What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: November 24, 2025
November 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a deep dive into {ggplot2}’s geoms and stats, an announcement of a new book on spatial data visualization, and a comprehensive demo of AI features in Positron. Let’s dive in!Exploring {ggplot2}’s Geoms and Stats Mattan Ben-Shachar provides a thorough exploration of the relationship between geoms and stats in {ggplot2}, going well beyond the basics of stat = "identity" in bar charts. The post systematically...
What’s New in R: November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a deep dive into mapping Antarctica with R, an analysis of housing affordability in Canada, and a talk on data visualization principles from a New York Times graphics editor. Let’s dive in!Mapping Antarctica Diego Hernangómez tackles the technical challenges of creating maps that cross the International Date Line and use polar projections in this detailed tutorial. The post walks through fixing geometric artifacts...
What’s New in R: November 10, 2025
November 10, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a thoughtful reflection on vibe coding an R package, a new tool for discovering Quarto extensions, and a demonstration of Positron’s Data Explorer. Let’s dive in!I Vibe Coded an R Package Jonathan Carroll shares a fascinating reflection on using AI tools to build an R package for visualizing similar Japanese kanji characters. While you may have heard of “vibe coding” as a way to code without traditional...
What’s New in R: November 3, 2025
November 3, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tool for voice-controlled {ggplot2} creation, a beautiful TidyTuesday visualization of food insecurity trends, and a comprehensive guide to cleaning biodiversity data. Let’s dive in!Voice control {ggplot2} with {ggbot2} Stephen Turner demonstrates {ggbot2}, a remarkable new tool that allows you to create and customize {ggplot2} visualizations using only your voice. By launching a Shiny app with your data, you...
What’s New in R: October 27, 2025
October 27, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a package for creating synthetic data to protect privacy when using AI, a comprehensive guide to {ggplot2} theme customization, and a practical example of data wrangling and mapping. Let’s dive in!{FakeDataR} The {FakeDataR} package, developed by Zobaer Ahmed, addresses a critical privacy concern when working with AI tools: how to get help without exposing sensitive data. This package creates synthetic copies of...
What’s New in R: October 20, 2025
October 20, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive book on creating beautiful Quarto slides, a practical analysis of car ownership data, and a tutorial on cleaning messy data with fuzzy matching. Let’s dive in!Slidecrafting Emil Hvitfeldt’s comprehensive book on creating beautiful slides with reveal.js in Quarto offers a wealth of techniques to help your presentations stand out from the default Quarto templates. The book covers everything from...
What’s New in R: October 13, 2025
October 13, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide to removing or hiding legends in {ggplot2}, Posit’s AI newsletter update, and a tutorial on creating time-aware isochrones for accessibility mapping. Let’s dive in!Remove or Hide Legends in ggplot2 – Theme, Guides, Scales This practical tutorial demonstrates how to remove or hide legends in {ggplot2} plots, covering both complete legend removal and selective legend management for plots with multiple...
What’s New in R: October 6, 2025
October 6, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring the major ggplot2 4.0.0 release, a package for accessing professional volleyball data, and a tutorial on data validation techniques. Let’s dive in!ggplot2 4.0.0 The highly anticipated {ggplot2} 4.0.0 has been released with significant changes under the hood. This major version update includes a ton of internal improvements and modernizations that should make {ggplot2} faster and more consistent. While many of the...
What’s New in R: September 29, 2025
September 29, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a migration guide from RStudio to Positron, a tutorial on using R for data exploration and story development, and a package for accessing South Korean datasets. Let’s dive in!Migrating from RStudio to Positron With Positron now out of beta and publicly available, many R users are considering making the switch from RStudio. This comprehensive migration guide from Posit walks through the key differences between the...
