What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What's New in R: April 1, 2024
April 1, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring tips to make interactive data viz without Shiny, recordings of talks from one of the biggest R events of the years, and some great materials on Quarto. Let’s dive in! Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny) When people think interactive data viz in R, they often think Shiny. While Shiny can be great in certain cases, it’s not always necessary to make your charts interactive. In...
What's New in R: March 25, 2024
March 25, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a book that collects R books (so meta), a set of workshop materials on making your own R package, and a presentation of making. Your code more beautiful. Let’s dive in! Big Book of R at 400 Read More → R package workshop There are many benefits to making your own R package. But making a package is complicated. There are some great resources out there: the R Packages book by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan is...
What's New in R: March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making beautiful maps to print, a book on the fundamentals of telling stories with data, and examples of how to automate data quality checks. Let’s dive in! Making Circular Maps in ggplot I love when people use R to make things in real life. That’s exactly what Meghan Harris did last year, when she created a map for her best friend’s wedding. In this blog post, she goes step-by-step through the...
What's New in R: March 11, 2024
March 11, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a new version of Quarto, a new-to-me package for geocoding, and a package to ensure your plots are accessible to all. Let’s dive in! Quarto 1.4 Quarto 1.4 is out. The headline new features are dashboards and PDFs made with the new typst format. If you’ve used the {flexdashboard} package to make dashboards in R Markdown, you’ve probably been waiting for the equivalent functionality in Quarto. It’s now here! And if...
What's New in R: March 4, 2024
March 4, 2024
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring posts on the complete() function from the {tidyr} package, new features in the table-making {gt} package, and a tutorial on adding logos to images. Let’s dive in! You tidyr::complete() me Imagine you’ve got a dataset that looks like this: As a human being (you are human, correct?), you can look at this and know that this means the dog got 0 walks on Thursday and the cat got 0 walks on Wednesday. But computers are...
What's New in R: February 26, 2024
February 26, 2024
In the latest issue of What’s New in R, see some more new resources! Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R . Creating Population Pyramid Plots in R with ggplot2 Ever wondered how to make population pyramids in R? In this blog post, Steven P. Sanderson shows you how! It might seem tricky at first to make a population pyramid, but once you see how it works, you’ll be making your own in no time! The Top Programming Languages 2023 Every year, IEEE Spectrum puts out a report...
What's New in R: February 20, 2024
February 20, 2024
In the latest issue of What’s New in R, see some more new resources! Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R . Stacked line chart with inline labels One of the best parts of making data viz in R is that you can learn from others’ code. The website R Graph Gallery has a ton of great examples of charts made in R. One I came across recently is this stacked line chart of aggregated household wealth in countries around the world. The tutorial for this chart , originally made by...
What's New in R: February 12, 2024
February 12, 2024
The latest issue of What’s New in R is out with some more new resources! Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R . Workshops for Ukraine For the past couple years, Dariia Mykhailyshyna has been running a set of data-focused workshops to support Ukraine as it struggles with the Russian invasion. They have hosted workshops on a wide range of R topics and you can get access to recordings of past sessions and sign up to attend future workshops. Re-constructing Google Forms...
What's New in R: February 5, 2024
February 5, 2024
In the latest issue of What’s New in R, see some more new resources! Want to get this in your inbox? Sign up for What's New in R . Efficiency and Consistency: Automate Subset Graphics with {ggplot2} and {purrr} Cédric Scherer is a master of data viz in R . In this article he explains how you can use the {ggplot2} and {purrr} packages to make multiple similar plots at the same time ( it’s a technique I’ve used a lot myself ). R for Data Science, Second Edition The second edition of R for Data...