R Weekly Highlights

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…

Creating your own CRAN-like repository with R-universe, results the third annual Shiny contest, and insights on why to use Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe (https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/06/22/setup-runiverse/) Winners…

Projecting and tracking COVID-19 infection rates in England with R, leveraging Wikidata to tag scientific abstracts, and a new deep-learning workflow with the luz package Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman (https://twitter.com/robwhickman)) Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}…

Using Animal Crossing data with the Google Vision API and machine learning, the latest Shiny developer series with Nick Strayer, and ensuring robust database transactions in Shiny Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ([@TonyElHabr] Everybody Loves Raymond: Running Animal Crossing Villagers through the Google Vision API…

Reusing knitr chunk options, the combo of VS-Code and R in 2021, and say hello to gggrid Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain (https://twitter.com/MilesMcBain)) Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr (https://yihui.org/en/2021/05/knitr-reuse/) R in 2021 with VSCode…