R Weekly 2025-W49 Custom GPS, testing, Tribal Councils

01 Dec 2025

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

Highlight

• Create custom GPS route maps in R

• From RUnit to testthat with Coding Agent Support

• Does winning back-to-back individual immunity challenges decrease your chances of surviving the next Tribal Councils?

Insights

• nlmixr2 is Becoming an R Consortium Working Group

• From the adas.utils Package to R-Trento: Paolo Bosetti on Building Tools and Community

• Translating the rOpenSci Dev Guide into Portuguese: Collaboration, Community, Challenges, and Impact

R in the Real World

• Expanding the Reach of R Across Cleveland’s Data and Tech Community

• Does winning back-to-back individual immunity challenges decrease your chances of surviving the next Tribal Councils?

Tutorials

• From RUnit to testthat with Coding Agent Support

• Create custom GPS route maps in R

• Guides for migrating to Positron

New Packages

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Updated Packages

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• {gdalraster} 2.3.0: API bindings to GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) - diffify

• tidyCpp 0.0.8 on CRAN: Maintenance

• RcppQuantuccia 0.1.3 on CRAN: Micro Maintenance

• RcppArmadillo 15.2.2-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update, OpenMP Updates

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

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

30daymapchallenge

• Wealth boundaries

• Railways

• Toponymy

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