R Weekly Highlights

Using the trifecta of map, walk, and pivot for data processing, obtaining quotes from the Friends characters in R, and putting the spolight on Shiny user interfaces in the Shiny Dev Series. Episode Links This week's curator: Hey, it's me, Eric! (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast)) Map, Walk, Pivot…

A call to action for testing R 4.1, a practical guide to unit tests, and a tutorial on creating pizza charts with football data Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release…

Exploring wikidata with the {tidywikidatar} package, accessibility improvements in {knitr}, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for March. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (@batool664) (https://twitter.com/batool664) What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?…

The latest news from rOpenSci, creating ggplot2 postcards with ggirl, and an introduction to process mining in R Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021 (https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/04/16/latest-ropensci-news-digest/) {ggirl} 1.0.1…

reprex 2.0, using Kubernetes and the future package, and SQL in RMarkdown Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay (https://twitter.com/_colinfay)) reprex 2.0.0 (https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2021/04/reprex-2-0-0/) Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud…

{workflowsets} with tidy models, exploring other {ggplot2} goems, and top 10 R errors Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman (https://twitter.com/robwhickman)) workflowsets 0.0.1 (https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2021/03/workflowsets-0-0-1/) Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms (https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/other-geoms/) The top 10…

The Minard System in R, ggplot2 wizardry, a slackbot created with plumber and googleCouldRunner Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/tonyelhabr)) "The Minard System" in R (http://minard.schochastics.net/) A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud…

{gt} tables cookbook, best weather cities, and mapping over many files Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain (https://twitter.com/MilesMcBain)) The GT Cookbook (https://themockup.blog/static/gt-cookbook.html) Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition (https://taraskaduk.com/posts/2021-03-14-best-weather-2/) How to…

Time series forecasting with torch, automated scraping of stock metrics with GitHub Actions, and default knitr options and hooks. Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman (https://twitter.com/robwhickman)) Introductory time series forecasting with torch…

Serverless dashboards, learning tidy evaluation by re-implementing dplyr, and bootstrap confidence intervals with tidy modeling Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin (https://twitter.com/KellyBodwin)) Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}…