R Weekly 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…

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…

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…

A trifecta of new R packages for data validation, function logging, and a new ggplot2 extension. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation (https://mdneuzerling.com/post/exemplar-a-prototype-r-package-for-data-validation/) {chronicler} 0.1…

After a brief hiatus, the R-Weekly Highlights podcast is back! In this episode we discuss: Understanding the native R pipe, and using RopenSci's pkgcheck within GitHub Actions. Episode Links This week's curators: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) and Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) Understanding…

An update on the current state of RWeekly, plus Eric and Mike reflect on their journeys with data science from the industry and consulting perspectives in an eventful 2021! Episode Links The very first issue of RWeekly: https://rweekly.org/issue-0.html R for Data Science Learning Community: https://www.rfordatasci.com discoRd:…

A batch of Shiny tips from creating an application tailored to teaching statistics, and the Big Book of R gains nine new entries to the collection. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) 6 simple Shiny things I have learned from creating a somewhat small app…

A fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) Data serialisation in R (https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-11-15_serialisation-with-rds/) Day 02:…

How GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) How I Test cffr on (about)…