R Weekly 2025-W46 Custom ggplot2 geoms, data.table, NYC election

10 Nov 2025

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

Highlight

• An introduction to writing your own ggplot2 geoms
• Reverse dependency check speedrun: a data.table case study
• Mamdani vs Sliwa and Cuomo

Insights

• Reverse dependency check speedrun: a data.table case study
• Anaconda ends R support - Here’s what it means and how to move forward

R in the Real World

• Impact study of vaccination campaigns
• Mamdani vs Sliwa and Cuomo

R in Academia

• Computo - A journal for transparent and reproducible research in statistics and machine learning

Tutorials

• An introduction to writing your own ggplot2 geoms
• How to analyze bluesky posts and trends with R
• Reversed - Day 5 of the #30DayMapChallenge
• Behavior-driven development in R Shiny: setting up test preconditions with given steps

Resources

• Introduction to building (better) R packages

New Packages

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CRAN

• {releaser} 1.0.0: Help with Preparing a New Version of an R Package
• {brand.yml} 0.1.0: Unified Branding with a Simple YAML File
• {PublicationBiasBenchmark} 0.1.0: Benchmark for Publication Bias Correction Methods
• {btw} 1.0.0: A Toolkit for Connecting R and Large Language Models
• {vaccinationimpact} 0.1.0: Impact Study of Vaccination Campaigns

Github

• {mutagen} 0.3.0: Extensions to dplyr’s mutate

Updated Packages

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• {torch} 0.16.3: Tensors and Neural Networks with ‘GPU’ Acceleration - diffify
• {torchvision} 0.8.0: Models, Datasets and Transformations for Images - diffify
• {huxtable} 5.8.0: Easily Create and Style Tables for LaTeX, HTML and Other Formats - diffify
• {stringr} 1.6.0: Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations - diffify
• {purrr} 1.2.0: Functional Programming Tools - diffify

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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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Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge makes things 3D! I took my elevation map from yesterday and made it so with the {rayshader} package. #DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

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— Josh Persi (@joshpersi.bsky.social) 7 novembre 2025 à 02:08

Quotes of the Week

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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— Hadley Wickham (@hadley.nz) 7 novembre 2025 à 00:25