What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: August 26, 2024
August 26, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a website that collects all Quarto extensions, a package that helps you to convert between output formats, and a tutorial on how to make a map that shows traffic noise. Let’s dive in!Quarto extensions Quarto extensions are a way of adding functionality to the base set of tools that exists in Quarto. For example, I used the spotlight extension to be able to highlight sections of my slides (like this) that I used...
What’s New in R: August 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a video on the lifecycle stages of functions, a tutorial on using AI in RStudio, and a package to add some pizazz to your R output. Let’s dive in!What does deprecated mean? Package lifecycle and the process of deprecation Sometimes you’ll read the documentation of a function and see that it has been deprecated. What exactly does this mean? This video walks through what deprecation means. And, if you’re interested...
What’s New in R: August 12, 2024
August 12, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring tips for building your first R package, a package to help you go from ggplot to Excel, and a package to help you keep track of when your packages can be updated. Let’s dive in!5 Tips For Building Your First R Package Making your own R package is not nearly as complicated as many people think it is. In this video, Lee Durbin gives you five good tips to help you get started with making your first package. Watch...
What’s New in R: August 5, 2024
August 5, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a package for making music, a tutorial on making a custom Word template to work with Quarto, and a package that gives you custom shapes you can use in ggplot. Let’s dive in!{gm} package If the only thing that has stopped you from learning is the inability to write music with it, you no longer have an excuse. The {gm} package lets you write sheet music and play it from your computer with just a few lines of code....
What’s New in R: July 29, 2024
July 29, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring the rebirth of R primers, a package for making flowcharts, and a package to use SAS procedures in R. Let’s dive in!R Primers Six years ago, the company now known as Posit (then known as RStudio) created a set of primers for people learning R. They’ve since been taken down, but Andrew Heiss has re-created them. These are a great way to learn the basic of data wrangling, visualization, and more. Read More...
What’s New in R: July 22, 2024
July 22, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new code editor, a timeline of R’s history, and an attempt to model crochet patterns with ggplot. Let’s dive in!Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE There’s a new code editor in town. Posit, the company that makes RStudio Desktop, widely used for editing R code, has released a beta of a new integrated development environment (aka IDE) called Positron. I’ve checked it out and it is definitely a more...
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,...
