What's New in R

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,...

What's New in R: March 11, 2024

March 11, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring a new version of Quarto, a new-to-me package for geocoding, and a package to ensure your plots are accessible to all. Let’s dive in!Quarto 1.4 Quarto 1.4 is out. The headline new features are dashboards and PDFs made with the new typst format. If you’ve used the {flexdashboard} package to make dashboards in R Markdown, you’ve probably been waiting for the equivalent functionality in Quarto. It’s now here! And if...

What's New in R: March 4, 2024

March 4, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R​! This week, we’re featuring posts on the complete() function from the {tidyr} package, new features in the table-making {gt} package, and a tutorial on adding logos to images. Let’s dive in!You tidyr::complete() me Imagine you’ve got a dataset that looks like this: As a human being (you are human, correct?), you can look at this and know that this means the dog got 0 walks on Thursday and the cat got 0 walks on Wednesday. But computers are...

What's New in R: February 26, 2024

February 26, 2024

In the latest issue of What’s New in R, see some more new resources! Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R.Creating Population Pyramid Plots in R with ggplot2 Ever wondered how to make population pyramids in R? In this blog post, Steven P. Sanderson shows you how! It might seem tricky at first to make a population pyramid, but once you see how it works, you’ll be making your own in no time!The Top Programming Languages 2023 Every year, IEEE Spectrum puts out a report on...