Bringing a little tidy magic to creating flowcharts in R, how data.table is addressing recent shifts in R's C APIs, and another showcase of R's visualization prowess in the realm of brain imaging.
Episode Links
* This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter)
* Flowcharts made easy with the package {flowchart}
* Use of non-API entry points in data.table
* Intro to working with volume and surface brain data
* Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W04
Supplement Resources
* flowchart - R package for drawing participant flow diagrams directly from a dataframe using tidyverse https://bruigtp.github.io/flowchart
* Mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid
* DiagrammeR - Graph and network visualization using tabular data in R https://rich-iannone.github.io/DiagrammeR/
* RNifti https://github.com/jonclayden/RNifti
* gifti https://github.com/muschellij2/gifti
* CRAN Cookbook https://r-consortium.org/posts/user-friendly-technical-cookbook-style-cran-guide-for-new-r-programmers-ready/
* 2024 Posit Year in Review https://posit.co/blog/2024-posit-year-in-review/
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