R Weekly 2025-W52 Festive ML, next gen R contributors, The Economist style ggplot2

22 Dec 2025

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

Highlight

• Machine Learning Powered Naughty List: A Festive Jumping Rivers Story
• RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R
• How to draw the Economist-style graph with ggplot2 in R?

Insights

• RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R

• Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub

R in the Real World

• Outliers in Data Analysis: Detecting Extreme Values Before Modeling in R with İstanbul Airbnb Data

Tutorials

• UMAP in R and python, a rabbit hole

• Introducing docorator to the pharmaverse

• Finally figured out a way to port python packages to R using uv and reticulate: example with nnetsauce

• How to draw the Economist-style graph with ggplot2 in R?

• Machine Learning Powered Naughty List: A Festive Jumping Rivers Story

New Packages

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

CRAN

• {shinyfilters} 0.2.0 - Use Shiny Inputs on Vectors, data.frames, or any R Object
• {readmit} 0.0.1: Tools for Working with Hospital Readmissions Data
• {ukc19} 0.0.3: Datasets from the UK COVID-19 Outbreak
• {havel} 0.1.2: Visualize and Tabulate ‘R’ Package Dependencies
• {waysign} 0.1.0: Multi-Purpose and High-Performance Routing
• {insetplot} 1.3.0: Inset Plots for Spatial Data Visualization

Updated Packages

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• dang 0.0.17: New Features, Plus Maintenance
• RcppArmadillo 15.2.3-1 on CRAN: Upstream Update
• {tidyr} 1.3.2: Tidy Messy Data - diffify
• {knitr} 1.51: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R - diffify
• {futureverse} 0.1.1: Install ‘Futureverse’ in One Go - diffify
• {e1071} 1.7-17: Misc Functions of the Department of Statistics, Probability Theory Group (Formerly: E1071), TU Wien - diffify
• {dbscan} 1.2.4: Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) and Related Algorithms - diffify
• {modeltime} 1.3.3: The Tidymodels Extension for Time Series Modeling - diffify
• {PMwR} 1.2-0: Portfolio Management with R - diffify
• {fImport} 4052.89: Rmetrics - Importing Economic and Financial Data - diffify
• {selectr} 0.5-1: Translate CSS Selectors to XPath Expressions - diffify
• {impectR} 2.5.3: Access Data from the ‘Impect’ API - diffify
• {nhlscraper} 0.4.1: Scraper for National Hockey League Data - diffify
• {ggsci} 4.2.0: Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for ‘ggplot2’ - diffify
• {mindr} 1.4.1: Generate Mind Maps - diffify
• {ganttify} 0.1.8: Create Interactive Gantt Charts with Work Breakdown Structure - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

• Advanced R, Chapter 17: Metaprogramming intro and big picture

Shiny Apps

• AssociationExplorer: A user-friendly shiny application for exploring associations and visual patterns

R Internationally

• Japan R 2025
• R for Research Japan 2025

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

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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Quotes of the Week

This lo-res, firefly-ridden render of Brasil's power transmission lines (osm and derived) took hours. Turns out even with Tyler's amazing optimizations, I can still bring the rendering process to a crawl. To be fair, it's over 150k lines. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale pic.twitter.com/HPZsfNgN8T

— terence (@researchremora) November 27, 2025

R climbs back up into the top ten programming languages https://flowingdata.com/2025/12/19/r-climbs-back-up-into-the-top-ten-programming-languages/ #rstats #datascience

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— The R Data Scientist (@rstats.blaze.email) December 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM