Esri’s 2018 UC was a spectacular event for the R-ArcGIS bridge. Not only did the bridge unveil its support for raster data this year, along with the release of multiple new resources, but also, session turnout was at an all-time high. 2018 marked the first year the R-ArcGIS bridge team offered a full-day, hands-on, preconference seminar on the bridge, Statistical Spatial Data Analysis with R and ArcGIS, which featured all the latest regarding using the bridge within R, ArcGIS, Jupyter notebooks, and alongside Conda and Python. As the thrill from UC transitions back into daily routines, there is no better time to catch-up with the latest developments on the bridge and to build it into your workflows. Let the R-ArcGIS bridge help you expand your analyses by bringing in the latest statistical and field-specific methods from R and by making sharing your results easy.