R Weekly Highlights

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• What's new in R 4.4.0?
• It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippet
• Tailoring Shiny for Modern Users
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W18

• Full R 4.4.0 changelog https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html
• R-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/
• ASTHO Profile dashboard https://astho.shinyapps.io/profile/
• {plotcli} command-line plots for R https://github.com/cheuerde/plotcli 
• Fritz Leisch (1968-2024) https://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/fritz.html

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  • Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
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• Trippin' on the Bridge - Streets of Rage - lazygecko - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00993
• You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Interactive volcano plots with the ggiraph R package
• Modular R code for analytical projects with {box}
• Kicking tyres
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W17

• How to interpret a volcano plot https://biostatsquid.com/volcano-plot/
• Source code behind Tim's {duckplyr} and {data.table} benchmarks https://git.sr.ht/~tim-taylor/duckplyr-benchmarks
• Attach to a DuckDB Database over HTTPS or S3 https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/networkcloudstorage/duckdboverhttpsors3

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  • Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
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• Snow Cone Heaven - Ice Climber - Mazedude - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01176
• Cleaning Out Axis - Batman (NES) - Midee - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03008

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• Chat with AI in RStudio
• Test warnings faster
• R-hub v2
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W16

• R/Pharma 2023 presentation by Edgar Ruiz (GitHub Copilot in RStudio) - https://youtu.be/-Fjb8LZmTSI
• The 2024 Appsilon Shiny Conference is just days away! https://www.shinyconf.com/

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  • Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) 
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• Memories of a Master - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - Captain Hogan - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02268
• Higgins Goes to Miami - Adventure Island - virt - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00461

• This week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter)
• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and Cachix
• webR 0.3.1
• Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W15

• Bruno’s unit test involving {tidyselect} https://raw.githack.com/b-rodrigues/nixpkgs-r-updates-fails/targets-runs/output/r-updates-fails.html
• Cachix https://www.cachix.org/
• R/Medicine Call for Abstracts Open https://www.r-consortium.org/events/2024/04/05/r-medicine-coming-june-10-14-2024
• Survival analysis for time-to-event data with tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/04/tidymodels-survival-analysis/

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• Sun Ra - Ragnarok Online - Anthony Lofton, Joshua Morse - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01811
• Chopinesque Kirby - Kirby’s Dream Land - Bladiator - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01257

• This week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• I Made R Text For Me
• Stop Jenny committing arson
• The log-rank Test Assumes More Than the Cox Model
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W14

• Linux Unplugged episode 156: The xz Backdoor Exposed https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/556/
• Pushbullet https://www.pushbullet.com/
• {rpushbullet} R interface to the awesome Pushbullet service https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rpushbullet
• Mike’s PDF quarto reports in devcontainers GitHub repo https://github.com/ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev
• Aligning Beliefs and Profession: Using R in Protecting the Penobscot Nation’s Traditional Lifeways https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/03/27/aligning-beliefs-and-profession-using-r-in-protecting-the-penobscot-nations-traditional-lifeways
• Using Data to Protect Traditional Lifeways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjOSBHRm74

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• Heart’s Lullaby - Final Fantasy V - RebeccaETripp, Gamer of the Winds, Rahul Vanamali, Teil Buck - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04572
• Tails and the Music Maker - Picolescence - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176

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