What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
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 Music...
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 map...
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...
What’s New in R: November 18, 2024
November 18, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a YouTube with all of the talks from posit::conf 2024, a curated collection of data science learning resources, and a practical guide to analyzing survey data in R. Let’s dive in!posit::conf(2024) videos One the best parts about posit::conf, the annual data science conference put on by the folks at Posit, is that the videos from it are all made available for free on YouTube. The 2024 talks were released recently...
What’s New in R: November 11, 2024
November 11, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on using Word templates with R, a video on creating reproducible examples, and a guide to code review best practices. Let’s dive in!Using Word templates with R If you’ve ever struggled with creating professional reports in R that match your organization’s branding, this tutorial is for you. Albert Rapp provides a comprehensive guide on using Word templates with R, leveraging the power of the officer...
What’s New in R: November 4, 2024
November 4, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a package for creating Sankey diagrams, a tutorial on creating beautiful tables with flextable, and a video guide on using ChatGPT for data analysis in R. Let’s dive in!{ggsankeyfier} The {ggsankeyfier} package brings the power of Sankey diagrams to the ggplot2 ecosystem. Developed by Pepijn de Vries, this package allows you to easily create complex flow diagrams that visualize the distribution of a variable across...
