R Weekly 2025-W48 Multi-agents, linter, rbranding

24 Nov 2025

• How to have (my) content shared by R Weekly?

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

Highlight

• mini007 - A Lightweight Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration in R

• Jarl: just another R linter

• {rbranding} 0.1.0: Manage Branding and Accessibility of R Projects

Insights

• Why I wrote Rmlx

• My First Contribution to base R

• Jarl: just another R linter

• 2025-11-21 AI Newsletter

• Privacy and AI Assistants

R in the Real World

• Acidification

R in Organizations

• mini007 - A Lightweight Framework for Multi-Agent Orchestration in R

R in Academia

• Bias, Variance, and Doubly Robust Estimation: Testing The Promise of TMLE in Simulated Data

• Labels for Clear Feedback in Peer Review

Tutorials

• Sparkle & Atmosphere: Bringing Your R Dashboards to Life

• {talib}: Candlestick Pattern Recognition in R

• Setting up a local HPC cluster with SLURM for testing & learning

• For-Loop with Range in R: A Complete Guide with Practical Examples

Resources

• #055: More Frequent r2u Updates

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• Introducing {geodl}: An R package for geospatial semantic segmentation

• Jarl: just another R linter

• {rbranding} 0.1.0: Manage Branding and Accessibility of R Projects

• {igfetchr} 0.1.0: Access the ‘IG Trading REST API’

• {RastaRocket} 1.0.0: Rocket-Fast Clinical Research Reporting

• {econdatasets} 0.1.0: Easily Download ‘EconDataverse’ Datasets

• {evolution} 0.0.1: A Client for ‘Evolution Cloud API’

• {fairGATE} 0.1.0: Fair Gated Algorithm for Targeted Equity

• {privacyR} 1.0.0: Privacy-Preserving Data Anonymization

• {nycOpenData} 0.1.2: Convenient Access to NYC Open Data API Endpoints

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {talib}: An Interface to TA-Lib for Technical Analysis and Candlestick Pattern Recognition in R

• {sparkler}: Lightweight visual engines for confetti, fireworks, and atmospheric weather in Shiny and RMarkdown.

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {qol} 1.1.0: Powerful ‘SAS’ Inspired Concepts for more Efficient Bigger Outputs - diffify

• digest 0.6.39 on CRAN: Micro Update

• {bidux} v0.3.3: Where Databases Meet Quick Decisions

• {bp} 2.1.1: Blood Pressure Analysis in R - diffify

• {ProTrackR2} 0.1.1: Manipulate and Play ‘ProTracker’ Modules - diffify

• {RTLknitr} 1.1.1: Right to Left Dynamic Documents Using ‘knitr’ - diffify

• {utility} 1.4.7: Construct, Evaluate and Plot Value and Utility Functions - diffify

• {simtrial} 1.0.2: Clinical Trial Simulation - diffify

• {qs2} 0.1.6: Efficient Serialization of R Objects - diffify

• {shinychat} 0.3.0: Chat UI Component for ‘shiny’ - diffify

• {deeptime} 2.3.0: Plotting Tools for Anyone Working in Deep Time - diffify

• {gsDesign2} 1.1.7: Group Sequential Design with Non-Constant Effect - diffify

• {geoarrow} 0.4.1: Extension Types for Spatial Data for Use with ‘Arrow’ - diffify

• {xkcd} 0.1.0: Plotting ‘ggplot2’ Graphics in an ‘XKCD’ Style - diffify

• {bidux} 0.3.3: Behavioral Insight Design: A Toolkit for Integrating Behavioral Science in UI/UX Design - diffify

• {adbcsqlite} 0.21.0: ‘Arrow’ Database Connectivity (‘ADBC’) ‘SQLite’ Driver - diffify

• {adbcpostgresql} 0.21.0: ‘Arrow’ Database Connectivity (‘ADBC’) ‘PostgreSQL’ Driver - diffify

• {qtl} 1.72: Tools for Analyzing QTL Experiments - diffify

• {nhdplusTools} 1.4.0: NHDPlus Tools - diffify

• {DrugUtilisation} 1.0.5: Summarise Patient-Level Drug Utilisation in Data Mapped to the OMOP Common Data Model - diffify

• {collapse} 2.1.5: Advanced and Fast Data Transformation - diffify

• {cardinalR} 1.0.1: Collection of Data Structures - diffify

• {autodb} 3.2.4: Automatic Database Normalisation for Data Frames - diffify

• {teal} 1.1.0: Exploratory Web Apps for Analyzing Clinical Trials Data - diffify

• {dipsaus} 0.3.2: A Dipping Sauce for Data Analysis and Visualizations - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• How to Make High-Quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst

Shiny Apps

• Sparkler Package Demo

• Should I Use Figma Design for Dashboard Prototyping?

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Announcing AI in Production 2026: A New Conference for AI and ML Practitioners

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

• rainbowR call for abstracts is open. Closing December 1st

Events in 3 Months:

• Elevate Your Skills and Boost Your Career – Free Jumping Rivers Webinar on 20th November!

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Connect

Join the Data Science Learning Community

rtistry

Post by @[email protected]

View on Mastodon

Quotes of the Week

Post by @[email protected]

View on Mastodon

Happy Non-denominational Winter Holiday. #rstats #holidays #fashion #velvet

[image or embed]

— @statsinthewild (@statsinthewild.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM