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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June 15, 2022Issue 2022-W24 Highlights
Many improvements to {gt} version 0.6, and creating flow charts effeciently with {ggplot2}.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
Changes (for the better) in {gt} 0.6.0
Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2}
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W24
Supplement Resources
The {gtExtras} is now on CRAN: https://themockup.blog/posts/2022-06-13-gtextras-cran
New features in {gt} 0.6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TV9uWCJps
{gt} table battles - Eurovision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIB_N0nUfNs
{gt} table battles - Digital publications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_PUee8Cu0
{gt} table battles: Crosswords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxdutTgyDE
Nicola's tweet of day 29 chart challenge https://twitter.com/nrennie35/status/1519960428167811074
R-Ladies Nairobi: #30DayChartChallenge https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/2022-may-rladies-nairobi/
R-Ladies Nairobi Meetup YouTube Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-fW7HqPP0
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23min
June 08, 2022Issue 2022-W23 Highlights
Creating user interfaces in R with a vintage toolkit, and a candid take on learning R with the right perspectives in mind.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_)
{tickle}: a package for creating UIs in base R
R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it...
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W23
Supplement Resources
More people use Tcl than know about it (2004) https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/More-people-use-Tcl-than-know-about-it
The R Tcl/Tk Interface paper by Peter Dalgaard: https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Dalgaard.pdf
Mike FC's tickle annoucement tweet https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1532593976422805505
Mike FC's take on why tickle? https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1533685352451301376
R for data science learning community https://www.rfordatasci.com
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31min
June 01, 2022Issue 2022-W22 Highlights
Annotated screencasts of David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday analyses, and the second edition of Deep Learning with R is on the way.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
RScreencasts.com: A collection of 80+ hours of time-stamped, annotated TidyTuesday screencasts highlighting the R packages and functions used in each section and what the activity is. Screencasts by David Robinson. Annotation by Alex Cookson and Eric Fletcher. Website by Oscar Baruffa. For more detail, read the launch post.
Deep Learning with R, 2nd Edition
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W22
Supplement Resources
R DiscoRd community: https://discord.gg/FQp6ZNd
David Granjon's preview of Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny: https://twitter.com/divadnojnarg/status/1530710989574111232
Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep020/
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22min
May 25, 2022Issue 2022-W21 Highlights
Amazing software development resources for data scientists, community-contributed R markdown tips & tricks to save you time, and combining GitHub gists and Carbon screenshots with gistillery.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast
Software Development Resources for Data Scientists
R Markdown Tips and Tricks #3: Time-savers & Trouble-shooters
gistillery: Take local code, send it to a Github gist, get a beautiful image from Carbon.now.sh, and make it ready to share!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W21
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36min
May 19, 2022Issue 2022-W20 Highlights
A preview of R for Data Science (2nd edition) with missing data, creating topography maps, and (yes) playing the drums directly in R.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
New r4ds chapter: missing values
Making a crisp topography map with R
{tr808r}: Play the drums with an R package
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W20
Supplement Resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808
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29min
May 11, 2022Issue 2022-W19 Highlights
A dungeon-crawler for your R console, storytelling in ggplot2 with rounded rectangles, and updates to the tidymodels recipes suite of packages.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay)
Simple procedural dungeons in R
Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles
Updates for recipes extension packages
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W19
Supplement Resources
Binder - Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks https://mybinder.org
R-Podcast Episode 28 - Tidymodels with Max Kuhn https://r-podcast.org/028-max-kuhn
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27min
May 05, 2022Issue 2022-W18 Highlights
A brand-new tables gallery powered by the R community, noteworthy items from the Appsilon Shiny conference, and R-Markdown is not going anywhere.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
RStudio Community Table Gallery
shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference
With Quarto coming, is R Markdown going away? No.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W18
Supplement Resources
https://community.rstudio.com/t/expected-goals-xg-shot-timeline-for-soccer-football-with-gt/86449
https://community.rstudio.com/t/conditionally-formatted-state-transition-matrices/120336
https://www.rstudio.com/champion
R-Podcast episode 24 (Yihui Xie returns) https://r-podcast.org/024-rstudioconf-yihui-xie
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31min
April 27, 2022Issue 2022-W17 Highlights
Lessons from teaching R to non-programmers, loading a large and messy CSV file with data.table and command-line tools, Bayesian analyses with the brms package, and getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
6 Lessons I learned from teaching R to non-programmers
Loading a large, messy csv using data.table fread with cli tools
Bayesian analyses made easy: GLMMs in R package brms
Not so standard evaluations - Getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W17
Supplement Resources
Data science at the command line
Learning Bayesian statistics podcast
Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling
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33min
April 20, 2022Issue 2022-W16 Highlights
An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr)
R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools
Error chaining
Why you should(n't) care about Monads if you're an R programmer
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W16
Supplement Resources
Roger Bivand's announcement of the rgdal, rgeos, and maptools packages retirement
Geocomputation with R
Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data
Rweekly Highlights episode 72
Bruno Rodregues' monads YouTube video
"Function Factories" Chapter in Advanced R
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30min
April 13, 2022Issue 2022-W15 Highlights
The cone of silence is lifted for the Quarto publishing engine, re-creating a storytelling look with ggplot2, and programming a fun Dragon Realm game in Shiny.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
We don't talk about Quarto
Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot
Programming Games with Shiny - Dragon Realm
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W15
Supplement Resources
Recordings of Nic Wan's Viz Buzz online graph competition on YouTube
Flowchart Diagrams in GitHub
Quarto GitHub discussion board
Improve this graph! Storytelling with data YouTube video
CRAN task views ctv package GitHub repository
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32min

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