R Weekly 2025-W38 R6 Interfaces, ggplot2

15 Sep 2025

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

Highlights

• R6 Interfaces For Backend: Define What, Not How

• Introduction the Art of Visualization with ggplot2

• ggplot2 4.0.0

Insights

• ggplot2 4.0.0
• Little useless-useful R functions – Markov babbler
• R6 Interfaces For Backend: Define What, Not How
• TidyDensity Update
• Migrating from RStudio to Positron

R in the Real World

• Who We Are and What We Do: Inside Jumping Rivers

• Bagged Neural Networks: Will Bayrou’s Fell Affect the STOXX 600 Index?

Resources

• Introduction the Art of Visualization with ggplot2

• R consortium - Oracle R Distribution 4.4.1 Now Available with Enhanced Performance

New Packages

CRAN

📦 Keep up to date wtih CRANberries 📦

• {rsamplr} 0.1.1: Sampling Algorithms and Spatially Balanced Sampling
• {ivolcano} 0.0.1: Interactive Volcano Plot
• {workspace} 0.1.5: Manage Collections of Datasets and Objects
• {GPflexViz} 1.0.0: Graphical Visualizations Related to Genomic Prediction
• {inshiny} 0.1.0: Compact Inline Widgets for ‘shiny’ Apps

Github only

• {tomorrow-night-bright-r-classic} 0.1.3: A Tomorrow Night Bright theme for Positron IDE and VS Code, inspired by RStudio IDE
• {mutagen} 0.1.0: Extensions to dplyr’s mutate

Updated Packages

🔍 Search on R-universe 🔍

• {ggstatsplot} 0.13.2: ‘ggplot2’ Based Plots with Statistical Details - diffify
• {purrrlyr} 0.0.10: Tools at the Intersection of ‘purrr’ and ‘dplyr’ - diffify
• {dbplyr} 2.5.1: A ‘dplyr’ Back End for Databases - diffify
• {rix} 0.17.2: Reproducible Data Science Environments with ‘Nix’ - diffify
• {survivoR} 2.3.7: Data from all Seasons of Survivor (US) TV Series in Tidy Format - diffify
• {santoku} 1.1.0: A Versatile Cutting Tool - diffify

Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Tutorials

• Creating and managing Canvas quizzes with R/exams and vvcanvas

• How to Manually Simulate (Seasonal) Time Series in R

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

• Help Us Design a New Git(Hub) Organizational Dashboard

• R consortium call for proposals

• Posit 2025 Table Contest

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

• From a slow analysis script to a fast and structured program in R workshop

• R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages

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

• R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages

Connect

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rtistry

For this week's #TidyTuesday, hex grid maps showing seasonal shifts in frog observations across Australia Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

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— Georgios Karamanis (@karaman.is) 7 septembre 2025 à 18:13

🎨 #Rtistry #GenArtClub #RStats #ggplot2

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— Nicola Rennie (@nrennie.bsky.social) 8 septembre 2025 à 11:40

Quotes of the Week

Oh, boy, I has missed this positron feature. You can link your github account and access PR and issues directly from the IDE. #RStats

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— Elio Campitelli (@eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy) 12 septembre 2025 à 01:21