R Weekly Highlights

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• Let's Talk About the Weather
• 2024 Shiny Contest
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W31

Supplement Resources

• https://lorenzwalthert.github.io/precommit/index.html
• https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/llm-rag/

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• A Flea and His Giant - Megaman X: Maverick Rising - Chuck Dietz - https://maverick.ocremix.org/music.php

Creating retro-gaming sprites rendered from the comforts of R? Yes we can! Plus an honest take on the utility of Github's Copilot Workspace in the context of package development, and taking the concept of code trees to another level with treesitter.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @Rby[email protected] (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)
• Tile-style sprite delight
• Some thoughts after a trial run of GitHub's Copilot Workspace
• Extracting names of functions defined in a script with treesitter
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W30

Supplement Resources

• tree-sitter-r https://github.com/r-lib/tree-sitter-r
• Shiny.telemetry 0.3.0 https://www.appsilon.com/post/shiny-telemetry-0-3-0-update
• Introduction to R with the Tidyverse https://introduction-r-tidyverse.netlify.app/session1_notes

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• Moonlight Vibin' - Mega Man X5 - DCT - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02053
• Forest Through the Trees - Shea's Violin - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04484

The world of web-assembly in R continues to move fast with key updates to the webrcli & spidyr packages, and what has us excited about the mapgl package for producing amazing spatial visualizations. 
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• webrcli & spidyr: What’s new
• Create a Compare slider widget
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W28

Supplement Resources

• mapgl package site https://walker-data.com/mapgl
• Mike's migrate package https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/migrate/

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• Super Buck II - Super Mario Bros 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577

The latest updates to the rayverse bring new meaning to smoothing out the rough edges of your next 3-D visualization, the momentum of DuckDB continues with the MotherDuck data warehouse, and the role nanoparquet plays to bring the benefits of parquet to small data sets.


Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement Mapping
• Joining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDuck
• nanoparquet 0.3.0
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W26

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• The Amazon Session - Ducktales - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00402
• Doomsday - Sonic & Knuckles - elzfernomusic - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02532

How the newly-released CRAN package deadline metadata inspired multiple learning journeys of the latest Shiny features with one of your podcast hosts joining the ride, a fresh coat of frontend paint to the amazing R-Universe, and the innovations R brings to forensic analyses of handwriting.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @Rby[email protected] (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)
• Expose CRAN deadlines and DOIs
• A fresh new look for R-universe!
• {handwriter} 3.1.1: Handwriting Analysis in R 
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W25

Supplement Resources

• Eric's pull request to fix the shinylive version of the CRAN deadlines app https://github.com/matt-dray/cran-deadlines/pull/3
• The handwriter package documentation site https://csafe-isu.github.io/handwriter/index.html
• Scraping the R-Weekly Highlights podcast https://github.com/iamYannC/r-podcast
• Simulations for 2024 Euro Cup and Copa America https://lukebenz.com/post/intlsoccer2024/
• Forecasting the UEFA Euro 2024 with a machine learning ensemble https://www.zeileis.org/news/euro2024/

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• Acrophobia - Earthworm Jim - about:blank - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01568
• Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - PrototypeRaptor - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01846

A thoughtful perspective on why it's not an either/or situation with popular data processing paradigms in R, another case of being kind to future you with your Git commit messages, and satisfying the need for speed in the evolving geospatial space.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on "dialects" in R
• Why you need small, informative Git commits
• Making a Ridiculously Fast™ API Client
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W24

Supplement Resources

• Welcome to the {data.table} ecosystem project! https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2023-10-15-introtogrant-toby_hocking/
• Pinball machines per capita https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pinball-machines-per-capita/
• New York R Conference Retrospective Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Ec4ZktjJQ
• igraph 2.0 https://igraph.org/2024/05/21/rigraph-2.0.0.html

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• DevilSLAB - Final Fantasy VI - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00250
• Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400 

How vintage features in R could introduce chaos in your quest for a tibble & data.frame function, and the awesome potential of integrating custom parameters and conditional processing in your next Quarto workflow.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• Make your functions compa-tibble
• Creating R tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using Quarto
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W23

Supplement Resources

• Invariants: Comparing behavior with data frames https://tibble.tidyverse.org/articles/invariants.html
• geoarrow: Extension types for geospatial data for use with 'Arrow' http://geoarrow.org/geoarrow-r/
• Customize your R startup message https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/rproject/
• About Podcasting Episode 10: Podcasting and Data Science with Eric Nantz https://www.aboutpodcasting.show/episodepage/podcasting-and-data-science-with-eric-nantz-from-the-r-weekly-highlights-podcast

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Chapter image credits

• Illustrations from the Openscapes blog Tidy Data for reproducibility, efficiency, and collaboration by Julia Lowndes and Allison Horst https://www.openscapes.org/blog/2020/10/12/tidy-data/
• Introducing the Geoparquet data format https://getindata.com/blog/introducing-geoparquet-data-format/

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• Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

The recent patches in R that pave the way for a future object-oriented-programming framework to accompany S3 and S4, a treasure-trove of open spatial data ready for your mapping visualization adventures, and a collection of tips for the next time you refactor your testing scripts.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R
• Getting and visualizing Overture Maps buildings data in R
• What I edit when refactoring a test file
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W22

Supplement Resources

• Overture Maps https://overturemaps.org
• Shiny Developer Series Episode 30 - The Connecticut COVID-19 Test Spotter App (Part 1) https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep030/
• Introduction to vvcanvas https://vusaverse.github.io/posts/vvcanvas.html
• How to Split a Number into Digits in R Using gsub() and strsplit() https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-05-22/
• Get a Free New Logo for Your R Package in Our Hex Design Contest - https://www.appsilon.com/post/hex-contest
• op3r - R client to the Open Podcast Prefix Project https://rpodcast.github.io/op3r/

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• Liquid Puzzles - Baba Is You - Gaspode - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04582
• Bar Hopping - Streets of Rage 2 - Jaxx - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00437

An aesthetically-pleasing journey through the history of R, another demonstration of DuckDB's power with analytics, and how webR with shinylive brings new learning life to the Pharmaverse TLG gallery.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
• The Aesthetics Wiki - an R Addendum
• R Dplyr vs. DuckDB - How to Enhance Your Data Processing Pipelines with R DuckDB
• TLG Catalog WebR
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W20

Supplement Resources

• Eric joins Adam Curry & Dave Jones on Podcasting 2.0 Episode 179! https://podverse.fm/clip/dYmaWGIOc
• DuckDB quacks Arrow: A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.html
• Demo repository for creating a Quarto workflow with {quarto-webr} and {quarto-pyodide} https://github.com/coatless-quarto/quarto-webr-pyodide-demo
• What's new in ShinyProxy 3.1.0 https://hosting.analythium.io/what-is-new-in-shinyproxy-3-1-0/

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• Green Glade Groove - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - TSori, dpMusicman, etc - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437
• Gerudo Desert Party - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Reuben6 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03720

Our take on the important conversations spurred by the recent R deserialization CVE, how simulations may save you from cracking open that probability textbook, and recapping the exciting 2024 Shiny Conference.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] & [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)
• Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn't be afraid to ask
• Calculating birthday probabilities with R instead of math
• Highlights from ShinyConf 2024
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W19

Supplement Resources

• R-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/
• CVE-2024-27322 Should Never Have Been Assigned And R Data Files Are Still Super Risky Even In R 4.4.0 https://rud.is/b/2024/05/03/cve-2024-27322-should-never-have-been-assigned-and-r-data-files-are-still-super-risky-even-in-r-4-4-0/
• Safety Radar for RDA Files https://github.com/hrbrmstr/rdaradar
• R's new exploit: how it works & other ways you're vulnerable (Josiah Parry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvXEi4nG5k
• Bogus CVE follow-ups https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/05/bogus-cve-follow-ups/
• Data serialisation in R https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-11-15_serialisation-with-rds/
• Tapyr https://connect.appsilon.com/tapyr-docs/
• Podcast Index Database Dashboard (built with R and Quarto) https://rpodcast.github.io/pod-db-dash/
• Eric will be a guest on the Podcasting 2.0 show this Friday! (10-May-2024 1:30 PM EDT) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666 

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Music credits powered by OCRemix

• Green Glade Groove - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - TSori, dpMusicman, etc - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437
• Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553