R Weekly 2025-W47 Plots, Tables, Pipes

17 Nov 2025

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carroll, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see

• Winners of the 2025 Table Contest

• How much do you know about pipes?

Insights

• How much do you know about pipes?
• readtextgrid now uses C++ (and ChatGPT helped)
• Little useless-useful R functions – Finding substrings in number Pi
• Best Practices for Cleaning Data in R
• Evaluating a New Job Market Data Feed
• When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see
• Winners of the 2025 Table Contest

• Spatial autocorrelation: what’s the problem?
• Using R/anomalize to identify delays in games of Australian Rules football
• Rainfall
• Minimal roman
• 2125
• 10 minutes

R in Academia

• Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience

Tutorials

• Distribution of p-values under the null hypothesis for discrete data
• ROC Curves in Two Lines of Code

Resources

• R+AI: Use RAG from your database to gain insights into the R Consortium
• Python package development for R developers Part 2

New Packages

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CRAN

• {toon} 0.0.1: Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON)
• {trendseries} 1.1.0: Extract Trends from Time Series
• {deepspat} 0.3.0: Deep Compositional Spatial Models
• {tidysynthesis} 0.1.2: A Common API for Synthesizing Data
• {ISCAM} 1.0.0: Companion to the Book “Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods”
• {DIVINE} 0.1.0: Curated Datasets and Tools for Epidemiological Data Analysis
• {Capsule} 0.2.0: Comprehensive Reproducibility Framework for R and Bioinformatics Analysis
• {hdf5lib} 1.14.6.4: Headers and Static Libraries for ‘HDF5’
• {tsg} 0.1.0: Generate Publication-Ready Statistical Tables
• {shinyOAuth} 0.1.3: Provider-Agnostic OAuth Authentication for ‘shiny’ Applications
• {shinyfa} 0.0.1: Analyze the File Contents of ‘shiny’ Directories
• {funviewR} 0.1.0: Visualize Function Call Dependencies in R Source Code

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {RmlxStats} - Statistical modelling front-ends that run on Apple GPU hardware via the Rmlx array library.
• side::kick(), a coding agent for RStudio
• {mutagen} 0.4.0: Extensions to dplyr’s mutate

Updated Packages

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• digest 0.6.38 on CRAN: Several Updates
• duckdb-mlpack 0.0.4: Added random forest and logistic regression
• thatthat 0.3.0
• {testthat} 3.3.0: Unit Testing for R - diffify
• {testdat} 0.4.4: Data Unit Testing for R - diffify
• {plotrix} 3.8-13: Various Plotting Functions - diffify
• {reticulate} 1.44.1: Interface to ‘Python’ - diffify
• {powertools} 1.0.0: Power and Sample Size Tools - diffify
• {countdown} 0.6.0: A Countdown Timer for HTML Presentations, Documents, and Web Apps - diffify
• {officer} 0.7.1: Manipulation of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint Documents - diffify
• {nflplotR} 1.6.0: NFL Logo Plots in ‘ggplot2’ and ‘gt’ - diffify
• {slider} 0.3.3: Sliding Window Functions - diffify
• {S7} 0.2.1: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4 - diffify
• {froggeR} 0.6.0: Enhance ‘Quarto’ Project Workflows and Standards - diffify
• {validate} 1.1.6: Data Validation Infrastructure - diffify
• {lobstr} 1.1.3: Visualize R Data Structures with Trees - diffify
• {gggenomes} 1.1.2: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics - diffify
• {aRxiv} 0.14: Interface to the arXiv API - diffify
• {datacutr} 0.2.4: SDTM Datacut - diffify
• {ggplot2} 4.0.1: Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics - diffify
• {rgl} 1.3.31: 3D Visualization Using OpenGL - diffify
• {downlit} 0.4.5: Syntax Highlighting and Automatic Linking - diffify
• {BiocManager} 1.30.27: Access the Bioconductor Project Package Repository - diffify
• {cookiemonster} 0.0.5: Your Friendly Solution to Managing Browser Cookies - diffify
• {learnr} 0.11.6: Interactive Tutorials for R - diffify
• {multidplyr} 0.1.4: A Multi-Process ‘dplyr’ Backend - diffify
• {datetoiso} 1.0.0: Convert and Impute Dates to ISO Standard (“International Organization for Standardization”) - diffify
• {rmake} 1.2.1: Makefile Generator for R Analytical Projects - diffify
• {digest} 0.6.38: Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects - diffify
• {reshape2} 1.4.5: Flexibly Reshape Data: A Reboot of the Reshape Package - diffify
• {container} 1.1.0: Extending Base ‘R’ Lists - diffify
• {sqltargets} 0.3.0: ‘Targets’ Extension for ‘SQL’ Queries - diffify
• {tugboat} 0.1.5: Build a Docker Image from a Directory or Project - diffify
• {shinyOAuth} 0.1.3: Provider-Agnostic OAuth Authentication for ‘shiny’ Applications - diffify
• {gsl} 2.1-9: Wrapper for the Gnu Scientific Library - diffify
• {sf} 1.0-22: Simple Features for R - diffify
• {RSQLite} 2.4.4: SQLite Interface for R - diffify
• {tidyseurat} 0.8.7: Brings Seurat to the Tidyverse - diffify
• {rbedrock} 0.4.2: Analysis and Manipulation of Data from Minecraft Bedrock Edition - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast
• Create and Deploy a Python Shiny Express Application to Connect Cloud
• Nextflow Summit 2025 Talks on YouTube
• posit::conf(2025) talks on YouTube
• Introduction to Empirical Macroeconomics with R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• Get Involved in the Data Science Community at our Free Meetups

• 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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