R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2023-W25 Highlights


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Uncovering powerful use cases of the slice() function in the tidyverse, a batch of new features and fixes for column labeling in gt 0.9.0, and a fun journey with tidymodels and visualizations on just how much the Reverend Thomas Bayes may have earned from his own home (probably).

Episode Links

  • This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
  • Row relational operations with slice()
  • Merging columns together and fixing up column labels in {gt} 0.9.0
  • Bayes Lived Here (Probably)
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W25
  • Supplement Resources

    • Argument-type data masking: https://rlang.r-lib.org/reference/args_data_masking.html
    • {usedthese} Summarize package and function usage https://www.quantumjitter.com/blog/usedthese/
    • Easy and secure database access with a custom R6 package https://reds-code-collection.netlify.app/posts/r_db_connector/
    • Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with R now available in print! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MGF/
    • My computer can read! https://blog.devgenius.io/my-computer-can-read-98bc339e1f66
    • New maintainer of {echarts4r}
    • {carlesswhisper} Automatic speech recognition in R with whisper.cpp https://github.com/coolbutuseless/carelesswhisper
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