R Weekly 2025-W42 Aaaaand… they’re off!, Generative AI for Data Visualisation, and Behavior-Driven Development

13 Oct 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

• Aaaaand… they’re off!

• Generative AI for Data Visualisation

• Behavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: A Step-By-Step Example

Insights

• foreach: Making All %dopar% Behave Like %dofuture% Everywhere

• A Primer on Domain Verification

• Generative AI for Data Visualisation

• 2025-10-10 AI Newsletter

• Aaaaand… they’re off!

• Mapping locations related to the Amelia Earhart disappearance by @ellis2013nz

Tutorials

• Raking a Survey to Another Survey

• Halloween in the Round

• A new simstudy function to make simulating replications easier

• Nested Forecasting with Spark: Blockchain ETF Trends

• How to Select Row with Max Value in Specific Column in R

• Behavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: A Step-By-Step Example

• Deploy Multiple Shiny Apps from One R Package

• My Attempt To Reproduce Stanford HIVdb Sequence and Mutation Analysis From Scratch

Resources

• Resource for using Large Language Model tools in R

• New online book AI Assistants for Scientific Coding

• The Tidyomics Ecosystem

New Packages

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CRAN

• qol 1.0.1: Powerful ‘SAS’ Inspired Concepts for more Efficient Bigger Outputs

• {easyRef} 0.1.0: Easy Reference Generation for R Packages
• {apathe} 0.1.0: American Psychological Association Thesis Templates for R Markdown
• {unexcel} 0.1.0: Revert Excel Serial Dates Back to Intended Day.Month Numerics
• {pipetime} 0.0.1: Tools to Time Pipe Operations
• {rixpress} 0.10.0: Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with ‘Nix’
• {Latamverse} 0.1.0: Latin American Data via ‘RESTful’ APIs and Curated Datasets
• {FakeDataR} 0.2.2: Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data for ‘LLM’ Workflows
• {summarytabl} 0.1.0: Generate Summary Tables for Continuous, Ordinal, and Categorical Data
• {healthmotionR} 0.1.0: A Comprehensive Collection of Health and Human Motion Datasets

Updated Packages

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• {svrep} 0.9.0: Provides tools for creating and working with survey replicate weights, extending functionality of the ‘survey’ package - diffify

• {future.callr} 0.10.2: A Future Backend for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’ - diffify

• RcppArmadillo 15 CRAN Transition: Offering Office Hours

• xptr 1.2.0 on CRAN: New(ly Adopted) Package!

• RPushbullet 0.3.5: Mostly Maintenance

• {hesim} 0.5.7: Health Economic Simulation Modeling and Decision Analysis - diffify
• {future.callr} 0.10.2: A Future API for Parallel Processing using ‘callr’ - diffify
• {volker} 3.2.0: High-Level Functions for Tabulating, Charting and Reporting Survey Data - diffify
• {survivoR} 2.3.8: Data from all Seasons of Survivor (US) TV Series in Tidy Format - diffify
• {rspm} 0.7.0: ‘RStudio’ Package Manager - diffify
• {Rfast} 2.1.5.2: A Collection of Efficient and Extremely Fast R Functions - diffify
• {ggmapcn} 0.2.0: Customizable China Map Visualizations - diffify
• {V8} 8.0.1: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R - diffify
• {loon.ggplot} 1.3.5: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics - diffify
• {broadcast} 0.1.5.3: Broadcasted Array Operations Like ‘NumPy’ - diffify
• {gtExtras} 0.6.1: Extending ‘gt’ for Beautiful HTML Tables - diffify
• {datapack} 1.4.2: A Flexible Container to Transport and Manipulate Data and Associated Resources - diffify
• {jsmodule} 1.6.15: ‘RStudio’ Addins and ‘Shiny’ Modules for Medical Research - diffify
• {redquack} 0.3.0: Transfer ‘REDCap’ Data to Database - diffify
• {oysteR} 0.1.4: Scans R Projects for Vulnerable Third Party Dependencies - diffify
• {matlib} 1.0.1: Matrix Functions for Teaching and Learning Linear Algebra and Multivariate Statistics - diffify
• {colorblindcheck} 1.0.4: Check Color Palettes for Problems with Color Vision Deficiency - diffify
• {gtfs2gps} 2.1-3: Converting Transport Data from GTFS Format to GPS-Like Records - diffify
• {escalation} 0.2.3: A Modular Approach to Dose-Finding Clinical Trials - diffify
• {ggvenn} 0.1.19: Draw Venn Diagram by ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {REDCapR} 1.6.0: Interaction Between R and REDCap - diffify
• {prome} 2.0.1.9: Patient-Reported Outcome Data Analysis with Stan - diffify
• {easysurv} 2.0.2: Simplify Survival Data Analysis and Model Fitting - diffify
• {gglogger} 0.1.7: Track ‘ggplot2’ Calls - diffify
• {ggseqplot} 0.8.8: Render Sequence Plots using ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {sassy} 1.2.9: Makes ‘R’ Easier for Everyone - diffify
• {linkeR} 0.1.3: Link Interactive Plots and Tables in ‘shiny’ Applications - diffify
• {anipaths} 0.10.6: Animation of Multiple Trajectories with Uncertainty - diffify
• {ggiraph} 0.9.2: Make ‘ggplot2’ Graphics Interactive - diffify
• {runonce} 0.3.3: Run Once and Save Result - diffify
• {timeplyr} 1.1.1: Fast Tidy Tools for Date and Date-Time Manipulation - diffify
• {uscongress} 1.0.2: Fetch United States Congressional Records (1995-Present) - diffify

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• What can you do with Positron Assistant?

• R-Ladies Gaborone (EN) - Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction with Isabella Velásquez

Shiny Apps

• R port of llama2.c

R Project Updates

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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+AI 2025 from R Consortium

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