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April 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

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Three hundred seventy-six of the new packages submitted to CRAN in April were still there in mid-May. Here are my Top 40 picks in twenty-three categories: Actuarial Analysis, Archaeology, Biology, Cau...

[R] How to Position the Legend Inside a Plot in ggplot2

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Zhenguo Zhang's Blog https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/05/30/r-position-legend-inside-plot/ - By default, ggplot2 places the legend outside the plot area (usually on the right). However, sometimes you...

Behavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: Asserting Outcomes with Then Steps

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Learn how to write Then steps that assert outcomes without coupling to implementation. Build custom testthat expectations and keep your BDD assertions at the right level. Continue reading: Behavior-Dr...

EuroBioC2026 Tidyomics Hackathon

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Join us in Turku The Tidyomics community is organising a hackathon during the pre-conference programme of EuroBioC2026 in Turku, Finland. The hackathon will take place on June 1-2, 2026, ahead of the ...

Ghost in the Shell Script

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I’ve been using Unix and Linux systems for nearly 20 years. When I found myself with a Windows laptop for a while I felt lost and quickly installed Windows Subsystem for Linux. And yet the number of c...

rOpenSci News Digest, May 2026

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Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! rOpenSci HQ 15 Years of rOpenSci, and we’re ...

survivoR now includes US50 and AU12

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After a couple of big seasons survivoR v2.3.12 has been updated with US50 and AU12. Get it on: As of […] The post survivoR now includes US50 and AU12 appeared first on Dan Oehm | Gradient Descending. ...

Speeding up Stan model builds for R package developers

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Introduction In my previous job my work computer was a Windows desktop – yes, those were the days before laptops and hotdesking! My PhD student was interested in Bayesian methods and we put together a...

Behavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: Modeling User Behavior with When Steps

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Learn how to write When steps that describe user actions without leaking implementation details. Build a clean DSL that survives UI refactors and keeps specifications readable. Continue reading: Behav...

Repost: ctrlvee: Extract external R code and insert inline

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Reposted from the original at https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/ctrlvee-extract-external-r-code-insert-inline-positron-rstudio-addin. Ever find yourself looking through a pkgdown page or a Quarto book, ...

Functions over Idioms – Writing R in Python with rfuns

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If you’ve read any of my past posts you know I like to program in several different languages, some of which I like more than others. Sometimes a problem calls for a particular language to be used, an...

[R] How to use ggpattern to add patterns to ggplot2 plots

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Zhenguo Zhang's Blog https://fortune9.netlify.app/2026/05/22/r-how-to-use-ggpattern/ - Adding patterns to plots is a great way to improve accessibility (making plots colorblind-friendly) and to add an...