The generative AI technology powering ChatGPT—OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 LLMs—is available to R users, with a growing collection of packages and apps to choose from.

From IDE plugins to external chatbots and running LLMs locally, these new and emerging tools are bringing the generative AI revolution to R.

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, James Fransham makes the case for R being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.

Thanks to one company, the same code that is revolutionizing the scientific community is now moving up the ranks of the business world.