R Weekly 2026-W16 perspectiveR, puppeteeR

13 Apr 2026

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This week’s release was curated by Batool Almarzouq, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• perspectiveR: Interactive Pivot Tables and Charts from R

• puppeteeR - orchestrate multiple LLM agents into coordinated workflows

Insights

• You can just build your own programming language

• Posit’s AI Packages Explained: A Decision Map for R and Python Developers

R in the Real World

• Forecasting the price of gas in the US with Brent Crude Oil

Tutorials

• Stage II OSCC — Health Economics Model

• Using R to Teach R: Lessons for Software Development

• Web scraping dynamic websites with RSelenium - A practical tutorial on using RSelenium in R to extract content from pages that do not load cleanly with static scraping tools.

• perspectiveR: Interactive Pivot Tables and Charts from R

Resources

• Questions We Forget To Ask When Designing an RCT

New Packages

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CRAN

• {perspectiveR} 0.3.0: Interactive Pivot Tables and Visualizations with ‘Perspective’

• {countmaskr} 0.1.1: Small Cell Masking Tool for One- & Two-Way Tabular Reports

• {akin} 0.1.4: Functional Utilities for Data Processing

• {HHBayes} 0.1.1: Bayesian Household Transmission Modeling with ‘Stan’

• {uuidx} 0.0.1: Modern UUIDs for R with a Rust Backend

• {tidyactuarial} 0.1.1: Tidy Tools for Actuarial Mathematics and Life Contingencies

• {survdistr} 0.0.3: Survival Distribution Container with Flexible Interpolation Methods

• {circuitscaper} 0.1.0: ‘Circuitscape’ and ‘Omniscape’ Connectivity Analysis via ‘Julia’

• {shinydataviewer} 0.1.0: Reusable Data Viewer Module for ‘shiny’

• {midnight} 0.2.0: A ‘tidymodels’ Engine and Other Extensions for the ‘midr’ Package

• {holideh} 0.1.0: Working with Canadian Dates

• {standrecon} 0.1.0: Reconstruct Historical Forest Stand Conditions

• {VizModules} 0.1.1: Flexible, Interactive ‘shiny’ Modules for Almost Any Plot

• {sparqlr} 0.1.0: A SPARQL Client for R

• {scholidonline} 0.1.0: Resolution, Conversion, Linking and Metadata for Scholarly Identifiers

• {WHORiskCalculator} 1.0.0: WHO Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator and Visualization

• {readelan} 0.1.0: Read ‘ELAN’ Files

• {assemblykor} 0.1.1: Korean National Assembly Data for Political Science Education

GitHub or Bitbucket

• puppeteeR - orchestrate multiple LLM agents into coordinated workflows

Updated Packages

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• {torch} 0.17.0: Tensors and Neural Networks with ‘GPU’ Acceleration - diffify

• {SeuratObject} 5.4.0: Data Structures for Single Cell Data - diffify

• {Rcmdr} 2.12.2: R Commander - diffify

• {metacoder} 0.3.9: Tools for Parsing, Manipulating, and Graphing Taxonomic Abundance Data - diffify

• {spicy} 0.8.0: Descriptive Statistics, Summary Tables, and Data Management Tools - diffify

• {transreg} 1.0.6: Penalised Regression with Multiple Sets of Prior Effects (‘Transfer Learning’) - diffify

• {tdarec} 0.2.1: A ‘recipes’ Extension for Persistent Homology and Its Vectorizations - diffify

• {dataverifyr} 0.1.11: A Lightweight, Flexible, and Fast Data Validation Package that Can Handle All Sizes of Data - diffify

• {equatiomatic} 0.4.8: Transform Models into ‘LaTeX’ Equations - diffify

• {shidashi} 0.2.0: A Shiny Dashboard Template Modular System with Chat Bot Support - diffify

• {ggrounded} 0.1.0: Rounded Bar Plots - diffify

• {ggpicrust2} 2.5.12: Make ‘PICRUSt2’ Output Analysis and Visualization Easier - diffify

• {this.path} 2.8.0: Get Executing Script’s Path - diffify

• {gecko} 1.0.3: Geographical Ecology and Conservation Knowledge Online - diffify

• {colorRamp2} 0.1.1: Generate Color Mapping Functions - diffify

• {rpanel} 1.1-6.3: Simple Interactive Controls for R using the ‘tcltk’ Package - diffify

• {shinylive} 0.4.1: Run ‘shiny’ Applications in the Browser - diffify

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