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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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
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

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