Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the world (of data) is at your fingertips for data exploration and sharing your insights using the innovative closeread Quarto extension.


Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)
• Three experiments in LLM code assist with RStudio and Positron
• Gapminder: how has the world changed?
• Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W06

Supplement Resources

• From hours to minutes: accelerating your tidymodels code https://youtu.be/pTMiDHFIiPQ?si=4qZC3_NLUVhD5hAa
• Effecient Machine Learning with R https://emlwr.org/
• Closeread: Bringing scrollytelling to Quarto https://youtu.be/KqLxy66B3lQ?si=w7DIB4QhYk2u6cLG
• Closeread Posit contest submissions https://forum.posit.co/tag/closeread-prize-2024
• Extract Information From Images and PDFs With R & LLMs  https://3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/extract-information-from-images-and-pdfs-with-r-llms
• usgs geological survey mapping water https://waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/acs-maps/

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