R Weekly 2025-W23 Computer vision, tool calls, Positron color theme

02 Jun 2025

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Computer vision with LLMs in R

• Easy tool calls with ellmer and chatlas

• Porting my favorite RStudio color theme to Positron

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

• A Pace Far Different: finding best running pace with R

R in Organizations

• rOpenSci News Digest, May 2025

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

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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

• {acquaint} 0.0.0.9000

Updated Packages

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• 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

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

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