ALTREP promises to bring major performance improvements to R

Finally, a promising effort to improve the foundation of the R system.

When there's a fork in the road, take it. Or, taking a look at marginal structural models.

Easy to follow and crystal clear introduction to marginal structural models here.

How to develop good R packages (for open science)

Very helpful post here.

Use Your Android Device as a Second Monitor for Your Windows PC

This is useful information.

This post uses a different software.

New in the tigris package: simple features support and historic shapefiles

There have been so many cool developments in the R ecosystem. Here is an exciting one.

Tidytext + stm

The new version of tidytext package now works with the stm package for topic modeling. This is a great new development.

Treating your data: The old school vs tidyverse modern tools

Useful comparisons here.

CARstan and the new brms

Finally Stan can do spatial modeling using CARstan module. Also, the new version (1.8.0) of the brms package also has that capability wrapped in.

The R community is one of R's best features

Excellent summary here.