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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January 31, 2024Issue 2024-W05 Highlights
The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Notes from live code review of {soils}
Load different R package versions at once with git worktree
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W05
Supplement Resources
How to embed videos with GitHub markdown: https://youtu.be/G3Cytlicv8Y
Reproducible Manuscripts with Quarto: https://youtu.be/BoiW9UWDLY0
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A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
Gerudo Desert Party - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Reuben6 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03720
...more
24min
January 24, 2024Issue 2024-W04 Highlights
How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
How to Update a Translation with Babeldown
Six not-so-basic base R functions
3MW (Making dashboard interactive)
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W04
Supplement Resources
babeldown R package https://docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/
DeepL API https://www.deepl.com/en/docs-api
Albert Rapp's Quarto dashboard repository https://github.com/AlbertRapp/quarto_dashboard/tree/master
Supporting the show
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R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
Seven Pipes to Heaven - Super Mario Land - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03256
Smooth Mana - Secret of Mana - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00352
...more
44min
January 17, 2024Issue 2024-W03 Highlights
A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
How to work with APIs using the httr2 package
Five Powerful ggplot Extensions
Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W03
Supplement Resources
Eric's podindexr package (accessing the Podcast Index API from R) https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexr
Melissa's web site https://www.melissavanbussel.com/
ggnot2 YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ggnot2
Jon Harman's web APIs with R book https://wapir.io/
beekeeper (rapidly scaffold API client packages) https://github.com/jonthegeek/beekeeper
ggtext - Claus Wilke https://wilkelab.org/ggtext/
patchwork - Thomas Pedersen https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/
ggpattern - Mike FC (coolbutuseless) https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/ggpattern/
ggforce - Thomas Pedersen https://ggforce.data-imaginist.com/
ggbump - David Sjoberg https://github.com/davidsjoberg/ggbump
ShinyConf 2024 https://www.shinyconf.com/
Yihui Xie: RAP god (Matt Dray) https://www.rostrum.blog/posts/2024-01-12-yihui-rap/
Supporting the show
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A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
...more
45min
January 10, 2024Issue 2024-W02 Highlights
We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Four ways to streamline your R workflows
The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these "*down" packages for these years, here I am to announce "Yihui-down"
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W02
Supplement Resources
R-Weekly Curation Calendar Dashboard https://rweekly.github.io/rweekly-calendar/
Quarto All the Things workshop from R/Pharma 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dQ36sx4Rk
Rami Krispin's VS-Code R container template repository https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r-template
Assignment pipe operator discussion on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/111664623134443564
Supporting the show
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R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
...more
1h
December 13, 2023Issue 2023-W50 Highlights
A data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V?
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players?
Quarto Dashboards
Why is View() capitalized, anyway?
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W50
Supplement Resources
JJ Allaire's Quarto dashboards keynote at PyData 20203 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCAScFqr10
MyNorfolk Quarto dashboard https://grrrck.quarto.pub/mynorfolk-dash
Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
...more
44min
December 06, 2023Issue 2023-W49 Highlights
A timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Cliff notes about the cli package
How to make your own #RStats Wrapped
deposits R Package Delivers a Common Workflow for R Users
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W49
Supplement Resources
Rethinking packages & functions preloading in webR 0.2.2 https://colinfay.me/rethinking-packages-and-functions-preloading-in-webr-0.2.2/
healthyr: Free Resources
Webinar: Discover the future of R in regulatory submissions https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2023/11/20/webinar-discover-the-future-of-r-in-regulatory-submissions
Supporting the show
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R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
...more
37min
November 30, 2023Issue 2023-W48 Highlights
A glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Object-Oriented Express: Refactoring in R
Using benchmarking to guide the adoption of dependencies in R packages
Building a DataFusion CSV reader with arrow-extendr
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W48
Supplement Resources
Sharing app state between Shiny modules https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13___ZiOO1aEv0xiCj2TAm2JenEdy_Sfy6SEIWAltAYI/edit#slide=id.g216fe8fbc25_0_71
{pkgdepends} Package Dependency Resolution, Downloads and Installation https://r-lib.github.io/pkgdepends
{reactable.extras} 0.2.0 Release: Enhanced Interactivity and Efficiency for Shiny Apps https://appsilon.com/reactable-extras-enhancing-shiny-applications
Folks, C'mon, Use Parquet https://appsilon.com/csv-to-parquet-transition
Shiny and Arrow - A match made in high-performance-web-application heaven https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
Jadey Ryan's The Coding Cats on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecodingcats
Supporting the show
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A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
...more
51min
November 11, 2023Issue 2023-W45 Highlights
From the "is there anything R cannot do" department comes QR code scanning, a tidy time series analysis on a major problem in the roads of Pittsburgh, and rolling up your sleeves with custom ggplot2 tricks to enhance a spatial visualization.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
Scanning QR codes in R
Forecasting Pittsburgh Potholes with {fable}
Adding context to maps made with ggplot2
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W45
Supplement Resources
Tidy tools for for time series https://tidyverts.org
Forecasting: Principles and Practices 3rd Edition https://otexts.com/fpp3/
Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
Plastik Skies - Daytona USA - Palpable & Diodes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03726
Waka Waka - Okami - jnWake, AarekMG, Brandon Harnish, DeLuxDolemite, Ivan Hakštok, JohnStacy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04486
...more
44min
November 01, 2023Issue 2023-W44 Highlights
A collection of post-workshop answers for the R/Pharma introduction to tidymodels workshop, the Shiny UI Editor takes a huge step out of the alpha stage, and a unique approach to Shiny modules with the new component package.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Answering some {tidymodels} questions
ShinyUIEditor: Out of alpha
{component} - Creating components for Shiny inspired by Vue
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W44
Supplement Resources
Introduction to machine learning with tidymodels https://nrennie.github.io/r-pharma-2023-tidymodels
Support nav_panel within apps using the page_navbar template https://github.com/rstudio/shinyuieditor/issues/190
Shiny Developer Series Episode 26 - Peeling Back the Curtain of the Movie Vue-R Part 1 https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep026/
Supporting the show
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R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
Holiday with Mia Fey - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - OceansAndrew - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01870
Neighburgers - Zombies Ate My Neighbors - Protricity - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01202
...more
45min
October 18, 2023Issue 2023-W42 Highlights
Another collection of package testing workflow nuggets you can make great use of today, the definitive guide to effective use of logging in Shiny applications from the recent Shiny in Production conference, and a cautionary tale of the potential impact of default function arguments in your downstream analytical pipelines.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Two recent enhancements to my testing workflow
Shiny In Production 2023: Effective Logging in Shiny
Note to self: be aware of functions with default arguments
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W42
Supplement Resources
testthat 3.2.0 https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/10/testthat-3-2-0/
lazytest - Runs only failed tests https://github.com/cynkra/lazytest
Effective logging in Shiny GH repository https://github.com/tanho63/talk_shinyprod2023_logging
shinymetrics https://shinymetrics.com
Shiny In Production 2023: Anatomy of a Shiny app
Shiny in Production 2023: Dynamic annotations: 10 tips for better text
Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback
R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.
A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info
Get in touch with us on social media
Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
Of Whips and Strings - Castlevania - Super Guitar Bros. - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02480
The Flood Plain - F-Zero - JigginJonT - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01494
...more
51min

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