R Weekly Highlights

R Weekly Highlights



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.


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197 Episodes

Issue 2025-W08 Highlights - E196

Our candid takes on the state of CRAN's role in light of recent package archival events, how creative use of LLMs could greatly streamline your next literature review, and a few great illustrations of lazy being a good thing in your R session. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @[email protected] (Mastodon) &…

Our candid takes on the state of CRAN's role in light of recent package archival events, how…

21 February 2025 | 00:52:18


Issue 2025-W07 Highlights - E195

An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the unique formatting features of the Scotland census data were tamed with the power of R, and how the first-ever native mobile application powered by R has opened the doors wide open for innovation across many parts…

An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your…

14 February 2025 | 00:53:56


Issue 2025-W06 Highlights - E194

Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the world (of data) is at your fingertips for data exploration and sharing your insights using the innovative closeread Quarto extension. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt -…

Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package…

05 February 2025 | 00:46:47


Issue 2025-W05 Highlights - E193

Ready to bring your next presentation slides to the world of Quarto? Our first highlight has a batch of power tips you can use for your next slide deck. Plus terrific insights from first-time contributors to open-source software. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Seven…

Ready to bring your next presentation slides to the world of Quarto? Our first highlight has a batch…

29 January 2025 | 00:34:29


Issue 2025-W04 Highlights - E192

Bringing a little tidy magic to creating flowcharts in R, how data.table is addressing recent shifts in R's C APIs, and another showcase of R's visualization prowess in the realm of brain imaging.  Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo)…

Bringing a little tidy magic to creating flowcharts in R, how data.table is addressing recent shifts…

22 January 2025 | 00:50:34


Issue 2025-W01 Highlights - E191

The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns for Our first episode of 2025! We learn how hosted and self-hostem LLM's perform in the summarization of Bluesky R posts, as well as how models hosted on Azure infrastructure summarize cycling destinations. Lastly, we visit the visualization corner once again to bring a little (or a lot) of color in your next…

The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns for Our first episode of 2025! We learn how hosted and…

15 January 2025 | 00:48:07


Issue 2024-W51 Highlights - E190

An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for mathematics algorithms solvable in R, and solving the recent 2024 Advent of Code puzzles with data.table. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected]

An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over…

18 December 2024 | 00:39:40


Issue 2024-W50 Highlights - E189

The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for possibly switching to the Positron IDE, and why there is more than meets the eyes when it comes to the potential of LLMs and AI (even in highly-regulated industries). Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @[email protected]

The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for…

11 December 2024 | 01:01:28


Issue 2024-W49 Highlights - E188

As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to the contributors of your open-source package. Plus a practical introduction to missing value interpolation with a tried-and-true R package with a rich history, and a comprehensive analysis to predict an NBA superstar's next shot result (who has made a…

As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to…

04 December 2024 | 00:43:36


Issue 2024-W48 Highlights - E187

What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for the first-ever native mobile Shiny application (and yes, it is real), how you can expand your network on Bluesky from the friendly confines of R, and the potential of the S7 object-oriented paradigm to streamline and validate function parameters.…

What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for…

27 November 2024 | 00:47:37