R Weekly Highlights

By Eric Nantz

The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.... more

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R Weekly Highlights episodes:

January 11, 2023Issue 2023-W01 Highlights
A big progress updates in the latest {knitr} development release (literally), how the {litr} package enables literate programming development for R packages, and how you can translate Morse code directly in R with the {remorse} package!
Episode Links
This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
An Upcoming Clean Progress Bar in knitr
litr: Write an R Package Entirely with an R Markdown Document
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Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W01
Supplement Resources
Rethink the progress bar issue https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/1880
{fusen} R package https://thinkr-open.github.io/fusen
Tutorial
{packagefinder} https://github.com/jsugarelli/packagefinder
What is Morse code? https://web.northeastern.edu/stemout/morse-code
Our very important message to the audience:
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Audio version of message: https://archive.org/details/output_20230110
Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
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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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30min
January 06, 2023Issue 2022-W52 Highlights
Our first episode of 2023 covers the brand-new gpttools package to called chatGPT directly in R, a wholistic look at MLOps with the latest tidymodels tooling, and a spotlight on the lesser-known quantile regression. Plus listener feedback and much more!
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
{gpttools} for Chat GPT in RStudio
MLOps: The Whole Game
Quantile Regression
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W52
Supplement Resources
Why Everyone's Obsessed With ChatGPT, a Mind-Blowing AI Chatbot https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/why-everyones-obsessed-with-chatgpt-a-mind-blowing-ai-chatbot
Yury's quantile regression video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtz8ca_4hVg
What is R7? A New OOP System for R https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/r7-oop-object-oriented-programming-r
R Weekly Highlights Episode 98 https://podverse.fm/episode/VvyuAA4kj
Shiny Dev Series episodes with Mike discussing the Connective COVID-19 Test Spotter App:
Part 1: https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep030
Part 2: https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep031
Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media:
Eric: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
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50min
December 14, 2022Issue 2022-W50 Highlights
Data munging and visualization of your Twitter archive with R, a successful Shiny app submission to the FDA, and scoring Rock Paper Scissors.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive
UPDATE: Successful R-Based Package Submission with Shiny Component to FDA
How to score Rock Paper Scissors
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W50
Supplement Resources
{ggiraph}: Make {ggplot2} plots interactive https://davidgohel.github.io/ggiraph
RConsortium/submissions-pilot2 GitHub repository: https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot2
R/Pharma 2022 Conference Playlists on YouTube:
Day 1 talks
Day 2 talks
Day 3 talks
Workshops
Supporting the Show
New Podcast Apps: https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info/
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36min
December 08, 2022Issue 2022-W49 Highlights
Big new features coming in {dplyr} 1.1.0, how you can make your own #rstats wrapped, and enhancing your Shiny apps with JavaScript (without knowing much JS). Plus your feedback and more!
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
How to make your own #RStats Wrapped!
dplyr 1.1.0 is coming soon
How to enhance your Shiny apps with JavaScript (JS) without knowing much JS
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W49
Supplement Resources
Differences between .by and group_by() in {dplyr}: https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/dev/reference/dplyr_by.html#differences-between-by-and-group-by-
https://fosstodon.org/@posit_glimpse/109424114108257429
Travis Gerke's take on Spotify Wrapped https://www.linkedin.com/posts/travisgerke_spotify-wrapped-is-proof-that-sometimes-count-activity-7003778803088990209-E9yE
NCmisc: miscellaneous functions for creating adaptive functions and scripts https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NCmisc/index.html
Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny https://unleash-shiny.rinterface.com/index.html
Javascript for R https://book.javascript-for-r.com/
Pharmaverse https://pharmaverse.org
Admiral hackathon https://www.cdisc.org/events/webinar/pre-admiral-hackathon-workshop-introduction-r-sas-programmers
Supporting the Show
Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
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34min
December 01, 2022Issue 2022-W48 Highlights
A new approach to adding package tests with {doctest}, scraping data from dynamic web pages with {RSelenium}, and a simple checklist to power up your next bar chart.
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
{doctest} 0.1.0: Generate Tests from Examples Using 'roxygen' and 'testthat'
Webscraping with RSelenium: automate your browser actions
A simple checklist for bar plots
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W48
Supplement Resources
Webscraping with RSelenium and rvest: https://ivanmillanes.netlify.app/post/2020-06-30-webscraping-with-rselenium-and-rvest/
RSelenium with Docker: https://callumgwtaylor.github.io/post/using-rselenium-and-docker-to-webscrape-in-r-using-the-who-snake-database
Shiny in Production recordings from Jumping Rivers: YouTube playlist
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29min
November 23, 2022Issue 2022-W47 Highlights
Reshaping your R function syntax with {codegrip}, ways you can apply DRY principles to R package development, and a new online book teaching you how to create beautiful tables in R with {gt}
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
{codegrip} 0.0.0.9000: Reshaping and navigation commands for R code
DRY Package Development in R (slides)
Creating beautiful tables in R with {gt}
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W47
Supplement Resources
The tidyverse style guide: https://style.tidyverse.org
Google R style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.html
{dm} - Working with relational data models in R: https://dm.cynkra.com
Posit Table Contest (deadline extended to December 2, 2022): https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-table-contest-2022/
Supporting the Show
Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
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32min
November 16, 2022Issue 2022-W46 Highlights
A major achievement unlocked! In episode 100 of RWeekly Highlights: The new {rtoot} package for collecting and analyzing Mastodon data, using the {unheadr} package to fix broken and irregular column headers, a tour of the apply functions in base R, and creating posters of NBA rosters with R and ImageMagick.
Plus a big announcement on a new way to directly support the show!
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
{rtoot}: Collecting and analyzing mastodon data!
Fixing broken and irregular column headers
Let's Get Apply'ing
NBA Posters
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W46
Supplement Resources
Everything I know about Mastodon: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/
Fedi.tips (an unofficial guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse): https://fedi.tips
RWeekly is now on Mastodon! @[email protected]
Favorite/most important base R functions new users should know: https://twitter.com/newmeyermn/status/1591464874827460608
Supporting the Show
New Podcast Apps: https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info/
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42min
November 04, 2022Issue 2022-W44 Highlights
Embracing the dual role of data scientist and software developer with state-of-the-art tooling, illustrating the fundamentals of Shiny (literally), and the TidyX crew put their data wrangling skills to the test.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_)
Are you Data Scientists or Software Developers?!
Understanding ShinyApps
TidyX Episode 121: Tell me what you want - user submitted data
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W44
Supplement Resources
Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers
Alternatives to paired bar charts
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30min
October 19, 2022Issue 2022-W42 Highlights
The power of Quarto's interoperability shines again with integrating R and JavaScript maps, as well as the grammar of table generation in both R and Python. Plus boost the launching of your R session with the startup package.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin
Let’s make maps with bertin.js in Quarto
startup 0.19.0 - Friendly R Startup Configuration
The grammar of tables in python (pandas) and R (gt)
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W42
Supplement Resources
https://github.com/mcanouil/awesome-quarto
https://github.com/neocarto/bertin
https://quarto.org/docs/interactive/ojs/libraries.html
...more
39min
October 12, 2022Issue 2022-W41 Highlights
The magic of automated Shiny app deployment and data aggregation using GitHub actions, 6 productivity hacks for Quarto, and valuable tips for managing large codebases in R.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
Automatically deploying a Shiny app for browsing #RStats tweets with GitHub Actions
6 Productivity Hacks for Quarto
"Managing Large Codebases in R" webinar
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W41
Supplement Resources
littler - scripting and command-line front-end for R https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html
...more
38min

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