What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: February 3, 2025
February 3, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive guide to ggplot2 theming, an artistic approach to map-making, and an advanced course on data visualization in R. Let’s dive in! Getting Started with theme() The theme() function in ggplot2 is a powerful tool for customizing your plots, but it can be overwhelming at first. In this detailed guide from Jack Kennedy of Jumping Rivers, you’ll learn how to modify various aspects of your ggplot2 themes,...
What’s New in R: January 27, 2025
January 27, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive YouTube series on R programming, a guide to exploratory data analysis, and a package for working with academic calendars. Let’s dive in! Cascadia R Conf 2024 Talk Recordings Cascadia R Conf took place last August. The videos were recorded and released not too long after. There are some great talks here (I was there so I know!). Read More → A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis in R Cosima...
What’s New in R: January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide to qualitative data analysis software, making 'comet plots', and a new package for elegant data manipulation. Let’s dive in! Qualitative software In this comprehensive guide, Nathan Jeffery provides a thoughtful comparison of different software options for qualitative data analysis, exploring both commercial solutions like NVivo and ATLAS.ti, as well as free open-source alternatives, some of which work in...
What’s New in R: January 13, 2025
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...
What’s New in R: January 6, 2025
January 6, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on creating inset maps with ggplot2, a tutorial for recreating some interesting graphs used in baseball analysis, and a guide to using Typst with Quarto. Let’s dive in! Creating Inset Maps with ggplot2 Dominic Royé demonstrates how to create professional-looking inset maps using ggplot2. This detailed tutorial walks through the process of combining multiple maps into a single visualization, with one...
What’s New in R: December 16, 2024
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...
What’s New in R: December 9, 2024
December 9, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tool for generating blog post summaries using AI, a visualization of Greenland’s ice thickness, and a package to replicate Excel formatting in tables made in R. Let’s dive in! Creating post summaries with AI from Hugging Face Athanasia Mo Mowinckel shares a clever solution for automating blog post summaries using AI. Using the Hugging Face API and R, she demonstrates how to generate concise summaries of blog...
What’s New in R: December 2, 2024
December 2, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on advanced data scraping, a new approach to applying brand guidelines across your various data products, and a new package for creating legends in ggplot2. Let’s dive in! Creating Serverless Shiny Apps with R Shinylive In this video, James Balamuta (aka The Coatless Professor) demonstrates how to use the R package {chromote} to control a web browser for web scraping dynamic websites, specifically...
What’s New in R: November 25, 2024
November 25, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide for transitioning from SAS to R, a fun package for getting started more efficiently on your projects, and a tutorial on creating diamond plots. Let’s dive in! Converting SAS to R: A Data Scientist’s Guide Making the switch from SAS to R can be challenging, but this comprehensive guide from Ted Laderas at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center’s Data Science Lab makes the transition smoother. The guide provides...