What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
What’s New in R: May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide on using LLMs to summarize work, a dashboard for WHO data, and a tutorial on storytelling with R and Quarto. Let’s dive in!Remembering what I did this week with LLMs Garrick Aden-Buie explores the use of large language models (LLMs) to create concise work summaries. In his blog post, he shares how he uses several R packages to create summaries of what he accomplished during the previous week. Read More...
What’s New in R: May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide on getting your Quarto projects out into the world with GitHub Pages, a personal journey into R programming, and a new package for working with colors. Let’s dive in!Sketchy Waffle Charts in R Nicola Rennie has written an intriguing blog post about creating sketchy waffle charts in R. This creative visualization approach adds a hand-drawn aesthetic to traditional waffle charts, making them both engaging and...
What’s New in R: May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide on getting your Quarto projects out into the world with GitHub Pages, a personal journey into R programming, and a new package for working with colors. Let’s dive in!Dissemination using Quarto and Github Pages James Bartlett has created a comprehensive guide on how to disseminate Quarto projects using GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages is a great (and free!) way to share your Quarto websites, books, and more online....
What’s New in R: April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new R package for accessing elevation data, an overview of what’s new in R 4.5, and a guide to replicating Financial Times-style data visualizations. Let’s dive in!Introducing {elevationus}: An R Package to Retrieve Elevation Data for U.S. Geographies Joey Marshall has released a new R package designed to make retrieving elevation data a breeze. Whether you’re working with geographic data or need elevation details...
What’s New in R: April 21, 2025
April 21, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a TidyTuesday analysis on racial disparities in reproductive research, a tutorial on using ggplot2 to visualize relationship between life expectancy and health spending, and insights on R packages. Let’s dive in!TidyTuesday: Racial disparities in reproductive research In this insightful post, Jess Graves explores a TidyTuesday dataset, providing a detailed analysis and visualization. This resource is perfect for...
What’s New in R: April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a data hub for dengue research, a guide to advanced data skills, and a resource for spatial data in R. Let’s dive in!Dengue Data Hub The Dengue Data Hub is a comprehensive resource for researchers focusing on dengue fever. The website, made by Thiyanga S. Talagala, has information on the {denguedatahub} package, which has data from many locations around the world, and provides an interactive data explorer for...
What’s New in R: April 7, 2025
April 7, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a YouTube tutorial on the {purrr} package, a list of ten great R functions, and a guide on fixing awkward backgrounds in ggplot. Let’s dive in!Hello Kitty: Intro to {purrr} | TidyX Episode 184 In Episode 184 of TidyX, hosts Ellis Hughes and Patrick Ward delve into the {purrr} package, focusing on the use of map functions to manipulate lists. They explain the importance of using map functions when dealing with data...
What’s New in R: March 31, 2025
March 31, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a package for calculating various measures of deprivation, a guide to creating maps with the American Community Survey, and a tutorial on crafting beautiful stack gradients in R. Let’s dive in!{deprivateR} Pfizer has a package called deprivateR, designed to access and calculate various measures of socioeconomic deprivation, “including the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), Neighborhood Deprivation Index (NDI), and the...
What’s New in R: March 24, 2025
March 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a deep dive into regular expressions, a guide to working with column names in R, and a clever solution for rotating plots. Let’s dive in!Baby got backreferences Danielle Navarro has written an excellent tutorial on backreferences in regular expressions, a powerful but often misunderstood feature. Through clear examples and step-by-step explanations, she demonstrates how backreferences can be used to match repeated...
