What’s New in R: October 13, 2026

October 13, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a package that writes alt text for your ggplot2 charts automatically, a package for downloading administrative boundaries for any country, and a gorgeous scrollytelling map of nearly 6,000 castles made with Quarto. Let's dive in!ggalttext The {ggalttext} package by Joseph Barbier automatically generates alternative text for {ggplot2} charts, which is a big help for accessibility since alt text is one of those things...

What’s New in R: October 5, 2026

October 5, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a new approach to building package documentation sites with Quarto, a free guide to building AI agents you can actually trust, and a package that writes your gt tables straight into Excel workbooks. Let's dive in!A new take on documentation sites for R packages Bjarke Hautop Kristensen was frustrated that {pkgdown}, the standard tool for building R package websites, has only limited support for Quarto (callout...

What’s New in R: September 28, 2026

September 28, 2026

Welcome to this week's edition of What's New in R! This week, we're featuring a fully open course on quantitative methods that starts with data instead of formulas, an R-Ladies Rome workshop on typesetting with Typst and Quarto, and a package that gives ggplot2 more accessible defaults out of the box. Let's dive in!Quantitative Methods for International Politics Andrew Heiss has posted the full site for his Fall 2026 course on quantitative methods at Georgetown University in Qatar, and like...