Issue 2021-W42 Highlights

A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2.

Episode Links

This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of the organisation is to add static type checking and other features to R, with zero cost at run time
How not to be lost with VSCode when coming from RStudio?
Fill the region between two lines in ggplot2
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W42

Supplement Resources

Type safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety
Eric's R development repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects
Visual Studio Code R extension: https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R

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