R Weekly 2026-W29 Doom on R, search by function, checks for CRAN

13 Jul 2026

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

Highlight

• {rdoom} is a playable version of Doom for R.
• Searching the R Ecosystem by Function, Not Package Name
• The Check Passed. The Reviewer Didn’t.

Insights

• Collaborating on Quarto documents
• An API for Everything There Is to Know About Packages
• A world still to be mapped: Reflections on geocomputation in R (slides)
• Searching the R Ecosystem by Function, Not Package Name

R in the Real World

• {rdoom} is a playable version of Doom for R.

• Crude oil stocks at Cushing, Oklahoma

R in Academia

• Choosing informative priors in Bayesian regression models: a simulation study and tutorial using Stan and R

Tutorials

• Parallel LLM Chats Extract a Lot of Data All at Once

• The Check Passed. The Reviewer Didn’t.

• Creating Book Indexes in Quarto

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {deckglgeoarrow} 0.0.2: Use ‘GeoArrow’ to Add ‘Deck.gl’ Layers to a ‘maplibregl’/’mapboxgl’ Map - diffify
• {osmnxr} 0.1.1: Download, Model and Analyze ‘OpenStreetMap’ Street Networks - diffify
• {data.sketches} 0.1.0: Probabilistic Streaming Data Sketches - diffify
• {inferencer} 0.1.4.5: Simple Unified Wrappers for Hosted Foundation Model Inference APIs - diffify
• {agentr} 0.2.8.4: Specification and Review Scaffolding for AI Agent Workflows - diffify
• {doclingr} 0.1.0: Document Intelligence via ‘Docling’ - diffify
• {ggpaintr} 0.11.1: Build Formula-Driven ‘shiny’ Apps for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {datasetviewer} 0.1.1: ‘SAS Studio’-Style Interactive Dataset Viewer - diffify
• {glyph} 0.1.1: A Next-Generation Grammar of Interactive Graphics - diffify
• {didintrjl} 0.2.6: Intersection Difference-in-Differences - diffify
• {retraction} 0.1.0: Detect Retracted References in Documents and Bibliographies - diffify
• {Unitary} 0.3.11: Quantum Simulator - diffify

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {vellum}: A grid-like low-level graphics framework for R with a Rust backend
• {honestlm}: Guardrails for teaching and visualizing linear models in R
• The lt Package: Lightweight HTML Tables for R (and Beyond)

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {duckdb} 1.5.4.3: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System - diffify
• {survival} 3.8-9: Survival Analysis - diffify
• {rsconnect} 1.10.1: Deploy Docs, Apps, and APIs to ‘Posit Connect’, ‘shinyapps.io’, and ‘RPubs’ - diffify
• {LLMR} 0.8.10: Interface for Large Language Model APIs in R - diffify
• {AIGRA} 0.2.0: Agentic Item Generation, Review, and Analysis - diffify
• {litedown} 0.10: A Lightweight Version of R Markdown - diffify
• {PROJ} 0.7.0: Generic Coordinate System Transformations Using ‘PROJ’ - diffify
• {deeptime} 2.4.0: Plotting Tools for Anyone Working in Deep Time - diffify
• {soilDB} 2.9.2: Soil Database Interface - diffify
• {kableExtra} 1.4.1: Construct Complex Table with ‘kable’ and Pipe Syntax - diffify
• {ggcorrplot} 0.2.0: Visualization of a Correlation Matrix using ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {rphylopic} 1.7.0: Get Silhouettes of Organisms from PhyloPic - diffify
• RQuantLib 0.4.28 on CRAN: Small Update
• Rcpp 1.1.2 on CRAN: Usual Improvements in Semi-Annual Update

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• STAT 447 (2026), Interpretation of statistical models in R, Guest Lecture by Vincent Arel-Bundock

Shiny Apps

• Reintroducing shinyelectron

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

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rtistry

Catching up on a January #TidyTuesday dataset: The Languages of Africa. I turned the continent into a hex-tessellated map, with each country split by language-family composition, sand texture & scattered letters background & borders to echo the theme visually #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2 #Maps

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— Wajdi (@wajdi.bsky.social) July 8, 2026 at 8:50 PM

Quotes of the Week

Where it all started. #Rstats

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— Alex Holcombe (@alexh.bsky.social) July 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM

This report — every word, table, and chart — was made in #rstats www.dewr.gov.au/workplace-re...

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— Matt Cowgill (@mattcowgill.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 12:14 PM

The Hallgrímskirkja church is very heavy tailed... #rstats #ggplot2

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— Mattan S. Ben-Shachar (@mattansb.msbstats.info) July 8, 2026 at 6:00 AM