What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a Quarto extension to show when your document was most recently updated, animations of common functions, and a video to show you how to efficiently import hundreds of Excel files to R. Let’s dive in!Add last rendered or modified time to Quarto Say you’re working on an analysis in a Quarto document and you want to add a timestamp to show when it was last updated. How would you do this? You could write some code, of...
What’s New in R: May 6, 2024
May 6, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring not one, not two, but three data viz guides. Let’s dive in!UK Royal Statistical Society best practices for data visualization guide Released in July 2023, the UK Royal Statistical Society guide, Best Practices for Data Visualization, is a great resource to have on hand. Written by Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie, and Brian Tarran, the guide has general guidance as well as code samples to help you make better data...
What’s New in R: April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making a beautiful snow cover map, a walkthrough of approaches to making custom arrows in ggplot, and some food for thought on making your data analysis even more reproducible than it probably is today. Let’s dive in!Origin and development of a Snowflake Map We may be moving out of snow season, but if you’re down to explore a map showing snow cover in the United States, this blog post is for you! In...
What’s New in R: April 22, 2024
April 22, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on wrapping text labels, a comprehensive look at joins, and an analysis of toast (yes, really). Let’s dive in!How to wrap long strip labels in facet_wrap If you’ve ever made a facetted plot in ggplot and found that the title of each plot (fancy name: strip text) is too long and gets cut off, this blog post from the website Data Viz with Python and R is for you! It shows how to use the labeller argument...
What’s New in R: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a video on how a professional baseball team uses R, a package to convert form Google Docs to Quarto, and an analysis that shows R’s continued popularity. Let’s dive in!How Major League Teams use R to Analyze Baseball Data If you’ve ever wanted to get a peek behind the curtain and see how an organization uses R, this is a great video! Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, shows how...
What's New in R: April 8, 2024
April 8, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide to integrating Tableau and Quarto, an interview with Camila Saez, and tips on making attractive PDFs from Quarto. Let’s dive in!R to Tableau, then show it in Quarto One of the benefits of Quarto is that it can work with many different tools. If you’ve ever wanted to embed a Tableau dashboard into your Quarto, you can! This tutorial by Gregers Kjerulf Dubrow shows how he uses R to source and clean data,...
What's New in R: April 1, 2024
April 1, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring tips to make interactive data viz without Shiny, recordings of talks from one of the biggest R events of the years, and some great materials on Quarto. Let’s dive in!Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny) When people think interactive data viz in R, they often think Shiny. While Shiny can be great in certain cases, it’s not always necessary to make your charts interactive. In...
What's New in R: March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a book that collects R books (so meta), a set of workshop materials on making your own R package, and a presentation of making. Your code more beautiful. Let’s dive in!Big Book of R at 400 Read More →R package workshop There are many benefits to making your own R package. But making a package is complicated. There are some great resources out there: the R Packages book by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan is great,...
What's New in R: March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making beautiful maps to print, a book on the fundamentals of telling stories with data, and examples of how to automate data quality checks. Let’s dive in!Making Circular Maps in ggplot I love when people use R to make things in real life. That’s exactly what Meghan Harris did last year, when she created a map for her best friend’s wedding. In this blog post, she goes step-by-step through the code,...