R Weekly Highlights

About this episode Topics in package development, contributing to ROpenSci, and shining a light on learnr Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast (https://twitter.com/thercast)) Picking and researching blog topics about R package development (https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/10/09/topic-research/) Hacktober? Any Month is a Good Month to…

About this episode Visual markdown editing, stat layers in ggplot2, and learnr tutorials in a package Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono)) RStudio v1.4 Preview: Visual Markdown Editing (https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/09/30/rstudio-v1-4-preview-visual-markdown-editing/) How to deliver…

About this episode A calendar right in your R console, accessibility tooling for Shiny, and shinydashboardPlus v2.0 Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon (@ma_salmon (https://twitter.com/ma_salmon)) A Calendar in Your R Console (https://www.garrickadenbuie.com/blog/r-console-calendar/) accessibility (a11y) tooling for shiny…

About this episode Making learning to code friendlier with art, ggforce functions, and debugging in VSCode Episode Links It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a ggforce function (https://ihaddadenfodil.com/post/it-s-a-bird-it-s-a-plane-it-s-a-ggforce-function/) Making Learning to Code Friendlier with Art — An Interview with Dr. Allison Horst…

About this episode Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactivity in Shiny applications. Episode Links 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read. (https://themockup.blog/posts/2020-09-04-10-table-rules-in-r/) Column Names as Contracts…

About this episode A stunning combination of physics and 3-D visualization, behind the curtain of package installation, and an alternative workflow for error handling in functions. Episode Links Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine (https://www.tylermw.com/plinko-statistics-insights-from-the-bean-machine/) State of R packages in your…

About this episode A substantial update to the magrittr package coming soon, creating visualizations in D3 from an R user's perspective, and a big book of R. Episode Links magrittr 2.0 is coming soon (https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/08/magrittr-2-0/) D3 to R to D3 (https://maya.rbind.io/post/2020/d3-to-r-to-d3/) Big Book of R…

About this episode Choosing an operating system for R users, examining regression techniques, and inside the development of dittodb / generating data from truncated distributions Episode Links Best OS for R users (https://www.jimhester.com/post/2020-08-20-best-os-for-r/) Lines of best fit (http://freerangestats.info/blog/2020/08/23/highered-ols)…

About this episode Exploring comic book creation with the tidyverse and ggplot2, and updates to the showtext and shinycssloader packages on CRAN. Episode Links A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". (https://github.com/sharlagelfand/understanding-comics) {showtext} 0.9…

In this introduction episode, Eric Nantz shares an introduction to the RWeekly community project as well as the movitation for creating this brand new RWeekly Highlights podcast! Episode Links rweekly.org (https://rweekly.org) github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org (https://github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org)