What’s New in R: December 9, 2024

December 9, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a tool for generating blog post summaries using AI, a visualization of Greenland’s ice thickness, and a package to replicate Excel formatting in tables made in R. Let’s dive in! Creating post summaries with AI from Hugging Face Athanasia Mo Mowinckel shares a clever solution for automating blog post summaries using AI. Using the Hugging Face API and R, she demonstrates how to generate concise summaries of blog...

What’s New in R: December 2, 2024

December 2, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on advanced data scraping, a new approach to applying brand guidelines across your various data products, and a new package for creating legends in ggplot2. Let’s dive in! Creating Serverless Shiny Apps with R Shinylive In this video, James Balamuta (aka The Coatless Professor) demonstrates how to use the R package {chromote} to control a web browser for web scraping dynamic websites, specifically...

What’s New in R: November 25, 2024

November 25, 2024

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a guide for transitioning from SAS to R, a fun package for getting started more efficiently on your projects, and a tutorial on creating diamond plots. Let’s dive in! Converting SAS to R: A Data Scientist’s Guide Making the switch from SAS to R can be challenging, but this comprehensive guide from Ted Laderas at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center’s Data Science Lab makes the transition smoother. The guide provides...