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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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44:34

Issue 2024-W06 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2024/02/07

Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) (Twitter) & @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (https://mstdn.social/@R_by_Ryo) (Mastodon) Teaching you - teaching me (https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/teaching-unlocks/) Things that can go wrong when using renv

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Issue 2024-W05 Highlights

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2024/01/31

The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (https://twitter.com/batool664) (Twitter) Notes from live code review of {soils}

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43:56

Issue 2024-W04 Highlights

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2024/01/24

How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (https://twitter.com/parmsam_) (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (https://fosstodon.org/@parmsam) (Mastodon) How to Update a Translation with Babeldown

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44:41

Issue 2024-W03 Highlights

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2024/01/17

A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (Twitter) How to work with APIs using the httr2 package (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tilyqp4bZY) Five Powerful ggplot Extensions

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59:09

Issue 2024-W02 Highlights

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2024/01/10

We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast) (Mastodon) Four ways to streamline your R workflows

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43:40

Issue 2023-W50 Highlights

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2023/12/13

A data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V? Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players? (https://jlaw.netlify.app/2023/12/04/are-birth-dates-still-destiny-for-canadian-nhl-players/) Quarto

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36:35

Issue 2023-W49 Highlights

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2023/12/06

A timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (https://twitter.com/batool664) (Twitter) Cliff notes about the cli package (https://blog.r-hub.io/2023/11/30/cliff-notes-about-cli/) How to make your own #RStats Wrapped

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50:34

Issue 2023-W48 Highlights

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2023/11/30

A glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr) (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (https://mastodon.skrimmage.com/@tonyelhabr) (Mastodon) Object-Oriented Express: Refactoring in R

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43:06

Issue 2023-W45 Highlights

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2023/11/11

From the "is there anything R cannot do" department comes QR code scanning, a tidy time series analysis on a major problem in the roads of Pittsburgh, and rolling up your sleeves with custom ggplot2 tricks to enhance a spatial visualization. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (Twitter) Scanning QR codes in R (https://ropensci.org/blog/2023/10/30/opencv-qr/) Forecasting Pittsburgh Potholes with {fable}

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44:07

Issue 2023-W44 Highlights

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2023/11/01

A collection of post-workshop answers for the R/Pharma introduction to tidymodels workshop, the Shiny UI Editor takes a huge step out of the alpha stage, and a unique approach to Shiny modules with the new component package. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast) (Mastodon) Answering some {tidymodels} questions

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50:13

Issue 2023-W42 Highlights

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2023/10/18

Another collection of package testing workflow nuggets you can make great use of today, the definitive guide to effective use of logging in Shiny applications from the recent Shiny in Production conference, and a cautionary tale of the potential impact of default function arguments in your downstream analytical pipelines. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr) (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (https://mastodon.skrimmage.com/@tonyelhabr)

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53:53

Issue 2023-W41 Highlights

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2023/10/11

How the {potools} package jump-starts your R package translations, the most-upvoted feature request lands in the RStudio IDE with GitHub Copilot integration, and a reflective post on the multiple paths to reproducible data science workflows in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) How to translate your package's messages with {potools} (https://masalmon.eu/2023/10/06/potools-mwe/) GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it's finally here

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42:53

Issue 2023-W40 Highlights

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2023/10/05

A new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) (Twitter) & @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (https://mstdn.social/@R_by_Ryo) (Mastodon) {zoomerjoin} 0.1.0 (https://github.com/beniaminogreen/zoomerjoin): Superlatively-fast

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Issue 2023-W39 Highlights

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2023/09/27

Reflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (https://twitter.com/batool664) (Twitter) Reflections on posit conf(2023) (https://jillymackay.com/post/positconf2023/) Snap Slides: a Lightweight HTML Presentation Framework

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37:43

Issue 2023-W37 Highlights

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2023/09/13

Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono) (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll) (Mastodon) Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API

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38:35

Issue 2023-W36 Highlights

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2023/09/07

A batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week (https://masalmon.eu/2023/08/30/three-r-functions/) Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds (https://www.mm218.dev/posts/2023-08-29-allocations/) Grants For R Language Infrastructure

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40:00

Issue 2023-W35 Highlights

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2023/09/01

The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast) (Mastodon) {S7} 0.1.0 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=S7): An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a

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42:28

Issue 2023-W34 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2023/08/23

A few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open source to process high-dimensional USDA geospatial data sets, and an infinitely fascinating look at how recursion and infinite data structures can be used in your R adventures. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono) (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll) (Mastodon) Best Practices for Data Cleaning and

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40:19

Issue 2023-W33 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights ·

2023/08/16

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) (Twitter) & @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (https://mstdn.social/@R_by_Ryo) (Mastodon) She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next

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43:28

Issue 2023-W32 Highlights

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2023/08/09

How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed

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