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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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00:33:10

Issue 2024-W28 Highlights

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2024/07/18

The world of web-assembly in R continues to move fast with key updates to the webrcli & spidyr packages, and what has us excited about the mapgl package for producing amazing spatial visualizations.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)webrcli & spidyr: What’s newCreate a Compare slider widgetEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W28Supplement Resourcesmapgl package site https://walker-data.com/mapglMike's migrate package

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00:45:56

Issue 2024-W26 Highlights

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2024/06/26

The latest updates to the rayverse bring new meaning to smoothing out the rough edges of your next 3-D visualization, the momentum of DuckDB continues with the MotherDuck data warehouse, and the role nanoparquet plays to bring the benefits of parquet to small data sets.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement MappingJoining the flock from R: working with data on

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00:42:48

Issue 2024-W25 Highlights

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2024/06/21

How the newly-released CRAN package deadline metadata inspired multiple learning journeys of the latest Shiny features with one of your podcast hosts joining the ride, a fresh coat of frontend paint to the amazing R-Universe, and the innovations R brings to forensic analyses of handwriting.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)Expose CRAN deadlines and DOIsA fresh new look for R-universe!{handwriter} 3.1.1: Handwriting Analysis

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00:59:20

Issue 2024-W24 Highlights

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2024/06/12

A thoughtful perspective on why it's not an either/or situation with popular data processing paradigms in R, another case of being kind to future you with your Git commit messages, and satisfying the need for speed in the evolving geospatial space.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on "dialects" in RWhy you need small, informative Git commitsMaking a Ridiculously Fast™ API ClientEntire issue

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00:35:15

Issue 2024-W23 Highlights

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2024/06/05

How vintage features in R could introduce chaos in your quest for a tibble & data.frame function, and the awesome potential of integrating custom parameters and conditional processing in your next Quarto workflow.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Make your functions compa-tibbleCreating R tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using QuartoEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W23Supplement

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00:50:17

Issue 2024-W22 Highlights

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2024/05/29

The recent patches in R that pave the way for a future object-oriented-programming framework to accompany S3 and S4, a treasure-trove of open spatial data ready for your mapping visualization adventures, and a collection of tips for the next time you refactor your testing scripts.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in RGetting and visualizing Overture Maps buildings data in RWhat

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00:49:15

Issue 2024-W20 Highlights

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2024/05/15

An aesthetically-pleasing journey through the history of R, another demonstration of DuckDB's power with analytics, and how webR with shinylive brings new learning life to the Pharmaverse TLG gallery.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)The Aesthetics Wiki - an R AddendumR Dplyr vs. DuckDB - How to Enhance Your Data Processing Pipelines with R DuckDBTLG Catalog 🤝 WebREntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W20Supplement

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00:49:06

Issue 2024-W19 Highlights

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2024/05/08

Our take on the important conversations spurred by the recent R deserialization CVE, how simulations may save you from cracking open that probability textbook, and recapping the exciting 2024 Shiny Conference.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org & [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn't be afraid to askCalculating birthday probabilities with R instead of mathHighlights from

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00:36:55

Issue 2024-W18 Highlights

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2024/05/01

Why R 4.4.0 may reduce your trips to a certain kind of stack overflow, a call to update your favorite Shiny application code snippets, and how the steller ASTHOS Profile Shiny dashboard has your hosts blown away and fighting the urge to refactor their applications UIs!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)What's new in R 4.4.0?It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippetTailoring Shiny for Modern UsersEntire issue available

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00:38:50

Issue 2024-W17 Highlights

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2024/04/24

Bringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Interactive volcano plots with the ggiraph R packageModular R code for analytical projects with {box}Kicking

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00:36:02

Issue 2024-W16 Highlights

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2024/04/16

Another way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a major milestone for the R-Hub project.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Chat with AI in RStudioTest warnings fasterR-hub v2Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W16Supplement ResourcesR/Pharma 2023 presentation by Edgar Ruiz (GitHub Copilot in RStudio) -

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00:51:16

Issue 2024-W15 Highlights

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2024/04/10

The Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fundamental dplyr grouping operations to life.Episode LinksThis week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter)Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and CachixwebR 0.3.1Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex

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00:41:05

Issue 2024-W14 Highlights

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2024/04/03

Taking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payments, and the tried-and-true method of simulation in action to investigate time-to-event inference statistics.Episode LinksThis week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon)I Made R Text For MeStop Jenny committing arsonThe log-rank Test Assumes More Than the Cox ModelEntire issue available at

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Issue 2024-W13 Highlights

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2024/03/27

How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox.Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (https://twitter.com/batool664) (X/Twitter) Update on mocking for testing R packages (https://blog.r-hub.io/2024/03/21/mocking-new-take/) {rspell} (https://rfsaldanha.github.io/rspell/) Are you writing in

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46:44

Issue 2024-W12 Highlights

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2024/03/20

An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center.Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (https://twitter.com/parmsam_) (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (https://fosstodon.org/@parmsam) (Mastodon) Patterns and anti-patterns of

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48:32

Issue 2024-W11 Highlights

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2024/03/13

A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR.Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (Twitter) Marketing Ideas For Your Package (https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/03/07/package-marketing/) Spring clean your R packages

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46:40

Issue 2024-W10 Highlights

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2024/03/06

How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not?Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast) (Mastodon) I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem

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46:08

Issue 2024-W09 Highlights

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2024/02/28

Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it.Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono) (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll) (Mastodon) HelloWorld(“print”) (https://yjunechoe.github.io/posts/2024-02-20-helloworld-print/) ggplot2 3.5.0 (https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/02/ggplot2-3-5-0/) Beautiful Code,

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47:16

Issue 2024-W08 Highlights

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2024/02/21

Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr) (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (https://mastodon.skrimmage.com/@tonyelhabr) (Mastodon) My Year of Riding Danishly

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Issue 2024-W07 Highlights

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2024/02/14

A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages (https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/02/06/verbosity-control-packages/) R

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