Issue 2023-W23 Highlights

Another 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, writing & analysis https://github.com/MichelNivard/gptstudio
A Twitter and Mastodon bot posting random R packages on CRAN https://github.com/TimTeaFan/rstatspkgbot
CRAN Task Views: The next generation
How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap: Use R to get geocoded location and routing data from OpenStreetMap and explore a 5,000 mile road trip around the USA

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