R Weekly Highlights
169 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.
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Issue 2024-W24 Highlights
June 12, 2024 07:12 - 59 minutes - 82.6 MBA thoughtful perspective on why it's not an either/or situation with popular data processing paradigms in R, another case of being kind to future you with your Git commit messages, and satisfying the need for speed in the evolving geospatial space. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter) Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on "dialects" in R Why you need small, informative Git commits Making a Ridiculously Fast™ API Client ...
Issue 2024-W23 Highlights
June 05, 2024 07:21 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBHow vintage features in R could introduce chaos in your quest for a tibble & data.frame function, and the awesome potential of integrating custom parameters and conditional processing in your next Quarto workflow. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Make your functions compa-tibble Creating R tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using Quarto Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W23 Supplement Res...
Issue 2024-W22 Highlights
May 29, 2024 07:51 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBThe recent patches in R that pave the way for a future object-oriented-programming framework to accompany S3 and S4, a treasure-trove of open spatial data ready for your mapping visualization adventures, and a collection of tips for the next time you refactor your testing scripts. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter) Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R Getting and visualizing Overture Maps buildings data...
Issue 2024-W20 Highlights
May 15, 2024 07:02 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBAn aesthetically-pleasing journey through the history of R, another demonstration of DuckDB's power with analytics, and how webR with shinylive brings new learning life to the Pharmaverse TLG gallery. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) The Aesthetics Wiki - an R Addendum R Dplyr vs. DuckDB - How to Enhance Your Data Processing Pipelines with R DuckDB TLG Catalog 🤝 WebR Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W20 ...
Issue 2024-W19 Highlights
May 08, 2024 07:11 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBOur take on the important conversations spurred by the recent R deserialization CVE, how simulations may save you from cracking open that probability textbook, and recapping the exciting 2024 Shiny Conference. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] & [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter) Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn't be afraid to ask Calculating birthday probabilities with R instead of math Hig...
Issue 2024-W18 Highlights
May 01, 2024 07:22 - 36 minutes - 51.3 MBWhy R 4.4.0 may reduce your trips to a certain kind of stack overflow, a call to update your favorite Shiny application code snippets, and how the steller ASTHOS Profile Shiny dashboard has your hosts blown away and fighting the urge to refactor their applications UIs! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) What's new in R 4.4.0? It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippet Tailoring Shiny for Modern Users Enti...
Issue 2024-W17 Highlights
April 24, 2024 07:11 - 38 minutes - 53.6 MBBringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter) Interactive volcano plots with the ggiraph R package Modular R code for analytical projects with {box...
Issue 2024-W16 Highlights
April 16, 2024 07:34 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBAnother way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a major milestone for the R-Hub project. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter) Chat with AI in RStudio Test warnings faster R-hub v2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W16 Supplement Resources R/Pharma 2023 presentation by Edgar Ruiz (GitHub Copilot in RStudio) ...
Issue 2024-W15 Highlights
April 10, 2024 04:44 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MBThe Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fundamental dplyr grouping operations to life. Episode Links This week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter) Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and Cachix webR 0.3.1 Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}...
Issue 2024-W14 Highlights
April 03, 2024 07:23 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBTaking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payments, and the tried-and-true method of simulation in action to investigate time-to-event inference statistics. Episode Links This week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) I Made R Text For Me Stop Jenny committing arson The log-rank Test Assumes More Than the Cox Model Entire issue available ...
Issue 2024-W13 Highlights
March 27, 2024 06:15 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBHow a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter) Update on mocking for testing R packages {rspell} Are you writing in a foreign language? The RStudio spelling dictionary setting is not sufficient to correct grammar errors. Try the...
Issue 2024-W12 Highlights
March 20, 2024 07:45 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBAn honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Patterns and anti-patterns of data analysis reuse $%@! R help from $%@! AI Best Pr...
Issue 2024-W11 Highlights
March 13, 2024 06:45 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBA collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Marketing Ideas For Your Package Spring clean your R packages webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS project...
Issue 2024-W10 Highlights
March 06, 2024 08:30 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBHow an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not? Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem {data.table} Community Survey: Results and insights Doom plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W10 ...
Issue 2024-W09 Highlights
February 28, 2024 07:30 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBFlipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) HelloWorld(“print”) ggplot2 3.5.0 Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W09 Supplement Resources lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit Adv...
Issue 2024-W08 Highlights
February 21, 2024 08:15 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBPutting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) My Year of Riding Danishly Tame your namespace with a dash of suggests Guess My Name with Decision Trees ...
Issue 2024-W07 Highlights
February 14, 2024 08:15 - 34 minutes - 48 MBA few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals sta...
Issue 2024-W06 Highlights
February 07, 2024 08:30 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBKey learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Teaching you - teaching me Things that can go wrong when using renv Parquet vs the RDS Format Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W06 Supplement Resources Quartaki an intro...
Issue 2024-W05 Highlights
January 31, 2024 08:15 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBThe R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Notes from live code review of {soils} Load different R package versions at once with git worktree ...
Issue 2024-W04 Highlights
January 24, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes - 60.5 MBHow the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) How to Update a Translation with Babeldown Six not-so-basic base R functions 3MW (Making dashboard interactive) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024...
Issue 2024-W03 Highlights
January 17, 2024 08:15 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBA tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) How to work with APIs using the httr2 package Five Powerful ggplot Extensions Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon Entire issue available at rweekly.org...
Issue 2024-W02 Highlights
January 10, 2024 09:00 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBWe kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Four ways to streamline your R workflows The case for a pipe assignment operator in R Bye, RStudio/Posit! - Afte...
Issue 2023-W50 Highlights
December 13, 2023 08:15 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBA data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V? Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players? Quarto Dashboards Why is View() capitalized, anyway? Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W50 Supplement Resources JJ All...
Issue 2023-W49 Highlights
December 06, 2023 07:15 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBA timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Cliff notes about the cli package How to make your own #RStats Wrapped deposits R Package Delivers a Common Workflow for R Users Entire issue availa...
Issue 2023-W48 Highlights
November 30, 2023 08:00 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBA glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Object-Oriented Express: Refactoring in R Using benchmarking to guide the adoption of dependencies in R packages Building a DataFusion CSV reader with arrow-ex...
Issue 2023-W45 Highlights
November 11, 2023 07:15 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBFrom the "is there anything R cannot do" department comes QR code scanning, a tidy time series analysis on a major problem in the roads of Pittsburgh, and rolling up your sleeves with custom ggplot2 tricks to enhance a spatial visualization. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Scanning QR codes in R Forecasting Pittsburgh Potholes with {fable} Adding context to maps made with ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org...
Issue 2023-W44 Highlights
November 01, 2023 07:30 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBA collection of post-workshop answers for the R/Pharma introduction to tidymodels workshop, the Shiny UI Editor takes a huge step out of the alpha stage, and a unique approach to Shiny modules with the new component package. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Answering some {tidymodels} questions ShinyUIEditor: Out of alpha {component} - Creating components for Shiny inspired by Vue Entire issue available at rw...
Issue 2023-W42 Highlights
October 18, 2023 06:15 - 50 minutes - 69.1 MBAnother collection of package testing workflow nuggets you can make great use of today, the definitive guide to effective use of logging in Shiny applications from the recent Shiny in Production conference, and a cautionary tale of the potential impact of default function arguments in your downstream analytical pipelines. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Two recent enhancements to my testing workflow Shiny In P...
Issue 2023-W41 Highlights
October 11, 2023 06:15 - 53 minutes - 74.2 MBHow the {potools} package jump-starts your R package translations, the most-upvoted feature request lands in the RStudio IDE with GitHub Copilot integration, and a reflective post on the multiple paths to reproducible data science workflows in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) How to translate your package's messages with {potools} GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it's finally here! An overview of what's out there for reproducibility with R Entire issue...
Issue 2023-W40 Highlights
October 05, 2023 06:15 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBA new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) {zoomerjoin} 0.1.0: Superlatively-fast fuzzy-joins in R. Creating typewriter-styled maps in ggplot2 System Dependencies in R Packages & Aut...
Issue 2023-W39 Highlights
September 27, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBReflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Reflections on posit conf(2023) Snap Slides: a Lightweight HTML Presentation Framework Parallel raster processing in stars Reproducible data science with Nix, part 6 -- CI/C...
Issue 2023-W37 Highlights
September 13, 2023 07:30 - 37 minutes - 52 MBAnother adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports Entire issue available at rweekly....
Issue 2023-W36 Highlights
September 07, 2023 06:45 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MBA batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter) Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W36 Supplement Resources June Choe's comment on Mike Ma...
Issue 2023-W35 Highlights
September 01, 2023 07:15 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBThe next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) {S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4 Creating template files with R A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON En...
Issue 2023-W34 Highlights
August 23, 2023 07:30 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBA few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open source to process high-dimensional USDA geospatial data sets, and an infinitely fascinating look at how recursion and infinite data structures can be used in your R adventures. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Best Practices for Data Cleaning and Preprocessing Analyzing new USDA data using open source tools Takin...
Issue 2023-W33 Highlights
August 16, 2023 06:15 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBAnother excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next! Wrapping C Code in an R Package How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023...
Issue 2023-W32 Highlights
August 09, 2023 06:30 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBHow a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by...
Issue 2023-W31 Highlights
August 03, 2023 06:15 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBReducing usage of for loops with the reduce function from purrr, filling spatial maps with density gradients to account for overplotting, and a fun way to add attribution to your fancy ggplots. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Reducing my for loop usage with purrr::reduce() How to fill maps with density gradients with R, {ggplot2}, and {sf} Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2} Entire issue avail...
Issue 2023-W30 Highlights
July 26, 2023 08:15 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBHow consistent formatting and styling is valuable technique for debugging, a visual tour-de-force of jazzing up your ggplots with the amazing ecosystem of extension packages, and why a little investment in learning HTML and CSS is worth your time as an R programmer. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Tips for debugging and cleaning broken code Jazz up your ggplots! Four reasons to learn HTML + CSS as an R programmer Entire issue available at rwee...
Issue 2023-W29 Highlights
July 19, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBThe second edition of the highly-regarded R for Data Science arrives with substantial updates, an adventure with "A Programming Language" that brings new perspectives to functional programming approaches, and a new take on reproducibility in data science combining R with the Nix packaging system. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) R for Data Science, 2nd edition Array Languages: R vs APL Reproducible data scienc...
Issue 2023-W26 Highlights
June 28, 2023 06:15 - 33 minutes - 46.8 MBReleasing an Word document table into the land of markdown, a practical overview of sharing your machine learning model with others, and taking local control of checking the builds of your package across computing architectures. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Convert a Word table to Markdown How Can Someone Else Use My Model? How to debug your package in a {rhub} fedora container before sending to CRAN? Entire issue...
Issue 2023-W25 Highlights
June 21, 2023 05:45 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBUncovering powerful use cases of the slice() function in the tidyverse, a batch of new features and fixes for column labeling in gt 0.9.0, and a fun journey with tidymodels and visualizations on just how much the Reverend Thomas Bayes may have earned from his own home (probably). Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Row relational operations with slice() Merging columns together and fixing up column labels in {gt...
Issue 2023-W24 Highlights
June 14, 2023 07:15 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBA batch of useful patterns for your next R project, the highly-anticipated dashboard components of {bslib} have arrived, and creating circle-based charts with customization using {ggtricks}. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Three useful (to me) R patterns Towards easy, delightful, and customizable dashboards in Shiny for R with {bslib} Easily create sector (pie, donut) and series of circle charts using Cartesi...
Issue 2023-W23 Highlights
June 06, 2023 07:45 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MBAnother terrific illustration of open-source collaboration in the latest updates to gptstudio, and a comprehensive journey of web scraping in R to bring much-needed automation to a practical research problem. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) On updating a chat assistant app for the RStudio IDE Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W23 Supplement Resources GPT RStudio addins that enable GPT assisted coding...
Issue 2023-W22 Highlights
June 01, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBAnother gem in the functional programming toolkit with partial functions, simplifying R package creation using fusen, and a creative visualization of worldwide parliament representation. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Curried functions in R - Examples with purrr and ggplot2 {fusen}: Simplifying Writing Packages for R Users Showing women proportion of Parliamentarians on a map Entire issue available at rweekly...
Issue 2023-W21 Highlights
May 25, 2023 07:15 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBA must-have resource to get you primed for testing R packages interfacing with the web, how ggblend taps into new compositing functionality for clearer plots, and how R stacks up with Excel in handling dates. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Better Understanding Your Tools Choices with Online Book HTTP Testing in R ggblend: Blending and compositing algebra for ggplot2 Why should I use R: Handling Dates in R and Excel: Part 3 Entire issue availa...
Issue 2023-W20 Highlights
May 17, 2023 07:30 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBIntroducing the new ggflowchart package, how a dockerized development environment is another win for reproducibility, and our take on Colin Fay's keynote from the Appsilon Shiny Conference. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Introducing {ggflowchart} Why you should consider working on a dockerized development environment Colin Fay, Keynote: Production is like ultra running: brutal, ungrateful, but worth every step Ent...
Issue 2023-W18 Highlights
May 03, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MBWhy effective code reviews can bring many benefits to data science teams, the origin story of the sketch package to transpile R code to JavaScript, and a primer on error handling in both R and Python. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter) Pull Requests, Code Review, and The Art of Requesting Changes Sketch Package looks to add JavaScript to R packages Error Handling in R and Python Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W18 Supplement Resources What ...
Issue 2023-W17 Highlights
April 26, 2023 08:15 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBA few strict checks offered in R 4.3.0, measuring and writing performant code in the Tidyverse, and a please for indenting your code with (more) spaces. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) What's new in R 4.3.0? Writing performant code with tidy tools On Indentation in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W17 Supplement Resources Changes in R 4.3.0: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.h...
Issue 2023-W16 Highlights
April 19, 2023 07:15 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBUsing development containers to bootstrap a reproducible R and Quarto environment, a comprehensive approach to extending the data frame class, and plotting your own universe of labels with ggsolar. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Dev containers with R and Quarto Extending Data Frames Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W16 Supplement Resources R in Visual S...