R Weekly Highlights

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) &…

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”)…

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…

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…

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]…

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…

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) &…

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…

We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast…

A data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V? Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) Are Birth…