R Weekly 2026-W22 Deploying Quarto, rfuns, muttest

25 May 2026

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

Highlight

• Deploying Quarto documents with GitLab

• Functions over Idioms - Writing R in Python with rfuns

• muttest 0.2.0: More Mutators, Better Reporting, and Parallel Execution

Insights

• Positron May Release Highlights
• Making RmlxStats fast and accurate
• ctrlvee: Extract external R code and insert inline
• Conformalized TabICL: Prediction Intervals for a State-Of-The-Art Tabular Foundation Model in Python and R
• Conformalized TabPFN: Prediction Intervals for a Pretrained Transformer for Tabular Data in Python and R
• Leaflet attribution
• Functions over Idioms - Writing R in Python with rfuns
• How to use ggpattern to add patterns to ggplot2 plots

• Linting prose around code with vale
• Open Source Makes AI Better
• Deploying Quarto documents with GitLab
• Validating your first Shiny app for GxP: a survival guide
• Five tips for managing your R-universe 🚀
• Is logistic regression regression?
• Probabilistic Time Series Cross-Validation with R package crossvalidation
• Exploring the CovR/S Two-Component System in Streptococcus pyogenes
• Querying Neo4j Aura from R with neo2R

R in Academia

• The Atlas-Learn Approach to the Manifold Hypothesis

Resources

• Welcome to the New Home for Posit Open Source

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• curriculr: the case for a data-driven CV

CRAN

• {ctrlvee} 0.1.0: Extract External R Code and Insert Inline

• {tsitter} 0.1.0: Tree-Sitter Parsing Tools
• {REDCapSync} 0.1.0: Encapsulated ‘REDCap’ Projects for Synchronized Data Pipelines
• {quaqcr} 1.0.4: Quick ATAC-Seq QC
• {grumpy} 0.1.1: Read ‘NumPy’ ‘.npy’ and ‘.npz’ Files
• {surveytidy} 0.6.0: Tidy ‘dplyr’/’tidyr’ Verbs for Survey Design Objects
• {llrem} 0.1.1: LLM Relational Event Models
• {gedi2} 2.3.4: Gene Expression Decomposition and Integration
• {bolder} 0.1.1: ‘RStudio’ Add-Ins for Formatted Section Titles

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

• ggchord2: Chord diagrams for ‘ggplot2’

• ctrlvee: Extract External R Code and Insert Inline

Updated Packages

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• {qol} 1.3.1: Powerful ‘SAS’ Inspired Concepts for more Efficient Bigger Outputs + diffify
• {printify} 1.0.1: Custom Formatted Console Messages With Timing Support + diffify
• nanotime 0.3.15 on CRAN: Coping
• {nanotime} 0.3.15: Nanosecond-Resolution Time Support for R - diffify
• New release of mapsf: version 1.2.0
• muttest 0.2.0: More Mutators, Better Reporting, and Parallel Execution
• {shinyOAuth} 0.5.0: Provider-Agnostic OAuth Authentication for ‘shiny’ Applications - diffify
• {RSQLite} 3.53.1: SQLite Interface for R - diffify
• {filearray} 0.2.2: File-Backed Array for Out-of-Memory Computation - diffify
• {Compositional} 8.2: Compositional Data Analysis - diffify
• {bigassertr} 0.2.0: Assertion and Message Functions - diffify
• {harbinger} 2.0.757: A Unified Time Series Event Detection Framework - diffify
• {daltoolboxdp} 1.3.747: Deep Python Extensions for ‘daltoolbox’ - diffify
• {parglm} 0.1.10: Parallel GLM - diffify
• {mathml} 1.8: Translate R Expressions to ‘MathML’ and ‘LaTeX’/’MathJax’ - diffify
• {doFuture} 1.2.2: Use Foreach to Parallelize via the Future Framework - diffify
• {bonsai} 0.4.1: Model Wrappers for Tree-Based Models - diffify
• {tidyclust} 0.3.0: A Common API to Clustering - diffify
• {logging} 0.10-111: R Logging Package - diffify
• {LLMR} 0.6.4: Interface for Large Language Model APIs in R - diffify
• {ROpenCVLite} 4.130.0: Helper Package for Installing ‘OpenCV’ - diffify
• {tufte} 0.15.0: Tufte’s Styles for R Markdown Documents - diffify
• {hanyupinyin} 0.1.3: Convert Chinese Characters into Hanyu Pinyin - diffify
• {admiralonco} 1.4.1: Oncology Extension Package for ADaM in ‘R’ Asset Library - diffify
• {ISwR} 2.0-12: Introductory Statistics with R - diffify
• {plotbb} 0.1.2: Grammar of Graphics for ‘base’ Plot - diffify
• {maestro} 1.1.1: Orchestration of Data Pipelines - diffify
• {r.proxy} 0.1.4: Set Proxy in R Console - diffify
• {gtfsio} 1.2.1: Read and Write General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Files - diffify
• {brickster} 0.2.13: R Toolkit for ‘Databricks’ - diffify
• {armadillo4r} 0.9.0: An ‘Armadillo’ Interface - diffify
• {vismeteor} 3.0.1: Analysis of Visual Meteor Data - diffify
• {tidypopgen} 0.4.4: Tidy Population Genetics - diffify
• {tidylearn} 0.3.1: A Unified Tidy Interface to R’s Machine Learning Ecosystem - diffify
• {bit64} 4.8.2: A S3 Class for Vectors of 64bit Integers - diffify
• {rixpress} 0.12.3: Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with ‘Nix’ - diffify
• {collapse} 2.1.7: Advanced and Fast Data Transformation - diffify
• {h5lite} 2.1.1.1: Simplified ‘HDF5’ Interface - diffify
• {ClickHouseHTTP} 1.0.0: A Simple HTTP Database Interface to ‘ClickHouse’ - diffify

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• blockr: Clinical Data Analysis without Code

R Internationally

• Rtomic LLM: Train a JEPA LLM with Chain-of-Thought for ~$0.5

R Project Updates

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