What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: August 5, 2024
August 5, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a package for making music, a tutorial on making a custom Word template to work with Quarto, and a package that gives you custom shapes you can use in ggplot. Let’s dive in! {gm} package If the only thing that has stopped you from learning is the inability to write music with it, you no longer have an excuse. The {gm} package lets you write sheet music and play it from your computer with just a few lines of code....
What’s New in R: July 29, 2024
July 29, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring the rebirth of R primers, a package for making flowcharts, and a package to use SAS procedures in R. Let’s dive in! R Primers Six years ago, the company now known as Posit (then known as RStudio) created a set of primers for people learning R. They’ve since been taken down, but Andrew Heiss has re-created them. These are a great way to learn the basic of data wrangling, visualization, and more. Read More →...
What’s New in R: July 22, 2024
July 22, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a new code editor, a timeline of R’s history, and an attempt to model crochet patterns with ggplot. Let’s dive in! Maker of RStudio launches new R and Python IDE There’s a new code editor in town. Posit, the company that makes RStudio Desktop, widely used for editing R code, has released a beta of a new integrated development environment (aka IDE) called Positron. I’ve checked it out and it is definitely a more...
What’s New in R: July 15, 2024
July 15, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a new package for adding color to your plot titles, notes from a package review, and an update to a package with nearly 3,000 palettes. Let’s dive in! Coloured text in {ggplot2}: {ggtext} vs {marquee} Up until recently, if you’ve wanted to add color in your ggplot plot titles, the only package you could use was {ggtext}. Now, there is a new package called {marquee} that does similar things ( read about it on the...
What’s New in R: July 8, 2024
July 8, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial to make a solar eclipse, a package to make paint-by-number drawings, and a cheatsheet to help you remember best practices in R. Let’s dive in! Simple Solar Eclipse in R Has it ever occurred to you to make a solar eclipse in ggplot? Well, ok, me neither, but the fact that you can is really cool. Check out this tutorial from Esther Weidauer to learn more! Read More → {paintr} package I’m really...
What’s New in R: July 1, 2024
July 1, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on combining a map and bar chart, a case study of scraping data, and an overview of RStudio shortcuts and settings. Let’s dive in! Choropleth Map with Bar Chart in R This tutorial on the R Graph Gallery website shows two things: 1) how to make a choropleth map with {ggplot2}, 2) how to combine a map and a bar chart using the {patchwork} package. If you ever need to do either (or both) of these things,...
What’s New in R: June 24, 2024
June 24, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an opinionated view on the purpose of Quarto documents, an announcement of a new book, and an interview highlighting the role of R in preserving river health. Let’s dive in! Don’t use Quarto documents to clean or analyze data The title of this article is definitely provocative! In the article, Diego Catalán Molina argues that using Quarto documents for exploratory data analysis is a bad idea. Even if you don’t...
What’s New in R: June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an article on the value of using R, a tutorial on writing your own functions, and a blog post showing how to get R to send texts on your behalf. Let’s dive in! How (and Why) I came to Use R for Data Analysis and Evaluation This article, written by Alberto Espinoza, talks about the value of using R in the context of evaluation . But it’s a useful read, even if you work in a very different industry. Alberto talks...
What’s New in R: June 10, 2024
June 10, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of households with many cars, advice on naming files, and a package to make flow charts. Let’s dive in! Where are the 4+-car households? In my years of teaching R, I’ve found that one of the most useful ways to help people learn R is to read tutorials that go from start to finish on an analysis. This blog post by Harald Kliems does just that, demonstrating how you could get and analyze data from the...