Hi there Reader, I’m very excited to announce that 6 English-language books and 9 Portuguese books have been added to the collection of over 400 free, open-source R programming books. Many thanks to Bruno Mioto for the submission of the Portuguese books. As a reminder, there is also a Spanish-language chapter with 15 entries. And now, onto the English additions! ggplot2 extended Antti Rask This book is about how to use them to make the most out of the whole ggplot2 ecosystem. And which of the...

Hi there Reader, There’s been a sudden jump in RStats peeps joining BlueSky, and some very familiar faces from the twitter days. You can find me here, and there’s a very handy “starter pack” which is a list of accounts to jumpstart your feed with! We’ve got a bumper edition in this latest update of Big Book of R. 10 new books in total. Many thanks to Peter Kemp, Isabella Velásquez, David Díaz Rodríguez and the ever-mysterious “Gary” for their contributions. Firstly, we have 4 new books added...

Hi there Reader, I’m super-excited to announce a bumper Big Book of R update. Quarto update Firstly, you’ll see that the site has been updated from bookdown to Quarto. Not only does it give us a nice visual update, the search function seems to work a lot better, and I think splitting the navigation into chapters on the left-hand side and content on the right makes this type of content easier to navigate. Because the site is programmatically generated, I knew that porting it over wouldn’t...