R Weekly 2026-W09 Git commits, Pick a License, and How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

23 Feb 2026

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This week’s release was curated by Sam Parmar, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Git commits: please mark your stitches!

• Pick a License, Not Any License

• How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

Insights

• Git commits: please mark your stitches!

• Pacific diaspora by @ellis2013nz

• The world’s biggest ‘Pacific’ cities by @ellis2013nz

• Modeling Bitcoin Volatility Through Structural Breaks: A Compositional Perspective

• Pick a License, Not Any License

R in the Real World

• Apply to be an Opportunity Scholar at posit::conf(2026)

• Weekly Recap (February 20, 2026)

• A Year of Learning, Growth, and Community at R-Ladies Rome 🌟

• From Data to Decisions: Digital Twins for Smarter Maintenance

R in Organizations

• The Real Cost of Building Clinical Dashboards In-House: How $300K Becomes $900K

• TealFlow: Automating Clinical Reporting Apps with AI and {teal}

• posit::glimpse() Newsletter – February 2026

• 95% “Willingness to Recommend” for Posit in 2025 Gartner Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer

• Welcome, Nick Masel

• A Star is Born: Why GitHub Stars Are Vital to the Pharmaverse

• Get Ready for the PHUSE US Connect Pavilions!

• Our forum is closed but our community is not! - ROpenSci

Tutorials

• How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

• You can do more for neural networks in R with {kindling}

• Text hex logos with {hext}

• How the Recursive Language Model (RLM) Works

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• qlcal 0.1.0 on CRAN: Easier Calendar Switching

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {osmapiR} 0.2.5: Interface to OpenStreetMap API - diffify

• Version 1.4.1 of NIMBLE released

• CDCPLACES 1.2.0

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Driving Shiny adoption by removing friction - Jonathan Lin - Data Science Hangout
• Using R package structure for data science projects - Kylie Ainslie - Data Science Lab
• Positron workflows that make life easier - Andrew Heiss - Data Science Lab

Shiny Apps

• Recursive Language Models app from James Wade

R Internationally

• Introducing il.cbs.muni - An R Package for Handling Israeli CBS Municipal Data

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• Oops, Git! How to recover from common mistakes workshop

Connect

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