What's New in R 4.6.0?
Published: April 16, 2026.
Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes in the April 2026 release of R 4.6.0.
Author: Russ Hyde
Published: April 16, 2026.
Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes in the April 2026 release of R 4.6.0.
Author: Russ Hyde
Published: October 16, 2025.
Python 3.14 was released in October. Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes and some trends in Python development and data-science over the past year.
Author: Russ Hyde
Published: April 10, 2025.
Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.
Author: Russ Hyde
Published: April 25, 2024.
R 4.4.0 introduces some cool features (one of which is experimental) and makes one of our favourite {rlang} operators available in base R.
Author: Russ Hyde
Published: April 20, 2023.
R v4.3.0 is released on April 21st, 2023, and continuing a recent theme, R is getting stricter with your code. If you don't know your `&` from your `&&` you may be in for a bumpy ride. Here, we discuss the changes to the logical comparison operators and a few other new features.
Author: Colin Gillespie
Published: April 1, 2022.
R version 4.2.0 is about to be released. This release includes an update to the native pipe, changes to logical operators and improvements to the help page. In this blog post, we take a look at (some of) these new features. Highlighting (in our opinion) the most exciting changes.
Author: Colin Gillespie
Published: January 25, 2022.
R 4.0 was released almost two years ago. However, the majority of R users didn't immediately adopt the new version due to obvious constraints when updating software. The consequence is that many of the new and useful features are forgotten about. This post highlights the features as we've moved to R 4.0.
Author: Russ Hyde
Published: May 17, 2021.
A new R release (v 4.1.0) is due for release on 18th May 2021. This version brings in a few exciting features, such as anonymous functions and the native pipe. Here, we summarise these and other notable changes.