R Weekly 2025-W40 Ducklake, Slidecrafting, Shiny & LLMs

29 Sep 2025

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

Highlight

• Jumping in the Ducklake with nothing but R on

• Slidecrafting - Making beautiful slides with reveal.js and Quarto

• The Shiny side of LLMs Part 3

Insights

• Ten year anniversary of Free Range Statistics by @ellis2013nz

• A Gentle Introduction to Open Science

• Revamping the Shiny Dev Series Site

R in the Real World

• A Novel Analysis — Literally - Readability & lexical dispersion of a novella using quanteda, ggplot2 and gutenbergr.

R in Academia

• A Note on the Dirichlet Distribution

Tutorials

• Jumping in the Ducklake with nothing but R on

• Testing with {testthat}

• Combining any model with GARCH(1,1) for probabilistic stock forecasting

• Generating Synthetic Data with R-vine Copulas using esgtoolkit in R

• How to Find the Max Value in Each Row in R

• Clean R Tests with local_mocked_bindings and Dependency Wrapping

• T test in R

Resources

• Slidecrafting - Making beautiful slides with reveal.js and Quarto

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• plumber2 0.1.0

• shinystate 0.1.0 is available on CRAN!

• rcppmlpackexamples 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package

• {gglyph} 0.2.0: Network-Style Visualization of Directed Pairwise Relationships

• {elixir} 0.1.0: Transmutation of Languages

• {containr} 0.1.1: Containerize Your ‘R’ Project

• {bnpMTP} 1.0.0: Bayesian Nonparametric Sensitivity Analysis of Multiple Testing Procedures for p Values

• {diegr} 0.1.0: Dynamic and Interactive EEG Graphics

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• {dtlg} 0.0.2: A Performance-Focused Package for Clinical Trial Tables

• {edgemodelr} 0.1.0: Local Language Model Inference

• {PortfolioTesteR} 0.1.1: Test Investment Strategies with English-Like Code

• {player} 0.1.0: Play Games in the Console

• {screenshotbase} 0.1.0: Client for the ‘Screenshotbase’ API

• {piecemeal} 0.1.0: Wrangle Large Simulation Studies

• {linkeR} 0.1.2: Link Interactive Plots and Tables in ‘shiny’ Applications

• {modelSelection} 1.0.3: High-Dimensional Model Selection

• {glioblastomaEHRsData} 0.1.0: Descriptive Analysis on 3 EHRs Datasets

• {ggDNAvis} 0.2.1: ‘ggplot2’-Based Tools for Visualising DNA Sequences and Modifications

• {DAGassist} 0.2.4: Test Robustness with Directed Acyclic Graphs

GitHub or Bitbucket

• blueycolors: Provides bluey-inspired color pallettes and ggplot2 scales

Updated Packages

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• progressr 0.16.0 on CRAN: An Inclusive, Unifying API for Progress Updates

• future.batchtools 0.21.0 on CRAN: Parallel and Distributed Processing via High-Performance-Compute (HPC) Job Schedulers

• tint 0.1.6 on CRAN: Maintenance

• ggsci 4.0.0: 400+ new color palettes

• {V8} 7.0.0: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R - diffify

• {SqlRender} 1.19.4: Rendering Parameterized SQL and Translation to Dialects - diffify

• {papaja} 0.1.4: Prepare American Psychological Association Journal Articles with R Markdown - diffify

• {fuzzySim} 4.36: Fuzzy Similarity in Species Distributions - diffify

• {CausalImpact} 1.4.1: Inferring Causal Effects using Bayesian Structural Time-Series Models - diffify

• {Analitica} 1.8.5: Exploratory Data Analysis, Group Comparison Tools, and Other Procedures - diffify

• {tabxplor} 1.3.1: User-Friendly Tables with Color Helpers for Data Exploration - diffify

• {survAUC} 1.4-0: Estimators of Prediction Accuracy for Time-to-Event Data - diffify

• {simStateSpace} 1.2.11: Simulate Data from State Space Models - diffify

• {rio} 1.2.4: A Swiss-Army Knife for Data I/O - diffify

• {plspm} 0.6.0: Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-PM) - diffify

• {NNS} 11.6: Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics - diffify

• {neonUtilities} 3.0.2: Utilities for Working with NEON Data - diffify

• {dexter} 1.7.0: Data Management and Analysis of Tests - diffify

• {rly} 1.7.7: Tools to Create Formal Language Parser - diffify

• {ArchaeoPhases} 2.1.0: Post-Processing of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations for Chronological Modelling - diffify

• {eye} 1.3.0: Analysis of Eye Data - diffify

• {FlexRL} 0.1.1: A Flexible Model for Record Linkage - diffify

• {statConfR} 0.2.1: Models of Decision Confidence and Measures of Metacognition - diffify

• {microsimulation} 1.4.5: Discrete Event Simulation in R and C++, with Tools for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis - diffify

• {dscore} 1.11.0: D-Score for Child Development - diffify

• {plsdepot} 0.3.0: Partial Least Squares (PLS) Data Analysis Methods - diffify

• {GPTCM} 1.1.2: Generalized Promotion Time Cure Model with Bayesian Shrinkage Priors - diffify

• {TrialSimulator} 1.3.0: Clinical Trial Simulator - diffify

• {metacor} 1.2.0: Meta-Analytic Effect Size Calculation for Pre-Post Designs with Correlation Imputation - diffify

• {tint} 0.1.6: ‘tint’ is not ‘Tufte’ - diffify

• {siera} 0.5.4: Generate Analysis Results Programmes Using ARS Metadata - diffify

• {inTextSummaryTable} 3.3.5: Creation of in-Text Summary Table - diffify

• {autoslider.core} 0.3.1: Slide Automation for Tables, Listings and Figures - diffify

• {forcats} 1.0.1: Tools for Working with Categorical Variables (Factors) - diffify

• {planr} 0.6.1: Tools for Supply Chain Management, Demand and Supply Planning - diffify

• {ronfig} 0.0.3: Load Configuration Values - diffify

• {nanoarrow} 0.7.0-1: Interface to the ‘nanoarrow’ ‘C’ Library - diffify

• {ggcompare} 0.0.5: Mean Comparison in ‘ggplot2’ - diffify

• {extrafont} 0.20: Tools for Using Fonts - diffify

• {WeibullR.plotly} 0.3.2: Interactive Weibull Probability Plots - diffify

• {gt} 1.1.0: Easily Create Presentation-Ready Display Tables - diffify

• {dataspice} 1.1.1: Create Lightweight Schema.org Descriptions of Data - diffify

• {waiter} 0.2.5.1: Loading Screen for ‘Shiny’ - diffify

• {DatabaseConnector} 7.0.0: Connecting to Various Database Platforms - diffify

• {fastplyr} 0.9.9: Fast Alternatives to ‘tidyverse’ Functions - diffify

• {networkR} 0.1.5: Network Analysis and Visualization - diffify

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Shiny Apps

• The Shiny side of LLMs Part 3

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• R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages

• Bayesian Optimization for Sequential Decisions with Multi-Arm Bandits

• Release party for ggplot2 4.0.0

• How to use pointblank to understand, validate, and document your data

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

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Quotes of the Week

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