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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October 11, 2023Issue 2023-W41 Highlights
How the {potools} package jump-starts your R package translations, the most-upvoted feature request lands in the RStudio IDE with GitHub Copilot integration, and a reflective post on the multiple paths to reproducible data science workflows in R.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
How to translate your package's messages with {potools}
GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it's finally here!
An overview of what's out there for reproducibility with R
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W41
Supplement Resources
potools - Tools for Portability and Internationalization of R packages https://michaelchirico.github.io/potools/
GitHub Copilot in RStudio, it’s finally here! https://colorado.posit.co/rsc/rstudio-copilot/
GitHub Copilot RStudio User Guide: https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/guide/tools/copilot.html
Rami Krispin's GitHub repo on devcontainers w/ R in VSCode: https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r
R/Pharma virtual conference registration: https://hopin.com/events/r-pharma-2023/registration
R/Pharma 2023 workshops (please register for conference before your register for a workshop): https://rinpharma.com/workshop/2023conference/
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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
Person, Place, or Groove? - Pictionary - The Orichalcon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01548
Forest Through the Trees - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Shea's Violin - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04484
...more
54min
October 05, 2023Issue 2023-W40 Highlights
A new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
{zoomerjoin} 0.1.0: Superlatively-fast fuzzy-joins in R.
Creating typewriter-styled maps in ggplot2
System Dependencies in R Packages & Automatic Testing
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W40
Supplement Resources
Locality-sensitive hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
Value 4 Value podcast by Kyrin Down https://blubrry.com/1475054/
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)
Music credits powered by OCRemix
Jazzer Soul - Soul Blade - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00194
Super Buck II - Super Mario Brothers 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577
...more
43min
September 27, 2023Issue 2023-W39 Highlights
Reflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Reflections on posit conf(2023)
Snap Slides: a Lightweight HTML Presentation Framework
Parallel raster processing in stars
Reproducible data science with Nix, part 6 -- CI/CD has never been easier
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W39
Supplement Resources
Shiny in Production Tools & Techniques https://posit-conf-2023.github.io/shiny-r-prod/
Jill McKay's posit conf presentation https://jillymackay.github.io/positconf2023_vetdata/positconf2023.html#/title-slide
Scroll snap technique https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scroll_Snap/Basic_concepts
Data science at the command line https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/
Spatial data science with applications in R https://r-spatial.org/book/
geoparquet https://geoparquet.org/
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
Azure Your Cause (The Color of the Summer Sky) - Secret of Mana Resonance of the Pure Land - Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03650
Secrets Abound (Matoya's Cave) - FInal Fantast Random Encounter - Midgarian Sky - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02452
Thunder Beam (Elec Man Stage) - Mega Man Series The Robot Museum - Joshua Morse - https://museum.ocremix.org/
...more
40min
September 13, 2023Issue 2023-W37 Highlights
Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API
A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents
Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W37
Supplement Resources
WebR binary R package repository - https://repo.r-wasm.org/
How do I preload the R packages in a node app - https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/issues/260
Minutes from 2023-08-18 Pilot 4 R-Consortium R-Submissions working group meeting (sending a Shiny application built with containers and webR to FDA) - https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-pilot4/minutes/2023-08-18/
ggannotate - Interactively annotate your ggplots https://github.com/MattCowgill/ggannotate
UFO sightings around the world - https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25
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
Kraid’s Campfire Ballad - Harmony of a Hunter - Sebastian Mårtensson feat. Kristin Björkebäck - https://harmony.shinesparkers.net/album/harmony-of-a-hunter
Cool Burn - Mega Man 9 Back in Blue - DarkeSword - https://backinblue.ocremix.org/music.php
...more
38min
September 07, 2023Issue 2023-W36 Highlights
A batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter)
Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week
Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds
Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W36
Supplement Resources
June Choe's comment on Mike Mahoney's post https://fosstodon.org/@yjunechoe/110975018204561319
10 years of rio
Shiny for R updates: tooltips, popovers, a new theme, and more
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
Escape Route - Cave Story - Corran - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01513
A Flea and His Giant - Maverick Rising - Chuck Dietz - https://maverick.ocremix.org
...more
39min
September 01, 2023Issue 2023-W35 Highlights
The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
{S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4
Creating template files with R
A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W35
Supplement Resources
S7 - A new object-oriented system in R https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/
Name of the game (issue 262): https://github.com/RConsortium/OOP-WG/issues/262
TidyX Episode 109 - R Classes and Objects - Making an S3 Object Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PGOx9Oqjo
Mike's boston R user group talk
Standard Notes (End-to-End Encrypted Notes App) https://standardnotes.com/
HedgeDoc https://hedgedoc.org/
fs - Provide cross platform file operations based on libuv https://fs.r-lib.org/
Room by Room Temperature Tracking (Jared Lander) https://www.jaredlander.com/2021/02/room-by-room-temperature-tracking/
Ted Laderas - A gRadual introduction to Web APIs and JSON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7KfdEsdpo
Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 Applications (deadline September 4th, 2023) https://ropensci.org/champions/
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 OverClocked Remix
Fiesta Amongst the Trees - Ristar - Southwestern College Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02125
Suco de Melancia - Final Fantasy 7 Voices of the Lifestream - Red Tailed Fox - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01671
...more
40min
August 23, 2023Issue 2023-W34 Highlights
A few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open source to process high-dimensional USDA geospatial data sets, and an infinitely fascinating look at how recursion and infinite data structures can be used in your R adventures.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Best Practices for Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
Analyzing new USDA data using open source tools
Taking from Infinite Sequences+ Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-WXX
Supplement Resources
janitor package by Sam Firke https://sfirke.github.io/janitor
CRAN task view on missing data https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MissingData.html
Tidy modeling with R https://www.tmwr.org/
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
43min
August 16, 2023Issue 2023-W33 Highlights
Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next!
Wrapping C Code in an R Package
How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W33
Supplement Resources
R Packages Chapter on Data: https://r-pkgs.org/data.html
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
41min
August 09, 2023Issue 2023-W32 Highlights
How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed
Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by-Step Guide
Cookbook Polars for R Cookbook to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in using Polars with R. A side-by-side comparison of polars, R base, dplyr, tidyr and data.table packages.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W32
Supplement Resources
Tube Archivist - Your self-hosted YouTube media server https://www.tubearchivist.com
webR code extension for HTML Quarto documents https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr
Into the webR-verse (Bob Rudis presentation at the 2023 New York R Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY
tidypolars - Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the Tidyverse https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com
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
44min
August 03, 2023Issue 2023-W31 Highlights
Reducing usage of for loops with the reduce function from purrr, filling spatial maps with density gradients to account for overplotting, and a fun way to add attribution to your fancy ggplots.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Reducing my for loop usage with purrr::reduce()
How to fill maps with density gradients with R, {ggplot2}, and {sf}
Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2}
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W31
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 / X / whatever it is called) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
...more
39min

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