R Weekly 2025-W19, Top 40 New CRAN Packages, recipes, 30 Day Chart Challenge, Rotation with Modulo

06 May 2025

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

Highlight

• March 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

• recipes 1.3.0

• 30 Day Chart Challenge 2025

• Rotation with Modulo

Insights

• March 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

• Search and Query 25+ Years of Friends of Saxonville Newsletters

• vowels: Phonetics cloze quiz about Cardinal vowels

R in the Real World

• Analysis of 1,041 Terminated NSF Grants Totaling $613.26M

• Disaster Death Distributions: 1950-2020

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci News Digest, April 2025

• Running AI/LLM Hackathons at Posit: What We’ve Learned

R in Academia

• AlphaMissenseR: an integrated framework for investigating missense mutations in human protein-coding genes

Resources

• Teaching Intermediate R: Kelly Bodwin, California Polytechnic State University

• Data Science Learning Community Playlists: All of book club meetings are available on YouTube

• Geocomputation with R: Geographic data in R

New Packages

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CRAN

• {VIProDesign} 0.1.0: A Comprehensive Tool for Protein Design

• {tradeoffaucdim} 0.1.0: Plotting Trade-Off AUC-Dimensionality

• {figpatch} 0.3.0: Easily Arrange External Figures with Patchwork Alongside ‘ggplot2’ Figures

• {StatTeacherAssistant} 0.0.3: An App that Assists Intro Statistics Instructors with Data Sets

• {epts} 1.1.4: Educational Platform Trials Simulator

• {SscSrs} 0.1.0: Sample Size Calculator for Estimation of Population Mean and Proportion under SRS

• {birdnetR} 0.3.2: Deep Learning for Automated (Bird) Sound Identification

• {flowTraceR} 0.1.1: Tracing Information Flow for Inter-Software Comparisons in Mass Spectrometry-Based Bottom-Up Proteomics

• {ucsfindustrydocs} 0.1.0: UCSF Industry Documents Library API Wrapper

• {reactRouter} 0.1.0: ‘React Router’ for ‘shiny’ Apps and ‘Quarto’

• {logrxaddin} 0.0.1: Addin for the ‘logrx’ Package

• {DeSciDe} 1.0.0: Tool for Unbiased Literature Searching and Gene List Curation

• {geofi} 1.1.0: Access Finnish Geospatial Data

• {LLMAgentR} 0.2.2: Language Model Agents in R for AI Workflows and Research

• {ggsegmentedtotalbar} 0.1.0: Create a Segmented Total Bar Plot with Custom Annotations and Labels

• {ZEP} 0.1.3: Procedures Related to the Zadeh’s Extension Principle for Fuzzy Data

• {bartXViz} 1.0.3: Visualization of BART and BARP using SHAP

Updated Packages

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• {bskyr} 0.3.0: Interact with ‘Bluesky’ Social - diffify

• {rtkore} 1.6.13: ‘STK++’ Core Library Integration to ‘R’ using ‘Rcpp’ - diffify

• {R.cache} 0.17.0: Fast and Light-Weight Caching (Memoization) of Objects and Results to Speed Up Computations - diffify

• {coda.base} 1.0.0: A Basic Set of Functions for Compositional Data Analysis - diffify

• {wikiprofiler} 0.1.6: ‘WikiPathway’ Based Data Integration and Visualization - diffify

• {Rfast2} 0.1.5.4: A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions II - diffify

• {InterpolateR} 1.3-4: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Fast and Efficient Spatial Interpolation - diffify

• {crandep} 0.3.12: Network Analysis of Dependencies of CRAN Packages - diffify

• {ladder} 0.0.3: Get on to the Slides - diffify

• {HSAUR2} 1.1-21: A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R (2nd Edition) - diffify

• {text} 1.5: Analyses of Text using Transformers Models from HuggingFace, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning - diffify

• {RSQLite} 2.3.10: SQLite Interface for R - diffify

• {rextendr} 0.4.0: Call Rust Code from R using the ‘extendr’ Crate - diffify

• {EpiReport} 1.0.4: Epidemiological Report - diffify

• {exams2forms} 0.2-0: Embedding ‘exams’ Exercises as Forms in ‘rmarkdown’ or ‘quarto’ Documents - diffify

• {GWmodelVis} 1.0.1: Visualization Tools for Geographically Weighted Models - diffify

• {tongfen} 0.3.6: Make Data Based on Different Geographies Comparable - diffify

• {healthatlas} 0.2.1: Explore and Import ‘Metopio’ Health Atlas Data and Spatial Layers - diffify

• {leafem} 0.2.4: ‘leaflet’ Extensions for ‘mapview’ - diffify

• {password} 1.0-1: Create Random Passwords - diffify

• {memoiR} 1.3-1: R Markdown and Bookdown Templates to Publish Documents - diffify

• {rankhazard} 1.1.1: Rank-Hazard Plots - diffify

• {exams} 2.4-2: Automatic Generation of Exams in R - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Forecasting Electricity Consumption: A Case Study Using ARIMA Models by T K Gebretekle

• R for statistics session 168

• R Studio - How to Compute Sums over Variables?

• ANOVA with R session 166

• Introduction to R for Sports Analytics: Data Modeling With Linear Regression (Workshop 3)

• Data viz basics with R and ggplot2 Recording Raleigh

Tutorials

• The recipe to debug your R code in VSCode

• Rotation with Modulo

• recipes 1.3.0

• 30 Day Chart Challenge 2025

• How to Write Your First tryCatch() Function in R

• A year with Visible Long-Covid Tracking

  

• 3MW (Creating Beautiful PDF Reports with Typst and Quarto)

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

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artistry

Drawing fish with #ggplot2, inspired by this awesome video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlfh... #Rstats #creativecoding

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— Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is) May 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM

Quotes of the Week

It is an honour to confirm that I've put R in production on the public sector 😌(😣) #rstats https://t.co/23GcsgWB9v

— Bastián Olea (@bastimapache) May 5, 2025

My #tidyverse brain thought this was an #rstats post at first 😆

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— Matt Kmiecik (@mattkmiecik.bsky.social) May 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM