R Weekly 2026-W21 15 Years of rOpenSci, Durations of wars, and R-squared

18 May 2026

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Highlight

• 15 Years of rOpenSci, and We’re Just Getting Started 🎉

• Durations of wars by @ellis2013nz

• Learning Data Science: Why a High R^2 Can Be Misleading

Insights

• 15 Years of rOpenSci, and We’re Just Getting Started 🎉

R in the Real World

• Durations of wars by @ellis2013nz

R in Organizations

• Beyond Feasibility: Learning from FDA’s Response to WebAssembly and Container-Based Submissions

• CDISC Standards for Open-Source Pharma Teams

Tutorials

• Learning Data Science: Why a High R^2 Can Be Misleading

• Testing Legacy Shiny Apps: Start with Behavior, Not Code

New Packages

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CRAN

• {OLSengine} 1.0.0: Transparent and Assisted Linear Modeling Engine
• {aieconindex} 0.1.0: Access the ‘Anthropic Economic Index’ Dataset
• {html2pdfR} 0.1.0: Convert Local ‘HTML’ and ‘XHTML’ Files to ‘PDF’
• {boids4R} 0.3.1: Reynolds-Style Boids and Swarm Simulation
• {shewhartr} 1.3.0: Statistical Process Control with Tidyverse-Native Workflows
• {drogonR} 0.1.6: High-Performance HTTP Server for R via ‘Drogon’
• {CircularBoxplots} 0.1.2: Grouped Boxplots for Circular Data
• {tscv} 1.0.0: Functions and Utilities for Tidy Time Series Forecasting and Time Series Cross-Validation
• {curriculr} 0.3.0: Data-Driven CVs with ‘Quarto’ and ‘Typst’
• {nativeORT} 0.1.2: Native ‘R’ ‘ONNX’ Runtime
• {certify} 0.1.0: Generate Branded PDF Certificates
• {easytable} 2.1.1: Create Multi-Format Regression Tables
• {terralink} 1.8.0: Connectivity Corridor Optimization for Raster and Vector Data
• {gcomputation} 0.34: Causal Inference by using G-Computation
• {combss} 0.1.0: Continuous Optimisation Towards Best Subset Selection
• {cgvR} 0.1.2: Interactive 3D Visualization of Large Cayley Graphs via Vulkan
• {TidyPanel} 0.1.2: Universal Messy Panel Data Cleaner
• {imv} 0.3: Model Comparison via the ‘InterModel Vigorish’ (‘IMV’)
• {curves} 0.4.0: Model-Agnostic Response Curves for Fitted Models
• {rvtk} 0.1.3: Bindings for the Visualization Toolkit (‘VTK’)

Updated Packages

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• RcppSpdlog 0.0.29 on CRAN: Small Enhancement + diffify

• {maplegend} 0.6.3 + diffify

• {mirai} 2.7.0 + diffify
• {mori} 0.2.0 + diffify
• {parsnip} 1.6.0 + diffify
• {broom} 1.0.13 + diffify
• {bigrquery} 1.6.2 + diffify
• {tibblify} 0.4.1 + diffify
• {pdftools} 3.9.0 + diffify
• {openssl} 2.4.1 + diffify
• {dockerfiler} 1.0.0 + diffify
• {checkhelper} 1.0.0 + diffify
• {xpectr} 0.4.5 + diffify
• {testit} 1.0 + diffify
• {legendry} 0.3.0 + diffify
• {ggdibbler} 0.6.5 + diffify
• {ggerror} 1.0.0 + diffify
• {ggmatplot} 0.1.3 + diffify
• {ggplate} 0.3.1 + diffify
• {mosaic} 1.10.2 + diffify
• {sfnetworks} 0.6.6 + diffify
• {accessibility} 1.5.0 + diffify
• {easycensus} 1.1.4 + diffify
• {censusapi} 0.10.0 + diffify
• {tidyfinance} 0.5.0 + diffify
• {hockeystick} 0.8.7 + diffify
• {EpiModel} 2.6.1 + diffify
• {harmony} 2.0.3 + diffify
• {harbinger} 2.0.747 + diffify
• {medrxivr} 0.1.4 + diffify
• {dataquieR} 2.8.9 + diffify
• {rstudiothemes} 1.1.1 + diffify
• {piecepackr} 1.16.1 + diffify
• {ggRandomForests} 2.7.3 + diffify

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