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:

October 20, 2021Issue 2021-W42 Highlights
A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of the organisation is to add static type checking and other features to R, with zero cost at run time
How not to be lost with VSCode when coming from RStudio?
Fill the region between two lines in ggplot2
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W42
Supplement Resources
Type safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety
Eric's R development repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects
Visual Studio Code R extension: https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R
Looking to provide feedback on this episode and the podcast in general? Feel free to get in touch with Mike (@mike_ketchbrook) or Eric (@theRcast) on Twitter!
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31min
October 13, 2021Issue 2021-W41 Highlights
Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas!
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook)
Pull Request Flow with usethis
2021 New York R Conference Videos
{ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41
Supplement Resources
{gert}: Simple Git client for R
Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R
Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code
Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
Afton Coombs' previous Twitch stream submitting {ggalignment} to CRAN!
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28min
October 06, 2021Issue 2021-W40 Highlights
Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber
Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The (updated) history of the pipe operator in R
Creating a Dataset from an Image in R Markdown using reticulate
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W40
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23min
September 30, 2021Issue 2021-W39 Highlights
Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
Resources for Data Viz Accessibility
Curating for @WeAreRLadies on Twitter
Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W39
Supplement Resources
Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community
Why Accessibility is at the Heart of Data Visualization
Growing into the R community
Become a part of the R-Weekly Highlights podcast!
I am looking for members of the community to join me in sharing their perspectives on the highlighted resources in future podcast episodes! If you are interested in learning more and possibly joining my efforts, please get in touch via my Twitter account (@theRcast) or via email: theRcast (at) gmail.com
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26min
September 22, 2021Issue 2021-W38 Highlights
Eras of MTV and system commands
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering
How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W38
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13min
September 15, 2021Issue 2021-W37 Highlights
Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
Art, jasmines, and the water colours
{clockify} Time Tracking from R
The Four Pipes of magrittr
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W37
View the entire process of recording this episode from the livestream recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MA_WT7IXL0
Supplement resources
https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-09-10-setting-up-the-artfulbot/
{rprojroot}: Finding files in project subdirectories
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12min
September 08, 2021Issue 2021-W36 Highlights
Elegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram Qin
Elegant and informative maps with tmap
A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack
{gitlabr} 2.0 - Communicate with GitLab API from R
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W36
Supplement resources
https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap/
Geocomputation in R (authored by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Meunchow): https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html
https://github.com/emilyriederer/data-validation-demo
https://rich-iannone.github.io/pointblank/
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16min
September 01, 2021Issue 2021-W35 Highlights
The July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr)
July 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages
R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data Scientist & RStudio Connect with Tom Mock
The World's Countries Colored by Their First Letter
Supplement resources
codemeta: https://github.com/cboettig/codemeta
https://codemeta.github.io/
Multiclass classification of dry beans using computer vision and machine learning techniques
Thomas Mock's RMD Marvel GitHub repo: https://github.com/jthomasmock/penguin-project
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16min
August 24, 2021Issue 2021-W34 Highlights
Debugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting conclusion to SLICED season one
Episode Links
This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain)
Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging
Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams
SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12)
Supplement resources
TJ's notestar notebook system buit upon the {targets} package.
{eulerr}: Area-proportional Euler and Venn diagrams with ellipses
SLICED season 1 YouTube playlist
SLICED web site
Practical AI Episode 144
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17min
August 17, 2021Issue 2021-W33 Highlights
The new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using R.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram Qin (@R_by_Ryo)
{flow} 0.0.2: View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams.
Some Covid Donuts To End The Week
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W33
Supplement resources:
{boomer} - Debugging tools to inspect the intermediate steps of a call
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10min

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