R Weekly 2026-W27 Prime Ministers, No Code Dashboards, Reproducible Research

29 Jun 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

• United Kingdom prime ministers by @ellis2013nz

• A reinsurance pricing tool, built without code

• From Data Analysis to Publication: Reproducible Research with R and Quarto

Insights

• SIM2 climate data
• Can we actually bring AI automations into production?
• Flowcharts that belong in the analysis pipeline

• CatBoost support in tidymodels
• The 4 Layers of Testing Every R Package Needs
• A reinsurance pricing tool, built without code
• Air 0.10.0
• Introducing debrief: profiling summaries for AI agents

R in the Real World

• United Kingdom prime ministers by @ellis2013nz

R in Organizations

• AI in Production Conference Summary (2026)
• Investing in the Future of Interactive Computing: We’ve Joined the Jupyter Foundation

R Users

• Supply Chain Planning with R: An Interview with Nicolas Nguyen, Developer of the planr R Package

R Adjacent

• Why Data Scientists Are Well Positioned for the AI Revolution

Tutorials

• Deploying an R Shiny App with Google Cloud Run
• PCA in R: Principal Component Analysis Step-by-Step (prcomp + ggplot2)

Resources

• From Data Analysis to Publication: Reproducible Research with R and Quarto

New Packages

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CRAN

• Introducing {aggreCAT}: Mathematical aggregation of expert judgments

• tl-0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package

• {egfr} 1.1.1: Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Calculators
• {SNPkit} 0.1.0: S4 Tools for Reading and Organizing Genetic Data
• {skymodelr} 0.3.1: Generates and Samples Realistic Terrestrial Atmospheres
• {rMosaic} 0.1.3: R Bindings to the ‘Mosaic’ Visualization Framework
• {DataCraftR} 0.3.2: Create Datasets Interactively Using ‘shiny’
• {ggbond} 0.0.5: Interactive Layout Editor for ‘R’ Plots
• {ggalttext} 0.3.0: Make ‘ggplot2’ Fully Accessible by Generating Alternative Text
• {chatterbox} 0.2.1: Text-to-Speech Using the ‘Chatterbox’ Engine
• {aurora} 0.1.12: Build Stateless Web Apps with ‘plumber2’
• {artoo} 0.1.1: Lossless CDISC-Native Input and Output for Clinical Datasets
• {inatpick} 0.2.2: Download Photos and Metadata from ‘iNaturalist’
• {countryatlas} 1.0.0: Join World Bank Data, Country Codes and Maps on the ISO Spine
• {geovizr} 1.0.0: Interactive Cartography
• {srr} 1.0.0: ‘rOpenSci’ Software Review ‘Roclets’
• {llmimpute} 0.1.0: Missing Data Imputation via Language Models and Statistics
• {nfcore.utils} 0.0.4: Utilities for ‘nf-core’ Modules
• {dragmapr} 0.2.0: Create Draggable Plots from Projected Geometry
• {Rfuzzydid} 1.1.2: Fuzzy Difference in Differences
• {kumquat} 1.1.0: A Smaller Version of LIME
• {jirar} 0.1.0: Modern R Client for the Jira REST API
• {pdfsigner} 0.2.4: Digitally Sign and Verify PDF Documents

Updated Packages

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• {golem} 1.0.0
• pathfindR 3.0.0: Enrichment Analysis Utilizing Active Subnetworks
• {osmdata} 0.4.0: Download OpenStreetMap data - diffify
• {qol} 1.3.2: Powerful ‘SAS’ Inspired Concepts for more Efficient Bigger Outputs + diffify
• {printify} 1.0.2: Custom Formatted Console Messages With Timing Support + diffify
• RcppArmadillo 15.4.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor

• brulee 1.0.0

• {corteza} 0.7.0: AI Agent Runtime - diffify
• {slendr} 1.5.0: A Simulation Framework for Spatiotemporal Population Genetics - diffify
• {tmap} 4.4-1: Thematic Maps - diffify
• {FeatureExtraction} 3.14.0: Generating Features for a Cohort - diffify
• {igraph} 2.3.3: Network Analysis and Visualization - diffify
• {Seurat} 5.5.1: Tools for Single Cell Genomics - diffify
• {azr} 0.3.5: Credential Chain for Seamless ‘OAuth 2.0’ Authentication to ‘Azure Services’ - diffify
• {fortunes} 1.5-5: R Fortunes - diffify
• {ggsci} 5.1.0: Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {raymolecule} 0.9.0: Parse and Render Molecular Structures in 3D - diffify
• {astrochron} 1.7: A Computational Tool for Astrochronology - diffify
• {tidyfinance} 0.7.0: Tidy Finance Helper Functions - diffify
• {PacketLLM} 0.1.2: AI Assistant Gadget for ‘RStudio’ - diffify
• {saber} 0.7.2: Context Engineering for Large Language Model Agents - diffify
• {glasstabs} 0.3.3: Animated Glass-Style Tabs and Multi-Select Filter for ‘Shiny’ - diffify
• {pensar} 0.6.4: LLM Wiki Engine - diffify
• {rformat} 0.2.0: Base R Code Formatter - diffify
• {tinyrox} 0.4.0: Minimal R Documentation Generator - diffify
• {tinypkgr} 0.2.2: Minimal R Package Development Utilities - diffify
• {muttest} 0.2.1: Mutation Testing - diffify
• {tinyoauth} 0.1.1: Minimal OAuth 2.0 Client - diffify
• {dotwhisker} 0.8.6: Dot-and-Whisker Plots of Regression Results - diffify
• {broman} 0.96: Karl Broman’s R Code - diffify
• {RClickhouse} 0.6.11: ‘Yandex Clickhouse’ Interface for R with Basic ‘dplyr’ Support - diffify
• {gridpattern} 1.4.2: ‘grid’ Pattern Grobs - diffify
• {surveydown} 1.3.0: Markdown-Based Programmable Surveys Using ‘Quarto’ and ‘shiny’ - diffify
• {aplot} 0.3.0: Decorate a ‘ggplot’ with Associated Information - diffify
• {flowchart} 1.0.1: Tidy Flowchart Generator - diffify
• {checked} 0.5.4: Systematically Run R CMD Checks - diffify

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R Internationally

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R Project Updates

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Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Tidy Dev Day 2026

• Introduction to Bayesian Multiple Imputation with the rblimp package workshop

• 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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