What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring ggplot becoming an adult, a critique of vibe coding in scientific research, and updates to a tool for automatically formatting your R code. Let’s dive in! ggplot turns 18 The famous package for data viz, {ggplot2}, recently turned 18. It’s hard to overstate the impact it has had. If you want to know more about its impact, this QZ article from a few years ago is a great place to start . Read More → Vibe coding...
What’s New in R: June 23, 2025
June 23, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring exciting developments in AI for R users, a deep dive into LA County’s population trends, and a guide to using renv in R. Let’s dive in! Lots Happening in the LLM/R Space In this LinkedIn post, Veerle Van Leemput shares insights into the latest developments in AI for R users. It’s got a roundup of some packages to help you use large language models in your work. Read More → Los Angeles County Population In this...
What’s New in R: June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a workshop recording on creating impactful visualizations, a guide to mapping large numbers of Census tracts, and a tutorial on the new use() function in R. Let’s dive in! More than pretty graphs: Tips, tricks and resources to elevate your dataviz In this workshop from last November, Cara Thompson explores how to create visualizations that are not just aesthetically pleasing but also impactful and informative....
What’s New in R: June 9, 2025
June 9, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide on translating Quartofiles, an exploration of Quarto for book creation, and a tutorial on creating animated population pyramids. Let’s dive in! Translating Quarto (and other markdown files) into any language In this insightful post by Frank Aragona, you’ll learn how to translate Markdown files using R. In this walkthrough, Aragona shows how he used R to translate Quarto files from English to Spanish...
What’s New in R: June 2, 2025
June 2, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an overview of the Positron code editor, a comprehensive directory of R packages, and a video on creating interactive plots. Let’s dive in! Positron IDE doing Data Analysis with R (Public Beta) In this informative YouTube video, James Balamuta gives an overview of the Positron editor. This editor, designed by the folks at Posit and released publicly last summer, has a lot of great features. If you’re considering...
What’s New in R: May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a workshop on creating websites with Quarto, a video tutorial on making dot density maps, and a package for more attractive visualizations of overlapping points. Let’s dive in! Quarto website video series The Quarto team has a comprehensive workshop on building websites using Quarto. This detailed guide walks you through the process of setting up and customizing your own website, making it accessible even for...
What’s New in R: May 19, 2025
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. Read More →...
What’s New in R: May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide on getting your Quarto projects out into the world with GitHub Pages, a personal journey into R programming, and a new package for working with colors. Let’s dive in! Sketchy Waffle Charts in R Nicola Rennie has written an intriguing blog post about creating sketchy waffle charts in R. This creative visualization approach adds a hand-drawn aesthetic to traditional waffle charts, making them both engaging...
What’s New in R: May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide on getting your Quarto projects out into the world with GitHub Pages, a personal journey into R programming, and a new package for working with colors. Let’s dive in! Dissemination using Quarto and Github Pages James Bartlett has created a comprehensive guide on how to disseminate Quarto projects using GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages is a great (and free!) way to share your Quarto websites, books, and more...