R Weekly Highlights

R Weekly Highlights



The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.


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196 Episodes

Issue 2023-W35 Highlights

The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) &…

The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to…

01 September 2023 | 00:40:00


Issue 2023-W34 Highlights

A few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open source to process high-dimensional USDA geospatial data sets, and an infinitely fascinating look at how recursion and infinite data structures can be used in your R adventures. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono…

A few key practices for data preprocessing leveraging the tidyverse, more amazing wins with open…

23 August 2023 | 00:42:29


Issue 2023-W33 Highlights

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) (Twitter) & @[email protected]

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey…

16 August 2023 | 00:40:20


Issue 2023-W32 Highlights

How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder…

How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard…

09 August 2023 | 00:43:29


Issue 2023-W31 Highlights

Reducing usage of for loops with the reduce function from purrr, filling spatial maps with density gradients to account for overplotting, and a fun way to add attribution to your fancy ggplots. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr) (Twitter) & @[email protected]

Reducing usage of for loops with the reduce function from purrr, filling spatial maps with density…

03 August 2023 | 00:38:36


Issue 2023-W30 Highlights

How consistent formatting and styling is valuable technique for debugging, a visual tour-de-force of jazzing up your ggplots with the amazing ecosystem of extension packages, and why a little investment in learning HTML and CSS is worth your time as an R programmer. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664…

How consistent formatting and styling is valuable technique for debugging, a visual tour-de-force of…

26 July 2023 | 00:37:31


Issue 2023-W29 Highlights

The second edition of the highly-regarded R for Data Science arrives with substantial updates, an adventure with "A Programming Language" that brings new perspectives to functional programming approaches, and a new take on reproducibility in data science combining R with the Nix packaging system. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz -…

The second edition of the highly-regarded R for Data Science arrives with substantial updates, an…

19 July 2023 | 00:46:37


Issue 2023-W26 Highlights

Releasing an Word document table into the land of markdown, a practical overview of sharing your machine learning model with others, and taking local control of checking the builds of your package across computing architectures. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (Twitter) Convert a Word table…

Releasing an Word document table into the land of markdown, a practical overview of sharing your…

28 June 2023 | 00:33:57


Issue 2023-W25 Highlights

Uncovering powerful use cases of the slice() function in the tidyverse, a batch of new features and fixes for column labeling in gt 0.9.0, and a fun journey with tidymodels and visualizations on just how much the Reverend Thomas Bayes may have earned from his own home (probably). Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono…

Uncovering powerful use cases of the slice() function in the tidyverse, a batch of new features and…

21 June 2023 | 00:36:10


Issue 2023-W24 Highlights

A batch of useful patterns for your next R project, the highly-anticipated dashboard components of {bslib} have arrived, and creating circle-based charts with customization using {ggtricks}. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr) (Twitter) & @[email protected]

A batch of useful patterns for your next R project, the highly-anticipated dashboard components of…

14 June 2023 | 00:43:22