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Issue 2024-W03 Highlights

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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
  • Five Powerful ggplot Extensions
  • Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W03

    • Supplement Resources

    • Eric's podindexr package (accessing the Podcast Index API from R) https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexr
    • Melissa's web site https://www.melissavanbussel.com/
    • ggnot2 YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ggnot2
    • Jon Harman's web APIs with R book https://wapir.io/
    • beekeeper (rapidly scaffold API client packages) https://github.com/jonthegeek/beekeeper
    • ggtext - Claus Wilke https://wilkelab.org/ggtext/
    • patchwork - Thomas Pedersen https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/
    • ggpattern - Mike FC (coolbutuseless) https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/ggpattern/
    • ggforce - Thomas Pedersen https://ggforce.data-imaginist.com/
    • ggbump - David Sjoberg https://github.com/davidsjoberg/ggbump
    • ShinyConf 2024 https://www.shinyconf.com/
    • Yihui Xie: RAP god (Matt Dray) https://www.rostrum.blog/posts/2024-01-12-yihui-rap/

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