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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189 Episodes

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


Issue 2024-W47 Highlights - E186

A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production conference, and visualizing ice thickness in Greenland with the power of the tidyverse and leaflet. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) R Dev Day @ SIP 2024 Greenland ice…

A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production…

21 November 2024 | 00:27:49


Issue 2024-W46 Highlights - E185

The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to generating markdown was vital to a high-profile Quarto site, a novel infograph of Bob's Burgers sentiment analysis, and updates to the next evolution of object-oriented programming in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara -…

The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to…

15 November 2024 | 00:49:41


Issue 2024-W45 Highlights - E184

Eric's flying solo this week, but the show goes on! The eagerly-anticipated recordings of the 2024 Posit conference are now available and Eric shares a few of his favorite gems, plus the Quarto publishing system takes center stage with how GitHub actions brings automation to report generation, and a terrific batch of answers to the recent R/Pharma…

Eric's flying solo this week, but the show goes on! The eagerly-anticipated recordings of the 2024…

06 November 2024 | 00:43:04


Issue 2024-W43 Highlights - E183

Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.table stacks up to DuckDB and polars for reshaping your data layouts. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter) Exploring the…

Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best…

23 October 2024 | 00:49:59


Issue 2024-W42 Highlights - E182

A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a clever use of AI to summarize a large collection of blog posts. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Nested unit tests with…

A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just…

16 October 2024 | 00:52:30


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