R Weekly 2026-W24 R Version Update, Refactoring, Your Tests Lie to You

08 Jun 2026

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

Highlight

• The Lurking Dangers of the R Version Update

• Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat

• 11 Test Smells That Make Your Tests Lie to You

Insights

• Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat

• Reflections on AI and Security

• Techtonique dot net, the Machine Learning web API, is back online (but more like a passion project for now)

• Football meets machine learning: Forecasting the 2026 FIFA World Cup

• Sovereign Tech Fund Project: Milestone 1

• The Lurking Dangers of the R Version Update

R in Organizations

• A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors

• Our goodpractice Package Has New Superpowers

Tutorials

• One tidy workflow for WHO GHO and UN SDG data in R: introducing DSIR

• A Multi-Agent DDQN Strategic Audit Engine for Silver Markets using Keras/TensorFlow

• 11 Test Smells That Make Your Tests Lie to You

• Querying data from large cloud databases with R and DuckDB

• Spatial Data: The Structure of Geospatial Information

• What is data.gov.scot and why are we doing it?

Resources

• Modernizing Clinical Trial Design and Analysis to Improve Efficiency & Flexibility

New Packages

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CRAN

• {nlmixr2targets} 0.1.0: Targets for ‘nlmixr2’ Pipelines

• {GeoDensityR} 0.1.2: Generate Density Rasters from Polygon and Census Data

• {ensembleML} 0.2.5: Unified Interface for Ensemble Machine Learning Methods

• {shinyds} 0.2.2: ‘Shiny’ Bindings for Designsystemet Components

• {MSN} 0.1.0: Multivariate Survival Data with Network Structures

• {ggcircular} 0.1.0: A ‘ggplot2’ Extension for Circular and Directional Data

• {tamd} 1.0.2: Transcendental Algorithm for Mixtures of Distributions

• {polish} 0.3.1: Polishing Content for ‘Word’ and ‘PowerPoint’

• {twscrapeR} 0.1.3: Twitter/X Scraping via Python’s ‘twscrape’ Library

• {opencltools} 0.8.1: ‘OpenCL’ Tools for R Package Developers

• {AIGRA} 0.1.2: Agentic Item Generation, Review, and Analysis

• {HOME} 0.1.0: Harmonized Orphanhood Mortality Estimation

• {admixr2} 0.1.0: Aggregate Data Modelling

• {TestNet} 1.0: A Method for Inferring Microbial Networks with FDR Control

• {DENSaftertransform} 0.1: Estimating Density after Logarithmic or Power Transformation of Data

• {db2pq} 0.0.4: Export Database Tables to ‘Parquet’

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

• ggshroom: Tiny companion to ggimage for plotting fungal and fungus-like icons

Updated Packages

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• {airr} 1.6.1: AIRR Data Representation Reference Library - diffify

• {mvtnorm} 1.4-1: Multivariate Normal and t Distributions - diffify

• {multivarious} 0.3.2: Extensible Data Structures for Multivariate Analysis - diffify

• {smriti} 0.2.0: Automated Routing Engine for Longitudinal Missing Data - diffify

• {tablet} 0.8.1: Tabulate Descriptive Statistics in Multiple Formats - diffify

• {lang} 0.1.1: Translates R Help Documentation using Large Language Models - diffify

• {ggpicrust2} 2.5.17: Make ‘PICRUSt2’ Output Analysis and Visualization Easier - diffify

• {eyeris} 3.1.0: Flexible, Extensible, & Reproducible Pupillometry Preprocessing - diffify

• {Transform} 1.1: Statistical Transformations - diffify

• {Rrepest} 1.6.13: An Analyzer of International Large Scale Assessments in Education - diffify

• {NNS} 12.1: Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics - diffify

• {scModels} 1.0.5: Fitting Discrete Distribution Models to Count Data - diffify

• {primer} 1.2.1: Functions and Data for the Book, a Primer of Ecology with R - diffify

• {qcluster} 2.0.1: Clustering via Quadratic Scoring - diffify

• {goodpractice} 1.1.0: Advice on R Package Building - diffify

• {ggforestplotR} 0.2.2: Publication-Ready Forest Plots with ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {CompositionalClust} 1.3: Clustering with Compositional Data - diffify

• {callr} 3.8.0: Call R from R - diffify

• {AIGRA} 0.1.2: Agentic Item Generation, Review, and Analysis - diffify

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

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