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.
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- 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
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