After an unexpected break we are back with a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! If you thought the easiest way to create pivot tables was in Excel, the a new package just might change your perspective. Plus how you can pull the strings for a multi-agent LLM workflow with the new puppeteeR package.

Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• perspectiveR: Interactive Pivot Tables and Charts from R
• puppeteeR - orchestrate multiple LLM agents into coordinated workflows
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W16

Supplement Resources
 

• Perspective upstream library https://perspective-dev.github.io
• You can just build your own programming language https://brodrigues.co/posts/2026-04-03-tproject.html
• {gglite} https://pkg.yihui.org/gglite/

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• A flea and his giant - Mega Man X: Maverick Rising - Chuck Dietz - https://maverick.ocremix.org/music.php