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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182 Episodes

Issue 2024-W40 Highlights - E181

A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modification rabbit hole across multiple languages, and a sampling of sage advice from the Data Science Hangout. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr…

A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science,…

02 October 2024 | 00:52:19


Issue 2024-W39 Highlights - E180

How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your guides, and a prime way of using R to brute-force the answer to a mathematical brain-teaser. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr…

How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the…

25 September 2024 | 00:42:37


Issue 2024-W38 Highlights - E179

Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say "surreal!" Plus a data-driven approach to investigate recent changes to the Australian census, and a cautionary reminder to check just where those numbers are coming from the next time you build a prediction model. Plus the quest to make R the official…

Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say…

18 September 2024 | 00:40:28


Issue 2024-W37 Highlights - E178

How being fair to your research has a new and important meaning than what you may expect, the power you can unlock with custom roxygen tags, and a collection of tips you can apply today for your next visualization. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter) Making your blog FAIR Create and use a custom roxygen2…

How being fair to your research has a new and important meaning than what you may expect, the power…

11 September 2024 | 00:49:07


Issue 2024-W36 Highlights - E177

A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure in automating the translation of Quarto documents to multiple languages, and there's no time like the present to give your code a little linting love. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_…

A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure…

04 September 2024 | 00:44:58


Issue 2024-W35 Highlights - E176

A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of interactivity to a reactable table, and save yourself many hours of manual effort with Quarto parameterized reporting. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay)…

A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of…

28 August 2024 | 00:46:31


Issue 2024-W34 Highlights - E175

Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to panic when you see a merge conflict in Git, the genesis of the new R ARUG community in India, and a great primer on creating your own Quarto templates. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast…

Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to…

21 August 2024 | 00:37:02


Issue 2024-W32 Highlights - E174

A realistic take on converting the NY Forest Carbon Assessment modeling pipeline to the tidymodels suite, and a review of R package development workflows in the Positron IDE. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to Tidymodels R…

A realistic take on converting the NY Forest Carbon Assessment modeling pipeline to the tidymodels…

07 August 2024 | 00:57:44


Issue 2024-W31 Highlights - E173

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/ Supporting the show Use the…

Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder…

31 July 2024 | 00:30:46


Issue 2024-W30 Highlights - E172

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 - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo)…

Creating retro-gaming sprites rendered from the comforts of R? Yes we can! Plus an honest take on…

24 July 2024 | 00:43:25