R Weekly 2025-W16 R 4.5.0, plumber2, chores

14 Apr 2025

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

Highlight

• What’s new in R 4.5.0?

• plumber2

• Introducing chores

Insights

• What’s new in R 4.5.0?

• 3MW (Using the new Positron IDE)

R in Organizations

• Visualising R Package Risk Assessments using Litmus

• posit::glimpse() Newsletter – April 2025

R in Academia

• Extending the Theta forecasting method to GLMs and attention

• Down a Rabbit Hole with ARIMA Models

Resources

• surveydown Gadgets for Page and Question Creation

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• Generate visuals and descriptions from GPX route files

CRAN

• Introducing chores

• {vvbitwarden} 0.1.0: Interacts with ‘Bitwarden Secrets Manager’

• {basepenguins} 0.1.0: Convert Files that Use ‘palmerpenguins’ to Work with ‘datasets’

• {sdtm.terminology} 2025-3-25: CDISC SDTM Controlled Terminology

• {pangoling} 1.0.3: Access to Large Language Model Predictions

• {tickr} 1.0.2: Consistent Axis Tick Marks

• {valh} 0.1.0: Interface Between R and the OpenStreetMap-Based Routing Service Valhalla

GitHub or Bitbucket

• plumber2

Updated Packages

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• AsioHeaders 1.28.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream

• {qreport} 1.0-2: Statistical Reporting with ‘Quarto’ - diffify

• {shinymeta} 0.2.1: Export Domain Logic from Shiny using Meta-Programming - diffify

• {VirtualPop} 2.1.0: Simulation of Populations by Sampling Waiting-Time Distributions - diffify

• {mixedBayes} 0.1.6: Bayesian Longitudinal Regularized Quantile Mixed Model - diffify

• {coarseDataTools} 0.7.2: Analysis of Coarsely Observed Data - diffify

• {sass} 0.4.10: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (‘Sass’) - diffify

• {ggsurveillance} 0.3.0: Tools for Outbreak Investigation/Infectious Disease Surveillance - diffify

• {ecce} 3.0.3: Translate English Sentence into Chinese, or Translate Chinese Sentence into English - diffify

• {rlistings} 0.2.11: Clinical Trial Style Data Readout Listings - diffify

• {DoubleML} 1.0.2: Double Machine Learning in R - diffify

• {tarchetypes} 0.13.0: Archetypes for Targets - diffify

• {arcgisutils} 0.3.3: ArcGIS Utility Functions - diffify

• {CodelistGenerator} 3.5.0: Identify Relevant Clinical Codes and Evaluate Their Use - diffify

• {this.path} 2.7.0: Get Executing Script’s Path - diffify

• {VisCov} 1.6.0: Visualizing of Distributions of Covariance Matrices - diffify

• {crosswalkr} 0.3.0: Rename and Encode Data Frames Using External Crosswalk Files - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Shiny in Production 2024 Videos

Shiny Apps

• POTUS Economic Scorecard app

• Beyond {Shiny}: The Future of Mobile Apps with R

• In the Nix of Time - A new approach to Shiny development & deployment with Nix and {rix}

• Shiny without Boundaries - One App, Multiple Destinations

• ClinSight

• ConnectUserMetrics

• Curbcut Montreal

• Goodreads Wrapped

• Quarto Tips Chatbot Search

Tutorials

• Generate Route Titles and Descriptions from GPX Files with LLMs and {ellmer}

• Finding (missing) dependencies in R source code with {checkglobals}

• How to Find First Non-NA Value in data.table

• How to Make a Heatmap in R

• How to Write a Repeat Loop in R: Complete Guide with Practical Examples

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

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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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

• R Dev Days 2025

• Cascadia R Conf

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