R Weekly 2021-W17 Wikidata, knitr, Top 40 New CRAN packages

This week’s release was curated by Batool Almarzouq, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

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March 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages

New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text

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New Packages

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Preferably Light and Dark Themes

Plot Scaled 'ggplot' Representations of Sports Playing Surfaces

  • {tidywikidatar} 0.2.0: Query ‘Wikidata’ with ease, get tidy data frames in response, and cache data in a local ‘SQLite’ database.

Updated Packages

Download and Merge Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data from the PanglaoDB Database

  • {cronologia} 0.2.0: Create an HTML Vertical Timeline from a Data Frame in ‘rmarkdown’ and ‘shiny’

Create an HTML Vertical Timeline from a Data Frame in 'rmarkdown' and 'shiny'

  • {drake} 7.13.2: A Pipeline Toolkit for Reproducible Computation at Scale

A Pipeline Toolkit for Reproducible Computation at Scale

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