R Weekly 2025-W50 New AI Newsletter, Test Set on Youtube, Haskell for Data Science

08 Dec 2025

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

Highlight

• 2025-12-05 AI Newsletter

• The Test Set: Now on YouTube + a look at what’s next

• Haskell IS a Great Language for Data Science

Insights

• Seeing the forest for the lines - Scaling complex base plots in Shiny

• Weekly Recap (December 4, 2025)

• bookdown.org Hosting Service Sunset

• 2025-12-05 AI Newsletter

• LatinR 2025: future.p2p: Peer-to-Peer Compute Clusters in R

• Net migration in Pacific island countries by @ellis2013nz

• Visual summaries of population in Pacific islands by @ellis2013nz

• R for Geospatial Predictive Mapping: Takeaways from the Talk

• Building a Clinical Dashboard Prototype in 2 Days: An AI-Assisted Development Workflow

• How the tables turned

• Introducing the Posit Connect Gallery: Essential Extensions for Managing Long-Lived Content

• Haskell IS a Great Language for Data Science

• Nightlife of Barcelona Neighborhoods

R in the Real World

• R Consortium announces JD Long as keynote speaker for R!sk 2026

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci News Digest, November 2025

• Posit’s progress and renewed commitment to the Open Source Pledge

R in Academia

• New Preprint: Model Checking for Vector Autoregressive Models

Tutorials

• Oil spill

• Wealth boundaries

• Railways

• Toponymy

• How to Remove Column Names in R: Complete Guide to unname() and Alternative Methods

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• duckdb-mlpack 0.0.5: Added kmeans, version helpers, documentation

• New release of maplegend: version 0.4.0

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• The Test Set: Now on YouTube + a look at what’s next

R Internationally

• A First for Pakistan: Karachi R User Group Builds R Ecosystem from Scratch

• Connecting Pharma, Students, and R: Ronak Shah on Strengthening the Pune R Ecosystem

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Updates from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG):

• R Contributor Office Hours, Thursday December 11: 10:00-11:00 UTC (EMEA) or 12:00-13:00 PST (AMER), or Friday December 12: 15:00-16:00 UTC+13 (APAC). R core developer Paul Murrell will be joining the AMER and APAC office hours.
• R Dev Day @ New Zealand 2025, Auckland or Online. Stream 1, NZ / Americas: 09:00-12:00 UTC+13. Stream 2, NZ / Asia-Pacific: 15:00-18:00 UTC+13. Deadline end of day Monday December 8, 2025, anywhere on earth.

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

• Start 2026 Ahead of the Curve: Boost Your Career with Jumping Rivers Training

Datasets

• Introducing openESM: A database of openly available experience sampling datasets including R/Python interface

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