What’s New in R: January 21, 2025

January 21, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a guide to qualitative data analysis software, making 'comet plots', and a new package for elegant data manipulation. Let’s dive in! Qualitative software In this comprehensive guide, Nathan Jeffery provides a thoughtful comparison of different software options for qualitative data analysis, exploring both commercial solutions like NVivo and ATLAS.ti, as well as free open-source alternatives, some of which work in...

What’s New in R: January 13, 2025

January 13, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on recreating Apple Music Wrapped in R, a fun maze generation package, and a guide to using meta shortcode variables in Quarto. Let’s dive in! Create Your Own Apple Music Wrapped with R While Spotify users get their yearly Wrapped experience, Apple Music users are left wanting. Andrew Heiss shows us how to create our own “Wrapped” experience using R. He walks through the process of accessing Apple...

What’s New in R: January 6, 2025

January 6, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of ​What’s New in R ​! This week, we’re featuring a tutorial on creating inset maps with ggplot2, a tutorial for recreating some interesting graphs used in baseball analysis, and a guide to using Typst with Quarto. Let’s dive in! Creating Inset Maps with ggplot2 Dominic Royé demonstrates how to create professional-looking inset maps using ggplot2. This detailed tutorial walks through the process of combining multiple maps into a single visualization, with one...