R Weekly 2026-W31 Building glue, Self-Describing Scripts, What Makes R Strong

27 Jul 2026

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

Highlight

• Building our own glue with R

• ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents

• What Makes R Strong: Reflections from useR! 2026

Insights

• What Makes R Strong: Reflections from useR! 2026

• Outcomes from EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon

R in the Real World

• New Frontier

• ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents

Tutorials

• A {tidy} companion to the StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Statistics

• Building our own glue with R

• Multiple Imputation Analysis with mianalyze()

Resources

• A world still to be mapped: reflections on geocomputation in R: takeaways from the talk and workshop at UseR! 2026

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

Bioconductor

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• muttest 0.3.0: Turn surviving mutants into a to-do list

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Gist & Cookbook

• Little useless-useful R functions – Jug solver with Bezout’s Identity

R Internationally

• Taller: Crea tu propia página web con Quarto y R

• Truco de RStudio: escribe en múltiples líneas al mismo tiempo

• Sobre números pequeños y con muchos decimales

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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