In this episode of R Weekly Highlights we hear from industry experts on how they choose a programming language for their projects, a big boost to the use of copilot for building your next Shiny app, and the learning journey of a new R user.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
• Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers
• Reliable Shiny Code with Copilot and Posit’s VS Code Extension
• My Journey Learning R as a Humanities Undergrad
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W18

Supplement Resources

• R for Data Science 2nd Edition https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
• Data Science Learning Community https://dslc.io/
• IssueTrackeR https://tanguybarthelemy.github.io/IssueTrackeR 
• 3MW (Scalable reporting with Quarto) https://3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/scalable-reporting-with-quarto

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Music credits powered by OCRemix

• Secrets Abound - Final Fantasy - Midgarian Sky - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02452
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