What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
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...
What’s New in R: April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a new R package for accessing elevation data, an overview of what’s new in R 4.5, and a guide to replicating Financial Times-style data visualizations. Let’s dive in! Introducing {elevationus}: An R Package to Retrieve Elevation Data for U.S. Geographies Joey Marshall has released a new R package designed to make retrieving elevation data a breeze. Whether you’re working with geographic data or need elevation...
What’s New in R: April 21, 2025
April 21, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a TidyTuesday analysis on racial disparities in reproductive research, a tutorial on using ggplot2 to visualize relationship between life expectancy and health spending, and insights on R packages. Let’s dive in! TidyTuesday: Racial disparities in reproductive research In this insightful post, Jess Graves explores a TidyTuesday dataset, providing a detailed analysis and visualization. This resource is perfect for...
What’s New in R: April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a data hub for dengue research, a guide to advanced data skills, and a resource for spatial data in R. Let’s dive in! Dengue Data Hub The Dengue Data Hub is a comprehensive resource for researchers focusing on dengue fever. The website, made by Thiyanga S. Talagala, has information on the {denguedatahub} package, which has data from many locations around the world, and provides an interactive data explorer for...
What’s New in R: April 7, 2025
April 7, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a YouTube tutorial on the {purrr} package, a list of ten great R functions, and a guide on fixing awkward backgrounds in ggplot. Let’s dive in! Hello Kitty: Intro to {purrr} | TidyX Episode 184 In Episode 184 of TidyX, hosts Ellis Hughes and Patrick Ward delve into the {purrr} package, focusing on the use of map functions to manipulate lists. They explain the importance of using map functions when dealing with...