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roxygen2 8.0.0

roxygen2 8.0.0 is now on CRAN, with first-class support for S7, a bunch of R6 improvements, a new configuration style, and a slimmer dependency footprint

Hadley Wickham

May 1, 2026

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nanoparquet 0.5.1

nanoparquet 0.5.1 brings lots of bug fixes and a few new features: list columns, bit64::integer64 and blob::blob support, writing Parquet to the standard output

Gábor Csárdi

Apr 30, 2026

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RAG with raghilda

An introduction to building retrieval-augmented generation systems with raghilda

Daniel Falbel, Tomasz Kalinowski

Apr 14, 2026

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Rapp 0.3.0

Rapp is an R front-end (like Rscript) that turns simple scripts into polished CLIs, with automatic argument parsing, generated help, and support for commands and installable launchers

Tomasz Kalinowski

Feb 18, 2026

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mirai 2.6.0

mirai 2.6.0 brings an HTTP launcher for cloud and Posit Workbench, a C-level dispatcher for near-zero overhead task dispatch, and new tools for racing and debugging async tasks

Charlie Gao

Feb 12, 2026

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`dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are up to 30x faster

dplyr::if_else() and dplyr::case_when() are up to 30x faster

dplyr 1.2.0 comes with much faster and more memory efficient if_else() and case_when() functions!

Davis Vaughan

Feb 10, 2026

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nanonext 1.8.0

nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R’s web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation

Charlie Gao

Feb 9, 2026

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dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr’s API: we’ve added a new complement to filter() focused on dropping rows, and we’ve expanded the case_when() family with three new recoding and replacing functions!

Davis Vaughan

Feb 4, 2026

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ragnar 0.3.0

The new release of ragnar adds faster ingestion, new embedding providers, improved retrieval, and new integrations for using ragnar stores from tools

Tomasz Kalinowski

Jan 27, 2026

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plumber2 0.2.0

The next version of plumber2 has hit CRAN. Read all about the new features such as OpenTelemetry (OTEL) support, authentication, new tags, and performance improvements here

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Jan 20, 2026

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orbital 0.4.0

orbital 0.4.0 is on CRAN! orbital now has post processing support

Emil Hvitfeldt

Jan 12, 2026

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yaml12: YAML 1.2 for R and Python

We’re pleased to announce two new YAML 1.2 packages: yaml12 for R and py-yaml12 for Python. Both are implemented in Rust and designed for fast, predictable YAML 1.2 parsing, with safe opt-in tag handling and document stream support

Tomasz Kalinowski

Jan 7, 2026

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tidypredict 1.0.0

tidypredict 1.0.0 brings faster computations for tree-based models, more efficient tree representations, glmnet model support, and a change in how random forests are handled

Emil Hvitfeldt

Dec 10, 2025

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Two New tidymodels Packages

Two new tidymodels packages focus on supervised feature selection

Frances Lin, Max Kuhn

Nov 22, 2025

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ellmer 0.4.0

ellmer 0.4.0 includes important lifecycle updates, new Claude features (caching, file uploads, web tools), OpenAI improvements, and enhancements to error handling, pricing tracking, and security

Hadley Wickham

Nov 18, 2025

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testthat 3.3.0

testthat 3.3.0 brings improved expectations with better error messages, new expectations for common testing patterns, and lifecycle changes including the removal of local_mock() and with_mock(). It also includes a write-up of my experience doing package development with Claude Code

Hadley Wickham

Nov 13, 2025

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pkgdown 2.2.0

The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website

Hadley Wickham

Nov 6, 2025

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tune version 2.0.0

A new version of tune brings significant updates for model tuning and parallel processing

Max Kuhn, Simon Couch, Emil Hvitfeldt, Hannah Frick

Nov 5, 2025

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stringr 1.6.0

This release deprecates str_like(ignore_case) and changes the behaviour of str_replace_all() for function replacements. It also introduces str_ilike() for case-insensitive SQL-like pattern matching, three new case conversion functions (str_to_camel(), str_to_snake(), and str_to_kebab()), and preserves names in all relevant functions

Hadley Wickham

Nov 4, 2025

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purrr 1.2.0

This release tightens up the package by removing long-deprecated functions, making map_chr() and predicate functions more type-safe, and requiring a newer version of carrier to make in_parallel() use easier. It also includes performance improvements to every(), some(), and none(), as well as a new getting started vignette

Hadley Wickham

Nov 4, 2025

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ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: theme(). Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article

Teun Van den Brand

Oct 1, 2025

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plumber2 0.1.0

plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Sep 23, 2025

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ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here

Teun Van den Brand

Sep 11, 2025

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mirai 2.5.0

mirai - minimalist async evaluation framework for R - brings production-grade parallel and distributed computing to the ecosystem

Charlie Gao

Sep 5, 2025

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nanonext 1.7.0

nanonext is a communications and concurrency toolbox that facilitates fast, powerful and reliable data exchange in polyglot data science workflows

Charlie Gao

Sep 2, 2025

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ragnar 0.2

ragnar 0.2 introduces a tidy, transparent toolkit for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines in R

Tomasz Kalinowski

Aug 20, 2025

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quarto R package v1.5.0: Streamlined Workflows for R Users

The quarto R package 1.5.0 brings powerful new features for passing R values to Quarto metadata, inserting Markdown in HTML tables, working with R scripts, building paths from Quarto projects, and automating Quarto CLI from R

Christophe Dervieux

Jul 28, 2025

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ellmer 0.3.0

The newest version of ellmer introduces a simpler chat() interface that can works with any provider, a bunch of improvements to tool calling, and a handful of smaller quality of life improvements

Hadley Wickham

Jul 25, 2025

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R and the Model Context Protocol

The newly released mcptools package makes coding assistants better at writing R code and applications built with ellmer more powerful

Simon Couch

Jul 21, 2025

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httr2 1.2.0

httr2 1.2.0 improves security for redacted headers, improves URL parsing and building, enhances debugging, and includes a bunch of other quality of life improvements

Hadley Wickham

Jul 14, 2025

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webR 0.5.4

webR 0.5.4 brings the latest version of R to the browser, with sharing URLs, an upgraded Emscripten runtime, and filesystem support for JupyterLite

George Stagg

Jul 11, 2025

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Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0

The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai

Charlie Gao, Hadley Wickham, Davis Vaughan, Lionel Henry

Jul 10, 2025

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Introducing vitals, a toolkit for evaluating LLM products in R

Introducing vitals, a toolkit for evaluating LLM products in R

The first release of vitals, a package for large language model evaluation in R, just made it to CRAN

Simon Couch

Jun 27, 2025

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duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

duckplyr 1.1.0 is on CRAN! A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for speed. It is the most dplyr-like of dplyr backends

Kirill Müller, Maëlle Salmon

Jun 19, 2025

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ellmer 0.2.0

ellmer 0.2.0 lands with a swag of upgrades: Garrick Aden‑Buie joins the team, we make a couple of breaking changes, and add serious scale with parallel_chat() and batch_chat(). A new params() helper standardises model settings across providers and chats now report how much they cost. The release also tidies chat_* names, bumps default models and adds Hugging Face, Mistral AI, and Portkey connectors

Hadley Wickham

May 28, 2025

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svglite 2.2.0

A new release of svglite has arrived, and with it full support for all the latest capabilities of the R Graphics Engine. Further, it finalizes the new approach to handling web fonts and font embedding in the created SVGs

Thomas Lin Pedersen

May 7, 2025

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recipes 1.3.0

This release brings changes for strings_as_factors, step_select(), step_dummy(), and step_impute_bag()

Emil Hvitfeldt

Apr 28, 2025

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scales 1.4.0

The new 1.4.0 release of the scales package adds some colourful updates. Read about colour manipulation, palettes and new label functions

Teun Van den Brand

Apr 23, 2025

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rsample 1.3.0

This release brings more flexibilty to the grouping of bootstrap confidence intervals. It also contains many contributions from the tidyverse developer day

Hannah Frick

Apr 3, 2025

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Improved sparsity support in tidymodels

The tidymodels ecosystem now fully supports sparse data as input, output, and in creation

Emil Hvitfeldt

Mar 19, 2025

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nanoparquet 0.4.0

nanoparquet 0.4.0 comes with a new and much faster read_parquet(), configurable type mappings in write_parquet(), and a new append_parquet()

Gábor Csárdi

Jan 28, 2025

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httr2 1.1.0

httr2 1.1.0 introduces powerful new streaming capabilities with req_perform_connection(), as well as comprehensive URL manipulation tools, improved AWS support, and a bunch of bug fixes

Hadley Wickham

Jan 20, 2025

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orbital 0.3.0

orbital 0.3.0 is on CRAN! orbital now has classification support

Emil Hvitfeldt

Jan 13, 2025

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S7 0.2.0

S7 is a new package that simplifies object-oriented programming (OOP) in R. It combines the simplicity of S3 with the structure of S4 to create a clearer system that’s accessible to everyone

Tomasz Kalinowski, Hadley Wickham

Nov 7, 2024

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patchwork 1.3.0

patchwork 1.3.0 has just been released bringing refinements to the free() function and full on support for gt tables

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Sep 13, 2024

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recipes 1.1.0

recipes 1.1.0 is on CRAN! recipes now have better input checking and quality of life errors

Emil Hvitfeldt

Jul 8, 2024

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pkgdown 2.1.0

pkgdown 2.1.0 includes two major new features: support for quarto vignettes and a “light switch” that lets the reader switch between light and dark mode. It also contains a bunch of other improvements to both the user and the developer experience

Hadley Wickham

Jul 8, 2024

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bonsai 0.3.0

A new release of the parsnip extension package bonsai introduces support for oblique random forests for classification and regression to tidymodels

Simon Couch

Jun 25, 2024

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nanoparquet 0.3.0

Nanoparquet is a new R package that can read and write (flat) Parquet files. This post covers its features and limitations

Gábor Csárdi

Jun 20, 2024

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marquee 0.1.0

The initial release brings markdown awareness to grid and ggplot2 to allow for rich text formatting in R graphics

Thomas Lin Pedersen

May 29, 2024

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News from the sparkly-verse

Highlights to the most recent updates to sparklyr and friends

Edgar Ruiz

Apr 22, 2024

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tune 1.2.0

While we’ve written about survival analysis and machine learning fairness already, the newest tune release includes a number of other major changes

Simon Couch

Apr 18, 2024

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Tidyverse developer day 2024

Join the tidyverse team in Seattle on August 15 for a day of fun and programming to improve the tidyverse!

Hadley Wickham

Apr 9, 2024

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dbplyr 2.5.0

dbplyr 2.5.0 brings improved syntax for referring to tables nested in schemas and catalogs along with a bunch of minor SQL generation improvements

Hadley Wickham

Apr 8, 2024

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Chat with AI in RStudio

Interact with Github Copilot and OpenAI’s GPT (ChatGPT) models directly in RStudio. The chattr Shiny add-in makes it easy for you to interact with these and other Large Language Models (LLMs)

Edgar Ruiz

Apr 4, 2024

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