R Weekly 2025-W45 Pledging my time, neon ghosts, bioconductor release

04 Nov 2025

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

Highlight

• Pledging My Time VII

• Bioconductor 3.22 Released

• Neon Ghosts with ggplot2

Insights

• Of course, someone has to write imperative code to build reproducible data science pipelines. It doesn’t have to be you.

• September 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

• New Council Members

• rOpenSci News Digest, October 2025

R in Academia

• Bioconductor 3.22 Released

Tutorials

• RAG with Ollama and ragnar in R: A Practical Guide for R Programmers

• Pledging My Time VII

• #054: Faster r-ci Continuous Integration via r2u Container

• Neon Ghosts with ggplot2

• Simplifying Interactions with Complex Widgets in shinytest2 Using JavaScript APIs

Resources

• posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {tabler} 0.1.0: Create Dashboards with ‘Tabler’ and ‘Shiny’

• {ganttify} 0.1.6: Create Interactive Gantt Charts with Work Breakdown Structure

• {minorparties} 1.0.0: Quantitatively Analyze Minor Political Parties

• {greenSD} 0.1.1: Access and Analyze Global GreenSpace Spatial Data

GitHub

• {Rmlx} 0.1.0 - R interface to Apple’s mlx library for array-based computing on Apple GPUs

• {mutagen} 0.2.0: Extensions to dplyr’s mutate

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {mcptools} 0.2.0: Model Context Protocol Servers and Clients - diffify

• {maestro} 0.7.0: Orchestration of Data Pipelines - diffify

• {mini007} 0.2.0: Lightweight Framework for Orchestrating Multi-Agent Large Language Models - diffify

• {Cairo} 1.7-0: R Graphics Device using Cairo Graphics Library for Creating High-Quality Bitmap (PNG, JPEG, TIFF), Vector (PDF, SVG, PostScript) and Display (X11 and Win32) Output - diffify

• {arrow} 22.0.0: Integration to ‘Apache’ ‘Arrow’ - diffify

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R Project Updates

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Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Graceful Internet Packages

• A list of R conferences and meetings

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

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Datasets

• GSS Release: General Social Survey Cumulative Data (1972-2024, R2)

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rtistry

🚴 Where do bike accidents with personal injuries happen in Cologne? This map shows hotspots within 2.5 km of the city center in 2024. Each purple dot = one accident involving a bike where someone got hurt. #30DayMapChallenge | Day 01 - Points #rstats

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— Ansgar Wolsing (@ansgarw.bsky.social) 1 November 2025 at 20:52

It's day 2 of the #30DayMapChallenge! 🗺️ A fairly minimalist map of street *lines* in Melbourne 🦘 #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

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— Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social) 2 November 2025 at 18:15

Quotes of the Week

Me: The least-helpful workshops are often the ones given by people who just Know Too Much 🥹 Data Friend: Have you see that blog post about this? Me: No, show me! Data Friend: anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-... Me: BRB SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE I KNOW 😂 #rstats #python #databs

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— Libby Heeren (@libbyheeren.bsky.social) 31 October 2025 at 23:31