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What’s New in R: September 16, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making musical chords in R, a worthy collection of short R commands and tricks, and a tutorial on adding hillshade effects to your maps. Let’s dive in!

Listening to complex tones using sine waves and toneR

Did you know R could create musical chords? It can! In this post, Matt Crump uses the {toneR} package to make chords. Pretty cool!

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A worthy collection of short R commands and tricks

Luke Pembleton describes this post as “a worthy collection of short R commands and tricks.” It’s a motley collection of small tips that can make a big difference. From data viz to data wrangling and more, this post will have something good for you!

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Hillshade effects

Adding hillshades is one way to take maps from meh to amazing. Rather than plain maps, you can show mountains as if they have actual depth on your maps. In this blog post from 2022 (but new to me), Dominic Royé shows how to add hillshade effects.

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David Keyes
By David Keyes
September 16, 2024

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