What’s New in R: May 19, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide on using LLMs to summarize work, a dashboard for WHO data, and a tutorial on storytelling with R and Quarto. Let’s dive in!
Remembering what I did this week with LLMs
Garrick Aden-Buie explores the use of large language models (LLMs) to create concise work summaries. In his blog post, he shares how he uses several R packages to create summaries of what he accomplished during the previous week.
Automating R Scripts to Fetch and Process API Data with GitHub Actions
This blog post by Kirstin Lyon shows how to use GitHub Actions to automate the process of importing data from the World Health Organization. If you’ve ever wanted to pull in data in your sleep, check it out!
Scrollytelling – Storytelling with R and Quarto!
In a fascinating post, Wolf Riepl of Statistik Dresden demonstrates how to use R and Quarto for scrollytelling — a dynamic storytelling technique that combines scrolling with narrative. This tutorial (written in German but easily translated) guides readers through the process of creating scrollytelling stories using the {closeread} package.
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