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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How many episodes does R Weekly Highlights have?

The podcast currently has 207 episodes available.

R Weekly Highlights episodes:

June 29, 2021Issue 2021-W26 Highlights
Creating your own CRAN-like repository with R-universe, results the third annual Shiny contest, and insights on why to use Shiny.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe
Winners of the 3rd annual Shiny Contest
Why Shiny? Insights from a Shiny Developer
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W26
Supplement Resources
https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/03/04/r-universe-buildsystem/
https://ropensci.org/commcalls/may2021-r-universe/
...more
12min
June 23, 2021Issue 2021-W25 Highlights
Projecting and tracking COVID-19 infection rates in England with R, leveraging Wikidata to tag scientific abstracts, and a new deep-learning workflow with the luz package
Episode Links
This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman)
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}
Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items
Que haja luz: More light for torch!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W25
Supplemental Resources
{epidemia} package documentation
A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom
How epidemiology has shaped the COVID pandemic
...more
13min
June 15, 2021Issue 2021-W24 Highlights
Using Animal Crossing data with the Google Vision API and machine learning, the latest Shiny developer series with Nick Strayer, and ensuring robust database transactions in Shiny
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ([@TonyElHabr]
Everybody Loves Raymond: Running Animal Crossing Villagers through the Google Vision API
Shiny Developer Series Episode 21: RStudio software engineer Nick Strayer returns to share how he arrived to RStudio and motivations behind the new Shiny App Stories.
Shiny in Production: Database Transactions
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W24
...more
14min
June 08, 2021Issue 2021-W23 Highlights
Reusing knitr chunk options, the combo of VS-Code and R in 2021, and say hello to gggrid
Episode Links
This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain)
Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr
R in 2021 with VSCode
'gggrid' it's g-g-great! Accessing 'grid' from 'ggplot2'
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W23
...more
12min
June 01, 2021Issue 2021-W22 Highlights
Extracting and analyzing Apple health data, and the top 40 CRAN packages for April
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram Qin
Changes in Apple Health Export
April 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W22
Supplemental Resources
https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/timeline-how-apple-piecing-together-its-secret-healthcare-plan
https://github.com/d-score/childdevdata
https://github.com/forestry-labs/Rforestry
https://github.com/tsuda16k/materialmodifier
...more
9min
May 26, 2021Issue 2021-W21 Highlights
The big new features in R 4.1.0, what makes a great function example, and evolution of a ggplot
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
New features in R 4.1.0
Package documentation: What makes a good example?
Evolution of a ggplot
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W21
Supplemental Resources
Full R 4.1.0 changelog
Winston Chang's R read-only GitHub Repo mirror of the SVN R code repository for version 4.1.0
...more
16min
May 18, 2021Issue 2021-W20 Highlights
A tidymodels approach to the Introduction to Statistical Learning learning labs, exploring class imbalance on the TidyX video series, and encrypting and hosting a R Markdown report.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
ISLR: tidymodels labs: This book aims to be a complement to the 1st version An Introduction to Statistical Learning book with translations of the labs into using the tidymodels set of packages.
TidyX Episode 59: MLB Pitch Classification - Class Imbalance and Model Evaluation
Encrypt and host a knitted R Markdown file
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W20
Supplemental Resources
An Introduction to Statistical Learning and The Elements of Statistical Learning official sites with links to download each.
TidyX MLB Pitch Classification playlist
My appearance on TidyX episode 32
{encryptedRmd}: Password protected markdown HTML reports in R using libsodium
libsodium encryption library
...more
12min
May 11, 2021Issue 2021-W19 Highlights
Using the trifecta of map, walk, and pivot for data processing, obtaining quotes from the Friends characters in R, and putting the spolight on Shiny user interfaces in the Shiny Dev Series.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Hey, it's me, Eric! (@theRcast)
Map, Walk, Pivot
Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show 'Friends'
Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W19
...more
11min
May 04, 2021Issue 2021-W18 Highlights
A call to action for testing R 4.1, a practical guide to unit tests, and a tutorial on creating pizza charts with football data
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release
Writing unit tests in R
Soccer Percentile Radars/Pizza's Tutorial
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W18
...more
9min
April 27, 2021Issue 2021-W17 Highlights
Exploring wikidata with the {tidywikidatar} package, accessibility improvements in {knitr}, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for March.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (@batool664)
What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?
New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text
March 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W17
Supplemental Resources
https://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-turns-20-aims-reach-035212015.html
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/releases/tag/v1.32
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pkglite/index.html
https://flujoo.github.io/gm/
...more
13min

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