What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What's New in R: June 3, 2024
June 3, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an introductory workshop on R, a tutorial on customizing ggplot legends, and a walkthrough to help you get a Quarto-based website set up and hosted online. Let’s dive in! Introduction to R and RStudio Part 1 The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has many R users. The NHS-R Community recently hosted an online intro to R workshop, which they’ve posted online. This looks like a great resource for those just...
What's New in R: May 28, 2024
May 28, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring two tutorials on manipulating images with the {magick} package and a package that helps you make better line charts. Let’s dive in! Convert iPhone Photos to PNG in 12 Lines of R Code! File this under things you might never have considered using R for but are actually quite useful: In this YouTube video, Lee Durbin shows how to use R to convert photos from the iPhone-specific .HEIC format to the more common .PNG...
What’s New in R: May 20, 2024
May 20, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an in-progress update to Modern Data Science with R, a tutorial on using flags for facetted plots, and a deep dive into avoiding overplotting. Let’s dive in! Modern Data Science with R This book, written by Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan, and Nicholas J. Horton, bills itself as “a comprehensive data science textbook for undergraduates that incorporates statistical and computational thinking to solve...
What’s New in R: May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a Quarto extension to show when your document was most recently updated, animations of common functions, and a video to show you how to efficiently import hundreds of Excel files to R. Let’s dive in! Add last rendered or modified time to Quarto Say you’re working on an analysis in a Quarto document and you want to add a timestamp to show when it was last updated. How would you do this? You could write some code,...
What’s New in R: May 6, 2024
May 6, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring not one, not two, but three data viz guides. Let’s dive in! UK Royal Statistical Society best practices for data visualization guide Released in July 2023, the UK Royal Statistical Society guide, Best Practices for Data Visualization, is a great resource to have on hand. Written by Andreas Krause, Nicola Rennie, and Brian Tarran, the guide has general guidance as well as code samples to help you make better data...
What’s New in R: April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making a beautiful snow cover map, a walkthrough of approaches to making custom arrows in ggplot, and some food for thought on making your data analysis even more reproducible than it probably is today. Let’s dive in! Origin and development of a Snowflake Map We may be moving out of snow season, but if you’re down to explore a map showing snow cover in the United States, this blog post is for you!...
What’s New in R: April 22, 2024
April 22, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on wrapping text labels, a comprehensive look at joins, and an analysis of toast (yes, really). Let’s dive in! How to wrap long strip labels in facet_wrap If you’ve ever made a facetted plot in ggplot and found that the title of each plot (fancy name: strip text) is too long and gets cut off, this blog post from the website Data Viz with Python and R is for you! It shows how to use the labeller...
What’s New in R: April 15, 2024
April 15, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a video on how a professional baseball team uses R, a package to convert form Google Docs to Quarto, and an analysis that shows R’s continued popularity. Let’s dive in! How Major League Teams use R to Analyze Baseball Data If you’ve ever wanted to get a peek behind the curtain and see how an organization uses R, this is a great video! Keith Woolner, principal data scientist for the Cleveland Guardians, shows how...
What's New in R: April 8, 2024
April 8, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide to integrating Tableau and Quarto, an interview with Camila Saez, and tips on making attractive PDFs from Quarto. Let’s dive in! R to Tableau, then show it in Quarto One of the benefits of Quarto is that it can work with many different tools. If you’ve ever wanted to embed a Tableau dashboard into your Quarto, you can! This tutorial by Gregers Kjerulf Dubrow shows how he uses R to source and clean data,...