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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 2021-W49 Highlights
December 09, 2021 10:30 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBA fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Data serialisation in R Day 02: Postcards with distill || rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify || #12daysofdusting Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W49 Supplement Resources https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/12/01/dusty-domains-your-forgotten-domains-raise-money-for...
Issue 2021-W48 Highlights
December 01, 2021 10:45 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBHow GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe Getting started with unit testing in R {filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W4...
Issue 2021-W46 Highlights
November 17, 2021 11:15 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBA cautionary tale about ML interpretations with food, practical solutions for dealing with big data in R, and the adventures of installing R on the new Apple Silicon hardware. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr Why machine learning hates vegetables (a dialogue about Zillow) Should I Move to a Database? Transitioning from x86 to arm64 on macOS - experiences of an R user Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W46 Supplement Resources Building code movies w...
Issue 2021-W45 Highlights
November 10, 2021 11:15 - 33 minutes - 46.8 MBA lesser-known R function drives finding coordinates on fictitious Pokemon maps, creating customized point shapes with ggplot2 and gggrid, and how the branchMover Shiny app can save you a load of time and effort with GitHub branch renaming. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Get coordinates from fictitious maps Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid} branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos Entire issue available at rwe...
Issue 2021-W44 Highlights
November 03, 2021 10:15 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBAn analysis of dialogue from "The Office", and a package promoting accessibility for visually impaired R-Users. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Analyzing The Office's dialogues {BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W44 Supplement Resources {schrute} package by Brad Lindlad Danilo's data viz portfolio The Pudding data viz publication Silicon Valley Hot Dog Scene JooYoung Seo's Talk at RStudio::Global
Issue 2021-W43 Highlights
October 27, 2021 10:15 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBA tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene Thinking outside the grid - A "bare bones" introduction to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot TBD, but likely a Shiny server video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4T0qfqY7k Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W43 Supplement...
Issue 2021-W42 Highlights
October 20, 2021 10:30 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBA 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...
Issue 2021-W41 Highlights
October 13, 2021 10:15 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBUsing the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook) Pull Request Flow with usethis 2021 New York R Conference Videos {ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Styl...
Issue 2021-W40 Highlights
October 06, 2021 10:15 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBParameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The (updated) history of the pipe operator in R Creating a Dataset from an Image in R Markdown using reticulate Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W40
Issue 2021-W39 Highlights
September 30, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBData visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Resources for Data Viz Accessibility Curating for @WeAreRLadies on Twitter Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W39 Supplement Resources Re...
Issue 2021-W38 Highlights
September 22, 2021 10:15 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBEras of MTV and system commands Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W38
Issue 2021-W37 Highlights
September 15, 2021 10:15 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MBTechniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) Art, jasmines, and the water colours {clockify} Time Tracking from R The Four Pipes of magrittr Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W37 View the entire process of recording this episode from the livestream recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MA_WT7IXL0 Supplement resources https://www.cararthom...
Issue 2021-W36 Highlights
September 08, 2021 13:00 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBElegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Elegant and informative maps with tmap A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack {gitlabr} 2.0 - Communicate with GitLab API from R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W36 Supplement resources https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap/ Geocomputation in R (authored by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Meunchow): https://geoc...
Issue 2021-W35 Highlights
September 01, 2021 06:00 - 15 minutes - 22 MBThe July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) July 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data Scientist & RStudio Connect with Tom Mock The World's Countries Colored by Their First Letter Supplement resources codemeta: https://github.com/cboettig/codemeta https://codemeta.github.io/ Multiclass classification of dry beans using computer vision an...
Issue 2021-W34 Highlights
August 24, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBDebugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting conclusion to SLICED season one Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12) Supplement resources TJ's notestar notebook system buit upon the {targets} package. {eulerr}: Area-proportional Euler and Ve...
Issue 2021-W33 Highlights
August 17, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 13.6 MBThe new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using R. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin (@R_by_Ryo) {flow} 0.0.2: View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams. Some Covid Donuts To End The Week Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W33 Supplement resources: {boomer} - Debugging tools to inspect the intermediate steps of a call
Issue 2021-W32 Highlights
August 10, 2021 14:00 - 17 minutes - 24 MBCreating mobile-friendly Shiny apps, {gitlabr} 2.0.0, and achieving reproducible workflows with R and Docker Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Making Shiny apps mobile friendly {gitlabr} 2.0.0: Access to the 'Gitlab' API. How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W32 Supplement resources: Jesse Mostipak's Twitter thread: Stumbling blocks encountered with learning Shiny Jacqueline Nolis: I made an enti...
Issue 2021-W31 Highlights
August 04, 2021 14:00 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBUp and running with officedown, testing with a reprex to solve your problems, and a tidy take on performing hypothesis testing with statsExpressions. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Up and running with Officedown Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!) {statsExpressions} 1.2.0: Add statistical detail to data frames and plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W31 Supplement resources: Friction Logs: Th...
Issue 2021-W30 Highlights
July 27, 2021 10:15 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBTop 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2} Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest {targets} 0.6.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Workflows Introducing {facetious} - alternate facets for ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W30 Supplement resources: Rec...
Issue 2021-W29 Highlights
July 20, 2021 16:00 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBHow to become a better R code detective, a practical introduction to custom fonts, and making error messages your own. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) How to become a better R code detective? Setting up and debugging custom fonts: a practical introduction to the all (new) things font in R Make error messages your own Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W29
Issue 2021-W28 Highlights
July 13, 2021 13:00 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MBCreating a package directly from R-Markdown with {fusen}, and a new milestone release of the {googledrive} package Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) {fusen} 0.2.2: Build a Package from R Markdown File googledrive 2.0.0 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W28 Supplement Resources How to build a package following Rmd Driven Development GitHub Repository Batool's presentation from UseR! 2021: Make Your Computational Analysis Citable
Issue 2021-W27 Highlights
July 07, 2021 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBPractical tips on starting new R projects, and improving a visualization of US streaming market share. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Draw me a project Improving a Visualization Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W27
Issue 2021-W26 Highlights
June 29, 2021 18:00 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MBCreating your own CRAN-like repository with R-universe, results the third annual Shiny contest, and insights on why to use Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe Winners of the 3rd annual Shiny Contest Why Shiny? Insights from a Shiny Developer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W26 Supplement Resources https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/03/04/r-universe-buildsystem/ https://ropensci.org/c...
Issue 2021-W25 Highlights
June 23, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBProjecting and tracking COVID-19 infection rates in England with R, leveraging Wikidata to tag scientific abstracts, and a new deep-learning workflow with the luz package Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman) Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia} Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items Que haja luz: More light for torch! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W25 Supplemental Resources {epidemia} package documentation A COVID-19 M...
Issue 2021-W24 Highlights
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBUsing Animal Crossing data with the Google Vision API and machine learning, the latest Shiny developer series with Nick Strayer, and ensuring robust database transactions in Shiny Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ([@TonyElHabr] Everybody Loves Raymond: Running Animal Crossing Villagers through the Google Vision API Shiny Developer Series Episode 21: RStudio software engineer Nick Strayer returns to share how he arrived to RStudio and motivations behind the new Shiny App St...
Issue 2021-W23 Highlights
June 08, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes - 16.6 MBReusing knitr chunk options, the combo of VS-Code and R in 2021, and say hello to gggrid Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr R in 2021 with VSCode 'gggrid' it's g-g-great! Accessing 'grid' from 'ggplot2' Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W23
Issue 2021-W22 Highlights
June 01, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBExtracting and analyzing Apple health data, and the top 40 CRAN packages for April Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Changes in Apple Health Export April 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W22 Supplemental Resources https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/timeline-how-apple-piecing-together-its-secret-healthcare-plan https://github.com/d-score/childdevdata https://github.com/forestry-labs/Rforestry https://github.com/tsuda16k/ma...
Issue 2021-W21 Highlights
May 26, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 22 MBThe big new features in R 4.1.0, what makes a great function example, and evolution of a ggplot Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) New features in R 4.1.0 Package documentation: What makes a good example? Evolution of a ggplot Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W21 Supplemental Resources Full R 4.1.0 changelog Winston Chang's R read-only GitHub Repo mirror of the SVN R code repository for version 4.1.0
Issue 2021-W20 Highlights
May 18, 2021 12:00 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBA tidymodels approach to the Introduction to Statistical Learning learning labs, exploring class imbalance on the TidyX video series, and encrypting and hosting a R Markdown report. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) ISLR: tidymodels labs: This book aims to be a complement to the 1st version An Introduction to Statistical Learning book with translations of the labs into using the tidymodels set of packages. TidyX Episode 59: MLB Pitch Classification - Class Im...
Issue 2021-W19 Highlights
May 11, 2021 10:00 - 10 minutes - 15.2 MBUsing the trifecta of map, walk, and pivot for data processing, obtaining quotes from the Friends characters in R, and putting the spolight on Shiny user interfaces in the Shiny Dev Series. Episode Links This week's curator: Hey, it's me, Eric! (@theRcast) Map, Walk, Pivot Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show 'Friends' Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W19
Issue 2021-W18 Highlights
May 04, 2021 13:00 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MBA call to action for testing R 4.1, a practical guide to unit tests, and a tutorial on creating pizza charts with football data Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release Writing unit tests in R Soccer Percentile Radars/Pizza's Tutorial Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W18
Issue 2021-W17 Highlights
April 27, 2021 09:30 - 12 minutes - 17.5 MBExploring wikidata with the {tidywikidatar} package, accessibility improvements in {knitr}, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for March. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (@batool664) What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament? New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text March 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W17 Supplemental Resources https://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-turns-20-aims-reach-0...
Issue 2021-W16 Highlights
April 20, 2021 08:45 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBThe latest news from rOpenSci, creating ggplot2 postcards with ggirl, and an introduction to process mining in R Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021 {ggirl} 1.0.1: An R package that lets you make ggplots in real life Process Mining in 10 minutes with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W16 Supplemental Resources rOpenSci Software Peer Review {dataspice} package peer review GH isssue {brochure}: Natively multipage Shi...
Issue 2021-W15 Highlights
April 13, 2021 04:00 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBreprex 2.0, using Kubernetes and the future package, and SQL in RMarkdown Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) reprex 2.0.0 Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud sql-in-rmarkdown Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W15 Supplemental Resources Jenny Bryan's rstudio::conf 2020 keynote materials: Object of type 'closure' is not subsettable High Performance and Parallel Computing CRAN task view Future: Simple Async, P...
Issue 2021-W14 Highlights
April 05, 2021 18:00 - 9 minutes - 13.8 MB{workflowsets} with tidy models, exploring other {ggplot2} goems, and top 10 R errors Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman) workflowsets 0.0.1 Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms The top 10 R errors, the 7th one will surprise you Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W14 Supplemental Resources Screening many models chapter from Tidy Modeling with R Extending ggplot2 vignette
Issue 2021-W13 Highlights
March 30, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 15.2 MBThe Minard System in R, ggplot2 wizardry, a slackbot created with plumber and googleCouldRunner Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr) "The Minard System" in R A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud Run ggplot2 Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and secrets for Beautiful Plots in R, Cédric Scherer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W13 Supplemental Resources DataViz History Series: Edward Tufte, Char...
Issue 2021-W12 Highlights
March 23, 2021 14:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB{gt} tables cookbook, best weather cities, and mapping over many files Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) The GT Cookbook Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible Supplemental Resources GT Advanced Cookbook R-Podcast episode 27: Get the {gt} Tables! R-Weekly Highlights Episode 24: {blogdown} v1.0, announcing...
Issue 2021-W11 Highlights
March 16, 2021 04:00 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBTime series forecasting with torch, automated scraping of stock metrics with GitHub Actions, and default knitr options and hooks. Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman) Introductory time series forecasting with torch Daily Stock Gainers Automated Web Scraping in R with Github Actions Default knitr options and hooks Supplemental Resources Introducing Torch for R Automating COVID-19 PDF scraping 1littlecoder YouTube channel Shiny Developer Series
Issue 2021-W10 Highlights
March 09, 2021 04:00 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBServerless dashboards, learning tidy evaluation by re-implementing dplyr, and bootstrap confidence intervals with tidy modeling Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk} Learning tidy eval by re-implementing dplyr Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Super Bowl Commercials Supplemental Resources Learning Tidy Evaluation by Reimplementing dplyr (Government & Public Sector R Conference) Programming w...
Issue 2021-W09 Highlights
March 02, 2021 13:00 - 10 minutes - 14.5 MBRandom effects, GGanimate intro, and updates to dplyr backends Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing GGanimating a geographic introduction dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0 Supplemental Resources https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/55364/mixed-model-in-simple-english https://towardsdatascience.com/how-linear-mixed-model-works-350950a82911 https://twitter.com/tjmahr/status...
Issue 2021-W08 Highlights
February 23, 2021 04:00 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBMulti-page Shiny apps, R package citation, and refactoring the squashinformr package Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure} Make Your R Package Easier to Cite Refactoring {squashinformr}
Issue 2021-W07 Highlights
February 16, 2021 04:00 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MBInstalling packages, {distill} for personal websites, and Shiny app stories Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) The Comprehensive Guide to Installing R Packages from CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub and Co. Distill it down Introducing Shiny App Stories Supplemental Resources 20 Years of R Package management basics (Mozilla Developer Network Web Docs) Sharing on Short Notice: How to Get Your Materials Online with R Markdown Building a {distill} website} Sh...
Issue 2021-W06 Highlights
February 09, 2021 05:00 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBEpisode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr) Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr Supplemental Resources Custom theming in Shiny & R Markdown with {bslib} & {thematic} (rstudio::global 2021) Making Shiny apps faster with caching (rstudio::global 2021)
Issue 2021-W05 Highlights
February 02, 2021 05:00 - 13 minutes - 19 MBrstudio::global 2021 and UseR! 2021 call for abstracts Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) rstudio::global 2021 talks rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise() 15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts Supplemental Resources Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (rstudio::global 2021) Your Public Garden - rstudio::global(2021) Keynote by Vicki Boykis
Issue 2021-W04 Highlights
January 26, 2021 05:00 - 9 minutes - 13.8 MB{blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) Announcing blogdown v1.0 Announcing pagedreport Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Supplemental Resources Up & running with blogdown in 2021 Yihui's perspective on early development of {blogdown} from episode 24 of The R-Podcast The new and improved R-Podcast site {pagedown}: Creating beautiful PDFs with R Markdown a...
Issue 2021-W03 Highlights
January 18, 2021 19:00 - 9 minutes - 13.3 MBData Science as an atomic habit, Japan soccer league season review, Fantasy football scheduling, and UseR! 2021 call for tutorials Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Data science as an atomic habit J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R! Fantasy Football and the Classical Scheduling Problem UseR! 2021: Call for Tutorials Supplemental Resources Book Review: Atomic Habits ffsched - R package for simulating schedules and standings for fantasy football UseR! 2020 Tutor...
Issue 2021-W02 Highlights
January 11, 2021 21:00 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBPlots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai} Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions {renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments {fastai} 2.0.2: Interface to fastai Supplemental Resources GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us R-Podcast Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code What does it mean to freeze or unfreeze a model?
Issue 2021-W01 Highlights
January 05, 2021 05:00 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBData Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results. Up & running with blogdown in 2021 A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn't vote, people do Supplemental Resources ...
Issue 2020-52 Highlights
December 28, 2020 17:00 - 5 minutes - 7.79 MBR Markdown family updates & table contest results Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest Latest News from the R Markdown Family Supplemental Resources Editable DataTables in R Shiny using SQL
Issue 2020-51 Highlights
December 21, 2020 18:00 - 7 minutes - 10.6 MBTargetopia, extracting JSON data, and ggrepel update Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) The targetopia: An R package ecosystem for democratized reproducible pipelines at scale Extracting JSON data from websites and public APIs with R {ggrepel}: Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ggplot2. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-51 Supplement resources {targets} statement of need {stantargets} {ggrepel} 0.9.0 changelog