What’s New in R: August 18, 2025
Welcome to this week’s edition of What’s New in R! This week, we’re featuring a historical look at the tidyverse, a blog post on using AI to help write R code, and a guide on automating the process of creating Quarto syntax from R scripts. Let’s dive in!
The History of the Tidyverse
Hadley Wickham provides a fascinating retrospective on the development and evolution of the tidyverse over the past 25 years. This comprehensive history covers the key milestones and innovations that have shaped the tidyverse into a cornerstone of data science in R.
How I’m using Claude Code to write R code
Simon Couch at Posit has been on absolute tear, developing so many R packages that use AI I can’t keep up. In this blog post, he takes us behind the scenes, explaining how he use AI to write R code.
Generating quarto syntax within R
If you’ve ever wanted to programmatically make content in Quarto directly from an R script, this is the blog post for you. In it, Danielle Navarro shows how to automatically make a Quarto tabset directly from R. This is useful when, in her case, she wants to make plots showing the gender breakdown of various baby names over time. We’ve used this kind of technique as well and it’s very powerful!
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