What’s New in R: June 23, 2025

June 23, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring exciting developments in AI for R users, a deep dive into LA County’s population trends, and a guide to using renv in R. Let’s dive in! Lots Happening in the LLM/R Space In this LinkedIn post, Veerle Van Leemput shares insights into the latest developments in AI for R users. It’s got a roundup of some packages to help you use large language models in your work. Read More → Los Angeles County Population In this...

What’s New in R: June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a workshop recording on creating impactful visualizations, a guide to mapping large numbers of Census tracts, and a tutorial on the new use() function in R. Let’s dive in! More than pretty graphs: Tips, tricks and resources to elevate your dataviz In this workshop from last November, Cara Thompson explores how to create visualizations that are not just aesthetically pleasing but also impactful and informative....

What’s New in R: June 9, 2025

June 9, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a guide on translating Quartofiles, an exploration of Quarto for book creation, and a tutorial on creating animated population pyramids. Let’s dive in! Translating Quarto (and other markdown files) into any language In this insightful post by Frank Aragona, you’ll learn how to translate Markdown files using R. In this walkthrough, Aragona shows how he used R to translate Quarto files from English to Spanish...