R Weekly Highlights

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:…

A batch of Shiny tips from creating an application tailored to teaching statistics, and the Big Book of R gains nine new entries to the collection. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) 6 simple Shiny things I have learned from creating a somewhat small app…

A fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) Data serialisation in R (https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-11-15_serialisation-with-rds/) Day 02:…

How GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) How I Test cffr on (about)…

A cautionary tale about ML interpretations with food, practical solutions for dealing with big data in R, and the adventures of installing R on the new Apple Silicon hardware. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr) Why machine learning hates vegetables (a dialogue about Zillow)…

A lesser-known R function drives finding coordinates on fictitious Pokemon maps, creating customized point shapes with ggplot2 and gggrid, and how the branchMover Shiny app can save you a load of time and effort with GitHub branch renaming. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain (https://twitter.com/MilesMcBain)) Get…

An analysis of dialogue from "The Office", and a package promoting accessibility for visually impaired R-Users. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Analyzing The Office's dialogues (https://daniloderosa.com/blog/theoffice/) {BrailleR} 0.32.1 (https://cran.r-project.org/package=BrailleR): Improved Access for Blind Users Entire issue…

A tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin (https://twitter.com/KellyBodwin)) Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene…

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…

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…