roxygen2 6.0.0 introduces markdown syntax for documentation and improved inheritance with @inherit tags
sparklyr 0.5 extends dplyr with do() and n_distinct(), adds experimental Livy support for remote Spark connections
xml2 1.1.1 adds tools for creating and modifying XML, improved list conversion, and XML validation support
bookdown extends R Markdown for writing books with cross-references, citations, and multiple output formats
ggplot2 2.2.0 adds subtitles and captions, rewrites the facet system, improves theming, and fixes stacking order
svglite 1.2.0 improves font handling with system_fonts and user_fonts arguments, plus text scaling fixes
shinythemes 1.1.1 adds new Bootstrap themes from bootswatch.com and a live theme selector for Shiny apps
haven 1.0.0 reads and writes SAS, SPSS, and Stata files with improved missing value and date/time support
Preview of ggplot2 2.2.0 with subtitles, captions, facet rewrites, theme improvements, and better stacking
Introducing sparklyr: use dplyr syntax to manipulate Spark data and run distributed machine learning from R
Shiny Server 1.4.6 includes bug fixes and security mitigations; Pro users on SSL/TLS should upgrade for OpenSSL patches
lubridate 1.6.0 adds flexible period/duration parsing from strings and date rounding with unit multipliers
The tidyverse package installs and loads core tidyverse packages (ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, readr, purrr, tibble) in one command
Shiny 0.14 adds bookmarkable state, notifications, modal dialogs, insertUI/removeUI, and database connection docs
Introducing forcats: tools for working with factors including fct_recode(), fct_lump(), and fct_reorder()
tibble 1.2.0 adds add_column(), improves add_row() with position control, and renames frame_data() to tribble()
stringr 1.1.0 adds practice datasets (fruit, words, sentences), boundary() in more functions, and str_view() for regex
tidyr 0.6.0 adds drop_na() to remove rows containing missing values in selected or all columns
DT 0.2 adds the Buttons extension, row/column/cell selection, and functions to modify tables without rebuilding
readr 1.0.0 improves column guessing with printed specs, adds better date/time parsers and low-level file readers
