Issue 2024-W39 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your guides, and a prime way of using R to brute-force the answer to a mathematical brain-teaser.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[e-mail] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• patchwork 1.3.0
• {gguidance}: Extended guide options for 'ggplot2'
• Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nz
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W39

Supplement Resources

• gt 0.11.0 release notes https://gt.rstudio.com/news/index.html#gt-0110
• Being free from constraint https://www.data-imaginist.com/posts/2024-01-05-patchwork-1-2-0/#being-free-from-constraint
• gguidance: A guided tour vignette https://teunbrand.github.io/gguidance/articles/tour.html
• Create a free Llama 3.1 405B-powered chatbot on an R package's GitHub repo in <1 min https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/create-a-free-llama-405b-llm-chatbot-github-repo-huggingface
• Ease renv::restore() by updating your repository to Posit Public Package Manager https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2024-09-16-ease-renvrestore-by-updating-your-repositories-to-p3m

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