R Weekly 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…

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…

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:…