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mall 0.2.0

The mall 0.2.0 update for R and Python introduces support for external LLM providers like OpenAI and Gemini. This version also features parallel processing for R users, the ability to run NLP on string vectors in Python, and a brand new cheatsheet

Edgar Ruiz

Aug 19, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI LLM Polars Natural Language Processing Tabular Data

What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)

Welcome to The Shiny Side of LLMs: a blog series explaining large language models in plain English, without the fancy and difficult buzzwords. In this first part: what LLMs are, how they work, what they’re good at, and why they don’t magically solve all your problems

Veerle Eeftink - Van Leemput

Jul 31, 2025

Shiny for Python Shiny chatlas ellmer Interactive Apps Shiny

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

Quarto Publishing Quarto Packages Knitr Releases

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

tidyverse ellmer Artificial Intelligence AI Tidyverse Packages

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From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the `jupyter` engine

Learn how to transform a single Jupyter notebook into a parameterized report generator that automatically creates customized outputs for different scenarios

Charlotte Wickham

Jul 24, 2025

Quarto Publishing Quarto Authoring Teaching Jupyter

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

tidyverse ellmer Artificial Intelligence AI Tidyverse Packages

Tidyverse developer day 2025

Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

Max Kuhn

Jul 21, 2025

tidyverse Community Tidyverse-Dev-Day Tidyverse

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

tidyverse httr2 Data Wrangling Tidyverse Packages

Posit at SciPy 2025

Catch up on the Shiny team’s talks and tutorials from SciPy 2025

Shiny Team

Jul 14, 2025

Shiny for Python Interactive Apps Shiny

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

Interactive Apps Webr Wasm Tidyverse Packages

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

tidyverse purrr Data Wrangling Parallelism Tidyverse Packages

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

tidyverse ellmer Artificial Intelligence AI Tidyverse Packages

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

tidyverse duckplyr dplyr Data Wrangling Tidyverse Packages

Air 0.7.0

Read all about Air 0.7.0, including: even better Positron support, a new feature we call autobracing, and an official GitHub Action!

Davis Vaughan, Lionel Henry

Jun 11, 2025

air Positron Best Practices Tidyverse Programming

Data Validation Libraries for Polars (2025 Edition)

Choosing a data validation library for Polars? We compare Pandera, Patito, Pointblank, Validoopsie, and Dataframely

Rich Iannone

Jun 4, 2025

pointblank Data Wrangling Pointblank

C’mon C’mon: Let’s Do a Pointblank Workshop!

Want a free Pointblank workshop for your data team? Here’s how to set one up

Rich Iannone

Jun 3, 2025

pointblank Data Wrangling Pointblank

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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Overhauling Pointblank’s User Guide

Pointblank’s revamped user guide: spiral learning, clearer examples, and full API coverage

Rich Iannone, Michael Chow

May 20, 2025

pointblank Data Wrangling Pointblank

Quarto icon and text above GitHub Codespaces.

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops

In this post, I’ll teach you the basics of GitHub Codespaces and how to use them to make it easier to teach using Quarto

Mickaël CANOUIL, _Ph.D._

May 19, 2025

Quarto Publishing Quarto Github Codespaces Teaching Dev Container

Fonts in R

Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

Thomas Lin Pedersen

May 12, 2025

tidyverse systemfonts ragg svglite Best Practices Textshaping Graphics Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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mall 0.2.0

What LLMs Actually Do (and What They Don’t)

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

ellmer 0.3.0

From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the jupyter engine

R and the Model Context Protocol

Tidyverse developer day 2025

httr2 1.2.0

Posit at SciPy 2025

webR 0.5.4

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0

Introducing vitals, a toolkit for evaluating LLM products in R

duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

Air 0.7.0

Data Validation Libraries for Polars (2025 Edition)

C’mon C’mon: Let’s Do a Pointblank Workshop!

ellmer 0.2.0

Overhauling Pointblank’s User Guide

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops

Fonts in R

From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the `jupyter` engine