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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183 Episodes

Issue 2021-W42 Highlights

A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of…

A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio…

20 October 2021 | 00:30:01


Issue 2021-W41 Highlights

Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast…

Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now…

13 October 2021 | 00:27:38


Issue 2021-W40 Highlights

Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber…

Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and…

06 October 2021 | 00:22:50


Issue 2021-W39 Highlights

Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) Resources for Data Viz Accessibility…

Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an…

30 September 2021 | 00:25:43


Issue 2021-W38 Highlights

Eras of MTV and system commands Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering (https://jlaw.netlify.app/2021/09/15/finding-the-eras-of-mtv-s-the-challenge-through-clustering/) How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package…

Eras of MTV and system commands Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder…

22 September 2021 | 00:12:35


Issue 2021-W37 Highlights

Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) Art, jasmines, and the water colours (https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-09-07_water-colours/) {clockify} Time Tracking from R…

Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of…

15 September 2021 | 00:11:54


Issue 2021-W36 Highlights

Elegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Elegant and informative maps with tmap (https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap-book/visual-variables.html) A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack…

Elegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr. Episode…

08 September 2021 | 00:15:52


Issue 2021-W35 Highlights

The July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr)) July 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages (https://rviews.rstudio.com/2021/08/26/july-2021-top-40-new-cran-packages/) R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data…

The July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps Episode…

01 September 2021 | 00:15:55


Issue 2021-W34 Highlights

Debugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting conclusion to SLICED season one Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain (https://twitter.com/MilesMcBain)) Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging (https://www.tjmahr.com/keep-it-locally-sourced/) Exploring R² and…

Debugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting…

24 August 2021 | 00:16:20


Issue 2021-W33 Highlights

The new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using R. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) {flow} 0.0.2 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=flow): View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams. Some Covid Donuts To End The Week…

The new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using…

17 August 2021 | 00:09:49