R Weekly 2026-W45 safeconduct and r2parquet, interactive charts, on message and on brand

02 Nov 2026

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

Highlights

• Introducing safeconduct and r2parquet

• How to make interactive charts you can email

• On message and on brand: conversation-starting dataviz with R and ggplot2

Insights

• Introducing safeconduct and r2parquet

• On message and on brand: conversation-starting dataviz with R and ggplot2

R in Organizations

• Roche Open-Source TLG Packages Move to pharmaverse

Tutorials

• Ten great R functions #4

• How to make interactive charts you can email

• TidyTuesday 2026/43

Resources

• What’s New in R: October 26, 2026

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {OECDdata} 0.2.5: Fast and Friendly Access to OECD Data
• {saydo} 0.1.0: Link What People Say to What They Do with LLM-Coded Themes
• {PortinariColors} 0.3.0: Color Palettes Inspired by the Paintings of Candido Portinari
• {hairline} 0.1.0: Clean, Predictable Figures for Medical and Data Science
• {AURMC} 0.5.0: Area Under the Repeated Measures Curve
• {truedist} 0.1.0: Estimating the Distribution of True Effects from Noisy Estimates
• {rapidxlsx} 0.1.0: Fast Parallel Excel Spreadsheet Writer
• {whence} 0.1.0: Explain Where a Number Came from in ‘shiny’ Apps
• {agriTradeRisk} 0.1.0: Agricultural Export Competitiveness and Risk Analysis
• {agriEquity} 0.1.0: Equity and Sustainability Assessment of Agricultural Subsidies

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

• maplore — Context Components for mapgl Maps — Add components to mapgl maps

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {reportRmd} 0.1.3: Tidy Presentation of Clinical Reporting - diffify
• {mlr3torch} 0.4.0: Deep Learning with ‘mlr3’ - diffify
• {wordvector} 0.6.6: Word and Document Vector Models - diffify
• {riskmetric} 0.2.8: Risk Metrics to Evaluating R Packages - diffify
• {moderndive} 0.8.1: Tidyverse-Friendly Introductory Linear Regression - diffify
• {insight} 1.7.0: Easy Access to Model Information for Various Model Objects - diffify
• {ggrefine} 1.0.0: Publication-Quality ‘ggplot2’ Themes - diffify
• {stargazer2} 0.1.2: Beautiful Regression Tables for Modern Econometrics Packages - diffify
• {shinyreprex} 0.4.0: Reproducible Code for ‘Shiny’ Objects - diffify
• {glmnet} 5.2: Lasso and Elastic-Net Regularized Generalized Linear Models - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• How do you validate data in R using pointbllank? (Rich Iannone)

• How do you create custom geoms in ggplot2? (Gina Reynolds)

• How do you create custom Revealjs themes in Quarto? (Emil Hvitfeldt)

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

Datasets

• NBA win probabilities in FiveThirtyEight’s nba_elo layout

Connect

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rtistry

This week's #TidyTuesday uses data from my IKEA place names project https://karaman.is/ikea-place-names. I made a small IKEA version of The Economist's Big Mac index. Code: https://github.com/gkaramanis/tidytuesday/tree/master/2026/2026-week_44 #RStats #dataviz

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— Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is) 31 octobre 2026 à 15:30

Quotes of the Week

Why it's important to consult a statistician before data collection, example 17445: If you collect data from 1000 patients, nested in 20 therapists, your effective sample size is much (much!) smaller than you think it is... 😏

— Mattan S. Ben-Shachar (@mattansb.msbstats.info) 26 octobre 2026 à 07:13