R Weekly 2025-W11 LaTeX Typesetting in R, Create a unique documentation for your R Package

10 Mar 2025

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

Highlight

• LaTeX Typesetting in R: The ‘xdvir’ Package

• Customize your expedition: Create a unique documentation for your R Package

Insights

• CRAN-like repository for most recent releases of Techtonique’s R packages

• Adding arm64 to r2u

• Best Before Dates by Bass

Resources

• 2025-01 LaTeX Typesetting in R

• ggplot2: Going further in the tidyverse

  

• What They Forgot to Teach You About R

• 9 new books added to Big Book of R

• Wbsite for tidyplots use cases

  

New Packages

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CRAN

• {forgts} 0.0.1: Reads a spreadsheet and its formatting information to produce gt tables with the same cell and text formatting as the input file

• {Certara.DarwinReporter} 2.0.1: Data Visualization Utilities for ‘pyDarwin’ Machine Learning Pharmacometric Model Development

• {xlr} 1.0.3: Create Table Summaries and Export Neat Tables to ‘Excel’

• {visae} 0.2.1: Visualization of Adverse Events

• {shinyTimer} 0.1.0: Customizable Timer for ‘shiny’ Applications

• {uisapi} 0.1.0: Access the UNESCO Institute for Statistics API

• {RplotterPkg} 0.1.3: R Plotting Functions Using ‘ggplot2’

• {revise} 0.1.0: Dynamic Revision Letters for ‘Rmarkdown’ Manuscripts

• {connected} 1.1: Visualize and Improve Connectedness of Factors in Tables

• {mixtree} 0.0.1: A Statistical Framework for Comparing Sets of Trees

• {MHQoL} 0.12.0: Mental Health Quality of Life Toolkit

• {rconf} 0.1.2: Minimal and Lightweight Configuration Tool

• {mbX} 0.1.3: A Comprehensive Microbiome Data Processing Pipeline

• {IndexNumberTools} 1.1: Working with Index Numbers

• {sakura} 0.1.0: Extension to R Serialization

• {rmsMD} 0.1.2: Output Results from ‘rms’ Models for Medical Journals

• {maths.genealogy} 0.1.2: Mathematics PhD Genealogy Data and Plotting

• {Certara.ModelResults} 3.0.1: Generate Diagnostics for Pharmacometric Models Using ‘shiny’

Updated Packages

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• RcppSimdJson 0.1.13 on CRAN: Compiler Nag, New Upsteam

• RcppDate 0.0.5: Address Minor Compiler Nag

• {mrbin} 1.9.0: Metabolomics Data Analysis Functions - diffify

• {tidyllm} 0.3.2: Tidy Integration of Large Language Models - diffify

• {tidyplots} 0.2.2: Tidy Plots for Scientific Papers - diffify

• {gimap} 1.0.3: Calculate Genetic Interactions for Paired CRISPR Targets - diffify

• {pals} 1.10: Color Palettes, Colormaps, and Tools to Evaluate Them - diffify

• {readxl} 1.4.5: Read Excel Files - diffify

• {archeofrag} 1.1.0: Spatial Analysis in Archaeology from Refitting Fragments - diffify

• {PubChemR} 2.1.4: Interface to the ‘PubChem’ Database for Chemical Data Retrieval - diffify

• {rgeoda} 0.1.0: R Library for Spatial Data Analysis - diffify

• {rhub} 2.0.1: Tools for R Package Developers - diffify

• {usmapdata} 0.4.0: Mapping Data for ‘usmap’ Package - diffify

• {hutilscpp} 0.10.8: Miscellaneous Functions in C++ - diffify

• {habtools} 1.1.1: Tools and Metrics for 3D Surfaces and Objects - diffify

• {rnpn} 1.3.0: Interface to the National ‘Phenology’ Network ‘API’ - diffify

• {divest} 1.2.0: Get Images Out of DICOM Format Quickly - diffify

• {dataquieR} 2.5.1: Data Quality in Epidemiological Research - diffify

• {tutorial.helpers} 0.4.2: Helper Functions for Creating Tutorials - diffify

• {strata} 1.4.3: Simple Framework for Simple Automation - diffify

• {leaflet.extras2} 1.3.1: Extra Functionality for ‘leaflet’ Package - diffify

• {huxtable} 5.6.0: Easily Create and Style Tables for LaTeX, HTML and Other Formats - diffify

• {scoutbaR} 0.1.0: A Spotlight ‘React’ Widget for ‘shiny’ Apps - diffify

• {isopleuros} 1.4.0: Ternary Plots - diffify

• {formatBibtex} 0.1.1: Format BibTeX Entries and Files - diffify

• {xpectr} 0.4.4: Generates Expectations for ‘testthat’ Unit Testing - diffify

• {offsetreg} 1.1.1: An Extension of ‘Tidymodels’ Supporting Offset Terms - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Use Claude Code in RStudio to ship R code like some kind of 10x tidyverse developer

• R for Data Science: Web scraping

R Internationally

• Unir y combinar gráficos {ggplot2} en R

Tutorials

• A Bayesian proportional hazards model with a penalized spline

• Customize your expedition: Create a unique documentation for your R Package

• The Complete Guide to Handling NA Values in R Tables: Methods, Best Practices, and Solutions

• Harness Local LLMs and GitHub Copilot for Enhanced R Package Development

• 3MW (GitHub Authentication for Azure Static Web Apps)

• How to include control variables in a cross-lagged panel model

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• Register for R/Pharma at posit::conf(2025)

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Grants & Funding

• 2025 ISC Grant Program

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