R Weekly Highlights

By Eric Nantz

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R Weekly Highlights episodes:

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
...more
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
April 06, 2022Issue 2022-W14 Highlights
A trifecta of new R packages for data validation, function logging, and a new ggplot2 extension.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation
{chronicler} 0.1: Implementation of the logger monad in R.
{ggbraid} 0.1.0: Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2.
Supplement Resources
Monads: https://ericlippert.com/category/monads/page/2/
Episode 62: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/62
ggbraid vignette: https://nsgrantham.github.io/ggbraid/articles/hoops.html
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27min
March 30, 2022Issue 2022-W13 Highlights
After a brief hiatus, the R-Weekly Highlights podcast is back! In this episode we discuss: Understanding the native R pipe, and using RopenSci's pkgcheck within GitHub Actions.
Episode Links
This week's curators: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) and Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
Understanding the native R pipe |>
pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W13
Supplement Resources
Episode 60: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/60
GitHub Actions for the R Community: https://github.com/r-lib/actions/
Appsilon Shiny Conference: https://appsilon.com/2022-appsilon-shiny-conference
Shiny Developer Series episode 30 - The Connecticut COVID-19 Test Spotter App (Part 1): https://shinydevseries.com/ep30
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30min
January 14, 2022Update on RWeekly and 2021 Reflections
An update on the current state of RWeekly, plus Eric and Mike reflect on their journeys with data science from the industry and consulting perspectives in an eventful 2021!
Episode Links
The very first issue of RWeekly: https://rweekly.org/issue-0.html
R for Data Science Learning Community: https://www.rfordatasci.com
discoRd: https://www.r-discord.com/home
Analytics Power Hour Episode 184 - Psychological Safety and Analytics with J.D. Long: https://analyticshour.io/2022/01/11/184-psychological-safety-and-analytics-with-j-d-long/
GitHub Project Boards: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/trying-out-the-new-projects-experience/about-projects
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50min
December 15, 2021Issue 2021-W50 Highlights
A batch of Shiny tips from creating an application tailored to teaching statistics, and the Big Book of R gains nine new entries to the collection.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
6 simple Shiny things I have learned from creating a somewhat small app
9 new books added to Big Book of R - In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W50
Supplement Resources
Albert Rapp's YouTube channel
R Development Guide
DevOps for Data Science
Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics
Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
"Introducing {admiral}" presentation at R/Pharma 2021
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36min
December 09, 2021Issue 2021-W49 Highlights
A fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
Data serialisation in R
Day 02: Postcards with distill || rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify || #12daysofdusting
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W49
Supplement Resources
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/12/01/dusty-domains-your-forgotten-domains-raise-money-for-charity
https://dusty.domains/
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33min
December 01, 2021Issue 2021-W48 Highlights
How GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay)
How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe
Getting started with unit testing in R
{filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W48
Supplement Resources
Issue 2021-W47 https://rweekly.org/2021-W47.html
GitHub Actions for the R language
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34min

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