Data Wrangling

Sep 9, 2026

Positron September Release Highlights

Highlights from the 2026.09 release of Positron, including a redesigned welcome page, a first version of Import Data, new Posit Assistant features, expanded Data Connections, package vulnerability scanning, and a more responsive Console

Julia Silge

Jeroen Janssens, Thijs Nieuwdorp

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Aug 18, 2026

Python Polars: The Definitive Cheatsheet

We compressed our nearly 500-page Polars book into a free two-page cheatsheet. Available as a printable PDF and an accessible HTML version

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Jul 14, 2026

httr2 1.3.0

httr2 1.3.0 changes how OAuth tokens are cached on disk — you’ll need to re-authenticate once after upgrading — and rolls up faster streaming, OAuth server metadata discovery, OpenTelemetry tracing, and a new httr2_translate() function

A brown cardboard box labelled with 'storage'

Jun 17, 2026

dbplyr 2.6.0

dbplyr 2.6.0 is now on CRAN, with new ADBC and JDBC backends, IBM DB2 support, more translations, and a bunch of minor fixes and improvements

Jun 4, 2026

Libraries for your Python Polars workflows

Posit’s Python libraries provide excellent support for Polars DataFrames across your data science workflow

Isabella Velásquez

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Apr 30, 2026

nanoparquet 0.5.1

nanoparquet 0.5.1 brings lots of bug fixes and a few new features: list columns, bit64::integer64 and blob::blob support, writing Parquet to the standard output

Gábor Csárdi

`dplyr::if_else()` and `dplyr::case_when()` are up to 30x faster

Feb 10, 2026

dplyr::if_else() and dplyr::case_when() are up to 30x faster

dplyr 1.2.0 comes with much faster and more memory efficient if_else() and case_when() functions!

Feb 4, 2026

dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr’s API: we’ve added a new complement to filter() focused on dropping rows, and we’ve expanded the case_when() family with three new recoding and replacing functions!

Nov 4, 2025

stringr 1.6.0

This release deprecates str_like(ignore_case) and changes the behaviour of str_replace_all() for function replacements. It also introduces str_ilike() for case-insensitive SQL-like pattern matching, three new case conversion functions (str_to_camel(), str_to_snake(), and str_to_kebab()), and preserves names in all relevant functions

Nov 4, 2025

purrr 1.2.0

This release tightens up the package by removing long-deprecated functions, making map_chr() and predicate functions more type-safe, and requiring a newer version of carrier to make in_parallel() use easier. It also includes performance improvements to every(), some(), and none(), as well as a new getting started vignette

Jul 14, 2025

httr2 1.2.0

httr2 1.2.0 improves security for redacted headers, improves URL parsing and building, enhances debugging, and includes a bunch of other quality of life improvements

Charlie Gao, Hadley Wickham, Davis Vaughan, Lionel Henry

Jul 10, 2025

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0

The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai

Kirill Müller, Maëlle Salmon

Jun 19, 2025

duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

duckplyr 1.1.0 is on CRAN! A drop-in replacement for dplyr, powered by DuckDB for speed. It is the most dplyr-like of dplyr backends

Jun 4, 2025

Data Validation Libraries for Polars (2025 Edition)

Choosing a data validation library for Polars? We compare Pandera, Patito, Pointblank, Validoopsie, and Dataframely

Jun 3, 2025

C’mon C’mon: Let’s Do a Pointblank Workshop!

Want a free Pointblank workshop for your data team? Here’s how to set one up

Rich Iannone, Michael Chow

May 20, 2025

Overhauling Pointblank’s User Guide

Pointblank’s revamped user guide: spiral learning, clearer examples, and full API coverage

May 2, 2025

Level Up Your Data Validation with Actions and FinalActions

Automate responses to bad data with Pointblank’s Actions and FinalActions

Apr 4, 2025

Introducing Pointblank

Get started with Pointblank for data validation using Polars, Pandas, or DuckDB

Davis Vaughan, Lionel Henry

Feb 21, 2025

Air, an extremely fast R formatter

We are thrilled to announce Air, a new R formatter

Jan 28, 2025

nanoparquet 0.4.0

nanoparquet 0.4.0 comes with a new and much faster read_parquet(), configurable type mappings in write_parquet(), and a new append_parquet()

Gábor Csárdi

Jan 20, 2025

httr2 1.1.0

httr2 1.1.0 introduces powerful new streaming capabilities with req_perform_connection(), as well as comprehensive URL manipulation tools, improved AWS support, and a bunch of bug fixes

Jun 20, 2024

nanoparquet 0.3.0

Nanoparquet is a new R package that can read and write (flat) Parquet files. This post covers its features and limitations

Gábor Csárdi

Apr 22, 2024

News from the sparkly-verse

Highlights to the most recent updates to sparklyr and friends

Edgar Ruiz

Apr 8, 2024

dbplyr 2.5.0

dbplyr 2.5.0 brings improved syntax for referring to tables nested in schemas and catalogs along with a bunch of minor SQL generation improvements

Jan 22, 2024

bigrquery 1.5.0

This release fixes a bunch of annoyances and catches up with innovations in DBI and dbplyr

Nov 14, 2023

httr2 1.0.0

httr2 is the successor to httr, providing a pipeable interface to generate HTTP requests and handle the responses. It’s focussed on the needs of an R user wrapping a modern web API, but is flexible enough to handle just about any HTTP related task

Oct 26, 2023

dbplyr 2.4.0

dbplyr 2.4.0 brings improvements to SQL generation, better control over the generated SQL, some new translations, and a bunch of backend specific improvements

Jun 29, 2023

gmailr 2.0.0

gmailr 2.0.0 streamlines the auth process and makes it easier to use gmailr in a cloud or deployed context

Mar 22, 2023

dplyr 1.1.1

dplyr 1.1.1 is on CRAN! This patch release includes a number of performance regression fixes along with refinements to the multiple match join warnings that result in warnings being thrown much less often

Mar 8, 2023

tidyverse 2.0.0

Now including lubridate!

Feb 24, 2023

dtplyr 1.3.0

dtplyr brings initial support for dplyr 1.1.0 features, new translations, and a breaking change

dplyr 1.1.0: `pick()`, `reframe()`, and `arrange()`

Feb 7, 2023

dplyr 1.1.0: pick(), reframe(), and arrange()

This final post contains a grab-bag of new features, including: pick() for column selection inside of data-masking functions, reframe() as the new home for summarise()’s multi-row behavior, and major performance improvements to arrange()

Feb 2, 2023

dplyr 1.1.0: The power of vctrs

All of the dplyr vector functions, like between() and case_when(), are now powered by vctrs. We’ve also added two powerful new helpers: case_match() and consecutive_id()

Feb 1, 2023

dplyr 1.1.0: Per-operation grouping

dplyr now supports an experimental per-operation grouping syntax. This serves as an alternative to group_by() and always returns an ungrouped data frame, meaning that you never need to remember to ungroup()

Jan 31, 2023

dplyr 1.1.0: Joins

In dplyr 1.1.0, joins have been greatly reworked, including a new way to specify join columns, support for inequality, rolling, and overlap joins, and two new quality control arguments

Jan 30, 2023

forcats 1.0.0

There are no major new features in this version of forcats, but the 1.0.0 label now clearly advertises that this a stable member of the tidyverse

Jan 24, 2023

tidyr 1.3.0

tidyr 1.3.0 brings a new family of string separating functions, along with improvements to unnest_longer(), unnest_wider(), pivot_longer(), and nest()

Jan 16, 2023

dbplyr 2.3.0

dbplyr 2.3.0 brings improvements to SQL generation, improved error messages, a handful of new translations, and a bunch of backend specific improvements

Dec 20, 2022

purrr 1.0.0

purrr 1.0.0 brings a basket of updates. We deprecated a number of seldom used functions to hone in on the core purpose of purrr and implemented a swath of new features including progress bars, improved error reporting, and much much more!

Dec 5, 2022

stringr 1.5.0

It’s been a long three years but a new version of stringr is now on CRAN! This release includes a bunch of small but useful new functions and some increased consistency with the rest of the tidyverse

Nov 28, 2022

dplyr 1.1.0 is coming soon

dplyr 1.1.0 is coming soon! This post introduces some of the exciting new features coming in 1.1.0, and includes a call-for-feedback as we finalize the release

Lionel Henry, Hadley Wickham

Oct 18, 2022

tidyselect 1.2.0

tidyselect 1.2.0 hit CRAN last week and includes a few updates to the syntax of selections in tidyverse functions

Jun 6, 2022

dbplyr 2.2.0

This release brings improvements to SQL translation, a new way of getting local data into the database, and support for dplyr’s family of row modification functions

Apr 15, 2022

haven 2.5.0

haven 2.5.0 adds support for custom character widths, creates FDA-compliant XPT files, and can use Stata’s strL variable type

Mar 28, 2022

readxl 1.4.0

readxl 1.4.0 is a maintenance release with practically no user-facing changes, but extensive change to package internals

Feb 1, 2022

tidyr 1.2.0

tidyr 1.2.0 includes a bunch of new features and bug fixes, particularly for pivoting, rectangling, and grid specific tools

Dec 6, 2021

dtplyr 1.2.0

dtplyr 1.2.0 adds three new authors, a bunch of tidyr translations, new join translations, and many minor translation improvements

Nov 11, 2021

Eager vs lazy reading in readr 2.1.0

readr 2.1.0 is now on CRAN. This post explains the change for default reading to be eager rather than lazy

Jim Hester

Nov 4, 2021

archive 1.1.2

archive 1.1.2 is now on CRAN! archive lets you work with file archives, such as ZIP, tar, 7-Zip and RAR and compression formats like gzip, bzip2, XZ and Zstandard

Jim Hester

Aug 4, 2021

bigrquery 1.4.0

bigrquery 1.4.0 fixes a bug in bq_table_download()

Jul 26, 2021

googlesheets4 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 marks the graduation of googlesheets4 from experimental to stable

Jul 20, 2021

readr 2.0.0

This major release of readr includes a new multi-threaded parsing engine powered by vroom and a number of user interface improvements

Jim Hester

Jul 8, 2021

googledrive 2.0.0

googledrive 2.0.0 adapts to Drive’s pivot from Team Drives to shared drives and its shift to a “single parent” model of file organization

Jul 4, 2021

gargle 1.2.0

gargle has seen a lot of development over the past two years and five releases: cache relocation, credential rolling, a new auth method, an improved user interface, better verbosity control, and retries

Apr 24, 2021

haven 2.4.0

This version provides much improved labelled_spss() support, improved date-time handling, the latest ReadStat, and a bunch of other small improvements

Mar 31, 2021

Comprehensive Date-Time Handling for R

Introducing, clock, a new package for working with date-times

Mar 10, 2021

rvest 1.0.0

The latest version of rvest brings new tools for extracting text, a radically improved html_table(), and a bunch of interface changes to better align rvest with the rest of the tidyverse

dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0

Feb 25, 2021

dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0

We’ve recently released a bunch of improvements to dplyr backends. multidplyr, which allows you to spread work across multiple cores, is now on CRAN. dtplyr adds translations for dplyr 1.0.0 and fixes many bugs. dbplyr 2.1.0 adds translations for many tidyr verbs, gains an author, and has improved across() translations