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:

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/
...more
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
...more
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
...more
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
...more
10min
August 10, 2021Issue 2021-W32 Highlights
Creating mobile-friendly Shiny apps, {gitlabr} 2.0.0, and achieving reproducible workflows with R and Docker
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
Making Shiny apps mobile friendly
{gitlabr} 2.0.0: Access to the 'Gitlab' API.
How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W32
Supplement resources:
Jesse Mostipak's Twitter thread: Stumbling blocks encountered with learning Shiny
Jacqueline Nolis: I made an entier e-commerce platform on Shiny https://youtu.be/tTgRhJ6lb4w
https://www.rocker-project.org
My R development template repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects
...more
18min
August 04, 2021Issue 2021-W31 Highlights
Up and running with officedown, testing with a reprex to solve your problems, and a tidy take on performing hypothesis testing with statsExpressions.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
Up and running with Officedown
Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!)
{statsExpressions} 1.2.0: Add statistical detail to data frames and plots
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W31
Supplement resources:
Friction Logs: The Key to Unlocking Product Growth
MS-OOXML: A pseudo-standard that pretends to be open
The officer package: Making PowerPoint slides from R (my presentation from the Advanced R Markdown Workshop)
...more
16min
July 27, 2021Issue 2021-W30 Highlights
Top 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2}
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest
{targets} 0.6.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Workflows
Introducing {facetious} - alternate facets for ggplot2
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W30
Supplement resources:
Recording of my issue curation livestream!
Effective communication between Shiny modules
{targets} 0.6.0 NEWS
Chapter 3 - Target Markdown
Target Markdown template format
{targets} resources from upcoming R in Medicine workshop
...more
20min
July 20, 2021Issue 2021-W29 Highlights
How to become a better R code detective, a practical introduction to custom fonts, and making error messages your own.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
How to become a better R code detective?
Setting up and debugging custom fonts: a practical introduction to the all (new) things font in R
Make error messages your own
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W29
...more
13min
July 13, 2021Issue 2021-W28 Highlights
Creating a package directly from R-Markdown with {fusen}, and a new milestone release of the {googledrive} package
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
{fusen} 0.2.2: Build a Package from R Markdown File
googledrive 2.0.0
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W28
Supplement Resources
How to build a package following Rmd Driven Development GitHub Repository
Batool's presentation from UseR! 2021: Make Your Computational Analysis Citable
...more
10min
July 07, 2021Issue 2021-W27 Highlights
Practical tips on starting new R projects, and improving a visualization of US streaming market share.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
Draw me a project
Improving a Visualization
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W27
...more
13min

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