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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185 Episodes

Issue 2023-W22 Highlights

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)…

Another gem in the functional programming toolkit with partial functions, simplifying R package…

01 June 2023 | 00:38:38


Issue 2023-W21 Highlights

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…

A must-have resource to get you primed for testing R packages interfacing with the web, how ggblend…

25 May 2023 | 00:39:06


Issue 2023-W20 Highlights

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)…

Introducing the new ggflowchart package, how a dockerized development environment is another win for…

17 May 2023 | 00:41:04


Issue 2023-W18 Highlights

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…

Why effective code reviews can bring many benefits to data science teams, the origin story of the…

03 May 2023 | 00:39:40


Issue 2023-W17 Highlights

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…

A few strict checks offered in R 4.3.0, measuring and writing performant code in the Tidyverse, and…

26 April 2023 | 00:42:34


Issue 2023-W16 Highlights

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]

Using development containers to bootstrap a reproducible R and Quarto environment, a comprehensive…

19 April 2023 | 00:42:25


Issue 2023-W15 Highlights

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)…

A data-driven look at package loading annotations in R scripts, a fit-for-purpose package that makes…

12 April 2023 | 00:47:02


Issue 2023-W14 Highlights

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…

Ten unique ways to create your own Web APIs in R, and how you can import local and remote data files…

07 April 2023 | 00:28:37


Issue 2023-W13 Highlights

A new perspective on the value of base R functions, enhancing the capabilities of gpttools with vector databases, and three ways you can add alt text to your R-based visualizations. 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 new perspective on the value of base R functions, enhancing the capabilities of gpttools with…

29 March 2023 | 00:34:31


Issue 2023-W11 Highlights

The future of running R in your web browser is here with webR 0.1, a demonstration of integrating Quarto and webR with immense potential in the space of reproducible analysis, and two fundamental techniques from the world of software development tailored to non-programmers. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_…

The future of running R in your web browser is here with webR 0.1, a demonstration of integrating…

15 March 2023 | 00:36:45