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

· Science

4.3

66 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about R Weekly Highlights:

How many episodes does R Weekly Highlights have?

The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.

R Weekly Highlights episodes:

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
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

FAQs about R Weekly Highlights:

How many episodes does R Weekly Highlights have?

The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.

More shows like R Weekly Highlights

The Test Set by Posit by Posit, PBC

The Test Set by Posit

25 Listeners