R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2023-W09 Highlights

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How to easily create interactive versions of your favorite ggplots with ggiraph, bringing AutoML to R with forester, and a head-to-head comparison of R and Excel for common data wrangling and summaries.

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  • This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
  • Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny)
  • forester: what makes the package special?
  • Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W09

    • Supplement Resources

    • ggiraph online book https://www.ardata.fr/ggiraph-book
    • {openxlsx2} read, write, and modify xlsx files https://janmarvin.github.io/openxlsx2

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