R Weekly 2025-W21 Git history, dockViewR, Mock Them All!

19 May 2025

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

Highlight

• Hack your way to a good Git history (SLC-RUG May) (slides)

• Introducing dockViewR 0.1.0: a layout manager for R and Shiny.

• Mock Them All: Simulate to Better Test with testthat

Insights

• Multi-language pipelines with rixpress

• Bridges and Communities. My Journey as an rOpenSci Champion

R in the Real World

• Animated population pyramids for the Pacific by @ellis2013nz

R in Academia

• CHOIR: A principled approach to clustering single-cell data

Resources

• Fonts in R

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• {aRtsy} 1.0.1: Generative Art with ‘ggplot2’

• {okcolors} 0.1.0: A Set of Color Palettes Inspired by OK Go Music Videos for ‘ggplot2’ in R

• {cramR} 0.1.0: Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation

• {Athlytics} 0.1.2: Advanced Sports Performance Analysis for ‘Strava’ Data

• {ethiodate} 0.1.0: Working with Ethiopian Dates

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {rsconnect} 1.4.0: Deploy Docs, Apps, and APIs to ‘Posit Connect’, ‘shinyapps.io’, and ‘RPubs’ - diffify

• {nflfastR} 5.1.0: Functions to Efficiently Access NFL Play by Play Data - diffify

• {ggalign} 1.0.2: A ‘ggplot2’ Extension for Consistent Axis Alignment - diffify

• {polyglotr} 1.6.0: Translate Text - diffify

• {cheapr} 1.2.0: Simple Functions to Save Time and Memory - diffify

• {vivainsights} 0.6.1: Analyze and Visualize Data from ‘Microsoft Viva Insights’ - diffify

• {rscorecard} 0.32.0: A Method to Download Department of Education College Scorecard Data - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Hack your way to a good Git history (SLC-RUG May) (slides)

• Un meilleur historique Git, sans difficulté (R-Ladies Paris) (slides)

Shiny Apps

• Streamline Your Shiny App Design: Introducing shinydraw for Effortless Wireframing

• Introducing dockViewR 0.1.0: a layout manager for R and Shiny.

Tutorials

• How to Rename Columns in data.table in R (With Examples)

• Mock Them All: Simulate to Better Test with testthat

• How to Create a Vector of Zeros in R with Examples

• How to Catch integer(0) in R: Comprehensive Guide with Examples

• 3MW (Parameterized Sections With Quarto)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

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• Registration for posit::conf(2025)’s virtual experience is now open

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

• Using LLMs with ellmer workshop by Hadley Wickham

• 118th Tokyo R Meetup: June 21st, 2025

• useR! 2025: August 8~10, 2025

Connect

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Quotes of the Week

🌊 #TidyTuesday mapping water quality at Sydney Harbour’s beaches using 10 years of bacteria data (enterococci).
Data: @BeachwatchNSW
Code 🔗 https://t.co/VzKi14queK
Tools: #rstats, {ggplot2}, {sf}, {scatterpie}, {ggmap}, {tidyterra} pic.twitter.com/8QbBe9ZeWU

— Aditya Dahiya (@AdityaDahiyaIAS) May 17, 2025