R Weekly 2026-W08 submissions working group, nested Lists with xfun::tabset

16 Feb 2026

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

Highlight

• Submissions Working Group: 2026 Plans and 2025 Success

• Viewing Nested Lists with xfun::tabset()

Insights

• Pick a License, Not Any License: Why you should care about data science software licenses and how to learn more

• RcppSpdlog 0.0.27 on CRAN: C++20 Accommodations

• chronometre: A new package (pair) demo for R and Python

R in the Real World

• The world’s biggest ‘Pacific’ cities

• Visualising income inequality social tables by @ellis2013nz

R in Organizations

• Submissions Working Group: 2026 Plans and 2025 Success

• 2026-02-13 AI Newsletter

Tutorials

• Associated Keywords: The Missed Opportunity in Search Advertising

• Introducing geoboundaries

• anndataR: converting single-cell data, from R to python and back

• Viewing Nested Lists with xfun::tabset()

• Navigating CRAN’s Reverse Dependency Check Logs

• How Posit’s Public Package Manager manylinux_2_28 repository can help you if your R project is stuck on Ubuntu Focal Fossa

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {typstable} 0.1.0: Better ‘Typst’ Tables

• {SimtablR} 1.0.1: Easy Publication-Ready Tables and Regression Analysis

• {quallmer} 0.3.0: Qualitative Analysis with Large Language Models

• {flexBART} 2.0.3: A More Flexible BART Model

• {geobounds} 0.1.0: Download Map Data from ‘geoBoundaries’

• {ohvbd} 1.0.0: One Health VBD Hub

• {scaledescr} 0.2.0: Descriptive, Reliability, and Inferential Tables for Psychometric Scales and Demographic Data

• {roadDB} 0.1.0: Access Data from the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD)

• {fuzzystring} 0.0.1: Fast Fuzzy String Joins for Data Frames

• {optimflex} 0.1.0: Derivative-Based Optimization with User-Defined Convergence Criteria

• {whisper} 0.1.0: Native R ‘torch’ Implementation of ‘OpenAI’ ‘Whisper’

• {keyed} 0.1.3: Explicit Key Assumptions for Flat-File Data

• {indonesiaFootballScoutR} 0.1.3: Tools for Football Player Scouting in Indonesia

• {bioLeak} 0.2.0: Leakage-Safe Modeling and Auditing for Genomic and Clinical Data

• {bayesics} 2.0.2: Bayesian Analyses for One- and Two-Sample Inference and Regression Methods

• {BayesianHybridDesign} 0.1.0: Bayesian Hybrid Design and Analysis

• {areaOfEffect} 0.2.4: Spatial Support at Scale

• {wired} 1.0.0: Weighted Adaptive Prediction with Structured Dependence

• {tidylearn} 0.1.0: A Unified Tidy Interface to R’s Machine Learning Ecosystem

• {quickSentiment} 0.2.0: A Fast and Flexible Pipeline for Text Classification

• {climenu} 0.1.4: Interactive Command-Line Menus

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {qol} 1.2.1: Powerful ‘SAS’ Inspired Concepts for more Efficient Bigger Outputs - diffify

• {cocoon} 0.3.0: Extract, Format, and Print Statistical Output - diffify

• {event} 1.1.2: Event History Procedures and Models - diffify

• {cancerradarr} 3.0.0: Cancer RADAR Project Tool - diffify

• {AMAPVox} 2.4.2: LiDAR Data Voxelisation - diffify

• {rvg} 0.4.1: R Graphics Devices for ‘Office’ Vector Graphics Output - diffify

• {poputils} 0.6.1: Demographic Analysis and Data Manipulation - diffify

• {Rparadox} 0.2.2: Read Paradox Database Files into R - diffify

• {rcatfish} 1.0.1: An R Interface to the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes - diffify

• {multcompView} 0.1-11: Visualizations of Paired Comparisons - diffify

• {osmapiR} 0.2.5: ‘OpenStreetMap’ API - diffify

• {ivolcano} 0.0.5: Interactive Volcano Plot - diffify

• {doconv} 0.4.0: Document Conversion to ‘PDF’, Thumbnails and Visual Testing - diffify

• {inshiny} 0.1.2: Compact Inline Widgets for ‘shiny’ Apps - diffify

• {keras} 2.16.1: R Interface to ‘Keras’ - diffify

• {googletraffic} 0.1.8: Google Traffic - diffify

• {codebookr} 0.1.9: Create Codebooks from Data Frames - diffify

• {modelsummary} 2.6.0: Summary Tables and Plots for Statistical Models and Data: Beautiful, Customizable, and Publication-Ready - diffify

• {UsingR} 2.0-8: Data Sets, Etc. for the Text “Using R for Introductory Statistics”, Second Edition - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

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Shiny Apps

• Package Dependency vizualizer (on top of {PAK})
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R Internationally

• Large Language Model tools for R in English and Spanish

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• rainbowR conference, Feb 25th-26th, 2026, virtual, free.

• posit::conf(2026) Registration is Open!

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

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— Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM

Quotes of the Week

The #DuBoisChallenge started this week! This year's theme is maps, opening with Plate 1, where Du Bois reminds audiences that the African Diaspora was built on Transatlantic Slave Trade. Borrowed an approach of looking at states from @nrennie.bsky.social Code in #rstats: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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— John Russell (@drjohnrussell.com) February 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM

I'm right in the middle of the #RStats, #DataViz and map people 💜

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— Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social) February 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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— Sanweb - Random Stuffs 🦄 (@sanweb.bsky.social) January 24, 2024 at 8:41 AM