What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: August 25, 2025
August 25, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide to porting an RStudio theme to Positron, a quick tour of Posit’s next-generation IDE, and a tutorial on downloading files from the Open Science Framework. Let’s dive in!Porting my favorite RStudio color theme to Positron Isabella Velásquez walks through how she brought her favorite RStudio color theme into Positron. She explains how Positron themes work, what needs to be translated from RStudio’s theming,...
What’s New in R: August 18, 2025
August 18, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a historical look at the tidyverse, a blog post on using AI to help write R code, and a guide on automating the process of creating Quarto syntax from R scripts. Let’s dive in!The History of the Tidyverse Hadley Wickham provides a fascinating retrospective on the development and evolution of the tidyverse over the past 25 years. This comprehensive history covers the key milestones and innovations that have shaped...
What’s New in R: August 11, 2025
August 11, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a roundup of Posit’s AI packages, a blog post on using the {targets} package, and an introduction to Positron Assistant. Let’s dive in!Posit Generative AI Solutions Posit has created a ton of packages for working with AI. It’s hard keeping track of them! This resource from Isabella Velasquez rounds them up. Read More →Data Pipelines with {targets} Raymond Hunter lays out a problem that many R users have...
What’s New in R: August 4, 2025
August 4, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring tips for quickly opening Positron projects on macOS, a look at a customized version of RStudio with AI capabilities, and a talk on creating interactive data visualizations in R. Let’s dive in!How to open a folder as a Positron project with macOS Quick Actions This is very niche, but if you use Positron and want to quickly open up projects, Andrew Heiss offers some great tips. I use Raycast and use this approach...
What’s New in R: July 28, 2025
July 28, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of ggplot2’s popularity, a workshop on handling uncertainty in your data, and a quick video on using the {datapasta} package. Let’s dive in!The ggplot2 Package Popularity Index One of the great things about ggplot is that there are so many extension packages that give you new ways to visualize your data. In a fascinating analysis by Erik Gahner Larsen, the popularity of the ggplot extension packages is...
What’s New in R: July 21, 2025
July 21, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a quick tip on rearranging Google Sheets tabs with R, a comprehensive guide to creating Quarto websites, and a guide to opening files from R. Let’s dive in!How to Rearrange Tabs in Google Sheets with R On Bluesky, Pierrette Lo wrote some code to rearrange tabs in a Google Sheet. It’s the kind of thing that’s not that useful until it is. Keep this one bookmarked for later! Read More →Creating your personal website...
What’s New in R: July 14, 2025
July 14, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a visualization guide using tidycensus, a collection of the latest updates in using AI with R, and new podcast with a very prominent guest. Let’s dive in!Visualizing Census Data with tidycensus In a recent blog post, the USGS Water Data team provides a comprehensive guide on how to use the tidycensus package for visualizing U.S. Census data. This tutorial walks you through the process of acquiring and plotting...
What’s New in R: July 7, 2025
July 7, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an overview of how the {gex} package works, a collection of resources for R users, and an exploration of computer vision with LLMs in R. Let’s dive in!Dependency-light hex stickers with {gex} In this blog post, Matt Dray lays out how his package {gex} works. This package, which makes hex stickers for packages, may not be something you need to use. But the blog post walks through image manipulation in R using the...
What’s New in R: June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring ggplot becoming an adult, a critique of vibe coding in scientific research, and updates to a tool for automatically formatting your R code. Let’s dive in!ggplot turns 18 The famous package for data viz, {ggplot2}, recently turned 18. It’s hard to overstate the impact it has had. If you want to know more about its impact, this QZ article from a few years ago is a great place to start. Read More →Vibe coding with AI...