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What’s New in R: June 2, 2025
June 2, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring an overview of the Positron code editor, a comprehensive directory of R packages, and a video on creating interactive plots. Let’s dive in! Positron IDE doing Data Analysis with R (Public Beta) In this informative YouTube video, James Balamuta gives an overview of the Positron editor. This editor, designed by the folks at Posit and released publicly last summer, has a lot of great features. If you’re considering...

What’s New in R: May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a workshop on creating websites with Quarto, a video tutorial on making dot density maps, and a package for more attractive visualizations of overlapping points. Let’s dive in! Quarto website video series The Quarto team has a comprehensive workshop on building websites using Quarto. This detailed guide walks you through the process of setting up and customizing your own website, making it accessible even for...

What’s New in R: May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R ! This week, we’re featuring a guide on using LLMs to summarize work, a dashboard for WHO data, and a tutorial on storytelling with R and Quarto. Let’s dive in! Remembering what I did this week with LLMs Garrick Aden-Buie explores the use of large language models (LLMs) to create concise work summaries. In his blog post, he shares how he uses several R packages to create summaries of what he accomplished during the previous week. Read More →...