R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2023-W10 Highlights

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A episode full of discovery in this week's edition of R-Weekly Highlights! How you can parse your own R code with parse and getParseData, a closer look at the search capabilities in R-Universe, and a look back at the key milestones in the history of the R language.

Episode Links

  • This week's curators: Kellly Bodwin - @KellyBodwin (Twitter) and Emily Robinson - @robinson_es (Twitter)
  • "I can't be parsed, mate!" Parsing in R
  • Search for packages in r-universe
  • Happy 23rd birthday, R!
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W10

    • Supplement Resources

    • Advanced R chapter 17 (Metaprogramming the big picture): https://adv-r.hadley.nz/meta-big-picture.html
    • Algorithm behind package rank calculation in R-Universe: https://github.com/r-universe-org/help#how-is-the-package-rank-score-calculated
    • Jeroen's RStudio Global 2021 presentation (Monitoring Health and Impact of Open-source Projects) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoe7xuIJ1U
    • Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R https://raps-with-r.dev
    • 3 Years In: Reflections on Starting, Surviving, and Scaling a Data Science Consultancy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-years-reflections-starting-surviving-scaling-data-science-thomas

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