What’s New in R: January 27, 2025

January 27, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a comprehensive YouTube series on R programming, a guide to exploratory data analysis, and a package for working with academic calendars. Let’s dive in! Cascadia R Conf 2024 Talk Recordings Cascadia R Conf took place last August. The videos were recorded and released not too long after. There are some great talks here (I was there so I know!). Read More → A Practical Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis in R Cosima...

What’s New in R: January 21, 2025

January 21, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a guide to qualitative data analysis software, making 'comet plots', and a new package for elegant data manipulation. Let’s dive in! Qualitative software In this comprehensive guide, Nathan Jeffery provides a thoughtful comparison of different software options for qualitative data analysis, exploring both commercial solutions like NVivo and ATLAS.ti, as well as free open-source alternatives, some of which work in...

What’s New in R: January 13, 2025

January 13, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on recreating Apple Music Wrapped in R, a fun maze generation package, and a guide to using meta shortcode variables in Quarto. Let’s dive in! Create Your Own Apple Music Wrapped with R While Spotify users get their yearly Wrapped experience, Apple Music users are left wanting. Andrew Heiss shows us how to create our own “Wrapped” experience using R. He walks through the process of accessing Apple...