R Weekly 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…

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…