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
mirai 2.6.0 brings an HTTP launcher for cloud and Posit Workbench, a C-level dispatcher for near-zero overhead task dispatch, and new tools for racing and debugging async tasks
nanonext 1.8.0 adds a low-level streaming HTTP/WebSocket server to R’s web infrastructure, with TLS support, new async primitives, and redesigned documentation
withr is the tidyverse solution for automatically cleaning up after yourselves (temporary files, options, etc). This milestone makes withr much faster
Davis Vaughan’s talk from rstudio::conf(2022) on clock, an R package that aims to provide comprehensive and safe handling of date-times
archive 1.1.2 is now on CRAN! archive lets you work with file archives, such as ZIP, tar, 7-Zip and RAR and compression formats like gzip, bzip2, XZ and Zstandard
Introducing, clock, a new package for working with date-times
This is a big release aimed at improving usability, especially around Git and GitHub functionality
A wild romp through environments – namely, the environments associated with functions and tests. How to adopt a low-impact lifestyle
A minor roxygen2 release with some new features
Use {{ and { with glue strings in tidy eval to create dynamic column names in tidyverse verbs
vroom 1.1.0 is now on CRAN!
scales 1.1.0 now available on CRAN. It includes a new naming scheme (with breaks_ and labels_ prefixes) and greatly improved documentation
breaks_
labels_
A massive update to roxygen2 now on CRAN
testthat 2.3.0: verify_output() for testing printed output and improved parallel testing
A major update of the styler package is available on CRAN now
Make package development easier by providing R functions that simplify and expedite common tasks
We use callr::r_session to implement a worker pool and task queue in 100 lines of R code
callr::r_session
pkgdown 1.4.0: deployment vs development modes for building package websites
gmailr v1.0.0 is on CRAN
gargle is now on CRAN
A set of new graphic devices just landed on CRAN. Read more about the ragg package here
callr 3.3.0 is now on CRAN
rlang 0.4.0 is now on CRAN!
It depends - A dialog about dependencies
How to avoid resource leaks in C code in R packages? Introducing the cleancall package
Introducing the vroom package, extremely fast data import in R
Highlights include that context() is now optional, and new expect_invisible() and expect_mapequal() expectations
context()
expect_invisible()
expect_mapequal()
usethis 1.5.0 is now on CRAN
rlang 0.3.1 is now on CRAN
lobstr is now on CRAN. lobstr provides tools that allow you to dig into the detail of an object
httr 1.4.0 is now on CRAN!
A look back on 2018 in the tidyverse and beyond
pkgdown 1.3.0 is now on CRAN!
Reduce package dependencies by using common lightweight S3 generics
API for working with tidy evaluation, base R types, and errors
Run external processes with processx
scales 1.0.0 is now on CRAN
roxygen2 6.1.0 is now on CRAN!
bench 1.0.1 is now available on CRAN. bench allows you to benchmark code, by tracking execution time, memory allocations and garbage collections
pkgdown 1.1.0 is now on CRAN
pillar 1.2.2 is on CRAN now, losing that extra dot for whole numbers and those extra zeros when there’s nothing more to see. If you still prefer the good old data frame output, this post shows how to get it back for tibbles too
rlang 0.2.0 is on CRAN! This version brings many improvements to tidy evaluation: improved !! syntax and printing of quosures in colours
pillar 1.2.1 is on CRAN now, a minor update that tweaks the output of tibbles again
usethis 1.3.0 is now on CRAN
fs 1.0.0 is now available on CRAN. fs provides a cross-platform, uniform interface to file system operations
withr 2.1.0 is now available on CRAN
