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R Weekly Highlights

The 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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00:48:07

Issue 2025-W01 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2025/01/15

The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns for Our first episode of 2025! We learn how hosted and self-hostem LLM's perform in the summarization of Bluesky R posts, as well as how models hosted on Azure infrastructure summarize cycling destinations. Lastly, we visit the visualization corner once again to bring a little (or a lot) of color in your next graphics created with R.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier

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00:39:40

Issue 2024-W51 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/12/18

An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for mathematics algorithms solvable in R, and solving the recent 2024 Advent of Code puzzles with data.table.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter) @colinfay.bsky.socialParallel and Asynchronous Programming in Shiny with future, promise, future_promise, and ExtendedTaskWriting

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01:01:28

Issue 2024-W50 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/12/11

The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for possibly switching to the Positron IDE, and why there is more than meets the eyes when it comes to the potential of LLMs and AI (even in highly-regulated industries).Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz - @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @theRcast (X/Twitter)R-Universe Named R Consortium’s Newest Top Level ProjectPositron vs RStudio - is it time to

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00:43:36

Issue 2024-W49 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/12/04

As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to the contributors of your open-source package. Plus a practical introduction to missing value interpolation with a tried-and-true R package with a rich history, and a comprehensive analysis to predict an NBA superstar's next shot result (who has made a lot of shots already in his career).Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono

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00:47:37

Issue 2024-W48 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/11/27

What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for the first-ever native mobile Shiny application (and yes, it is real), how you can expand your network on Bluesky from the friendly confines of R, and the potential of the S7 object-oriented paradigm to streamline and validate function parameters. Plus late-breaking news on the integrations of Bluesky and Quarto!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) &

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00:27:49

Issue 2024-W47 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/11/21

A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production conference, and visualizing ice thickness in Greenland with the power of the tidyverse and leaflet.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)R Dev Day @ SIP 2024Greenland ice thicknessEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W47Supplement ResourcesR Contribution Working Group https://contributor.r-project.org/working-groupR

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00:49:41

Issue 2024-W46 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/11/15

The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to generating markdown was vital to a high-profile Quarto site, a novel infograph of Bob's Burgers sentiment analysis, and updates to the next evolution of object-oriented programming in R.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter)Guide to generating and rendering computational markdown content programmatically with QuartoBob’s Burgers Episode

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00:43:04

Issue 2024-W45 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/11/06

Eric's flying solo this week, but the show goes on! The eagerly-anticipated recordings of the 2024 Posit conference are now available and Eric shares a few of his favorite gems, plus the Quarto publishing system takes center stage with how GitHub actions brings automation to report generation, and a terrific batch of answers to the recent R/Pharma workshop on building parameterized Quarto reports in R.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Talk recordings and

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00:49:59

Issue 2024-W43 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/10/23

Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.table stacks up to DuckDB and polars for reshaping your data layouts.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Exploring the tidyHeatmap R packageDon't Expect That "Function Works Correctly", Do This InsteadComparing data.table reshape to duckdb and polarsEntire issue available at

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00:52:30

Issue 2024-W42 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/10/16

A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a clever use of AI to summarize a large collection of blog posts.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Nested unit tests with testthatshinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for RCreating post summary with AI from Hugging FaceEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W42Supplement Resourceselmer:

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00:52:19

Issue 2024-W40 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/10/02

A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modification rabbit hole across multiple languages, and a sampling of sage advice from the Data Science Hangout.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Reproducible data science with Nix, part 13 -- {rix} is on CRAN!In-Place ModificationsData Career Insights: Lessons from four senior leaders in the

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00:42:37

Issue 2024-W39 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/09/25

How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your guides, and a prime way of using R to brute-force the answer to a mathematical brain-teaser.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)patchwork 1.3.0{gguidance}: Extended guide options for 'ggplot2'Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nzEntire issue available at

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00:40:28

Issue 2024-W38 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/09/18

Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say "surreal!" Plus a data-driven approach to investigate recent changes to the Australian census, and a cautionary reminder to check just where those numbers are coming from the next time you build a prediction model.Plus the quest to make R the official language for the Coder Radio program reaps a new reward!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo)

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00:49:07

Issue 2024-W37 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/09/11

How being fair to your research has a new and important meaning than what you may expect, the power you can unlock with custom roxygen tags, and a collection of tips you can apply today for your next visualization.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Making your blog FAIRCreate and use a custom roxygen2 tagFive ways to improve your chart axesEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W37Supplement Resourceshttr2: Perform HTTP requests and process the response

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00:44:58

Issue 2024-W36 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/09/04

A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure in automating the translation of Quarto documents to multiple languages, and there's no time like the present to give your code a little linting love.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)Long input linesTranslating Quarto (and other markdown files) into Any LanguageGet your codebase lint-free forever with lintrEntire issue

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00:46:31

Issue 2024-W35 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/08/28

A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of interactivity to a reactable table, and save yourself many hours of manual effort with Quarto parameterized reporting.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)Unveiling Bottlenecks (Part 2): A Deep Dive into Profiling Tools\Creating interactive tables with reactableAutomating Quarto reports with parametersEntire issue

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00:37:02

Issue 2024-W34 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/08/21

Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to panic when you see a merge conflict in Git, the genesis of the new R ARUG community in India, and a great primer on creating your own Quarto templates.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Please let me merge before I start crying and other things I've said at the Git terminalA New R Community in Ahmedabad, India, focused on

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00:57:44

Issue 2024-W32 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/08/07

A realistic take on converting the NY Forest Carbon Assessment modeling pipeline to the tidymodels suite, and a review of R package development workflows in the Positron IDE.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to TidymodelsR package development in PositronEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W32Supplement ResourcesTidy Modeling with R e-book: https://www.tmwr.orgmaestro:

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00:30:46

Issue 2024-W31 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/07/31

Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Let's Talk About the Weather2024 Shiny ContestEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W31Supplement Resourceshttps://lorenzwalthert.github.io/precommit/index.htmlhttps://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/llm-rag/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can

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00:43:25

Issue 2024-W30 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/07/24

Creating retro-gaming sprites rendered from the comforts of R? Yes we can! Plus an honest take on the utility of Github's Copilot Workspace in the context of package development, and taking the concept of code trees to another level with treesitter.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)Tile-style sprite delightSome thoughts after a trial run of GitHub's Copilot WorkspaceExtracting names of functions defined in a script with

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