We're happy to announce our new #rstats package: lorax. If you fit tree-based models, lorax enables conversion to the party package's format (for making nice tree diagrams) and has methods to compute which features were used, the number of terminal nodes, etc. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Introducing lorax: Speaking for the Tree-Based Models

lorax is a new R package that characterizes fitted tree- and rule-based models: extract their decision rules, see which predictors they actually use, and convert trees for plotting with partykit.

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> “Our findings frame AI slop as a tragedy of the commons,” the researchers concluded, “where individual productivity gains externalise costs on to reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.” The newer gift link: as.ft.com/r/cb395b74-8...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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Sam Learner@samlearner.bsky.social · 4w ago

wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...

Inspiring talk from Dariia Mykhailyshyna about teaching and surveying the R community in Ukraine while in the midst of a war. #rstats #useR2026

A really nice data visualization and story-telling in the scrolling of this Pudding article on women's clothing sizes. They are a mess but this shows you in which ways they are messed up: pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

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🎉 We've just moved @ropensci.org on Bluesky to a fully independent account! We were previously bridged from our Mastodon account via Bridgy Fed. Same community, same content, fresh start. Give us a follow if you haven't already! 🦋 #RStats

Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

Air 0.10.0

Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...

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TidyDevDay 2026: bring your laptop, leave with a merged PR, new friends, and sharper R skills! First-time contributor? Perfect. Seasoned developer? Also perfect. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... 📅 Sep 17, Houston, TX, after posit::conf(2026) 🕘 9 am - 4 pm 🎟️ luma.com/pnjuw08h #rstats #tidyverse

PSA: a map of publicly accessible spaces to cool down in London apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · last mo.

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Perfect Munich summer day 🤍💙

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

@sara-altman.bsky.social and I will be speaking at the R/Pharma GenAI Day tomorrow about agents for data science! The talk is free, virtual, and should also feel relevant for data folks outside of Pharma. :) Register: events.zoom.us/ev/AkKYQ7Ury...

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

John Fox (1947-2025) An obituary of R Foundation member John Fox by Peter Dalgaard. www.r-project.org/doc/obit/joh... #rstats

New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats

Also an excellent package for some generative art experiments in #RStats 🎨 #Rtistry

Matthew Kling@matthewkling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

We listened. We reflected. We evolved. Meet RLadies+. A more inclusive identity for our global community. Because belonging matters. 🔗 Read more about the rebrand: rladies.org/news/2026/re...

We are pleased to announce that Mikael Jagan has joined the R Core Team. #RStats He has been an active contributor to the R project for several years, proposing bug fixes and enhancements. Further, he has been co-authoring/maintaining the important Matrix package and more recently lme4 and glmmTMB.

Two years of Long Covid data and the numbers agree: I'm slowly getting better. New post with calendar heatmaps, change-point detection, and a surprise — my rough patch hits before ovulation, not my period 🤔📊 l.drmowinckels.io/O37ek6 #rstats #mecfs #longcovid #dataviz

Two Years of Visible: New Angles on the Long Covid Data - Dr. Mowinckel’s

Two years of Long Covid data with the Visible app — calendar heatmaps, ridgeline plots, change-point detection, and stability score across menstrual cycle phases.

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It's important that data professionals and organisations – that actually work with this data – speak up and support the government's position: "Information about sex and gender is not necessary for the intended purpose of the digital ID". 📝 The consultation closes 5 May: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Making public services work for you with your digital identity

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I am most excited that @inheritParams now supports explicit inclusion and exclusion 🎉 #rstats #' @inheritParams other_fn x y #' @inheritParams other_fn -z

Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · 3mo ago

roxygen2 8.0.0 out now: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... ! So many goodies in this release including S7 support, tons of R6 improvement, a new config style, fewer dependencies, and so so many bug fixes #rstats

📰 New post alert! Our second #tidymodels cheatsheet is out now! It covers creating models with {parsnip}. We have written a post with an overview of both our current cheatsheets: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... #rstats #DataScience

tidymodels Cheatsheets

Two new cheatsheets for Tidymodels are now available: one for creating models with parsnip, and one for preprocessing data with recipes.

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We've had a flurry of new tidymodels #rstats releases. Here's a summary of what's been going on with a focus on ordered outcomes and quantile regression. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...

New tidymodels Releases for April 2026

A small cascade of CRAN releases brings new model types to tidymodels.

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Tomorrow, @grrrck.xyz is joining us to show how to build agent skills from scratch! 🤖 He’ll be walking through how to create the instructions and scripts that give agents specialized knowledge, including how to get the LLM to write the skills for you 👀 Register here: pos.it/dslab

We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.org

ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL

Introducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries.

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I'm planning on a GIANT roxygen2 release in the near future (tons of bug fixes, improved R6 support, new S7 support, ...) so if you use for your packages, I'd really appreciate you trying it out and letting me know if you see any problems! github.com/r-lib/roxyge... #rstats

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing on 1 April of Tomáš Kalibera, a valuable member of the R Core Team for close to 10 years, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time.

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.