R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2024-W06 Highlights

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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.

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  • This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
  • Teaching you - teaching me
  • Things that can go wrong when using renv
  • Parquet vs the RDS Format
  • Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W06

    • Supplement Resources

    • Quartaki an introduction to Quarto https://drmowinckels.io/quartaki/
    • R project management https://www.capro.dev/workshop_rproj/
    • r2u - CRAN binaries as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
    • Shiny and Arrow https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
    • data.table new release and governance structure https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-30-new_governance_new_release-toby_hocking/
    • rix is looking for testers https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2024-02-02-nix_for_r_part_9/
    • The 2024 Shiny Conference call for speakers https://www.shinyconf.com/call-for-speakers

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