R Weekly 2025-W26 Duckplyr, Trail Running, Oh Leave It Out

23 Jun 2025

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

Highlight

• duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

• Trail Running Meets Data Science: Adventures with LLMs and Race Stats

• Oh Leave it Out

Insights

• Organizer tips for inviting speakers

• duckplyr fully joins the tidyverse!

• ggplot2 4.0.0 is coming and why ultimately it’s on YOU to ensure your environments are reproducible

• R Package Quality: Validation and beyond!

• Futureverse – Ten-Year Anniversary

• Season 48 is now in 📦{survivoR} + new datasets and data updates

• Trail Running Meets Data Science: Adventures with LLMs and Race Stats

• Identifying Measles Immunity Gaps in the US: A Comprehensive Analysis by Iko Musa

• How are Vaccination Rates and Case Rates Changing for Measles in 2025?

• MIIPW: An R package for Generalized Estimating Equations with missing data integration

• Introduction to R for Clinical Data

• Personal R Administration

• pretestcad: An R package to calculate PreTest Probability (PTP) for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

• Bridging the Gap: Introducing RHealth for Healthcare Predictive Modeling in R

• Demystifying LLMs with Ellmer

• Simplifying R Package Documentation with pkgdown and GitHub Pages

R in the Real World

• Shiny in Production 2025: Full Length Talks

• rainbowR: Fostering an Inclusive Space for LGBTQ+ Coders in the R Community

R in Academia

• AOUSDOHtools: R Package for Social Determinants of Health Survey data in All of Us Research Program

• Examining Factors Associated with Depressive Severity Among Cancer Survivors

New Packages

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CRAN

• {unsum} 0.2.0: Reconstruct Raw Data from Summary Statistics
• {snowflakeauth} 0.1.2: Authentication Helpers for ‘Snowflake’
• {putior} 0.1.0: “Register In- and Outputs for Workflow Visualization”
• {rextendr} 0.4.1: Call Rust Code from R using the ‘extendr’ Crate
• {TableContainer} 1.0.0: Create a Table with Row, Column, and Table Annotations
• {taxizedb} 0.3.2: Offline Access to Taxonomic Databases
• {rdocdump} 0.1.0: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File
• {cpgfR} 0.0.1.0: Consolidates Information from the Federal Government Payment Card
• {gseries} 3.0.2: Improve the Coherence of Your Time Series Data
• {gtrendshealth} 1.0.0: Query the ‘Google Trends for Health’ API
• {tidydfidx} 0.0-1: Indexed ‘tibble’ and Methods for ‘dplyr’
• {infectiousR} 0.1.0: Access Infectious and Epidemiological Data via ‘disease.sh API’

Updated Packages

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• {ggfun} 0.1.8: Miscellaneous Functions for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {gghourglass} 0.0.3: Plot Records per Time of Day - diffify
• {plotthis} 0.7.1: High-Level Plotting Built Upon ‘ggplot2’ and Other Plotting Packages - diffify
• {chevron} 0.2.12: Standard TLGs for Clinical Trials Reporting - diffify
• {wordvector} 0.5.1: Word and Document Vector Models - diffify
• {tern} 0.9.9: Create Common TLGs Used in Clinical Trials - diffify
• {ggnewscale} 0.5.2: Multiple Fill and Colour Scales in ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {gglogger} 0.1.6: Track ‘ggplot2’ Calls - diffify
• {eq5d} 0.16.0: Methods for Analysing ‘EQ-5D’ Data and Calculating ‘EQ-5D’ Index Scores - diffify
• {thematic} 0.1.7: Unified and Automatic ‘Theming’ of ‘ggplot2’, ‘lattice’, and ‘base’ R Graphics - diffify
• {rtables} 0.6.13: Reporting Tables - diffify
• {plotly} 4.11.0: Create Interactive Web Graphics via ‘plotly.js’ - diffify
• {loon} 1.4.3: Interactive Statistical Data Visualization - diffify
• {reshape} 0.8.10: Flexibly Reshape Data - diffify
• {ggforce} 0.5.0: Accelerating ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {selenium} 0.2.0: Low-Level Browser Automation Interface - diffify
• {eyetools} 0.9.2: Analyse Eye Data - diffify
• {eyetrackingR} 0.2.2: Eye-Tracking Data Analysis - diffify
• {rsconnect} 1.4.2: Deploy Docs, Apps, and APIs to ‘Posit Connect’, ‘shinyapps.io’, and ‘RPubs’ - diffify
• {evaluate} 1.0.4: Parsing and Evaluation Tools that Provide More Details than the Default - diffify
• {RUnit} 0.4.33.1: R Unit Test Framework - diffify
• {rbcc} 0.1.5: Risk-Based Control Charts - diffify
• {cdiWG2WS} 0.2.0: Words and Gestures to Words and Sentences Score Conversion - diffify
• {latexSymb} 1.0.0: R Functions for Readable LaTeX Mathematical Expressions - diffify
• {DrugExposureDiagnostics} 1.1.4: Diagnostics for OMOP Common Data Model Drug Records - diffify
• {spanishoddata} 0.2.0: Get Spanish Origin-Destination Data - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

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Tutorials

• How to Deploy a Shiny App on a VM with Hetzner

• Beyond ARMA-GARCH: leveraging any statistical model for volatility forecasting
• Stacked generalization (Machine Learning model stacking) + conformal prediction for forecasting with ahead::mlf
• Oh Leave it Out

• Building Your Own Mini-ChatGPT with R: From Markov Chains to Transformers!

• Correlation Analysis of Silver, Bitcoin, SOXX, and Blockchain Index with {corrr} package
• How to Use runif Function in R With Examples
• Creating A Question Bank Using Google Sheet, Plumber, and Digital Ocean Droplet

R Project Updates

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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 for Health Technology Assessment (HTA): Identifying Needs, Streamlining Processes, and Building Bridges

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Quotes of the Week

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