Issue 2023-W13 Highlights

A new perspective on the value of base R functions, enhancing the capabilities of gpttools with vector databases, and three ways you can add alt text to your R-based visualizations.

Episode Links

This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Some love for Base R. Part 1
Teaching ChatGPT What It Doesn’t Know
Alt Text in R: Plots, Reports, and Shiny
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W13

Supplement Resources

A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases https://frankzliu.com/blog/a-gentle-introduction-to-vector-databases
Text Mining with R - A Tidy Approach https://www.tidytextmining.com
Writing Meaningful Alt Texts for Data Visualizations in R (Liz Hare) R Ladies NYC https://lizharedogs.github.io/RLadiesNYAltText
{ggdatasaver} Automatically save data associated with a ggplot2 plot https://eliocamp.github.io/ggdatasaver

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