What’s New in R: August 19, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a video on the lifecycle stages of functions, a tutorial on using AI in RStudio, and a package to add some pizazz to your R output. Let’s dive in!
What does deprecated mean? Package lifecycle and the process of deprecation
Sometimes you’ll read the documentation of a function and see that it has been deprecated. What exactly does this mean? This video walks through what deprecation means. And, if you’re interested in other so-called “lifecycle” of functions, this blog post shows all of the stages functions can pass through.
How to use GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT in RStudio - get setup in less than 5 minutes!
You can now use GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT within RStudio. These tools use AI to help you code more quickly and efficiently. This video by Melissa Van Bussel walks through how to set up and start using these tools.
{emphatic} package
If you’ve ever wished that the output of data frames in R had more color, the {emphatic} package is for you. In the same way that you might use a gradient to shade a numeric column in a table, {emphatic} can add colors to your R output. What’s more, you can also take this output and use it in exports to Excel, R Markdown, Quarto, and other formats.
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