Issue 2026-W31 Highlights

The value of community and sustainability in full view at UserR 2026, a new tool ready to equip reproducibility and more for command-line utilities built with R, and the conclusion to LLM-prompting black magic that draws upon the awesome glue package. 

Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @colinfay.bsky.social (Bluesky) & [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter)
• What Makes R Strong: Reflections from useR! 2026
• ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents
• Building our own glue with R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W31

Supplement Resources

• Matrix operators in R https://019b2dbc-0ac6-3185-aa9f-0bea50e3da6d.share.connect.posit.cloud/matrix-operators.html
• {golem} 1.0.0 is here https://golemverse.org/news/golem-1.0.0-release-on-cran/
• Package Tools with ir https://r-lib.github.io/ir/tools.html

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