R Weekly 2025-W31 Recreate, Speed Test, Test APIs

28 Jul 2025

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

Highlight

• Copy the Pros: How to Recreate this NYTimes Chart in R

• Speed Testing Code: Three Levels

• Testing your Plumber APIs from R

Insights

• Turn your hex stickers into magnets
• rOpenSci News Digest, July 2025
• R and the Model Context Protocol
• Trend-Anomaly Analysis of U.S. Federal Budget Balance
• 3 Reasons Blocking You From Doing Automated Testing
• Testing your Plumber APIs from R
• How to convince your boss you should attend posit::conf(2025)
• Tidyverse with GitHub Copilot for Healthcare Analytics – Part 2
• How to open a folder as a Positron project with macOS Quick Actions
• Let’s talk about NA-s!
• How to Calculate Odds Ratios in R With Examples Using epitools

R in Academia

• Bootstrap Confidence Limits for Bootstrap Overfitting-Corrected Model Performance

Resources

• USCOTS Workshop Materials: Teaching Intermediate R

New Packages

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CRAN

• {shortuuid} 0.1.0: Generate and Translate Standard UUIDs
• {overshiny} 0.1.0: Interactive Overlays on ‘shiny’ Plots
• {funcMapper} 1.0.1: Map User-Created Functions
• {ConversationAlign} 0.2.0: Process Text and Compute Linguistic Alignment in Conversation Transcripts
• {calcal} 1.0.0: Calendrical Calculations
• {rCoinbase} 1.0.0: ‘Coinbase Advance Trade API Interface’

Updated Packages

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• {tidypolars} 0.14.0: More Efficient Tidyverse Code, Using Polars in the Background
• {tidytext} 0.4.3: Text Mining using ‘dplyr’, ‘ggplot2’, and Other Tidy Tools - diffify
• {tidycensus} 1.7.3: Load US Census Boundary and Attribute Data as ‘tidyverse’ and ‘sf’-Ready Data Frames - diffify
• {tidyMC} 1.0.1: Monte Carlo Simulations Made Easy and Tidy - diffify
• {ellmer} 0.3.0: Chat with Large Language Models - diffify
• ellmer 0.3.0
• qlcal 0.0.16 on CRAN: Regular Update
• {paws.common} 0.8.5: Paws Low-Level Amazon Web Services API - diffify
• {spatstat} 3.4-0: Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests - diffify
• {stablelearner} 0.1-6: Stability Assessment of Statistical Learning Methods - diffify
• {microplot} 1.0-47: Microplots (Sparklines) in ‘LaTeX’, ‘Word’, ‘HTML’, ‘Excel’ - diffify
• {DataExplorer} 0.8.4: Automate Data Exploration and Treatment - diffify
• {gridSVG} 1.7-6: Export ‘grid’ Graphics as SVG - diffify
• {renv} 1.1.5: Project Environments - diffify
• {rtoot} 0.3.6: Collecting and Analyzing Mastodon Data - diffify
• {tmaptools} 3.3: Thematic Map Tools - diffify
• {parallelly} 1.45.1: Enhancing the ‘parallel’ Package - diffify
• {arrow} 21.0.0: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify
• {keyholder} 0.1.8: Store Data About Rows - diffify
• {ggarchery} 0.4.4: Flexible Segment Geoms with Arrows for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {cooltools} 2.18: Practical Tools for Scientific Computations and Visualizations - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Copy the Pros: How to Recreate this NYTimes Chart in R

Tutorials

• Speed Testing Code: Three Levels

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

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Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Exploring R and Rust in Bioinformatics – Online Developer Forum, 28 July 2025

• Shiny in Production 2025: R Dev Day

• Tidyverse developer day 2025

• 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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Quotes of the Week

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