Saw some great talks last year! Looking forward to it
R Consortium@rconsortium.bsky.social · yesterdayCFP for R+AI 2026 is open! Deadline: Sept 7. Second annual R Consortium conference on R + AI is being held Nov 10–11, 100% online. Share your ML, LLM, GenAI, and responsible AI workflows. Talks, lightning talks, workshops & panels welcome. rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #RStats #AI
I guess it’s not entirely pay per usage yet as I haven’t used this since last year. Time to actually cancel
Anyone can cook. Now anyone can cut out a background in #rstats. rembg is on CRAN via ONNX and the onnxr package. png::writePNG(rembg("remy.jpg"), "remy_rembg.png") cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.
Now you can use your Claude or ChatGPT subscription to run the R agent harness, corteza. No API key, no per-token meter, and it's on CRAN! Thanks to @hadley.nz for the provider-native search idea, and to @pp0196.bsky.social, whose Codex OAuth PR became tinyoauth. cornball.ai/posts/claude...
Claude and Codex subscriptions, now driving an R agent
A couple of months ago, corteza was an R session you could hand to an LLM, as long as you fed it an API key and watched the per-token meter tick. As of this week you can point it at your Claude Pro/Ma...
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🎉 chatterbox TTS is now an R package! Thanks to Chris English for all the testing and @dfalbel.bsky.social for teaching me about garbage collection in torch! 🙏 #rstats
CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · last mo.New CRAN package chatterbox with initial version 0.2.1 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=chatterbox
New releases across the tinyverse dev toolchain: tinyrox, rformat, tinypkgr, and saber. People who aren't me are filing issues and PRs now! Big thanks to @eddelbuettel.com , @gmcd.bsky.social , and Christophe Regouby #rstats cornball.ai/posts/tinyve...
Tinyverse Toolchain: Updates and Thanks
Back in February we released the tinyverse development toolchain: a handful of small, low-dependency packages for documenting, formatting, checking, and introspecting R packages. Since then they’ve be...
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whisper v0.4.0 now on CRAN 👄 Speech-to-text 2.5x faster with JIT compilation Added lightweight serve() using base::serverSocket() #rstats
CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 2mo agoCRAN updates: autoReg RMediation whisper #rstats
Talk to @matrix.org from R. mx.client 0.1.1 just landed on CRAN, completing the mx.* trio. Install it for config, rooms, sync, and markdown; add mx.crypto for Olm/Megolm E2EE. h/t @eddelbuettel.com for finally getting me onto Matrix. #rstats cornball.ai/posts/mx-cli...
mx.client 0.1.1: use the Matrix protocol from R
mx.client 0.1.1: config persistence, room resolution, sync cursors, and Olm/Megolm E2EE orchestration. The opinionated layer on top of the mx.api/mx.crypto plumbing.
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BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
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Reproducing the Rousseeuw Prize citation ordering with a few lines of #Rstats code from an older blog post. And once again sincere congratulations for an award so well deserved.
![R code and output:
> x <- readLines(pipe("svn log")) # run in R's svn repo
> rx <- x[grep("^r\\d+ \\|",x)]
> who <- gsub(" ","",sapply(strsplit(rx,"\\|"),"[",2))
> twho <- table(who)
> twho[rev(order(twho))[1:5]]
who
ripley maechler hornik pd luke
29782 9965 9092 2778 2253
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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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From @alphaxiv.org on X: > As believers of open research, we are disappointed to see Anthropic silently degrading Fable 5 for AI development... x.com/askalphaxiv/...
Rbebelm: #RStats Bindings for 'BebeLM' 'CPU' Inference For A 8B-1B Active model, not that bad A tiny R CLI "Agent" inspired by Corteza github.com/cornball-ai/... repo: github.com/sounkou-bioi... Upstream Rust crate : github.com/maximecb/beb... LFM2.5-8B-A1B blog: www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-...
If you’re into #rstats and #obsidian vaults, try pensar and let me know what you think cran.r-project.org/package=pensar
pensar: LLM Wiki Engine
Personal wiki engine with a large language model (LLM) as research assistant. Supports guided sessions through a 'Claude Code' <<a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code" target="_top">htt...
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Totoro@nigelsq.bsky.social · 2mo agoAttn #duckdb fans. Also #ratats probably Your Obsidian Vault Can Now Run SQL (and Your Agent Can Read It) share.google/qugv8FE9j6lm...
This is fun
Henrik Bengtsson@henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 2mo ago#RStats challenge and potential community project: * Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible! Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...
Thoroughly enjoying ‘corteza’, to the point where I’ve configured my Claude config to automatically invoke it for #rstats workflows. github.com/grantmcdermo...
troy_phd@troyhernandez.bsky.social · 2mo agoMaybe I’m biased, but I’m starting to think R is the best language for agentic engineering. #rstats cornball.ai/posts/cortez...
Maybe I’m biased, but I’m starting to think R is the best language for agentic engineering. #rstats cornball.ai/posts/cortez...
corteza 0.6.9: The R agent harness hits its stride
We’ve been hard at work over here at cornball.ai. Over the last couple of weeks we shipped a big new release of corteza, our R agent runtime: version 0.6.9. Lots to cover. (Its CRAN companions pensar,...
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If you’re not running ‘corteza’ with ‘pensar’ as your 2nd brain in #rstats, you’re already behind!!! Both just hit CRAN. Stateless LLM workflows are over! Your knowledge base compounds while you work. The future is local, agentic, and R! 🌽⚾️🧠 cran.r-project.org/package=pensar
pensar: LLM Wiki Engine
Maintains a persistent, compounding knowledge base from source documents. Ingests articles, chat logs, briefings, and messages into a structured vault of markdown files with 'YAML' frontmatter and wik...
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Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...
S at 50 - The R Blog
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Quick #r2u update for #Rstats on #Ubuntu: - R 4.6.0 available on all three LTS releases ✅ - BioConductor 3.23 available on all three LTS releases ✅ - Ubuntu 26.04 support available for arm64 and amd64 ✅ #r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick all three. eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries - r2u
Easy, fast, reliable -- pick all three!
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Just published a new blogpost on torch for #rstats updates: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04...
torch Ecosystem Updates
An overview of recent updates across the torch ecosystem.
opensource.posit.co
So #Rstats 4.6.0 is out. Some people are fire-breathing "OMG need to update all packages". We also discuss within Debian if we need a new 'tag' (as we did for R 4.0.0). I happen to think a more nuanced approach is possible, and I have a little write-up and tests. #r2u github.com/eddelbuettel...
GitHub - eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition: Notes on determining which CRAN packages do need a rebuild
Notes on determining which CRAN packages do need a rebuild - eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition
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Ever come back to an #rstats project and…it just doesn’t work anymore? Or struggle to keep up with all the latest R packages & tools, much less integrate them into your code? Keeping R workflows up-to-date can feel daunting - but luckily, @rladiessb.bsky.social has some thoughts ⤵️
R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.
Because I wrote an agent harness in R, wanted to chat with it, and Signal wasn’t doing it for me. #rstats bsky.app/profile/troy...
troy_phd@troyhernandez.bsky.social · 3mo agoAfter I messaged my agent from the train this morning to push a forgotten commit, I figured it was time to submit to CRAN and publish more than a Bluesky post. R is great for building AI agents: #rstats #CodingAgent cornball.ai/posts/r-as-a...
After I messaged my agent from the train this morning to push a forgotten commit, I figured it was time to submit to CRAN and publish more than a Bluesky post. R is great for building AI agents: #rstats #CodingAgent cornball.ai/posts/r-as-a...
R as CLI Agent Harness
One line: 1corteza::chat() That starts an AI agent in your R console. It can read files, run shell commands, query git, search the web (with a free Tavily API key). And because it’s running in your R ...
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tinypkgr just hit CRAN! The whole tinyverse development toolchain (tinyrox, tinypkgr, rformat, and saber) is now one install.packages() away. cornball.ai/posts/tinyve...
The Tinyverse Development Toolchain
Every R package we’ve released over the past two weeks was built with the same set of tools. Today we’re making those tools public. The sidequest eraCLI coding tools like Claude Code (and even llamaR!...
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CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew CRAN package tinypkgr with initial version 0.2.1 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=tinypkgr
mx.api 0.1.0 is on CRAN! 🎉 An R client for the Matrix Client-Server API Chat between R and @matrix.org Login, rooms, messages, history, media. E2EE next. #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=mx.api
mx.api: Minimal Matrix Client-Server API
A minimal-dependency client for the 'Matrix' Client-Server HTTP API <<a href="https://spec.matrix.org/" target="_top">https://spec.matrix.org/</a>>, suitable for talking to a 'Synapse' homeserve...
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CRAN Package Updates Bot@cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew CRAN package mx.api with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=mx.api
