R Weekly 2026-W37

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

• Navigating Challenges in Spatial Machine Learning
• ROC, Paper, Scissor, Shoe
• AI Newsletter: You probably don’t want to fine-tune
• posit::glimpse() Newsletter – September 2026
• Tipping-Point Analysis under Multiple Imputation

Highlight

Insights

R in the Real World

• R4SUB: turning “are we ready to submit?” into a number
• Madison bike crashes peak in September
• An Atlas of Stone

R in Organizations

• A Decade of Meetups, Code, and Community: San Carlos RUG Turns 10
• Meet Our 2026-2027 R Consortium Board of Directors

R in Academia

Tutorials

• Back-transforming a log-scale model
• Skewness-Managed Portfolios: A Practical Guide with R
• Repeated measures ANOVA in R

Resources

• Positron cheat sheets

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {ggstratify} 0.0.1: Fast Stratified Descriptive Figures with a Point-and-Click GUI
• {suppr} 1.0.0: Supplementary Idiomatic Utilities and Extensions
• {plotomics} 0.1.0: High-Performance Bioinformatics Visualizations
• {icons} 1.0.0: Easily Insert SVG Icons into R Outputs
• {FitVerse} 1.0-1: Parametric Distribution Fitting and Analysis
• {tidygedcom} 0.2.0: Read and Tidy ‘GEDCOM’ Genealogy Files
• {depictr} 0.3.0: A Unified Toolkit for Visualising Statistical Models and Data
• {metaselection} 0.3.0: Meta-Analytic Selection Models for Dependent Effect Sizes
• {biomes} 0.9.4: Reproducible Occurrence-to-Biome Classification Using 31 Global Biome Schemes
• {STATassist} 1.0.0: Standardised Statistical Comparison Workflows

Bioconductor

GitHub or Bitbucket or GitLab

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {vitals} 0.4.0: Large Language Model Evaluation
• {gaussfacts} 0.0.4: The Greatest Mathematician Since Antiquity
• {marginaleffects} 1.0.0: Predictions, Comparisons, Slopes, Marginal Means, and Hypothesis Tests
• {ggarrow} 0.2.0: Arrows for ‘ggplot2’
• {ggcube} 0.3.0: 3D Plotting with ‘ggplot2’
• {biopalette} 0.2.2: Image-Inspired Color Palettes for Biomedical Visualization
• {tidylearn} 0.5.0: A Unified Tidy Interface to R’s Machine Learning Ecosystem
• {geobounds} 1.0.1: Download Administrative Boundary Data from ‘geoBoundaries’
• {insight} 1.5.4: Easy Access to Model Information for Various Model Objects
• {orbital} 0.7.0: Predict with ‘tidymodels’ Workflows in Databases

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• [A First Look at Positron and Posit Assistant

  Jumping Rivers Webinar Series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tBlsBjpEBI&list=PLbARZQfpqIKKgGS8UWKRnBYBLQKEMQeYl&index=9&t=13s)

Gist & Cookbook

Shiny Apps

R Internationally

• Mapas interactivos con {mapgl} para visualizar datos geoespaciales
• Parquet: un formato de datos optimizado para rendimiento y eficiencia
• Exporta tablas hechas con {gt} a formato Excel

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

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

Grants & Funding

• R Consortium Now Accepting Submissions for Technical Grants

Datasets

• urbsdata: seven documented data sets from transport, traffic safety, urban planning, construction and architectural engineering

Connect

Join the Data Science Learning Community

rtistry

#RStats Accidental Art! These came out looking like Henry Moore sculptures! Running experiments with lighting 3d models and rendering only with {grid} graphics

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— coolbutuseless (@coolbutuseless.bsky.social) 5 septembre 2026 à 12:13

Quotes of the Week

Why have I been using \\ all these years to escape regex patterns, rather than just wrapping text in fixed()? 😜 #rstats

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— Crystal Lewis (@cghlewis.bsky.social) 2 septembre 2026 à 22:33