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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The podcast currently has 217 episodes available.

R Weekly Highlights episodes:

November 17, 2021Issue 2021-W46 Highlights
A cautionary tale about ML interpretations with food, practical solutions for dealing with big data in R, and the adventures of installing R on the new Apple Silicon hardware.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr
Why machine learning hates vegetables (a dialogue about Zillow)
Should I Move to a Database?
Transitioning from x86 to arm64 on macOS - experiences of an R user
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W46
Supplement Resources
Building code movies with flipbookr
A guide to modeling proportions with Bayesian beta and zero-inflated beta regression models by Andrew Heiss
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38min
November 10, 2021Issue 2021-W45 Highlights
A lesser-known R function drives finding coordinates on fictitious Pokemon maps, creating customized point shapes with ggplot2 and gggrid, and how the branchMover Shiny app can save you a load of time and effort with GitHub branch renaming.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain)
Get coordinates from fictitious maps
Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid}
branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W45
Supplement Resources
Using {arrow} + {shiny}
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34min
November 03, 2021Issue 2021-W44 Highlights
An analysis of dialogue from "The Office", and a package promoting accessibility for visually impaired R-Users.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram Qin
Analyzing The Office's dialogues
{BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W44
Supplement Resources
{schrute} package by Brad Lindlad
Danilo's data viz portfolio
The Pudding data viz publication
Silicon Valley Hot Dog Scene
JooYoung Seo's Talk at RStudio::Global
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25min
October 27, 2021Issue 2021-W43 Highlights
A tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene
Thinking outside the grid - A "bare bones" introduction to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot
TBD, but likely a Shiny server video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4T0qfqY7k
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W43
Supplement Resources
"Hosting Data Apps" Blog by Analythium
Meghan Harris' website, The Tidy Trekker
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31min
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

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How many episodes does R Weekly Highlights have?

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