R Weekly 2025-W00

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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

• 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. Using Bayesian MCMC, it rigorously quantifies mean reversion speeds and cross-factor coupling.

• valueprhr - A comprehensive econometric toolkit for analyzing the empirical relationship between direct prices (labor values), prices of production, and market prices. The package implements multiple complementary methodologies—from classical panel data models to Bayesian hierarchical specifications—enabling researchers to rigorously test the labor theory of value using high-frequency sectoral data constructed via Bayesian disaggregation. (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. The package helps determine whether data (such as time series) form a connected set, guiding the decision between using globally continuous methods or segmented modeling.

• EconCausal - Causal Analysis for Macroeconomic Time Series. (GitHub). A comprehensive suite for causal inference emphasizing temporal stability validation. It implements three complementary pipelines—Error-Correction Models with MARS, Bayesian Structural Time Series, and Bayesian GLM with AR(1) errors—to rigorously determine directional relationships and test their persistence across different regimes.

• 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. It employs analytical Bayesian updating and PCA/SVD signal extraction to incorporate uncertainty without the computational overhead of MCMC.

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• {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