R Weekly Highlights

Previewing the upcoming rstudio::conf, why you should (or shouldn't) build an API client package, and monitoring Shiny application usage with Hotjar. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) rstudio::conf(2022) Conference Schedule (https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-2022-conf-schedule/) Why You…

Many improvements to {gt} version 0.6, and creating flow charts effeciently with {ggplot2}. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) Changes (for the better) in {gt} 0.6.0 (https://www.rstudio.com/blog/changes-for-the-better-in-gt-0-6-0/) Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2}…

Creating user interfaces in R with a vintage toolkit, and a candid take on learning R with the right perspectives in mind. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_ (https://twitter.com/parmsam_)) {tickle} (https://github.com/coolbutuseless/tickle): a package for creating UIs in base R R will always be arcane to those who do not make…

Annotated screencasts of David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday analyses, and the second edition of Deep Learning with R is on the way. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) RScreencasts.com (https://www.rscreencasts.com/?ref=rweekly): A collection of 80+ hours of time-stamped, annotated…

Amazing software development resources for data scientists, community-contributed R markdown tips & tricks to save you time, and combining GitHub gists and Carbon screenshots with gistillery. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast) Software Development Resources for Data Scientists…

A preview of R for Data Science (2nd edition) with missing data, creating topography maps, and (yes) playing the drums directly in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin (https://twitter.com/KellyBodwin)) New r4ds chapter: missing values (https://r4ds.hadley.nz/missing-values.html) Making a crisp topography map with R…

A dungeon-crawler for your R console, storytelling in ggplot2 with rounded rectangles, and updates to the tidymodels recipes suite of packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) Simple procedural dungeons in R (https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/05/01/dungeon/) Storytelling in ggplot using rounded…

A brand-new tables gallery powered by the R community, noteworthy items from the Appsilon Shiny conference, and R-Markdown is not going anywhere. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast)) RStudio Community Table Gallery (https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-community-table-gallery/) shinytest2, Rhino…

Lessons from teaching R to non-programmers, loading a large and messy CSV file with data.table and command-line tools, Bayesian analyses with the brms package, and getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) 6 Lessons I learned from…

An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr)) R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools…