Our candid takes on the state of CRAN's role in light of recent package archival events, how creative use of LLMs could greatly streamline your next literature review, and a few great illustrations of lazy being a good thing in your R session.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Is CRAN Holding R Back?
• How to use large language models to assist in systematic literature reviews
• Lazy introduction to laziness in R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W08

Supplement Resources

• A guide to contributing to open-source Python packages https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/01/02/a-guide-to-contributing-to-open-source-python-packages/
• Continue https://www.continue.dev/

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