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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R Weekly Highlights episodes:

February 09, 2021Issue 2021-W06 Highlights
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr)
Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility
Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share
Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr
Supplemental Resources
Custom theming in Shiny & R Markdown with {bslib} & {thematic} (rstudio::global 2021)
Making Shiny apps faster with caching (rstudio::global 2021)
...more
11min
February 02, 2021Issue 2021-W05 Highlights
rstudio::global 2021 and UseR! 2021 call for abstracts
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
rstudio::global 2021 talks
rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise()
15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts
Supplemental Resources
Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (rstudio::global 2021)
Your Public Garden - rstudio::global(2021) Keynote by Vicki Boykis
...more
14min
January 26, 2021Issue 2021-W04 Highlights
{blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
Announcing blogdown v1.0
Announcing pagedreport
Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
Supplemental Resources
Up & running with blogdown in 2021
Yihui's perspective on early development of {blogdown} from episode 24 of The R-Podcast
The new and improved R-Podcast site
{pagedown}: Creating beautiful PDFs with R Markdown and CSS (rstudio::conf 2019)
{pagedreport} gallery
...more
10min
January 18, 2021Issue 2021-W03 Highlights
Data Science as an atomic habit, Japan soccer league season review, Fantasy football scheduling, and UseR! 2021 call for tutorials
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Data science as an atomic habit
J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R!
Fantasy Football and the Classical Scheduling Problem
UseR! 2021: Call for Tutorials
Supplemental Resources
Book Review: Atomic Habits
ffsched - R package for simulating schedules and standings for fantasy football
UseR! 2020 Tutorials Playlist
Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (Wolfram Qin) lightning talk at rstudio::global!
Session 1: 2021-01-21 10:21 PM - 10:26 PM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 AM - 03:26 AM UTC
Session 2: 2021-01-22 10:21 AM - 10:26 AM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 PM- 03:26 PM UTC
...more
10min
January 11, 2021Issue 2021-W02 Highlights
Plots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai}
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq
Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions
{renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments
{fastai} 2.0.2: Interface to fastai
Supplemental Resources
GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us
R-Podcast Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey
Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code
What does it mean to freeze or unfreeze a model?
...more
8min
January 05, 2021Issue 2021-W01 Highlights
Data Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results.
Up & running with blogdown in 2021
A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn't vote, people do
Supplemental Resources
A Fresh Look at Introductory Data Science
The R-Podcast Episode 31: Data Science Education with R
‘For responsible businesses – protecting human rights and the environment’ initiative background
...more
11min
December 28, 2020Issue 2020-52 Highlights
R Markdown family updates & table contest results
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest
Latest News from the R Markdown Family
Supplemental Resources
Editable DataTables in R Shiny using SQL
...more
6min
December 21, 2020Issue 2020-51 Highlights
Targetopia, extracting JSON data, and ggrepel update
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
The targetopia: An R package ecosystem for democratized reproducible pipelines at scale
Extracting JSON data from websites and public APIs with R
{ggrepel}: Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ggplot2.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-51
Supplement resources
{targets} statement of need
{stantargets}
{ggrepel} 0.9.0 changelog
...more
8min
December 14, 2020Issue 2020-50 Highlights
Underrated tidyverse functions, bullet chart variants, and AWS Lambda with R
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
Underrated Tidyverse Functions
Bullet Chart Variants in R
R on AWS Lambda with containers
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-50
...more
9min
December 07, 2020Issue 2020-49 Highlights
Extended ggplot2 tutorial, static code analysis, and a customized visual CV with ggplot2
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
An extended version of "A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting"
A brief introduction to the basics of R's static code analysis
Creation of a custom visual CV by ggplot hacking
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-49
...more
8min

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