R Weekly 2026-W32 rsonar, the real bottleneck to learning AI tools

03 Aug 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

• rsonar: The R equivalent of SonarQube - centralizes code quality analysis into a single interactive report

• Cognitive Courage: The Real Bottleneck to Learning AI Tools - Learning a new AI workflow no longer means studying it first. The platform you work in is the platform you learn in, and the only thing between you and your first skill is the nerve to say ‘I don’t know – show me.’

Insights

• R on ARM64 Windows: Resources and infrastructure for using R natively on ARM64 Windows hardware.

• Cognitive Courage: The Real Bottleneck to Learning AI Tools - Learning a new AI workflow no longer means studying it first. The platform you work in is the platform you learn in, and the only thing between you and your first skill is the nerve to say ‘I don’t know – show me.’

• RcppDate 0.0.7: New Upstream

• June 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

R in Organizations

• askfirst: Connect AI with your coding communities

R in Academia

• Navigating Challenges in Spatial Machine Learning

Tutorials

• GPopt for R: Bayesian and conformal optimization of black-box functions and hyperparameter tuning

• Conditionally Quieten Compilers

• Async Programming by Mirai Magic Mastery

• Running RStudio, JupyterLab, and VS Code side by side without losing validated status

• Introducing lorax: Speaking for the Tree-Based Models

Resources

• Statistical Models Answer the Fundamental Clinical Question and Provide Clinical Trial Estimands

• The Unifying Capabilities of Cumulative Probability Semiparametric Models

• Allison Horst illustrations organised

• Modeling the modeling into the database with orbital

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• ggtintshade: Tinting/shading aesthetics for ggplot2

• frictionless 1.3.0: A new version of our R package frictionless

• {envar} 0.1.0: Download and Process Environmental Variables

• {olympicAthletes} 0.5.10: Olympic Athlete Event Data, Athens 1896 to Milano-Cortina 2026

• {cataScience} 2.1.2: Interactive Training App for Data Science and AI Skills

• {BKBreed} 0.3.2: Colourful Biometrical Analysis for Plant Breeding and Genetics

• {biocharkitgui} 0.3.0: ‘Shiny’ GUI for the ‘biocharkit’ Biochar Analysis Toolkit

• {muiCharts} 0.1.0: ‘MUI X Charts’ for ‘shiny’ Apps and ‘Quarto’

• {circlecorR} 0.1.0: Circular Correlation Wheel Plot

• {PiChange} 0.0.6: Pi-Change: Change Point Detection with Prior-Informed Penalties

• {boostPM} 0.1.0: Unsupervised Tree Boosting for Learning Probability Distributions

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

• {rsonar}: R interface to SonarQube for analyzing code quality and automating fixes. Supports automated code fixes and automates GitLab Merge Requests or GitHub Pull Requests.

Updated Packages

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• {sjtable2df} 0.0.6: Convert ‘sjPlot’ HTML-Tables to R ‘data.frame’ - diffify

• {reptiledbr} 0.1.0: Interface to ‘The Reptile Database’ Taxon Data - diffify

• {tidync} 0.5.0: Tidy Approach to ‘NetCDF’ Data Exploration and Extraction - diffify

• {pkr} 0.1.6: Pharmacokinetics in R - diffify

• {myIO} 1.3.0: Interactive Data Visualizations Using ‘d3.js’ - diffify

• {teal} 1.2.1: Exploratory Web Apps for Analyzing Clinical Trials Data - diffify

• {nocturn} 1.2.0: Sleep Data Filtering and Visualisation - diffify

• {CovTools} 0.5.7: Statistical Tools for Covariance Analysis - diffify

• {censobr} 0.6.0: Download Data from Brazil’s Population Census - diffify

• {sessioncheck} 0.1.1: Checks Session Status - diffify

• {coresynth} 0.4.1: Fast and Unified Synthetic Control Methods - diffify

• {assemblykor} 0.1.3: Korean National Assembly Data for Political Science Education - diffify

• {wordvector} 0.6.3: Word and Document Vector Models - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

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R Internationally

• Probando visores de mapas interactivos en R con {mapgl}

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

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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Quotes of the Week

The cousin of the stepbrother of the pediatrician of my accountant's children asked me to ask on X (he is shy) what that black thing is for. pic.twitter.com/JX7wnx9PRO

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 31, 2026

"Nothing vanishes the light in a man's eyes
Like the abandonment of a woman Who was his land, sky and universe."

- Ghassan Kanafani pic.twitter.com/NBXLPNbh3q

— Words & Wisdom (@WordsnWisdom26) August 1, 2026

I learned to be silent when I realised people don't listen to understand, they listen to reply.

— Imam Ali (A.S) pic.twitter.com/EXTI92uCZz

— Words & Wisdom (@WordsnWisdom26) July 27, 2026