What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: September 22, 2025
September 22, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’ve got three videos featuring a tutorial on extracting data from PDFs using AI, a recreation of a New York Times chart, and an overview of the new Positron IDE. Let’s dive in!How to Turn Messy PDFs into Clean Data Frames with R and Elmer Albert Rapp demonstrates how to use the {ellmer} package to leverage AI models for extracting data from messy PDF files. If you’ve ever struggled with getting clean data out of PDFs, you know...
What’s New in R: September 15, 2025
September 15, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive guide to working with colors in R, a keynote on using AI to augment data workflows, and a package for creating diagrams with ggplot2. Let’s dive in!Working with colours in R Nicola Rennie provides a comprehensive guide to working with colors in R, covering everything from basic color specification methods like hex values and RGB to more advanced topics. The post explores various approaches to...
What’s New in R: September 8, 2025
September 8, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a package for creating messy teaching datasets, a tool for integrating SAS with R, and an AI assistant for exploratory data analysis. Let’s dive in!Creating Messy Datasets for Teaching Purposes with {truffle} The {truffle} package, developed by Ian Hussey, addresses a common challenge for R instructors: creating realistic messy datasets for teaching. This package generates realistic datasets with predetermined...
What’s New in R: September 2, 2025
September 2, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a practical guide to the {fs} package for file management, a reusable Quarto template from the USGS Water Data team, and a tutorial on using R to explore data related to long COVID. Let’s dive in!File Management With The {fs} Package Albert Rapp shows how the {fs} package streamlines file and folder operations in R. He covers common tasks like creating directories, listing and filtering paths, copying/moving...
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...
