R Weekly Highlights

00:33:03

Issue 2026-W18 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/05/02

How the new logrittr package gives you a peek behind the tidy pipelines of dplyr, and a fascinating glimpse into the universe of seeds going far beyond a favorite 80's song.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)logrittr: A Verbose Pipe Operator for Logging dplyr PipelinesGenerating universes within universes with a single seedWorking Smarter in R: Tips, Tricks & Real-World LessonsEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W18Supplement

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00:37:11

Issue 2026-W16 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/04/17

After an unexpected break we are back with a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! If you thought the easiest way to create pivot tables was in Excel, the a new package just might change your perspective. Plus how you can pull the strings for a multi-agent LLM workflow with the new puppeteeR package.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)perspectiveR: Interactive Pivot Tables and Charts from RpuppeteeR - orchestrate multiple LLM

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00:50:30

Issue 2026-W09 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/02/27

Choice is good, but sometimes you may want a little help! Our first two highlights showcase approaches you can take to inform your next LLM for analyses and open-source license. Plus how to make your mark(s) within your version control history.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)How to choose the best LLM using R and vitalsPick a License, Not Any LicenseGit commits: please mark your stitches!Entire issue available at

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00:35:51

Issue 2026-W08 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/02/20

A glimpse into the R Consortium Submissions Working Group's recent successes and future work, and a new way to view those nested lists from a familiar face making his return to blogging!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)Submissions Working Group: 2026 Plans and 2025 SuccessViewing Nested Lists with xfun::tabset()Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W08Supplement ResourcesR Consortium Submissions Pilot 4

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00:35:10

Issue 2026-W06 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/02/04

A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop tailored for data science de-mystifies common pitfalls, and for the second straight episode a new transpiler bringing dplyr syntax to databases (quite literally).Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)The Test Set Pod -

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00:40:26

Issue 2026-W05 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/01/28

The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way, and the latest addition to the futureverse that seems too good to be true, but it is real! Plus an amazing Shiny app tailored made for this very podcast.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)LLMs interpret plots well, until expectations interfereStudents, software, and soil fluxfuturize: Parallelize

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00:33:49

Issue 2026-W04 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/01/23

The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the myth on settling for compromises when prioritizing accessibility principles as demonstrated by a prominent leader in the visualization space. Plus we address candid feedback on last week's discussion on the tinyshinyserver package.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Semi-automating 200

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00:42:57

Issue 2026-W03 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2026/01/14

It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great starting point to create your first RAG-powered knowledge store, and a new package enters the Shiny ecosystem that is certainly not tiny in its ambitions.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)R + Python: From polyglot to pluralism: A very

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00:31:38

Issue 2025-W51 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/12/17

A retrospective that showcases favourite data visualisation projects and insights from 2025, a practical guide offering R package maintainers methods to gauge how their package is being used, and an R package release introducing additional helper functions that extend dplyr::mutate() for generating columns with useful rowwise and list-column operations.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)My year in data visualisationHow to

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00:38:03

Issue 2025-W50 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/12/10

How the recent frontier LLM model releases compare for successfully generating R code, our take on the new Test Set data science podcast, and a surprising entry in the world of languages equipped for data science.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)2025-12-05 AI NewsletterThe Test Set: Now on YouTube + a look at what’s nextHaskell IS a Great Language for Data ScienceEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W50Supplement

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00:38:49

Issue 2025-W48 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/11/26

Prepare to deploy multiple LLM-powered agents for your next (secret) missions with mini007, a new contender to the high-performance linter tools with blazing performance that doesn't seem possible (but it is), and a usethis-like manager for your projects needing unified branding across deliverables.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)mini007 - A Lightweight Framework for Multi-Agent

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00:39:33

Issue 2025-W42 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/10/15

Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization with more than a few surprises, and going from start to finish with a Shiny app created under the BDD mindset.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)Aaaaand… they’re off!Generative AI for Data VisualisationBehavior-Driven Development in R Shiny: A Step-By-Step ExampleEntire issue available at

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00:44:31

Issue 2025-W40 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/10/01

The ducks have made their presence felt in the world of databases, but now you can take a dip in a new Ducklake all within R! If you ever felt someone should write a book on the many ways you can slidecraft Quarto presentations, we have good news for you. Lastly, a spectacular series on harnessing the power of LLMs in your Shiny apps concludes with a powerful and very relevant use case to help review your next presentation slides.Plus … a popular segment returns 😅Episode LinksThis week's curator:

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00:51:33

Issue 2025-W39 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/09/24

Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at the conference and then dive into an amazing collection of highlights. We learn about a myriad of packages to programmatically write and parse markdown documents, initial impressions with vibe-coding an R package to learn Japanese, and the immense lengths the R-Exams project is taking to clean up messy scans of exam papers.Episode LinksThis week's

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00:44:20

Issue 2025-W34 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/08/22

In episode 210 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast: The Positron IDE has officially been released after two years of intense development, and we share what excites us the most. Plus a new tool in your Shiny testing toolbox to bridge the gap between server-side and dynamic updating the user interface, and an entry point to making that URL of your Shiny app set inputs on the fly, a topic one of your hosts has been investigating for quite some time!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Colin Fay -

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00:45:03

Issue 2025-W31 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/08/02

In episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights we learn ways you can pinpoint just what is slowing down your R code, a novel framing for testing your next plumber API, and the adventures in recreating a NY Times chart entirely with ggplot2.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Speed Testing Code: Three LevelsTesting your Plumber APIs from RCopy the Pros: How to Recreate this

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00:32:16

Issue 2025-W30 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/07/23

In episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights, the LLM train keeps moving along in the data science community: First impressions of the new Positron Assistant for code completion and basic package development, plus a friendly app for exploring the upcoming posit::conf(2025) agenda created by one of our talented R Weekly curators!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) * @jonmcalder@bsky.socialPositron Assistant: GitHub Copilot and

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00:47:32

Issue 2025-W28 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/07/12

It's been far too long since our last episode of R Weekly Highlights, but we are finally back with episode 207! In this episode we learn about novel ways to automate fancy Quarto content, how we can be on our best behavior with behavior-driven-development, and finding that pesky portion of data breaking long data pipelines with a magical debugging technique. Plus one of your hosts could not resist a hot take or two!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon)

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00:42:21

Issue 2025-W24 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/06/13

The summer schedule has been crazy, but we finally have a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode: How the new shiny2docker package eases your entry to the world of containers, the power of WebAssembly in full ggplot2 glory, and how the latest solution for speeding up R code draws upon a classic computing language you may not expect.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast

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00:52:51

Issue 2025-W21 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/05/23

Have you wanted a chance to rewrite your own history? With Git, you certainly can! We learn that and other amazing tips to supercharge your version control skills. Plus a promising new package to let your Shiny app users make the call on their preferred layouts, and how mocking is not something to dread when you build unit tests interacting with external services.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Hack your way to a good

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