Issue 2026-W33 Highlights

A collection of tips to ensure reproducibility for R-based clinical submissions, a modern architecture lands in R-Universe, and going beyond the built-in mtcars set to educate students with NYC Open Data. 


Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
• Making R Submissions Reviewable for FDA
• Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe
• The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W33

Supplement Resources

• R Consortium Submissions Working Group https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-wg
• SimpleEnglish Agent skill https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
• New R tooling https://r-devs.com/

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