{PrettyCols} is an R package containing aesthetically pleasing colour palettes that are compatible with {ggplot2}. Find out about new features and palettes contained in the latest release!

An alternative to a traditional legend is using coloured text in a subtitle. In {ggplot2}, we can do this using the {ggtext} package. You can also do it using the new {marquee} package. How do they compare?

Combining parameterised reporting with conditional content in Quarto, makes it easy to create multiple versions of R tutorial worksheets - a questions worksheet for students, and a solutions worksheet for students to take home.

Waffle charts can be used to visualise counts or percentages of categorical data. This blog post describes a slightly unusual solution to creating sketchy looking waffle charts in R using the {sf} and {roughsf} packages.

Shinylive, GitHub Actions, and R - the magic combination to create an app that updates itself every week. This blog post gives a walk-through of scheduled data collection, building a Shiny app to display it, and deploying with Shinylive.

After running the ‘Forecasting with generalised additive models (GAMS) in R’ workshop with Forecasting for Social Good, there were a few questions that we didn’t get the chance to answer. This blog post aims to answer some of them.