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An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar…
An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too…
20 March 2024 | 00:46:44
A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay -…
A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a…
13 March 2024 | 00:48:33
How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not? Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) &…
How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a…
06 March 2024 | 00:46:41
Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll) (Mastodon) HelloWorld(“print”)…
Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why…
28 February 2024 | 00:46:08
Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr…
Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through…
21 February 2024 | 00:47:17
A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder…
A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down…
14 February 2024 | 00:34:50
Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) (Twitter) & @[email protected]…
Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation…
07 February 2024 | 00:44:34
The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions. Episode Links This week's…
The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we…
31 January 2024 | 00:23:40
How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (https://twitter.com/parmsam_) (Twitter) &…
How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative…
24 January 2024 | 00:43:57
A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (Twitter) How to work with APIs…
A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension…
17 January 2024 | 00:44:41