What’s New in R: June 10, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of households with many cars, advice on naming files, and a package to make flow charts. Let’s dive in!
Where are the 4+-car households?
In my years of teaching R, I’ve found that one of the most useful ways to help people learn R is to read tutorials that go from start to finish on an analysis. This blog post by Harald Kliems does just that, demonstrating how you could get and analyze data from the American Community Survey on which households in the US have 4 cars or more. You’ll see how Harald uses the {tidycensus} package to import data and how he uses the {tmap} and {gt} packages to map and put data into tables.
How to Names Files Like a Normie
This video has both absolutely nothing to do with R and impacts every R user. Titled “How to Names Files Like a Normie”, this talk by Jenny Bryan from the 2022 edition of NormConf gives advice on how to name files. You might think that naming files doesn’t matter, but using good naming practices will help you today, and will especially help you in the future when you return to a project and can’t remember which files do what.
{ggflowchart}
I always tell people that you can make any type of chart you want with {ggplot2}. That’s because there is almost always a package that facilities any type of chart you might think to make. I recently came across the {ggflowchart} package by Nicola Rennie, which lets you make flow charts with ggplot, something I had never seen done before.
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