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...

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...