R Weekly 2025-W41 Ducklake, Slidecrafting, Shiny & LLMs

06 Oct 2025

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

Highlight

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

• ggplot2 styling

• The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security

Insights

• Iterating some sample data

• Exploring ggbot2: Creating a volcano plot with your voice

• The Cadence of Behavior-Driven Development

R in the Real World

• The Sovereign Tech Fund invests $450,000 in R Foundation to Enhance R’s Sustainability and Security

• rOpenSci Code of Conduct Committee Templates

• rOpenSci News Digest, September 2025

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

• Uncertainty Analysis: Gold vs. Bitcoin

Tutorials

• #052: Running r-ci with Coverage

• #051: A Neat Little Rcpp Trick

• ggplot2 styling

• Data Imputation and Scaling with healthyR.ai: A Guide for R Programmers

• Mapply: When You Need to Iterate Over Multiple Inputs

• Voice control ggplot2 with ggbot2

• Construct objects with idiomatic R code

Resources

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• tinythemes 0.0.4 at CRAN: Micro Maintenance

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Web Apps

• Real-time pricing with a pretrained probabilistic stock return model

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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

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