What’s New in R: July 14, 2025

July 14, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a visualization guide using tidycensus, a collection of the latest updates in using AI with R, and new podcast with a very prominent guest. Let’s dive in! Visualizing Census Data with tidycensus In a recent blog post, the USGS Water Data team provides a comprehensive guide on how to use the tidycensus package for visualizing U.S. Census data. This tutorial walks you through the process of acquiring and plotting...

What’s New in R: July 7, 2025

July 7, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring an overview of how the {gex} package works, a collection of resources for R users, and an exploration of computer vision with LLMs in R. Let’s dive in! Dependency-light hex stickers with {gex} In this blog post, Matt Dray lays out how his package {gex} works. This package, which makes hex stickers for packages, may not be something you need to use. But the blog post walks through image manipulation in R using the...

What’s New in R: June 30, 2025

June 30, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring ggplot becoming an adult, a critique of vibe coding in scientific research, and updates to a tool for automatically formatting your R code. Let’s dive in! ggplot turns 18 The famous package for data viz, {ggplot2}, recently turned 18. It’s hard to overstate the impact it has had. If you want to know more about its impact, this QZ article from a few years ago is a great place to start . Read More → Vibe coding...