Ever wish your R pipelines talked back? 📣

logrittr adds a verbose pipe (%>=%) that logs what’s happening at every step—rows, columns, changes, and timing—without touching your dplyr code.

Great for debugging, teaching, or just understanding your data flow.

👉 https://guillaumepressiat.github.io/logrittr/

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R 4.6.0 "Because it was There" is set for release on 24 April 2026.

%notin% is now in base R, summary() handles character columns more neatly, and list.files() gets a fixed = TRUE argument so you no longer need to escape dots in patterns.

Full code examples on the Jumping Rivers blog written by Russ Hyde: https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-new-r46/

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A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter

https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/

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r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1s9jkzi/announcement_temporary_llm_content_ban/

#HackerNews #rprogramming #LLM #ban #programmingdiscussion #artificialintelligence #technews

R-Hacks N.13 is out: Calling a Chatbot from R with ellmer

Stop copy-pasting between R and AI tools.
Bring AI directly into your workflow instead.

Minimal example • Python comparison • Analyst use case

Read it here → https://romerusersgroup.github.io/content/rhacks/posts/13-03292026/

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If you’ve thought about contributing to open source in R but didn’t know where to start, this is your entry point.

“Make your first R open source project contribution with git, forks, and PRs”
with Daniel Chen, Lecturer at Univ of British Columbia

Practical walkthrough using real workflows from the R ecosystem.

Part of the lead-up to R/Medicine 2026!

👉 Register here: https://r-consortium.org/webinars/make-your-first-r-open-source-project-contribution.html

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🚀 Introducing the Rome R Users Group

A new community for people using #RStats in Rome — from statistics and research to data science and real-world applications.

We’re building a space for learning, networking, and collaboration.

🎬 Intro video:
https://youtu.be/e8eX3b29BTo

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