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What’s New in R: March 31, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a package for calculating various measures of deprivation, a guide to creating maps with the American Community Survey, and a tutorial on crafting beautiful stack gradients in R. Let’s dive in!

{deprivateR}

Pfizer has a package called deprivateR, designed to access and calculate various measures of socioeconomic deprivation, “including the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI), and the Social Vulnerability Index.”

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Mapping water insecurity in R with tidycensus

Elmera Azadpour and Cee Nell of The US Geological Survey provides a detailed guide on how to create informative maps using American Community Survey (ACS) data accessed with the {tidycensus} package. This blog post walks you through the process of accessing ACS data and visualizing it with R. In the end, the authors make several beautiful maps to show levels of water insecurity in the United States.

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The guide to gradients in R and ggplot2

Gradients are a great way to add visual interest to plots. Commonly used in interactive data viz, you can also add them to static plots in R. This blog post by James Goldie shows you how.

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David Keyes
By David Keyes
March 31, 2025

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