What’s New in R: December 16, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive introduction to R, a guide to exploring R objects, and a tutorial on customizing Quarto output locations. Let’s dive in!
An Introduction to R
Alex Douglas, Deon Roos, Francesca Mancini, Ana Couto & David Lusseau has written a free book for learning R from the ground up. This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic R concepts to data visualization and analysis, with a focus on making R accessible to beginners. The book includes interactive examples and exercises, making it an invaluable resource for those just starting their R journey.
Look at Your Objects
Kelly Bodwin provides an insightful exploration of different ways to examine R objects. This detailed guide demonstrates various methods and functions for inspecting data in R. The approaches Bodwin recommends are great ways to ensure that you are constantly checking in on your data to ensure it matches your expectations.
Using project scripts to keep Quarto source and output files organised
Pete Jones shares a helpful tutorial on controlling where Quarto saves your output files. This practical guide demonstrates how to customize output locations for different file types, which is especially useful when working with complex project structures. This guide has helped me with a problem I’ve had: when rendering Quarto documents using parameterized reporting, they all go to the same directly as the .qmd file. Jones shows how I can easily move the PDF (or other) files after they are rendered.
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