R Weekly 2026-W06 Interview, Practical git, duckdb
This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.
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Insights
- nycOpenData: A unified R interface to NYC Open Data APIs
- Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming
- Variable Fonts in R Graphics
- rOpenSci News Digest, January 2026
- How to Recruit a New Maintainer for Your Package
- Debugging Sensitivity to C math library on Linux
- The Test Set Pod - Column selectors, data quality, and learning in public (Episode link)
- dplyr comes to duckdb
- AI Newsletter 2026-01-30
- Weekly Recap (January 30, 2026)
Tutorials
- Using nimbleQuad for maximum likelihood estimation and deterministic posterior approximation
- Using derived quantities in NIMBLE’s MCMC system
Resources
New Packages
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CRAN
- {printtree} 0.2.0: Print Directory Trees for R Projects and Folders
- {h5lite} 2.0.0.2: Simplified ‘HDF5’ Interface
- {chronometre} 0.0.1: A ‘chronomètre’ is a ‘stopwatch’
- {weatherjoin} 0.2.0: Join Gridded Weather Data to Event Tables
- {StatsTFLValR} 1.0.0: Utilities for Validation of Clinical Trial ‘SDTM’, ‘ADaM’ and ‘TFL’ Outputs
- {coldrift} 0.1.1: Lightweight Column Drift Detection for Tabular Data
- {annotaR} 0.1.1: Tidy, Integrated Gene Annotation
- {muiMaterial} 0.1.2: ‘Material UI’ for ‘shiny’ Apps and ‘Quarto’
- {kuzco} 0.1.0: Computer Vision with Large Language Models
GitHub or Bitbucket
- arf console: Alternative R Frontend
Updated Packages
- {runner} 0.4.6: Running Operations for Vectors - diffify
- {modeltime} 1.3.5: The Tidymodels Extension for Time Series Modeling - diffify
- {treediff} 0.2.2: Testing Differences Between Families of Trees - diffify
- {see} 0.13.0: Model Visualisation Toolbox for ‘easystats’ and ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
- {pdftools} 3.7.0: Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents - diffify
- {zoomerjoin} 0.2.2: Superlatively Fast Fuzzy Joins - diffify
- {shinyOAuth} 0.3.0: Provider-Agnostic OAuth Authentication for ‘shiny’ Applications - diffify
- {gmailr} 3.0.0: Access the ‘Gmail’ ‘RESTful’ API - diffify
- {plotbb} 0.1.1: Grammar of Graphics for ‘base’ Plot - diffify
- {sqldf} 0.4-12: Manipulate R Data Frames Using SQL - diffify
- {timechange} 0.4.0: Efficient Manipulation of Date-Times - diffify
- {oblicubes} 1.0.1: 3D Rendering Using Obliquely Projected Cubes and Cuboids - diffify
- {receptiviti} 0.2.1: Text Analysis Through the ‘Receptiviti’ API - diffify
- {foreign} 0.8-91: Read Data Stored by ‘Minitab’, ‘S’, ‘SAS’, ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’, ‘Systat’, ‘Weka’, ‘dBase’, … - diffify
- {admiralonco} 1.4.0: Oncology Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library - diffify
- {bruceR} 2026.1: Broadly Useful Convenient and Efficient R Functions - diffify
- {Rlabkey} 3.4.5: Data Exchange Between R and ‘LabKey’ Server - diffify
- {gargle} 1.6.1: Utilities for Working with Google APIs - diffify
- {bittermelon} 2.2.1: Bitmap Tools - diffify
- {billboarder} 0.5.1: Create Interactive Chart with the JavaScript ‘Billboard’ Library - diffify
- {futureverse} 0.2.0: Install ‘Futureverse’ in One Go - diffify
- {edgemodelr} 0.1.5: Local Large Language Model Inference Engine - diffify
- {rixpress} 0.11.2: Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with ‘Nix’ - diffify
- {rix} 0.18.1: Reproducible Data Science Environments with ‘Nix’ - diffify
- {duckdb} 1.4.4: DBI Package for the DuckDB Database Management System - diffify
- {plumber} 1.3.3: An API Generator for R - diffify
- {tidyna} 0.4.0: NA-Aware Defaults for Common R Functions - diffify
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