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jemsu
@jemu.name

Guess I've been procrastianting my blog post on #rstats tooling a bit too much and @ivelasq3.bsky.social beat me to it. I't s a great overview but as someone who has been using rv a lot I feel like I need to set the record straight that you don't have to declare all deps with rv up front

Isabella Velásquez@ivelasq3.bsky.social

{renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, ir... so many new #RStats tools! I wrote up a blog post if you've want to unpack (haha) how they work and how they are different. Inspired by @rpodcast.bsky.social's wonderful Data Science Lab episode (thank you, Eric!). Check out the post here: rworks.dev/posts/r-mana...

rworks.dev{renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, ir: An explosion of R package and environment managers – R WorksThere has been an explosion of package/environment/platform managers in the R ecosystem recently. Here, we explore {renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, and ir.

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Isabella Velásquez
@ivelasq3.bsky.social

Thanks for the clarification! I will say, the post is a week old and it's already outdated (I didn't mention rpx and rig now has package management bsky.app/profile/gabo...), soooo I would say there's definitely room for a new and better post 😅

Gabor Csardi@gaborcsardi.org

We released rig 0.11.0, the #Rstats installation manager, this week (and 0.10.0 a bit before). New: a website at rig.r-lib.org, user mode R installations, R package management and R projects. First of three blog posts, on R installations: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10...

opensource.posit.corig 0.11.0 part one: R installationsrig 0.11.0: with lots of new features. This is the first post out of three, about the new user mode and related topics.
jemsu
@jemu.name

Yeah I’ve been eyeing the rig changes on GitHub and I guess I have to compare it to rv now, as I have rig installed everywhere already anyway 🫣🧐 And rpx is completely new to me, there’s just too much going on 😅

jemsu
@jemu.name

e.g., a common workflow for me: rv init rv add ggplot2 dplyr [R code stuff happens] rv add tidyr forcats [more code happens] rv add ggbeeswarm and so on and so forth. Quickly plopping dependencies as I need them in the terminal while my R session remains unbothered has been pretty neat.