R Weekly 2025-W23 Computer vision, tool calls, Positron color theme
This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.
Highlight
Insights
- Tips and tools for co-maintenance of R packages
- Little useless-useful R functions – Absurd bias DAG with useless mental shortcuts
- #48: r2u Talk Re-Recorded
- Forecasting MSCI Europe Index Post-Trump Tariff Announcement
- 3MW (Database Connections With R)
- Taylor Series Approximation To Newton Raphson Algorithm - A note for myself of the proof
- Natural language data science with RStudio and Databricks
- Computer vision with LLMs in R
- Easy tool calls with ellmer and chatlas
- R Package Repository Snapshots for Clinical Trial Submissions
- Teaching chat apps about R packages
- April 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
- A Guide to Using techtonique.net’s API and rush for simulating and plotting Stochastic Scenarios
- Simulating Stochastic Scenarios with Diffusion Models
- Will my apartment in 5th avenue be overpriced or not?
- The Dynamics of the “Gentle Way”: Exploring Judo Attack Combinations as Networks in R
- Applying GARCH and INGARCH models to papal conclaves
- Spatial machine learning with the tidymodels framework
- Self-intersecting Quadrilateral
- Repost: Writing a book with Quarto
- Guiding data processing with adverbial::step_by_step() in R
R in the Real World
R in Organizations
R in Academia
Resources
- mirai 2.3.0: Advancing Async Computing in R
- Tomorrow Night Bright (R Classic) Theme on Open VSX Registry
New Packages
📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦
CRAN
- {squids} 25.5.6: Short Quasi-Unique Identifiers (SQUIDs)
- {ragnar} 0.1.0: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Workflows
- {muttest} 0.1.0: Mutation Testing
- {glueDo} 0.1.0: Wrapper Functions for the ‘glue’ Library
- {propagate} 1.0-7: Propagation of Uncertainty
- {dir2json} 0.1.0: Convert Directory to JSON
GitHub or Bitbucket
Updated Packages
- RcppDate 0.0.6: New Upstream
- {mirai} 2.3.0: Minimalist Async Evaluation Framework for R - diffify
- {plotthis} 0.7.0: High-Level Plotting Built Upon ‘ggplot2’ and Other Plotting Packages - diffify
- {typr} 0.0.3: Write and Render ‘Typst’ Documents - diffify
- {haven} 2.5.5: Import and Export ‘SPSS’, ‘Stata’ and ‘SAS’ Files - diffify
- {officer} 0.6.10: Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents - diffify
- {legendry} 0.2.2: Extended Legends and Axes for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
- {ggh4x} 0.3.1: Hacks for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
- {shelter} 0.2.0: Support for Secure API Key Management - diffify
- {gutenbergr} 0.3.0: Download and Process Public Domain Works from Project Gutenberg - diffify
- {promises} 1.3.3: Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming - diffify
- {RcppDate} 0.0.6: ‘date’ C++ Header Library for Date and Time Functionality - diffify
- {nplyr} 0.3.0: A Grammar of Nested Data Manipulation - diffify
- {gtExtras} 0.6.0: Extending ‘gt’ for Beautiful HTML Tables - diffify
- {chattr} 0.3.0: Interact with Large Language Models in ‘RStudio’ - diffify
- {pdfsearch} 0.4.3: Search Tools for PDF Files - diffify
- {rle} 0.10.0: Common Functions for Run-Length Encoded Vectors - diffify
- {workflowsets} 1.1.1: Create a Collection of ‘tidymodels’ Workflows - diffify
- {LLMR} 0.3.0: Interface for Large Language Model APIs in R - diffify
- {mice} 3.18.0: Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations - diffify
- {zeallot} 0.2.0: Multiple, Unpacking, and Destructuring Assignment - diffify
- {keyring} 1.4.0: Access the System Credential Store from R - diffify
- {arrow} 20.0.0.2: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify
- {pkgbuild} 1.4.8: Find Tools Needed to Build R Packages - diffify
- {gh} 1.5.0: ‘GitHub’ ‘API’ - diffify
- {openssl} 2.3.3: Toolkit for Encryption, Signatures and Certificates Based on OpenSSL - diffify
- {data.table} 1.17.4: Extension of
data.frame
- diffify - {pkgdown.offline} 0.1.1: Build ‘pkgdown’ Websites Offline - diffify
Videos and Podcasts
Tutorials
- Refactoring code with
flir
- Porting my favorite RStudio color theme to Positron
- How to Generate Random Numbers in R With Examples
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