Issue 2023-W20 Highlights

Introducing 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
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W20

Supplement Resources

Episode 82 (the origins of ggflowchart) https://rweekly.fireside.fm/82
Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R https://raps-with-r.dev
The Rocker Project https://rocker-project.org
Shiny Dev Series Livestream: Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wRiPG9LM3o
Development Container Features https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2022/09/15/dev-container-features
r2u: CRAN as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
A preview of Eric and Mike's Production Shiny Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRwhDYI5Ec

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