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R Weekly Highlights
By Eric NantzScience
R Weekly Highlights episodes
- Issue 2024-W08 Highlights
Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- My Year of Riding Danishly
- Tame your namespace with a dash of suggests
- Guess My Name with Decision Trees
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W08
Supplement Resources
- {fusen} - Inflate your package from a simple flat Rmd https://thinkr-open.github.io/fusen/
- R Packages Second Edition https://r-pkgs.org/
- {usethis} - Automate package and project setup https://usethis.r-lib.org/
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
- Swing Indigo - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - sschafi1 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04560
- What Lurks Behind the Door - Final Fantasy V - Lucas Guimaraes, Andrew Steffen - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04542
48 min - Issue 2024-W07 Highlights
A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
- Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages
- R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals starting March 1st!
- Optimize your images with R and reSmush.it
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W07
Supplement Resources
- {lifecycle} Manage the life cycle of your exported functions and arguments https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/
- {logger} lightweight, modern and flexible, log4j and futile.logger inspired logging utility for R https://daroczig.github.io/logger/
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
- Sunny Side Up - Yoshi's Island DS - ZackParrish - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04558
- Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553
35 min - Issue 2024-W06 Highlights
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.
Episode Links
- 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
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
- Tails and the Music Maker - Picolescence - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176
- Wily theme - Mega Man 2 - TheManPF, Chocobao, DakotaCityRag, Gamer of the Winds, Zach Chapman - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04485
45 min - Issue 2024-W05 Highlights
The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
- Notes from live code review of {soils}
- Load different R package versions at once with git worktree
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W05
Supplement Resources
- How to embed videos with GitHub markdown: https://youtu.be/G3Cytlicv8Y
- Reproducible Manuscripts with Quarto: https://youtu.be/BoiW9UWDLY0
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
- Gerudo Desert Party - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Reuben6 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03720
24 min - Issue 2024-W04 Highlights
How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- How to Update a Translation with Babeldown
- Six not-so-basic base R functions
- 3MW (Making dashboard interactive)
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W04
Supplement Resources
- babeldown R package https://docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/
- DeepL API https://www.deepl.com/en/docs-api
- Albert Rapp's Quarto dashboard repository https://github.com/AlbertRapp/quarto_dashboard/tree/master
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
- Seven Pipes to Heaven - Super Mario Land - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03256
- Smooth Mana - Secret of Mana - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00352
44 min - Issue 2024-W03 Highlights
A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
- How to work with APIs using the httr2 package
- Five Powerful ggplot Extensions
- Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W03
Supplement Resources
- Eric's podindexr package (accessing the Podcast Index API from R) https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexr
- Melissa's web site https://www.melissavanbussel.com/
- ggnot2 YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ggnot2
- Jon Harman's web APIs with R book https://wapir.io/
- beekeeper (rapidly scaffold API client packages) https://github.com/jonthegeek/beekeeper
- ggtext - Claus Wilke https://wilkelab.org/ggtext/
- patchwork - Thomas Pedersen https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/
- ggpattern - Mike FC (coolbutuseless) https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/ggpattern/
- ggforce - Thomas Pedersen https://ggforce.data-imaginist.com/
- ggbump - David Sjoberg https://github.com/davidsjoberg/ggbump
- ShinyConf 2024 https://www.shinyconf.com/
- Yihui Xie: RAP god (Matt Dray) https://www.rostrum.blog/posts/2024-01-12-yihui-rap/
Supporting the show
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- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
45 min - Issue 2024-W02 Highlights
We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Four ways to streamline your R workflows
- The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
- Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these "*down" packages for these years, here I am to announce "Yihui-down"
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W02
Supplement Resources
- R-Weekly Curation Calendar Dashboard https://rweekly.github.io/rweekly-calendar/
- Quarto All the Things workshop from R/Pharma 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dQ36sx4Rk
- Rami Krispin's VS-Code R container template repository https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r-template
- Assignment pipe operator discussion on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/111664623134443564
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
1 hr - Issue 2023-W50 Highlights
A data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V?
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
- Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players?
- Quarto Dashboards
- Why is View() capitalized, anyway?
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W50
Supplement Resources
- JJ Allaire's Quarto dashboards keynote at PyData 20203 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCAScFqr10
- MyNorfolk Quarto dashboard https://grrrck.quarto.pub/mynorfolk-dash
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
44 min - Issue 2023-W49 Highlights
A timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
- Cliff notes about the cli package
- How to make your own #RStats Wrapped
- deposits R Package Delivers a Common Workflow for R Users
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W49
Supplement Resources
- Rethinking packages & functions preloading in webR 0.2.2 https://colinfay.me/rethinking-packages-and-functions-preloading-in-webr-0.2.2/
- healthyr: Free Resources
- Webinar: Discover the future of R in regulatory submissions https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2023/11/20/webinar-discover-the-future-of-r-in-regulatory-submissions
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
37 min - Issue 2023-W48 Highlights
A glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust.
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Object-Oriented Express: Refactoring in R
- Using benchmarking to guide the adoption of dependencies in R packages
- Building a DataFusion CSV reader with arrow-extendr
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W48
Supplement Resources
- Sharing app state between Shiny modules https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13___ZiOO1aEv0xiCj2TAm2JenEdy_Sfy6SEIWAltAYI/edit#slide=id.g216fe8fbc25_0_71
- {pkgdepends} Package Dependency Resolution, Downloads and Installation https://r-lib.github.io/pkgdepends
- {reactable.extras} 0.2.0 Release: Enhanced Interactivity and Efficiency for Shiny Apps https://appsilon.com/reactable-extras-enhancing-shiny-applications
- Folks, C'mon, Use Parquet https://appsilon.com/csv-to-parquet-transition
- Shiny and Arrow - A match made in high-performance-web-application heaven https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
- Jadey Ryan's The Coding Cats on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecodingcats
Supporting the show
- Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
- R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
- A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
- Get in touch with us on social media
- Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
- Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
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