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What’s New in R: January 13, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on recreating Apple Music Wrapped in R, a fun maze generation package, and a guide to using meta shortcode variables in Quarto. Let’s dive in!

Create Your Own Apple Music Wrapped with R

While Spotify users get their yearly Wrapped experience, Apple Music users are left wanting. Andrew Heiss shows us how to create our own “Wrapped” experience using R. He walks through the process of accessing Apple Music data and creating visualizations that rival Spotify’s offering, demonstrating that with some tidyverse magic, we can analyze and visualize our listening habits just as effectively.

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{mazegenerator} package

The {mazegenerator} package, developed by Matheus Ferreira, offers a creative way to generate mazes using R. This package not only creates random mazes but also includes features for visualizing the maze-solving process. It’s a perfect example of how R can be used for both practical applications and fun programming projects.

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Using Meta Shortcode Variables in Quarto

Ashley Henry from Posit shares a detailed guide on leveraging meta shortcode variables with Quarto Includes. This powerful feature allows for more precise content insertion in your Quarto documents, making them more maintainable and consistent. The tutorial provides practical examples and best practices for implementing these variables in your documentation workflow.

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David Keyes
By David Keyes
January 13, 2025

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