What's New in R
A weekly roundup of new resources in the world of R.
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...
What’s New in R: March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on creating population pyramids, a new package for air pollution analysis, and an innovative exploration of social media data using AI and the tidyverse. Let’s dive in!Plotting Age Pyramids with ggplot Jose M. Sallan provides a detailed tutorial on how to create population pyramids using ggplot2. Population pyramids (which I’ve also written about here and here) are essential tools for demographic...
What’s New in R: March 10, 2025
March 10, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring the winners of the Posit Closeread prize, a fantastic tutorial on creating histogram legends in ggplot2, and a package for analyzing wildfire exposure data. Let’s dive in!Winners of the Closeread Prize – Data-Driven Scrollytelling with Quarto Posit has announced the winners of their Closeread Prize, which challenged developers to create scrollytelling projects (you’ve probably seen them in places like the New York...
What’s New in R: March 3, 2025
March 3, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new code formatter from the Tidyverse team, an analysis of TSA screening data with epidemiological weeks, and a tutorial on building RAG-based AI prototypes in R. Let’s dive in!Air: An Extremely Fast R Formatter The tidyverse team, led by Davis Vaughan and Lionel Henry, has announced Air, a new R code formatter that promises to be incredibly fast. Air is designed to automatically format R code consistently while...
What’s New in R: February 24, 2025
February 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring an analysis of homelessness and rent in Canada, tips for Quarto presentations, and techniques for optimizing spaghetti plots. Let’s dive in!Analyzing Homelessness and Rents in Canadian Cities Jens von Bergmann and Nathan Lauster have created an in-depth analysis exploring the relationship between homelessness and rental markets across Canadian cities. Using R for both data analysis and visualization, the post...
What’s New in R: February 18, 2025
February 18, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a new package for running SAS code alongside R, an inspiring interview with Hadley Wickham, and a tutorial on creating flowcharts in R. Let’s dive in!{sasquatch}: Create Anthropomorphic Data Visualizations Ryan Zomorrodi has developed a new package that lets you run R code alongside SAS code. You can even combine them when creating Quarto documents. Read More →Focus and feedback in the tidyverse In this...
What’s New in R: February 10, 2025
February 10, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a guide to sign language research in R, a video showing how to make dumbbell plots, and a package for analyzing crime-related datasets. Let’s dive in!R for Sign Language Research Carl Börstell has created an excellent resource for researchers working with sign language data in R. This comprehensive guide covers everything from data wrangling to visualization specifically tailored for sign language research. The...