What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on creating population pyramids, a new package for air pollution analysis, and an innovative exploration of social media data using AI and the tidyverse. Let’s dive in!Plotting Age Pyramids with ggplot Jose M. Sallan provides a detailed tutorial on how to create population pyramids using ggplot2. Population pyramids (which I’ve also written about here and here) are essential tools for demographic...
What’s New in R: March 10, 2025
March 10, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring the winners of the Posit Closeread prize, a fantastic tutorial on creating histogram legends in ggplot2, and a package for analyzing wildfire exposure data. Let’s dive in!Winners of the Closeread Prize – Data-Driven Scrollytelling with Quarto Posit has announced the winners of their Closeread Prize, which challenged developers to create scrollytelling projects (you’ve probably seen them in places like the New York...
What’s New in R: March 3, 2025
March 3, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new code formatter from the Tidyverse team, an analysis of TSA screening data with epidemiological weeks, and a tutorial on building RAG-based AI prototypes in R. Let’s dive in!Air: An Extremely Fast R Formatter The tidyverse team, led by Davis Vaughan and Lionel Henry, has announced Air, a new R code formatter that promises to be incredibly fast. Air is designed to automatically format R code consistently while...
What’s New in R: February 24, 2025
February 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of homelessness and rent in Canada, tips for Quarto presentations, and techniques for optimizing spaghetti plots. Let’s dive in!Analyzing Homelessness and Rents in Canadian Cities Jens von Bergmann and Nathan Lauster have created an in-depth analysis exploring the relationship between homelessness and rental markets across Canadian cities. Using R for both data analysis and visualization, the post...
What’s New in R: February 18, 2025
February 18, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new package for running SAS code alongside R, an inspiring interview with Hadley Wickham, and a tutorial on creating flowcharts in R. Let’s dive in!{sasquatch}: Create Anthropomorphic Data Visualizations Ryan Zomorrodi has developed a new package that lets you run R code alongside SAS code. You can even combine them when creating Quarto documents. Read More →Focus and feedback in the tidyverse In this...
What’s New in R: February 10, 2025
February 10, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide to sign language research in R, a video showing how to make dumbbell plots, and a package for analyzing crime-related datasets. Let’s dive in!R for Sign Language Research Carl Börstell has created an excellent resource for researchers working with sign language data in R. This comprehensive guide covers everything from data wrangling to visualization specifically tailored for sign language research. The...
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...
