Issue 2025-W51 Highlights

Issue 2025-W51 Highlights

From R Weekly Highlights by Eric Nantz

December 17, 2025 · 32 min · Episode 216

About this episode

This episode highlights favorite data visualization projects and insights from 2025, along with practical guidance for R package maintainers and a new package release.

A retrospective that showcases favourite data visualisation projects and insights from 2025, a practical guide offering R package maintainers methods to gauge how their package is being used, and an R package release introducing additional helper functions that extend dplyr::mutate() for generating columns with useful rowwise and list-column operations.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) My year in data visualisation How to Assess Usage of your Package {mutagen} 0.5.0 : Extensions to dplyr's mutate Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W51 Supporting the show   Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby , and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast…

People in this episode

Host: Eric Nantz

Topics covered

  • data visualization
  • R package maintenance
  • dplyr extensions
  • data insights
  • 2025 retrospective

Keywords

  • data visualization
  • R packages
  • dplyr
  • mutagen
  • 2025 insights

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Organizations: dplyr, R Weekly Highlights, Podcastindex.org, Alby, OCRemix

Products: mutagen

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