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R Weekly 2026-W12 Sharing across shiny modules, F1 data

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

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Insights

R in the Real World

Pacific island remittances by @ellis2013nz

R in Organizations

R in Academia

Tutorials

Using Quarto to Write a Book

Resources

  • QuickStats: WebR-powered browser-based statistical analysis tool.

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

GitHub

  • {freestiler} 0.1.0: Create Vector Tiles from Spatial Data

  • {entsoeapi} 0.9.5.1: R wrapper for ENTSO-E Transparency Platform API — electricity prices, generation, load, cross-border flows

Updated Packages

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Videos and Podcasts

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

— The R Foundation (@r-foundation.bsky.social) 12 March 2026 at 13:30

R version 4.5.3 "Reassured Reassurer" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats

— Peter Dalgaard (@pdalgd.bsky.social) 11 March 2026 at 11:56

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R version 4.5.3 (Reassured Reassurer) #rstats

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— superboreen (@superboreen.bsky.social) 11 March 2026 at 10:34

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊 There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded! #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

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— Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social) 11 March 2026 at 10:18