What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: December 9, 2024
December 9, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tool for generating blog post summaries using AI, a visualization of Greenland’s ice thickness, and a package to replicate Excel formatting in tables made in R. Let’s dive in! Creating post summaries with AI from Hugging Face Athanasia Mo Mowinckel shares a clever solution for automating blog post summaries using AI. Using the Hugging Face API and R, she demonstrates how to generate concise summaries of blog...
What’s New in R: December 2, 2024
December 2, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on advanced data scraping, a new approach to applying brand guidelines across your various data products, and a new package for creating legends in ggplot2. Let’s dive in! Creating Serverless Shiny Apps with R Shinylive In this video, James Balamuta (aka The Coatless Professor) demonstrates how to use the R package {chromote} to control a web browser for web scraping dynamic websites, specifically...
What’s New in R: November 25, 2024
November 25, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide for transitioning from SAS to R, a fun package for getting started more efficiently on your projects, and a tutorial on creating diamond plots. Let’s dive in! Converting SAS to R: A Data Scientist’s Guide Making the switch from SAS to R can be challenging, but this comprehensive guide from Ted Laderas at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center’s Data Science Lab makes the transition smoother. The guide provides...
What’s New in R: November 18, 2024
November 18, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a YouTube with all of the talks from posit::conf 2024, a curated collection of data science learning resources, and a practical guide to analyzing survey data in R. Let’s dive in! posit::conf(2024) videos One the best parts about posit::conf, the annual data science conference put on by the folks at Posit, is that the videos from it are all made available for free on YouTube. The 2024 talks were released recently...
What’s New in R: November 11, 2024
November 11, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on using Word templates with R, a video on creating reproducible examples, and a guide to code review best practices. Let’s dive in! Using Word templates with R If you’ve ever struggled with creating professional reports in R that match your organization’s branding, this tutorial is for you. Albert Rapp provides a comprehensive guide on using Word templates with R, leveraging the power of the officer...
What’s New in R: November 4, 2024
November 4, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a package for creating Sankey diagrams, a tutorial on creating beautiful tables with flextable, and a video guide on using ChatGPT for data analysis in R. Let’s dive in! {ggsankeyfier} The {ggsankeyfier} package brings the power of Sankey diagrams to the ggplot2 ecosystem. Developed by Pepijn de Vries, this package allows you to easily create complex flow diagrams that visualize the distribution of a variable...
What’s New in R: October 28, 2024
October 28, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive US datasets package, a tip for customizing Quarto output locations, and an exploration of file system operations in R. Let’s dive in! {usdatasets} The {usdatasets} package, created by Renzo Cáceres Rossi, is a treasure trove of data about the United States. It includes a wide range of datasets covering topics such as US presidents, states, cities, and even NFL teams. This package is an excellent...
What’s New in R: October 21, 2024
October 21, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring the second edition of a popular geocomputation book, an updated version of a statistical inference textbook, and a comprehensive guide on splitting data into equal-sized groups in R. Let’s dive in! Second edition of Geocomputation with R is complete When people ask where to go to learn about geospatial analysis in R, I always point them to the book Geocomputation with R . So I was excited to see that the second...
What’s New in R: October 14, 2024
October 14, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a package for tidy country-level data, insights from the UK COVID-19 dashboard team, and a guide on using iteration in R for reproducible data science. Let’s dive in! {tidycountries} This package (hat tip to R Weekly ) provides a nice collection of county-level data. Best of all, developer Dennis Irorere has set it up to return data in a tidy format, making it ready for analysis, visualization, etc. Read More →...