What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: July 15, 2024
July 15, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new package for adding color to your plot titles, notes from a package review, and an update to a package with nearly 3,000 palettes. Let’s dive in!Coloured text in {ggplot2}: {ggtext} vs {marquee} Up until recently, if you’ve wanted to add color in your ggplot plot titles, the only package you could use was {ggtext}. Now, there is a new package called {marquee} that does similar things (read about it on the...
What’s New in R: July 8, 2024
July 8, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial to make a solar eclipse, a package to make paint-by-number drawings, and a cheatsheet to help you remember best practices in R. Let’s dive in!Simple Solar Eclipse in R Has it ever occurred to you to make a solar eclipse in ggplot? Well, ok, me neither, but the fact that you can is really cool. Check out this tutorial from Esther Weidauer to learn more! Read More →{paintr} package I’m really stretching...
What’s New in R: July 1, 2024
July 1, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on combining a map and bar chart, a case study of scraping data, and an overview of RStudio shortcuts and settings. Let’s dive in!Choropleth Map with Bar Chart in R This tutorial on the R Graph Gallery website shows two things: 1) how to make a choropleth map with {ggplot2}, 2) how to combine a map and a bar chart using the {patchwork} package. If you ever need to do either (or both) of these things,...
What’s New in R: June 24, 2024
June 24, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an opinionated view on the purpose of Quarto documents, an announcement of a new book, and an interview highlighting the role of R in preserving river health. Let’s dive in!Don’t use Quarto documents to clean or analyze data The title of this article is definitely provocative! In the article, Diego Catalán Molina argues that using Quarto documents for exploratory data analysis is a bad idea. Even if you don’t...
What’s New in R: June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an article on the value of using R, a tutorial on writing your own functions, and a blog post showing how to get R to send texts on your behalf. Let’s dive in!How (and Why) I came to Use R for Data Analysis and Evaluation This article, written by Alberto Espinoza, talks about the value of using R in the context of evaluation. But it’s a useful read, even if you work in a very different industry. Alberto talks...
What’s New in R: June 10, 2024
June 10, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of households with many cars, advice on naming files, and a package to make flow charts. Let’s dive in!Where are the 4+-car households? In my years of teaching R, I’ve found that one of the most useful ways to help people learn R is to read tutorials that go from start to finish on an analysis. This blog post by Harald Kliems does just that, demonstrating how you could get and analyze data from the...
What's New in R: June 3, 2024
June 3, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an introductory workshop on R, a tutorial on customizing ggplot legends, and a walkthrough to help you get a Quarto-based website set up and hosted online. Let’s dive in!Introduction to R and RStudio Part 1 The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has many R users. The NHS-R Community recently hosted an online intro to R workshop, which they’ve posted online. This looks like a great resource for those just starting...
What's New in R: May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring two tutorials on manipulating images with the {magick} package and a package that helps you make better line charts. Let’s dive in!Convert iPhone Photos to PNG in 12 Lines of R Code! File this under things you might never have considered using R for but are actually quite useful: In this YouTube video, Lee Durbin shows how to use R to convert photos from the iPhone-specific .HEIC format to the more common .PNG...
What’s New in R: May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an in-progress update to Modern Data Science with R, a tutorial on using flags for facetted plots, and a deep dive into avoiding overplotting. Let’s dive in!Modern Data Science with R This book, written by Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan, and Nicholas J. Horton, bills itself as “a comprehensive data science textbook for undergraduates that incorporates statistical and computational thinking to solve...