R Weekly Highlights

A collection of highlights to give your future developer self a helping hand: Deploying a Flexdashboard using GitHub Pages and Docker, an illustrated guide showcasing the perks of Git and GitHub for version control, and how the logger package integrates smoothly with plumber for an API package. Additional note: The recording of this episode was met…

A few major benefits of adopting variable labels for R data frames, wrapping a plumber API into a package with mariobox, and getting started with obtaining new data in R via APIs and web scraping. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr)) The case for variable labels in R…

A collection of highlights powered by mathematics, statistics, and a little bit of R magic: Mapping wind data with R, calculating the expected statistic in football, and how the vetiver package fits in an ML-Ops production flow using Docker and Plumber. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder…

Using base R to decrypt an Australian coin's hidden messages, the Palmer Penguins data set achieves another milestone, and visualizing multiple statistcal properties with faded raincloud plots. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain (https://twitter.com/MilesMcBain)) Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption…

Using hierarchical forecasting to explore subway fare recovery, and how you can learn more about {gtsummary} to create your next publication-quality table within R. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) Exploring Types of Subway Fares with Hierarchical Forecasting…

The rstudio::conf(2022) presentation recordings are now available for viewing, and we learn about the unique development journey of the new CRAN release of the countdown package. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parsam_ (https://twitter.com/parmsam_)) Talk recordings and workshop materials from rstudio::conf(2022)…

Avoid repeating yourself by using dplyr's across function, going inside the process of creating a custom theme in ggplot2, and a few keyboard-centric tricks to manage your RStudio pane viewing. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) Using across() to create multiple columns…

A wealth of R content from the UseR! 2022 conference is now available, focusing on accessibility in the diffify tool, and a great recap of rstudio::conf(2022) from TidyX. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) useR2022 recordings are now on the conference YouTube channel…

RStudio re-brands as Posit, the shinytest2 package continues to make waves in the Shiny community, and more Quarto tips to boost your workflow. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin (https://twitter.com/KellyBodwin)) RStudio rebrands as Posit (https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-is-becoming-posit/) {shinytest2}: For…

Another great use case for Docker containers with interactive R-Markdown reports, a recap of RStudio's presence at the Appsilon Shiny conference, and building an interactive point-and-click game with Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) Containerizing Interactive R Markdown…