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15 Dec 2025

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

Highlight

• My year in data visualisation

• How to Assess Usage of your Package

• {mutagen} 0.5.0: Extensions to dplyr’s mutate

Insights

• How to Assess Usage of your Package

• Growing an R Community in a Shifting Tech Landscape: The Story of R-Ladies Zurich

• My year in data visualisation

• Running r-ci with R-devel

R in the Real World

• Bridging Gaps and Breaking Barriers: A Year of R Innovation with the China PharmaRUG

• Expanded FDA eCTD File Format Support for R Packages — A Milestone Achieved Through Industry–FDA Collaboration

R in Academia

• New Preprint: Mapping Climate Change Coverage: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions in German News Media, 2010–2024

• Un-debunking the GAMLSS myth

Tutorials

• Which LLM writes the best R code?

• Make Your Shiny Apps Accessible to Everyone – Free Jumping Rivers Webinar!

• Elephant(s) in the room: Graph neural networks, embeddings, and foundation models in spatial data science

• Counterfactual Scenario Analysis with ahead::ridge2f

• ARIMA-Black-Scholes: Semi-Parametric Market price of risk for Risk-Neutral Pricing (code + preprint)

• Smoothed ROC Curves, Calculus and Curvature

New Packages

CRAN

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• convergenceDFM - Tools for diagnosing convergence in Dynamic Factor Models (DFM). (GitHub). This library evaluates variable convergence by integrating DFM with Factor Ornstein-Uhlenbeck linear processes.

• valueprhr - A comprehensive econometric toolkit for analyzing the empirical relationship between direct prices (labor values), prices of production, and market prices. (GitHub)

• topologyR - Topological Connectivity Analysis for Numeric Data. (GitHub). Implements topological data analysis methods based on graph-theoretic approaches to discover structures in numerical data.

• EconCausal - Causal Analysis for Macroeconomic Time Series. (GitHub). A comprehensive suite for causal inference emphasizing temporal stability validation.

• BayesianDisaggregation - Bayesian Methods for Economic Data Disaggregation. (GitHub). This package provides a framework for relating information at incompatible levels of granularity (e.g., disaggregating national indices to sectors) using uncertain proxies.

• {yaml12} 0.1.0: Fast ‘YAML’ 1.2 Parser and Formatter

• {AdaptiveBoxplot} 0.1.1: FDR(BH) Boxplot and FWER(Holm) Boxplot

• {aNCA} 0.1.0: (Pre-)Clinical NCA in a Dynamic Shiny App

• {distplyr} 0.2.0: Manipulate and Combine Probability Distributions

• {charisma} 1.0.0: Reproducible Color Characterization of Digital Images for Biological Studies

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {mutagen} 0.5.0: Extensions to dplyr’s mutate

• {quartify} - R package that automatically converts R scripts into Quarto markdown documents and can directly render them to HTML. It also integrates lintr and styler for code quality, and provides a web app to test and preview the conversion in your browser.

• {tidytab} 0.2.0: Create tidyverse-friendly tables of frequencies

Updated Packages

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• {qol} 1.1.1: Powerful ‘SAS’ Inspired Concepts for more Efficient Bigger Outputs - diffify

• {vetiver} 0.2.7: Version, Share, Deploy, and Monitor Models - diffify

• {tidypredict} 1.0.1: Run Predictions Inside the Database - diffify

• {rde} 0.1.1: Reproducible Data Embedding - diffify

• {plumber} 1.3.1: An API Generator for R - diffify

• {pubchem.bio} 1.0.3: Biologically Informed Metabolomic Libraries from ‘PubChem’ - diffify

• {maptiles} 0.11.0: Download and Display Map Tiles - diffify

• {Bchron} 4.7.8: Age-Depth Radiocarbon Modelling - diffify

• {SeuratObject} 5.3.0: Data Structures for Single Cell Data - diffify

• {geoflow} 1.1.0: Orchestrate Geospatial (Meta)Data Management Workflows and Manage FAIR Services - diffify

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Quotes of the Week

I am still and always After so many and so many years That child who pulls on a string In pursuit of the wind… Philippe Soupault Love Is In The Air (Flower Thrower) - Banksy 2013

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— TRAstonDrs (@castltrastondrs.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM