R Weekly 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…

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…

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…

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…

Creating mobile-friendly Shiny apps, {gitlabr} 2.0.0, and achieving reproducible workflows with R and Docker Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) Making Shiny apps mobile friendly (https://jnolis.com/blog/shiny_mobile/) {gitlabr} 2.0.0 (https://github.com/statnmap/gitlabr): Access to the…

Up and running with officedown, testing with a reprex to solve your problems, and a tidy take on performing hypothesis testing with statsExpressions. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin (https://twitter.com/KellyBodwin)) Up and running with Officedown (https://alison.rbind.io/blog/2021-07-officedown/) Reminder to test…

Top 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2} Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast)) Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest…

How to become a better R code detective, a practical introduction to custom fonts, and making error messages your own. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) How to become a better R code detective? (https://masalmon.eu/2021/07/13/code-detective) Setting up and debugging custom fonts:…

Creating a package directly from R-Markdown with {fusen}, and a new milestone release of the {googledrive} package Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) {fusen} 0.2.2 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=fusen): Build a Package from R Markdown File googledrive 2.0.0…

Practical tips on starting new R projects, and improving a visualization of US streaming market share. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) Draw me a project (https://masalmon.eu/2021/06/30/r-projects/) Improving a Visualization…