Two new tidymodels packages focus on supervised feature selection. Read more ...

ellmer 0.4.0 includes important lifecycle updates, new Claude features (caching, file uploads, web tools), OpenAI improvements, and enhancements to error handling, pricing tracking, and security. Read more ...

testthat 3.3.0 brings improved expectations with better error messages, new expectations for common testing patterns, and lifecycle changes including the removal of local_mock() and with_mock(). It also includes a write-up of my experience doing package development with Claude Code. Read more ...

The latest version of pkgdown automatically builds markdown files that make it easy for LLMs to use your website. Read more ...

A new version of tune brings significant updates for model tuning and parallel processing. Read more ...

This release tightens up the package by removing long-deprecated functions, making map_chr() and predicate functions more type-safe, and requiring a newer version of carrier to make in_parallel() use easier. It also includes performance improvements to every(), some(), and none(), as well as a new getting started vignette. Read more ...

This release deprecates str_like(ignore_case) and changes the behaviour of str_replace_all() for function replacements. It also introduces str_ilike() for case-insensitive SQL-like pattern matching, three new case conversion functions (str_to_camel(), str_to_snake(), and str_to_kebab()), and preserves names in all relevant functions. Read more ...

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: theme(). Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article. Read more ...

plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here. Read more ...

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here. Read more ...