R Weekly 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]…

Another terrific illustration of open-source collaboration in the latest updates to gptstudio, and a comprehensive journey of web scraping in R to bring much-needed automation to a practical research problem. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) On updating a chat assistant app for…

Another gem in the functional programming toolkit with partial functions, simplifying R package creation using fusen, and a creative visualization of worldwide parliament representation. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo (https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo)) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (https://mstdn.social/@R_by_Ryo)…

A must-have resource to get you primed for testing R packages interfacing with the web, how ggblend taps into new compositing functionality for clearer plots, and how R stacks up with Excel in handling dates. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (https://twitter.com/batool664) (Twitter) Better Understanding Your Tools…

Introducing the new ggflowchart package, how a dockerized development environment is another win for reproducibility, and our take on Colin Fay's keynote from the Appsilon Shiny Conference. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (https://twitter.com/parmsam_) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (https://fosstodon.org/@parmsam)…

Why effective code reviews can bring many benefits to data science teams, the origin story of the sketch package to transpile R code to JavaScript, and a primer on error handling in both R and Python. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Pull Requests, Code Review, and The Art of…

A few strict checks offered in R 4.3.0, measuring and writing performant code in the Tidyverse, and a please for indenting your code with (more) spaces. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (https://twitter.com/theRcast) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast) (Mastodon) What's new in R…

Using development containers to bootstrap a reproducible R and Quarto environment, a comprehensive approach to extending the data frame class, and plotting your own universe of labels with ggsolar. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (https://twitter.com/carroll_jono) (Twitter) & @[email protected]…

A data-driven look at package loading annotations in R scripts, a fit-for-purpose package that makes a large contribution to the global R ecosystem, and a collection of amazing showcases of webR in action that is paving the way for continued innovation. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (https://twitter.com/TonyElHabr)…

Ten unique ways to create your own Web APIs in R, and how you can import local and remote data files in CSV and (yes) Excel formats with a selection of innovative R packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder (https://twitter.com/jonmcalder)) (Twitter) Hello world examples with 10 different R web API frameworks…