What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
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...
What's New in R: February 20, 2024
February 20, 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.Stacked line chart with inline labels One of the best parts of making data viz in R is that you can learn from others’ code. The website R Graph Gallery has a ton of great examples of charts made in R. One I came across recently is this stacked line chart of aggregated household wealth in countries around the world. The tutorial for this chart, originally made by...
What's New in R: February 12, 2024
February 12, 2024
The latest issue of What’s New in R is out with some more new resources! Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R.Workshops for Ukraine For the past couple years, Dariia Mykhailyshyna has been running a set of data-focused workshops to support Ukraine as it struggles with the Russian invasion. They have hosted workshops on a wide range of R topics and you can get access to recordings of past sessions and sign up to attend future workshops.Re-constructing Google Forms...
What's New in R: February 5, 2024
February 5, 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.Efficiency and Consistency: Automate Subset Graphics with {ggplot2} and {purrr} Cédric Scherer is a master of data viz in R. In this article he explains how you can use the {ggplot2} and {purrr} packages to make multiple similar plots at the same time (it’s a technique I’ve used a lot myself).R for Data Science, Second Edition The second edition of R for Data...
What's New in R: January 29, 2024
January 29, 2024
I’m back, sharing some more new(ish) resources with you. Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R.Stop making messy line charts and create meaningful plots instead The first is a great video from Albert Rapp (who also makes videos on the R for the Rest of Us YouTube channel) showing how to stop making spaghetti charts like these: And instead make easy to comprehend, meaningful line charts like these: The video shows several tips, including how to use the {gghighlight}...
What's New in R: January 24, 2024
January 24, 2024
Welcome to first issue of What’s New in R! This is a weekly email with three resources to help you learn new tips and tricks to up your R game. Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R. For the first few issues of What’s New in R, the word “new” may be a bit of a misnomer. That’s because I’ve been thinking about starting What’s New in R for several months and have been collecting resources throughout that time. The resources may be a few months old, but who’s counting?...