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 225 episodes available.

R Weekly Highlights episodes:

September 07, 2020Issue 2020-36 Highlights
About this episode
A stunning combination of physics and 3-D visualization, behind the curtain of package installation, and an alternative workflow for error handling in functions.
Episode Links
Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine
State of R packages in your library
Handling errors using purrr's possibly() and safely()
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-36
The R-Weekly Patreon: www.patreon.com/rweekly
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6min
August 31, 2020Issue 2020-35 Highlights
About this episode
A substantial update to the magrittr package coming soon, creating visualizations in D3 from an R user's perspective, and a big book of R.
Episode Links
magrittr 2.0 is coming soon
D3 to R to D3
Big Book of R
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-35
Details on how to submit resources and becoming an editor on the RWeekly team: github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org
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5min
August 24, 2020Issue 2020-34 Highlights
About this episode
Choosing an operating system for R users, examining regression techniques, and inside the development of dittodb / generating data from truncated distributions
Episode Links
Best OS for R users
Lines of best fit
Generating data from a truncated distribution
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-34
Creating a new RWeekly issue demonstration: youtu.be/tnclyMsy638
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7min
August 17, 2020Issue 2020-33 Highlights
About this episode
Exploring comic book creation with the tidyverse and ggplot2, and updates to the showtext and shinycssloader packages on CRAN.
Episode Links
A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics".
{showtext} 0.9: Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs
{shinycssloaders} v1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years' worth of new features!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-33
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5min
August 13, 2020Introduction
In this introduction episode, Eric Nantz shares an introduction to the RWeekly community project as well as the movitation for creating this brand new RWeekly Highlights podcast!
Episode Links
rweekly.org
github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org
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4min

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How many episodes does R Weekly Highlights have?

The podcast currently has 225 episodes available.

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