What’s New in R

Live R ecosystem updates: the latest R release, the most-downloaded and newest CRAN packages, and this week’s R Weekly headlines — regenerated from source every time the site is built.

A living snapshot of the R world, pulled straight from CRAN and the community each time this page is built — not a stale hand-kept list. For the forums, blogs and organisations behind the ecosystem, see our curated R community resources.

Last regenerated: 08 August 2026.

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Latest R release

The current release is R 4.6.1 (“Happy Hop”), published on 24 June 2026. Download it from CRAN.

Popular now

Most-downloaded packages this week

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Source: CRAN download logs via cranlogs.r-pkg.org (RStudio CRAN mirror).

Fresh on CRAN

Recently published packages

The newest additions and updates on CRAN:

Full list: CRAN packages by date.

From the community

This week in R Weekly

More at R Weekly — the community’s weekly digest.

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