarto #slidecrafting
We’re bringing OpenTelemetry to R 🔭
We’ve instrumented @opentelemetry.io in widely-used #RStats packages as part of our commitment to R in production.
Learn more about the OpenTelemetry integration for #RStats: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...
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We've been working to make mori better - 0.2.1 is now on CRAN!
Share R objects across processes with zero copies using shared memory + ALTREP. Supports mirai and all parallel frameworks.
New: `prune_shared()` cleans orphaned regions, cleaner errors.
github.com/shikokuchuo/...
#Rstats #Tidyverse
Posit has instrumented Shiny, plumber2, mirai, httr2, ellmer, knitr, testthat, and DBI with OpenTelemetry, and created tools for you to instrument your own packages, bringing production-grade observab...
opensource.posit.co
Mike Bostock's first data viz library ran on three 1x1 pixel GIFs and raw HTML tables. It kind of made a bar chart. He went on to build D3.
Listen now on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/01BJ...) and Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...).
Four years of daily Quarto use. One CLI replaced bookdown, xaringan, distill, and R Markdown. 40+ extensions. ~14,000 comments/replies.
mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-06-10-why-quarto-stuck/
#quarto #typst #rstats #QuartoPub
Robin Lovelace
Shared Memory for R Objects. Contribute to shikokuchuo/mori development by creating an account on GitHub.
After four years of daily use, Quarto has replaced R Markdown across my reports, slides, websites, and books. I reflect on what made it stick: cleaner defaults, real multi-language support, the extens...
