What’s New in R: September 16, 2024

September 16, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on making musical chords in R, a worthy collection of short R commands and tricks, and a tutorial on adding hillshade effects to your maps. Let’s dive in! Listening to complex tones using sine waves and toneR Did you know R could create musical chords? It can! In this post, Matt Crump uses the {toneR} package to make chords. Pretty cool! Read More → A worthy collection of short R commands and tricks...

What’s New in R: September 9, 2024

September 9, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring impressions of Positron, a package for translating text, and a video on using GitHub Actions to publish a Quarto project automatically. Let’s dive in! Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science You may have heard about the new IDE (integrated development environment) for editing R code called Positron . Made by the folks at Posit, it’s a new alternative to RStudio. In this blog post, Athanasia Mo Mowinckel talks...

What’s New in R: September 3, 2024

September 3, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring the second edition of a ggplot book, a tutorial on making multi-column tables, and a warning about AI slop websites offering R advice. Let’s dive in! R Graphics Cookbook, 2nd edition The 2nd edition of this book by Winston Chang was released earlier this year. It’s got recipes that show you how to make a wide variety of charts in ggplot. It’s a great reference. Read More → Transform data for easier multi-column...