What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: October 7, 2024
October 7, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a utility package for enhancing {gt} tables, a tutorial on extracting metadata from filenames, and an update to the popular {patchwork} package for combining plots. Let’s dive in! {gtUtils} This new package by Andrew Weatherman provides a set of additional themes and functions for the {gt} package. With it, you can make your tables look like those made by the English Premier League , tweak formatting using...
What’s New in R: September 30, 2024
September 30, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a round-up of data viz packages, a collection of time series datasets, and a tutorial on reading web-based files directly into R. Let’s dive in! The best R packages for data visualization R is well known for being an amazing tool for data viz. The sheer number of data viz packages is one reason why. This is an opinionated round-up of some of the top packages for data viz in R. No matter whether you agree or...
What’s New in R: September 23, 2024
September 23, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a book on data viz in R, a video on using the {renv} package for reproducible environments, and an in-depth tutorial on the theme() function. Let’s dive in! Modern Data Visualization with R This book, released earlier this year, is a great introduction to making data viz in R. It’s also a great reference, with chapters showing how to make different types of charts, maps, and more. Read More → December 2023...
What’s New in R: September 16, 2024
September 16, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making musical chords in R, a worthy collection of short R commands and tricks, and a tutorial on adding hillshade effects to your maps. Let’s dive in! Listening to complex tones using sine waves and toneR Did you know R could create musical chords? It can! In this post, Matt Crump uses the {toneR} package to make chords. Pretty cool! Read More → A worthy collection of short R commands and tricks...
What’s New in R: September 9, 2024
September 9, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring impressions of Positron, a package for translating text, and a video on using GitHub Actions to publish a Quarto project automatically. Let’s dive in! Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science You may have heard about the new IDE (integrated development environment) for editing R code called Positron . Made by the folks at Posit, it’s a new alternative to RStudio. In this blog post, Athanasia Mo Mowinckel talks...
What’s New in R: September 3, 2024
September 3, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring the second edition of a ggplot book, a tutorial on making multi-column tables, and a warning about AI slop websites offering R advice. Let’s dive in! R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition The 2nd edition of this book by Winston Chang was released earlier this year. It’s got recipes that show you how to make a wide variety of charts in ggplot. It’s a great reference. Read More → Transform data for easier multi-column...
What’s New in R: August 26, 2024
August 26, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a website that collects all Quarto extensions, a package that helps you to convert between output formats, and a tutorial on how to make a map that shows traffic noise. Let’s dive in! Quarto extensions Quarto extensions are a way of adding functionality to the base set of tools that exists in Quarto. For example, I used the spotlight extension to be able to highlight sections of my slides ( like this ) that I...
What’s New in R: August 19, 2024
August 19, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a video on the lifecycle stages of functions, a tutorial on using AI in RStudio, and a package to add some pizazz to your R output. Let’s dive in! What does deprecated mean? Package lifecycle and the process of deprecation Sometimes you’ll read the documentation of a function and see that it has been deprecated. What exactly does this mean? This video walks through what deprecation means. And, if you’re...
What’s New in R: August 12, 2024
August 12, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring tips for building your first R package, a package to help you go from ggplot to Excel, and a package to help you keep track of when your packages can be updated. Let’s dive in! 5 Tips For Building Your First R Package Making your own R package is not nearly as complicated as many people think it is. In this video, Lee Durbin gives you five good tips to help you get started with making your first package. Watch →...