Category: R News

I was honored to speak this week at the IASC-ARS/NZSA Conference, hosted by the Stats Department at The University of Auckland. One of the conference themes is to celebrate the...continue reading.

We are very excited to announce that testthat 2.0.0 is now available on CRAN! Testthat makes it easy to turn your existing informal tests into formal automated tests that you...continue reading.

We’re pleased to announce the release of styler 1.0.0. styler is a source code formatter – a package to format R code according to a style guide. It defaults to...continue reading.

In an effort to keep the community up to date with the evolution of the tidyverse, we’ll be doing regular roundups cataloging the latest developments. tidyverse package updates tidyverse 1.2.0...continue reading.

We are happy to announce a new version of rlang that features many improvements to tidy evaluation: The quirks in the quasiquotation syntax have been much reduced. Quosures gained a...continue reading.

We’re excited to present version 1.2.1 of the pillar package, the package that is responsible for printing tibbles to the terminal. This small release addresses feedback concerning the output of...continue reading.

Contributions to the tidyverse, and to open source software in general can be framed as various forms of “feedback.” Giving useful feedback can be hard! That’s one of the reasons...continue reading.

We are pleased to announce that readxl 1.1.0 is now available on CRAN. Learn more about readxl at http://readxl.tidyverse.org. The readxl package makes it easy to get tabular data out...continue reading.

I’m very excited to announce that bigrquery 1.0.0 is now on CRAN. This package makes it easy to work with data stored in Google BigQuery, a hosted database for big...continue reading.

Announcing version 1.2.2 of the pillar package which prints tibbles to the terminal. This is yet another small release that addresses user feedback. Numbers are printed more consicely and accurately....continue reading.

I’m very pleased to announce the initial release of pkgdown to CRAN! pkgdown is designed to make it quick and easy to build a website for your package. You can...continue reading.

A new release of ggplot2 (2.3.0) is on the horizon, and we’d love to have people try it out, give us feedback, and report issues before we submit it to...continue reading.

We’re stoked to announce the initial release of the conflicted package. The goal of conflicted is to provide an alternative way of resolving conflicts caused by ambiguous function names. R...continue reading.

We’re delighted to announce the release of pkgdown 1.1.0. pkgdown is designed to make it quick and easy to build a website for your package. In addition to minor fixes,...continue reading.

We’re excited to announce version 0.7.5 of the dplyr package, the grammar of data manipulation in the tidyverse. This minor release includes the move to tidyselect, features like scoped operations...continue reading.

A couple of months back, we sent out the following email to the maintainers of packages on CRAN with tidyverse listed in either Depends, Imports, or Suggests: Dear {maintainer}, As...continue reading.

We are very pleased to announce the release of haven 1.1.2. haven allows R to read and write various data formats used by other statistical packages: SAS, SPSS, and STATA....continue reading.

bench is now available on CRAN! The goal of bench is to benchmark code, by tracking execution time, memory allocations and garbage collections. Install the latest version with: install.packages("bench") Usage...continue reading.

We’re extremely pleased to announce the release of ggplot2 3.0.0. This is a major release: it was previously announced as ggplot2 2.3.0, but we decided to increment the version number...continue reading.

Summer conference season is in full swing, with useR! 2018 Brisbane nearly upon us! Conference talks are a great opportunity to help people learn about the cool and useful things...continue reading.