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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Issue 2022-W24 Highlights

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}…

Many improvements to {gt} version 0.6, and creating flow charts effeciently with {ggplot2}. Episode…

15 June 2022 | 00:22:37


Issue 2022-W23 Highlights

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…

Creating user interfaces in R with a vintage toolkit, and a candid take on learning R with the right…

08 June 2022 | 00:30:10


Issue 2022-W22 Highlights

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…

Annotated screencasts of David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday analyses, and the second edition of Deep…

01 June 2022 | 00:21:42


Issue 2022-W21 Highlights

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…

Amazing software development resources for data scientists, community-contributed R markdown tips &…

25 May 2022 | 00:35:11


Issue 2022-W20 Highlights

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 preview of R for Data Science (2nd edition) with missing data, creating topography maps, and (yes)…

19 May 2022 | 00:28:45


Issue 2022-W19 Highlights

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 dungeon-crawler for your R console, storytelling in ggplot2 with rounded rectangles, and updates…

11 May 2022 | 00:26:17


Issue 2022-W18 Highlights

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…

A brand-new tables gallery powered by the R community, noteworthy items from the Appsilon Shiny…

05 May 2022 | 00:30:43


Issue 2022-W17 Highlights

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…

Lessons from teaching R to non-programmers, loading a large and messy CSV file with data.table and…

27 April 2022 | 00:32:55


Issue 2022-W16 Highlights

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…

An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with…

20 April 2022 | 00:29:53


Issue 2022-W15 Highlights

The cone of silence is lifted for the Quarto publishing engine, re-creating a storytelling look with ggplot2, and programming a fun Dragon Realm game in Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) We don't talk about Quarto…

The cone of silence is lifted for the Quarto publishing engine, re-creating a storytelling look with…

13 April 2022 | 00:31:28