New aerial footage shows the Wildberries complex in Elektrostal fully engulfed in flames. Firefighting efforts appear unable to contain the blaze, and the building is likely beyond saving. #Ukraine

And so after a very brief hiatus, version 0.7.0 of "learning statistics with R" exists. Full rebuild in quarto, stylistic fixes, "epilogues from 2026" to comment on how the world changed since original publication, and as an added bonus, no longer misgenders the author learningstatisticswithr.com

Learning Statistics with R

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

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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If you manage #Rstats with rig, make sure you use the new rig 0.8.1 to install the new R 4.6.1 version on macOS: github.com/r-lib/rig#id... github.com/r-lib/rig/re...

GitHub - r-lib/rig: The R Installation Manager

The R Installation Manager. Contribute to r-lib/rig development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Excited to present at EEA Dublin in August - until I found two invited presenters affiliated with Russia's Higher School of Economics. HSE has backed the invasion of Ukraine and fundraised for its military. I feel unsafe sharing a room with people raising money to kill my family. #EconSky

If you install #Rstats on macOS with rig, would you like to be able to install different patch versions at the same time? E.g. R 4.6.0 and 4.6.1? See the options below.

Extremely proud and excited that @ropensci.org's community manager @yabellini.bsky.social has been selected for a @sovereign.tech fellowship! It's a much-deserved recognition of her work making #rstats open to all, and a key endorsement of community-building as a fundamental pillar of open-source.

Sovereign Tech Agency@sovereign.tech · 2mo ago

We’re thrilled to announce the 2026 #SovereignTechFellowship cohort. Welcome to Jan Kowalleck, Philipp Sauberzweig, Pablo Neira Ayuso, Joris Van den Bossche, @yabellini.bsky.social, Denis Cornehl, Jakub Beránek, @mklu.bsky.social 1/2 www.sovereign.tech/news/meet-th...

#Rstats package update: zip 3.0.0 with some very cool new things: password protected zip files, vectorized and concurrent unzip(), unzip over HTTP, progress bars. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/zip/re...

I'm alive *AND* I wrote a blog post?! Unheard of! Much 💖 to @abbycabs.dev, and @grafana.bsky.social's David Allen and Amanda Wagner whose FOSDEM talk's were a huge source of inspo!

stdlib@stdlib.io · 2mo ago

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

#Rstats package update: callr 3.8.0. OpenTelemetry, carrier::crate(), pseudo terminals, plus I fixed (well, closed) all issues, but one. See the changes at github.com/r-lib/callr/...

I updated the gh #Rstats package last week to version 1.6.0. It won't fail with GitHub's new token format now. Full change log at github.com/r-lib/gh/rel...

Release gh 1.6.0 · r-lib/gh

gh() now signals a classed gh_interrupt interrupt when a paginated call is interrupted (e.g. via Ctrl+C / Escape). The condition object carries the records fetched so far on its $gh_result field. I...

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Really excited to be on today's #DSLab! If you've ever wondered about what Parquet is and why you should use it, join us later today! 🎉 #rstats

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Learn all about PARQUET FILES 😍 on the #DSLab with us! TOMORROW, TUESDAY JUNE 2ND! WITH NIC CRANE! ( @niccrane.bsky.social) 12PM ET / 9AM PT REGISTER: pos.it/dslab #databs #rstats #pydata #CAPSLOCK

💻 RStudio addins now run in Positron through the command palette, including the addins from my annotater package (despite relying heavily on the rstudioapi pkg for modifying open files!) Nice! #rstats

Gribouille v0.1.0: a Grammar of gGraphics for Typst. Modelled on ggplot2, drawn on cetz. Declare plots with aes, geom-*, facet-wrap and themes; compose hoists a shared legend. One toolchain, data straight to PDF. mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #typst #rstats #grammarOfGraphics #ggplot2 #cetz

I completely agree with opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... TOML seemed like a good format, until I learned the gory details while writing github.com/gaborcsardi/...

In Defense of YAML

A common refrain among developers: YAML is bad and TOML is good. This post argues otherwise, tracing the history of configuration formats, examining what YAML 1.2 actually fixed, and introducing py-ya...

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PSA: if you need X11() in #Rstats on macOS Tahoe, then update to Tahoe 26.5, delete xquartz if you installed it with brew, and install the latest beta from github.com/XQuartz/XQua... You might also need launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.startx.plist and logging out and back in.

Releases · XQuartz/XQuartz

An X11 server and client libraries for macOS. Contribute to XQuartz/XQuartz development by creating an account on GitHub.

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We’re excited to launch the Posit Open Source website! 🚀 We’ve unified 15+ years of tools, 900+ blogs, and 1,600+ videos in one place. Explore it here: opensource.posit.co Huge thanks to the team: @cwick.co.nz Greg Swinehart @hadley.nz @ivelasq3.bsky.social @jeroenjanssens.com

The Tufte LaTeX class is pretty, but it hasn't been updated for years and doesn't work with well with Quarto/lualatex. But with #QuartoPub you can replicate it on your own in HTML/PDF with just a little bit of customization with CSS and some preamble-y things! github.com/andrewheiss/...

I'd love to learn more about how y'all are using AI for data science, so I've set up some times where you can chat with me: scheduler.zoom.us/hadley-wickh.... I'm interested in it all, whether it's your struggles, your successes, or what you're still trying to get your head around. #rstats

"Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking.... The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy" www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-... #AI #infosec

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user…

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PSA: if you are on R 4.4.x or older and suddenly the pak #Rstats package fails to install from source, then here are some workarounds: github.com/r-lib/pak/is... I am also submitting a new version right now to fix this.

critical: unable to install Pak on at least Debian bookworm and Ubuntu noble - Error: package or namespace load failed for 'cli' in dyn.load(...): unable to load shared object ... pak/library/cli/lib...

Steps to reproduce: try to install Pak package on fresh Debian or Ubuntu Docker container docker run -it --rm debian:bookworm bash -c "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get install -...

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💥🇭🇺🗳️ BREAKING: Péter Magyar says Viktor Orbán called to concede and congratulate him. Magyar will be Hungary’s next prime minister and, as it stands, is set to secure a 2/3 supermajority – enough to fully dismantle Orbán’s system. A 16-year chapter is over.

Every message is parsed, threaded, and indexed. You can browse threads, see who replied to whom, and actually follow conversations that shaped the language. Here's a recent R-SIG-Mac thread about macOS 26: r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com/lists/r-sig-...

Our list of 2026 #rstats and #python summer internships has been posted. We can't wait to work with you and make great things! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/03...

2026 Posit Internships

Posit is sponsoring four summer internship positions in 2026.

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🤯You can't make this up: amid Kremlin meddling in Hungary's election, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly sends Putin's former interpreter Daria Boyarskaya – sanctioned by Poland, detained by Lithuania – on an election observation mission to Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-puti...

The newest edition of posit::glimpse() is here! 🚀 Read a roundup of major #RStats & #Python updates: ggplot2 4.0.0, dplyr 1.2.0, ellmer 0.4.0, Positron native Jupyter Notebook support , and more. 🎟️ Plus, registration for posit::conf(2026) is officially OPEN! Find it here: posit.co/blog/posit-g...

posit::glimpse() Newsletter – February 2026 - Posit

This edition covers major updates from Posit, including new versions of ggplot2, ellmer, and dplyr.

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Uh-oh, these might be the droids you're looking for... The number one request after every webRios demo was Android support. Early stage, but we have a working R console inside a native Android view. #rstats #webr #android

I’m happy to announce Rapp v0.3.0 — a package that makes it easy to build and share polished CLI applications written in R. Read more: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

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.

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