R Weekly 2026-W26 Rousseeuw Prize, Celebrating Maintainers, AI Tips

22 Jun 2026

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

Highlight

• 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide

• Celebrating Our Maintainers during Maintainers Month

• 10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent

Insights

• 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide

• RStudio AI That Doesn’t Cost a Penny: llmcoder vs. Posit AI Assistant

• What R users struggle with

R in the Real Worlds

• 10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent

R in Organizations

• Celebrating Our Maintainers during Maintainers Month

• Mediforce x Databricks: Human-in-the-Lead AI Workflows While Your Data Stays in Databricks

• Why we still need {admiral} in an age of AI

R in Academia

• Auditing LLM Trading: Bridging Theory and Market Reality with the GT table in R

Tutorials

• Seasonal adjustment by @ellis2013nz

• Snapshot Testing in R: Beyond Screenshots

• Launch a Project in Positron with Raycast

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date with CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• Make accessible, Universal-Design-oriented ggplots fast with {ggplotplus} (now on CRAN)!

• rspdlite 0.1.0-1 on CRAN: New Package!

• rbenchmark 1.0.1 on CRAN: New(ly Adopted) Package!

• {talib}: Interactive financial charts

• New CRAN Package for sparse PCA – msPCA

• DIVINE: a new R package for working with a real-world COVID-19 clinical cohort

• pkgsite 0.1.0: Convert your .Rd files to Quarto

• {rurl} 1.2.0: Parse, Clean, and Normalize URLs

• {ppmSDR} 2.0.0: Penalized Principal Machine for Sufficient Dimension Reduction

• {pavdata} 0.1.0: Transportation Infrastructure Data Toolbox

• {mx.client} 0.1.1: Stateful Matrix Client Helpers

• {simplexgof} 0.1.0: Bootstrap-Calibrated Goodness-of-Fit Test for Simplex Regression

• {rotio} 0.1.0: Pure-R ‘OpenTimelineIO’ Document Model

• {daoh} 0.1.0: Days Alive and Out of Hospital (DAOH) Calculation

• {nirs4alldatasets} 0.2.0: Acquire Curated NIRS Reference Datasets (‘nirs4all-datasets’)

• {impala} 0.1.0: Bayesian Model Calibration

• {devkit} 1.0.0: Practical Utilities for Package Development and Session Auditing

• {proratar} 0.1.0: Proportional Allocation with Sum Consistency

• {NDPalette} 1.0.0: Notre Dame Color Palettes for R

• {climatestatsr} 0.1.2: Statistical Tools for Climate Change Analysis

• {nonabsdid} 0.3.2: Visualize Heterogeneity-Robust Event Studies for Non-Absorbing Treatments

• {cairovolt} 1.0.0: E-Commerce Charging & Audio Equipment Analysis Utilities

• {nlmixr2save} 0.1.0: Save ‘nlmixr2’ Fits in a Format Readable Outside ‘nlmixr2’

• {MoonShineR} 1.1.0: Predict Moonlight, Sunlight, and/or Twilight Ground Illuminance

• {ggplotplus} 0.5.5: Universal Design-Oriented Enhancements for ‘ggplot2’

• {ggmemo} 0.1.0: Add Arrows, Labels, and Change Annotations to ‘ggplot2’ Charts

• {metainsight} 7.1.0: A ‘shiny’ Application for Network Meta-Analysis

• {llmjoin} 0.3.0: LLM-Powered Fuzzy Join

• {CEACT} 0.5.0: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Toolkit for Clinical Trials

• {cdCAT} 0.1.0: Computerized Adaptive Testing with Cognitive Diagnostic Models

• {rspdlite} 0.1.0-1: R and C++ Interfaces to ‘spdlite’ C++ Header Library for Logging

• {hellokitty} 0.1: A Hello Kitty Color Palette Generator

• {dtsmartr} 0.1.0: Interactive Virtualized Data Explorer Grid Widget

• {bptips} 0.1.0: Server Earnings Calculations

• {aRxiv} 0.20: Interface to the arXiv API - diffify

• {mMARCH.AC} 3.3.4.3: Processing of Accelerometry Data with ‘GGIR’ in mMARCH - diffify

• {SAMtool} 1.9.2: Stock Assessment Methods Toolkit - diffify

• {countries} 1.2.3: Deal with Country Data in an Easy Way - diffify

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

• {dsprrr}: Programming - not promptint - LLMs in R

• {tooey}: TUI framework for R

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• Rhino 1.12.0: Code Coverage and AI Agent Support for Shiny Apps

• cheetahR 0.4.0: editable Shiny tables get an autocomplete column

• webR 0.6.0

• dbplyr 2.6.0

• tidyclust 0.3.0

• {mapgl} 0.5.0: Interactive Maps with ‘Mapbox GL JS’ and ‘MapLibre GL JS’ - diffify

• {treesitter.r} 1.3.0: ‘R’ Grammar for ‘Tree-Sitter’ - diffify

• {qtlcharts} 0.22: Interactive Graphics for QTL Experiments - diffify

• {rampage} 0.2.1: Calibrated Color Ramps - diffify

• {mmrm} 0.3.18: Mixed Models for Repeated Measures - diffify

• {cartographr} 0.2.5: Crafting Print-Ready Maps and Layered Visualizations - diffify

• {withr} 3.0.3: Run Code ‘With’ Temporarily Modified Global State - diffify

• {graphlayouts} 1.2.4: Additional Layout Algorithms for Network Visualizations - diffify

• {LLMTranslate} 0.4.0: ‘shiny’ App for TRAPD/ISPOR Survey Translation with LLMs - diffify

• {datadiff} 0.5.0: Data Validation Based on ‘YAML’ Rules - diffify

• {twbparser} 0.5.0: Parse ‘Tableau’ Workbooks into Tidy Data and Dependency Graphs - diffify

• {nycOpenData} 0.2.2: A Lightweight Interface to NYC Open Data APIs - diffify

• {siera} 0.5.6: Generate Analysis Results Programmes Using ARS Metadata - diffify

• {tidyEmoji} 0.2.0: Discover, Count and Score Emoji in Text - diffify

• {HealthMarkers} 0.1.4: Clinical and Metabolic Biomarker Calculation Toolkit - diffify

• {rayrender} 0.41.3: Build and Raytrace 3D Scenes - diffify

• {gazepath} 1.4: Parse Eye-Tracking Data into Fixations - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Reproducible R & Python with Nix: The T Orchestration Engine

Shiny Apps

• Check out >P.I. Charter, a novel use of R Shiny as a data submission and aggregation portal.

• Ask more of your dashboard with querychat and ggsql

R Internationally

• {rutera}: un paquete de R para limpiar y procesar RUTs chilenos

• Recodificando variables ordinales cuando vienen sucias y/o desde respuestas abiertas

• Tipografías lindas para programar en R: Fira Code

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

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