What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: February 24, 2025
February 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of homelessness and rent in Canada, tips for Quarto presentations, and techniques for optimizing spaghetti plots. Let’s dive in! Analyzing Homelessness and Rents in Canadian Cities Jens von Bergmann and Nathan Lauster have created an in-depth analysis exploring the relationship between homelessness and rental markets across Canadian cities. Using R for both data analysis and visualization, the post...
What’s New in R: February 18, 2025
February 18, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a new package for running SAS code alongside R, an inspiring interview with Hadley Wickham, and a tutorial on creating flowcharts in R. Let’s dive in! {sasquatch}: Create Anthropomorphic Data Visualizations Ryan Zomorrodi has developed a new package that lets you run R code alongside SAS code. You can even combine them when creating Quarto documents. Read More → Focus and feedback in the tidyverse In this...
What’s New in R: February 10, 2025
February 10, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide to sign language research in R, a video showing how to make dumbbell plots, and a package for analyzing crime-related datasets. Let’s dive in! R for Sign Language Research Carl Börstell has created an excellent resource for researchers working with sign language data in R. This comprehensive guide covers everything from data wrangling to visualization specifically tailored for sign language research. The...
What’s New in R: February 3, 2025
February 3, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive guide to ggplot2 theming, an artistic approach to map-making, and an advanced course on data visualization in R. Let’s dive in! Getting Started with theme() The theme() function in ggplot2 is a powerful tool for customizing your plots, but it can be overwhelming at first. In this detailed guide from Jack Kennedy of Jumping Rivers, you’ll learn how to modify various aspects of your ggplot2 themes,...
What’s New in R: January 27, 2025
January 27, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive YouTube series on R programming, a guide to exploratory data analysis, and a package for working with academic calendars. Let’s dive in! Cascadia R Conf 2024 Talk Recordings Cascadia R Conf took place last August. The videos were recorded and released not too long after. There are some great talks here (I was there so I know!). Read More → A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis in R Cosima...
What’s New in R: January 21, 2025
January 21, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide to qualitative data analysis software, making 'comet plots', and a new package for elegant data manipulation. Let’s dive in! Qualitative software In this comprehensive guide, Nathan Jeffery provides a thoughtful comparison of different software options for qualitative data analysis, exploring both commercial solutions like NVivo and ATLAS.ti, as well as free open-source alternatives, some of which work in...
What’s New in R: January 13, 2025
January 13, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on recreating Apple Music Wrapped in R, a fun maze generation package, and a guide to using meta shortcode variables in Quarto. Let’s dive in! Create Your Own Apple Music Wrapped with R While Spotify users get their yearly Wrapped experience, Apple Music users are left wanting. Andrew Heiss shows us how to create our own “Wrapped” experience using R. He walks through the process of accessing Apple...
What’s New in R: January 6, 2025
January 6, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on creating inset maps with ggplot2, a tutorial for recreating some interesting graphs used in baseball analysis, and a guide to using Typst with Quarto. Let’s dive in! Creating Inset Maps with ggplot2 Dominic Royé demonstrates how to create professional-looking inset maps using ggplot2. This detailed tutorial walks through the process of combining multiple maps into a single visualization, with one...
What’s New in R: December 16, 2024
December 16, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive introduction to R, a guide to exploring R objects, and a tutorial on customizing Quarto output locations. Let’s dive in! An Introduction to R Alex Douglas, Deon Roos, Francesca Mancini, Ana Couto & David Lusseau has written a free book for learning R from the ground up. This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic R concepts to data visualization and analysis, with a focus on making R...