R Weekly 2025-W15 Positron, Tidyverse + AI, Observable

07 Apr 2025

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This week’s release was curated by Jonathan Carrollfosstodon.org, with help from the RWeekly team members and contributors. ( fosstodon.org ) 

Highlight

• Positron: current joys and painsdrmowinckels.io ( drmowinckels.io ) 

• Learning the tidyverse with the help of AI toolswww.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 

• Observable for R usersnrennie.rbind.io ( nrennie.rbind.io ) 

Insights

• R, DuckDB, and Merorylawless.github.io ( rorylawless.github.io ) 
• Converting arbitrarily large CSVs to Parquet with Rlorentzen.ch ( lorentzen.ch ) 
• data.table Count Rows by Groupwww.marsja.se ( marsja.se ) 
• R Graphical User Interface Comparisonr4stats.com ( r4stats.com ) 
• Should I Use Your R Package?www.jumpingrivers.com ( jumpingrivers.com ) 
• Learning the tidyverse with the help of AI toolswww.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 
• Observable for R usersnrennie.rbind.io ( nrennie.rbind.io ) 

• Positron: current joys and painsdrmowinckels.io ( drmowinckels.io ) 
• 3MW (Automatic Time Series Collection With {pins} & GH Actions)3mw.albert-rapp.de ( 3mw.albert-rapp.de ) 
• Population pyramid plots with base Rjohnmackintosh.com ( johnmackintosh.com ) 
• Running aggregate on wide matrices takes loooong; use nested apply or data tables instead !gacatag.blogspot.com ( gacatag.blogspot.com ) 
• Nonlinear conformalized Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with R package ‘rvfl’ (and other models)thierrymoudiki.github.io ( thierrymoudiki.github.io ) 
• Bayesian proportional hazards model for a stepped-wedge designwww.rdatagen.net ( rdatagen.net ) 

Resources

• The Complete Guide to While Loops in Rwww.spsanderson.com ( spsanderson.com ) 

New Packages

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CRAN

• {friendlynumber} 1.0.0cran.r-project.org: Translate Numbers into Number Words ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {SecretsProvider} 1.0.0cran.r-project.org: Save and Retrieve Name-Value Pairs to and from a File ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {RKaggle} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: ‘Kaggle’ Dataset Downloader ‘API’ ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {emend} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: Cleaning Text Data with an AI Assistant ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {LikertEZ} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: Easy Analysis and Visualization of Likert Scale Data ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {sixtyfour} 0.2.0cran.r-project.org: Humane Interface to Amazon Web Services ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {brokenstick} 2.6.0cran.r-project.org: Broken Stick Model for Irregular Longitudinal Data ( cran.r-project.org ) 

GitHub or Bitbucket

• RObservations #51: Download Kaggle Datasets into the R Console with {RKaggle}bensstats.wordpress.com ( bensstats.wordpress.com ) 

Updated Packages

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• nanotime 0.3.12 on CRAN: Maintenancedirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 
• Rblpapi 0.3.15 on CRAN: Several Refinementsdirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 
• RProtoBuf 0.4.24 on CRAN: Minor Polishdirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 
• RcppSpdlog 0.0.21 on CRAN: New Upstreamdirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 
• RcppZiggurat 0.1.8 on CRAN: Build Refinementsdirk.eddelbuettel.com ( dirk.eddelbuettel.com ) 
• rsample 1.3.0www.tidyverse.org ( tidyverse.org ) 

• {gemini.R} 0.11.0github.com: Interface for ‘Google Gemini’ API ( github.com ) 

• What’s New in Rhino 1.11.0: Devmode, Auto Tests, and a New Destructure Operatorwww.appsilon.com ( appsilon.com ) 
• {duckdbfs} 0.1.0cran.r-project.org: High Performance Remote File System, Database and ‘Geospatial’ Access Using ‘duckdb’ - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {plotthis} 0.6.0cran.r-project.org: High-Level Plotting Built Upon ‘ggplot2’ and Other Plotting Packages - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {sommer} 4.4.1cran.r-project.org: Solving Mixed Model Equations in R - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {rJavaEnv} 0.3.0cran.r-project.org: ‘Java’ Environments for R Projects - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {mgcv} 1.9-3cran.r-project.org: Mixed GAM Computation Vehicle with Automatic Smoothness Estimation - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {lucid} 1.9cran.r-project.org: Printing Floating Point Numbers in a Human-Friendly Format - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {r4ds.tutorials} 0.3.1cran.r-project.org: Tutorials for “R for Data Science” - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {lazyWeave} 3.0.3cran.r-project.org: LaTeX Wrappers for R Users - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {revealjs} 0.10.0cran.r-project.org: R Markdown Format for ‘reveal.js’ Presentations - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {toastui} 0.4.0cran.r-project.org: Interactive Tables, Calendars and Charts for the Web - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {GitStats} 2.3.0cran.r-project.org: Standardized Git Repository Data - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {blastula} 0.3.6cran.r-project.org: Easily Send HTML Email Messages - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {PROJ} 0.6.0cran.r-project.org: Generic Coordinate System Transformations Using ‘PROJ’ - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {xfun} 0.52cran.r-project.org: Supporting Functions for Packages Maintained by ‘Yihui Xie’ - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {dndR} 3.0.0cran.r-project.org: Dungeons & Dragons Functions for Players and Dungeon Masters - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {lattice} 0.22-7cran.r-project.org: Trellis Graphics for R - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {nanotime} 0.3.12cran.r-project.org: Nanosecond-Resolution Time Support for R - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {doRNG} 1.8.6.2cran.r-project.org: Generic Reproducible Parallel Backend for ‘foreach’ Loops - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {mongolite} 4.0.0cran.r-project.org: Fast and Simple ‘MongoDB’ Client for R - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {jobqueue} 1.6.0cran.r-project.org: Run Interruptible Code Asynchronously - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {tuber} 1.0.1cran.r-project.org: Client for the YouTube API - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {texor} 1.5.6cran.r-project.org: Converting ‘LaTeX’ ‘R Journal’ Articles into ‘RJ-web-articles’ - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {rskey} 0.4.19cran.r-project.org: Create Custom ‘Rstudio’ Keyboard Shortcuts - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {papeR} 1.0-6cran.r-project.org: A Toolbox for Writing Pretty Papers and Reports - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {diffr} 0.3.0cran.r-project.org: Display Differences Between Two Files using Codediff Library - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 
• {RMySQL} 0.11.1cran.r-project.org: Database Interface and ‘MySQL’ Driver for R - diffifydiffify.com ( cran.r-project.org ) 

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Shiny Apps

• {polaroid} 0.2.1github.com: Create Hex Stickers with ‘shiny’ ( github.com ) 

R Project Updates

Updates from R Coredeveloper.r-project.org: ( developer.r-project.org ) 

Updates from the R Contribution Working Group (RCWG)contributor.r-project.org: ( contributor.r-project.org ) 

• R Dev Day @ RSECon25warwick.ac.uk: Warwick University, Coventry, UK, Friday 12 September. Collaborate on contributions to the code, documentation and translations in base R. Free to attend, travel funding available from UK, Europe & Global South, apply by Tuesday 23 April. ( warwick.ac.uk ) 

Call for Participation

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetingsjumpingrivers.github.io ( jumpingrivers.github.io ) 

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats eventscommunity.rstudio.com ( community.rstudio.com ) 

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukrainesites.google.com ( sites.google.com ) 

• Smart Extraction: Converting PDF Tables into Usable Data with R workshopr-posts.com ( r-posts.com ) 

• A Quick Guide to Getting the Most Out of ShinyConf 2025www.appsilon.com ( appsilon.com ) 

Connect

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