What's New in R

What’s New in R: October 28, 2024

October 28, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive US datasets package, a tip for customizing Quarto output locations, and an exploration of file system operations in R. Let’s dive in!{usdatasets} The {usdatasets} package, created by Renzo Cáceres Rossi, is a treasure trove of data about the United States. It includes a wide range of datasets covering topics such as US presidents, states, cities, and even NFL teams. This package is an excellent...

What’s New in R: October 21, 2024

October 21, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring the second edition of a popular geocomputation book, an updated version of a statistical inference textbook, and a comprehensive guide on splitting data into equal-sized groups in R. Let’s dive in!Second edition of Geocomputation with R is complete When people ask where to go to learn about geospatial analysis in R, I always point them to the book Geocomputation with R. So I was excited to see that the second...

What’s New in R: October 14, 2024

October 14, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a package for tidy country-level data, insights from the UK COVID-19 dashboard team, and a guide on using iteration in R for reproducible data science. Let’s dive in!{tidycountries} This package (hat tip to R Weekly) provides a nice collection of county-level data. Best of all, developer Dennis Irorere has set it up to return data in a tidy format, making it ready for analysis, visualization, etc. Read More →NHS-R...

What’s New in R: October 7, 2024

October 7, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a utility package for enhancing {gt} tables, a tutorial on extracting metadata from filenames, and an update to the popular {patchwork} package for combining plots. Let’s dive in!{gtUtils} This new package by Andrew Weatherman provides a set of additional themes and functions for the {gt} package. With it, you can make your tables look like those made by the English Premier League, tweak formatting using several...

What’s New in R: September 30, 2024

September 30, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a round-up of data viz packages, a collection of time series datasets, and a tutorial on reading web-based files directly into R. Let’s dive in!The best R packages for data visualization R is well known for being an amazing tool for data viz. The sheer number of data viz packages is one reason why. This is an opinionated round-up of some of the top packages for data viz in R. No matter whether you agree or...

What’s New in R: September 23, 2024

September 23, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a book on data viz in R, a video on using the {renv} package for reproducible environments, and an in-depth tutorial on the theme() function. Let’s dive in!Modern Data Visualization with R This book, released earlier this year, is a great introduction to making data viz in R. It’s also a great reference, with chapters showing how to make different types of charts, maps, and more. Read More →December 2023 Webinar:...

What’s New in R: September 16, 2024

September 16, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making musical chords in R, a worthy collection of short R commands and tricks, and a tutorial on adding hillshade effects to your maps. Let’s dive in!Listening to complex tones using sine waves and toneR Did you know R could create musical chords? It can! In this post, Matt Crump uses the {toneR} package to make chords. Pretty cool! Read More →A worthy collection of short R commands and tricks Luke...

What’s New in R: September 9, 2024

September 9, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring impressions of Positron, a package for translating text, and a video on using GitHub Actions to publish a Quarto project automatically. Let’s dive in!Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science You may have heard about the new IDE (integrated development environment) for editing R code called Positron. Made by the folks at Posit, it’s a new alternative to RStudio. In this blog post, Athanasia Mo Mowinckel talks...

What’s New in R: September 3, 2024

September 3, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring the second edition of a ggplot book, a tutorial on making multi-column tables, and a warning about AI slop websites offering R advice. Let’s dive in!R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition The 2nd edition of this book by Winston Chang was released earlier this year. It’s got recipes that show you how to make a wide variety of charts in ggplot. It’s a great reference. Read More →Transform data for easier multi-column...