Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels suite, Nicola Rennie's adventures with this year's 30 day chart challenge, going back to math school with Jon Carroll's latest explorations in digit rotation, and our picks out of the excellent collection of the top 40 R packages for March.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• recipes 1.3.0
• 30 Day Chart Challenge 2025
• Rotation with Modulo
• March 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W19

Supplement Resources

• {recipes} Pipeable steps for feature engineering and data preprocessing to prepare for modeling https://recipes.tidymodels.org/
• tidymodels books https://www.tidymodels.org/books/index.html
• Nicola's 30 day chart challenge browser app https://nrennie.rbind.io/30DayChartChallenge/
• {tidyplots} https://tidyplots.org
• {echarts4r} https://echarts4r.john-coene.com
• https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1kfd57j/oc_round_2_matchups_are_set_lego_style/
• Using {autodb} https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/autodb/vignettes/autodb.html
• {kitesquare} Kite-Square plots for contingency tables https://github.com/HUGLeipzig/kitesquare
• {EQRN} Extreme Quantile Regression Neural Networks for Risk Forecasting https://cran.r-project.org/package=EQRN https://opasche.github.io/EQRN/

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