Issue 2026-W26 Highlights

The R Core team receives a prestigious award in the world of Statistics, a month-long recognition of the rOpenSci package maintainers, and a collection of helpful tips for obtaining robust R code from AI agents. 

Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics Awarded to R Core Team for Transforming Statistics Computing Worldwide
• Celebrating Our Maintainers during Maintainers Month
• 10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W26

Supplement Resources

• The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics 2026 https://www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
• {btw} A complete toolkit for connecting R and LLMs https://posit-dev.github.io/btw/

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