R Weekly 2025-W28 Quarto syntax, BDD, scalarized bug hunting

07 Jul 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

• Generating quarto syntax within R

• An Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development in R

• Dive()ing into the hunt #rstats

Insights

• You can outsource the grunt work to an LLM, not expertise

• R Package Quality: Documentation

• Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program

• May 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

R in the Real World

• Dive()ing into the hunt #rstats

• Forecasting the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 with enhanced statistical learning

R in Organizations

• Charting ‘tidycensus’ data with R

New Packages

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CRAN

• {fishboot} 1.0.2: Bootstrap-Based Methods for the Study of Fish Stocks and Aquatic Populations
• {unifyR} 1.0.0: Unified Scores, Reliabilities and Validities from Multiple Tests
• {rcrisp} 0.1.4: Automate the Delineation of Urban River Spaces
• {r4pde} 0.1.0: Companion to R for Plant Disease Epidemiology Book
• {ecoteach} 0.1.0: Educational Datasets for Ecology and Agriculture
• {tabr} 0.5.3: Music Notation Syntax, Manipulation, Analysis and Transcription in R

GitHub or Bitbucket

• {zap}: Fast object serialization with high compression

Updated Packages

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• RcppArmadillo 14.6.0-1 on CRAN: New Upstream Minor Release
• Rcpp 1.1.0 on CRAN: C++11 now Minimum, Regular Semi-Annual Update
• {rcrisp} 0.1.4: Automate the Delineation of Urban River Spaces - diffify
• {pillar} 1.11.0: Coloured Formatting for Columns - diffify
• {ggpedigree} 0.8.0: Visualizing Pedigrees with ‘ggplot2’ and ‘plotly’ - diffify
• {openxlsx2} 1.17: Read, Write and Edit ‘xlsx’ Files - diffify
• {gtsummary} 2.3.0: Presentation-Ready Data Summary and Analytic Result Tables - diffify
• {tinytable} 0.10.0: Simple and Configurable Tables in ‘HTML’, ‘LaTeX’, ‘Markdown’, ‘Word’, ‘PNG’, ‘PDF’, and ‘Typst’ Formats - diffify
• {shiny} 1.11.1: Web Application Framework for R - diffify
• {tidyplots} 0.3.1: Tidy Plots for Scientific Papers - diffify
• {ggsurveillance} 0.5.1: Tools for Outbreak Investigation/Infectious Disease Surveillance - diffify
• {wordmap} 0.9.4: Feature Extraction and Document Classification with Noisy Labels - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast
• The Test Set: A Posit video podcast series for data science
• Scaling the r-spatial ecosystem for the modern composable data pipeline

Shiny Apps

• Building Trust with Code: Validating Shiny Apps in Regulated Environments

Tutorials

• Specialized R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo

• Generating quarto syntax within R

• An Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development in R

• 3MW (Writing SQL in R Efficiently)

• Decoding OAuth2 M2M with httr2: Client Setup & API Testing

• Predicting Gold Prices: Backtesting of ML Models

• Counting Digits Quickly

• New release of mapsf: version 1.0.0

• Plot Data Along a Genome with karyoploteR

• Open files in external programs with Positron or Visual Studio Code

• Use Positron to run R inside Docker a image through SSH

• Learn Stan with brms, Part I

R Project Updates

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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

• latent: R package for the efficient estimation of large latent variable models

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