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• Nested unit tests with testthat
• shinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for R
• Creating post summary with AI from Hugging Face
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W42

• elmer: Call LLM APIs from R https://hadley.github.io/elmer/
• Joe Cheng's sidebot app (R edition) https://github.com/jcheng5/r-sidebot
• EDA Reimagined in R: GWalkR + DuckDB for Lightning-Fast Visualizations https://medium.com/@bruceyu0416/eda-reimagined-in-r-gwalkr-duckdb-for-lightning-fast-visualizations-05b011e8ae39
• Apache superset https://superset.apache.org/
• Postprocessing is coming to tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10/postprocessing-preview/

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• Pachelbel's Ganon - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - djpretzel - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00753
• Voodoo, Roots 'n Grog - The Secret of Monkey Island - Alex Jones, Diggi Dis - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02180

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 13 -- {rix} is on CRAN!
• In-Place Modifications
• Data Career Insights: Lessons from four senior leaders in the data space
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W40

• rix rOpenSci review: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625
• Determinate Systems Zero to Nix guide https://zero-to-nix.com/ 
• vec - A new vector class with added functionality https://jonocarroll.github.io/vec/
• rray - Simple arrays https://rray.r-lib.org/
• Libby Heeren's podcast Data Humans https://libbyheeren.com/podcast.html or https://datahumans.libsyn.com/site
• A Bayesian Plackett-Luce model in Stan applied to pinball championship data https://sumsar.net/blog/bayesian-plackett-luce-model-pinball-competition/
•  Cover and modify, some tips for R package development https://masalmon.eu/2024/09/24/cover-modify-r-packages/

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• Torvus Clockwork - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - DarkeSword - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01507
• Home is Where You Belong - Final Fantasy IX - Reuben Spears, Earth Kid - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04135

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• patchwork 1.3.0
• {gguidance}: Extended guide options for 'ggplot2'
• Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nz
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W39

• gt 0.11.0 release notes https://gt.rstudio.com/news/index.html#gt-0110
• Being free from constraint https://www.data-imaginist.com/posts/2024-01-05-patchwork-1-2-0/#being-free-from-constraint
• gguidance: A guided tour vignette https://teunbrand.github.io/gguidance/articles/tour.html
• Create a free Llama 3.1 405B-powered chatbot on an R package's GitHub repo in <1 min https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/create-a-free-llama-405b-llm-chatbot-github-repo-huggingface
• Ease renv::restore() by updating your repository to Posit Public Package Manager https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2024-09-16-ease-renvrestore-by-updating-your-repositories-to-p3m

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• Smoke & Marbles - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Emunator, ZackParrish, Lucas Guimaraes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04714
• See Me Again - Valis III - tibonev - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04610

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @Rby[email protected] (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)
• {surreal} 0.0.1: Create Datasets with Hidden Images in Residual Plots
• Gender and sexuality in Australian surveys and census
• Please Version Data
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W38

• Surfing the WSL Wave - Coder Radio episode 587 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/coder-radio/587/
• Brian (bhh32) on Nostr
• surreal https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/surreal/
• Residual Plots and Data Sets (archived version) https://web.archive.org/web/20210927100125/https://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~stefanski/NSFSupported/HiddenImages/statresplots.html
• Labels for Technical Writing Projects https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/12/labels-writing-projects/
• Express to Impress: Leveraging IBCS Standards for Powerful Data Presentations https://medium.com/number-around-us/express-to-impress-leveraging-ibcs-standards-for-powerful-data-presentations-3c3a269f0ec0

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• Moonlight Vibin' - Mega Man X5 - DCT - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02053
• You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• Making your blog FAIR
• Create and use a custom roxygen2 tag
• Five ways to improve your chart axes
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W37

• httr2: Perform HTTP requests and process the response https://httr2.r-lib.org/
• Athanasia's GitHub Actions workflow files https://github.com/drmowinckels/drmowinckels.github.io/tree/main/.github/workflows
• maestro: Orchestration of data pipelines https://whipson.github.io/maestro/

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• Crysis Crystal - Mega Man 9: Black in Blue - k-wix - https://backinblue.ocremix.org/index.php
• Of Whips and Strings - Vampire Variations: A Musical Tribute to Castlevania - Super Guitar Bros. - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02480 

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• Long input lines
• Translating Quarto (and other markdown files) into Any Language
• Get your codebase lint-free forever with lintr
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W36

• News from R Submissions Working Group – Pilot 3 Successfully Reviewed by FDA
• Mastodon Accounts Posting About #RStats

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• Torvus Clockwork - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - DarkeSword - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01507
• Sleep, My Sephy (Judgement Day) - Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream - Pot Hocket - https://ff7.ocremix.org/

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)
• Unveiling Bottlenecks (Part 2): A Deep Dive into Profiling Tools\
• Creating interactive tables with reactable
• Automating Quarto reports with parameters
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W35

• {golem} 0.5.0 is now available
• Shiny Developer Series Episode 12: Reactlog with Barrett Schlerke https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep012/ 
• The Coding Cats shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecodingcats/
• A visual journey through world exhibitions https://georgios.quarto.pub/a-visual-journey-through-world-exhibitions/
• Six ways to find better content on Mastodon https://www.infoworld.com/article/2338712/6-ways-to-find-better-content-on-mastodon.html

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• Tails and the Music Maker - Picolescence - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176
• The Amazon Session - Ducktales - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00402

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• Please let me merge before I start crying and other things I've said at the Git terminal
• A New R Community in Ahmedabad, India, focused on Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industries
• Designing and deploying internal Quarto templates
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W34

• Shiny-based clinical submissions using WebAssembly https://rpodcast.github.io/shiny-webr-posit2024/#/section
• Introducing saperlipopette, a package to practice Git! https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/18/saperlipopette-package-practice-git/
• NORC crime tracker Shiny app https://livecrimetracker.norc.org/#home

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• You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064
• Seven Pipes to Heaven - Super Mario Land - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03256

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to Tidymodels
• R package development in Positron
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W32

• Tidy Modeling with R e-book: https://www.tmwr.org
• maestro: Orchestration of data pipelines https://whipson.github.io/maestro/
• Pharma RUG: The Rise of R in China’s Pharmaceutical Industry https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/08/01/pharma-rug-the-rise-of-r-in-chinas-pharmaceutical-industry 
• R/Pharma APAC track call for talks: https://rinpharma.com/post/2024-07-17-apac-track/

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• Person, Place, or Groove? - Pictionary - The Orichalcon - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01548

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• Let's Talk About the Weather
• 2024 Shiny Contest
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• https://lorenzwalthert.github.io/precommit/index.html
• https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/llm-rag/

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• A Flea and His Giant - Megaman X: Maverick Rising - Chuck Dietz - https://maverick.ocremix.org/music.php

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @Rby[email protected] (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)
• Tile-style sprite delight
• Some thoughts after a trial run of GitHub's Copilot Workspace
• Extracting names of functions defined in a script with treesitter
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W30

• tree-sitter-r https://github.com/r-lib/tree-sitter-r
• Shiny.telemetry 0.3.0 https://www.appsilon.com/post/shiny-telemetry-0-3-0-update
• Introduction to R with the Tidyverse https://introduction-r-tidyverse.netlify.app/session1_notes

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• Forest Through the Trees - Shea's Violin - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04484

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• webrcli & spidyr: What’s new
• Create a Compare slider widget
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W28

• mapgl package site https://walker-data.com/mapgl
• Mike's migrate package https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/migrate/

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• Super Buck II - Super Mario Bros 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement Mapping
• Joining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDuck
• nanoparquet 0.3.0
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W26

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• The Amazon Session - Ducktales - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00402
• Doomsday - Sonic & Knuckles - elzfernomusic - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02532

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @Rby[email protected] (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)
• Expose CRAN deadlines and DOIs
• A fresh new look for R-universe!
• {handwriter} 3.1.1: Handwriting Analysis in R 
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W25

• Eric's pull request to fix the shinylive version of the CRAN deadlines app https://github.com/matt-dray/cran-deadlines/pull/3
• The handwriter package documentation site https://csafe-isu.github.io/handwriter/index.html
• Scraping the R-Weekly Highlights podcast https://github.com/iamYannC/r-podcast
• Simulations for 2024 Euro Cup and Copa America https://lukebenz.com/post/intlsoccer2024/
• Forecasting the UEFA Euro 2024 with a machine learning ensemble https://www.zeileis.org/news/euro2024/

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• Acrophobia - Earthworm Jim - about:blank - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01568
• Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - PrototypeRaptor - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01846

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on "dialects" in R
• Why you need small, informative Git commits
• Making a Ridiculously Fast™ API Client
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W24

• Welcome to the {data.table} ecosystem project! https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2023-10-15-introtogrant-toby_hocking/
• Pinball machines per capita https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pinball-machines-per-capita/
• New York R Conference Retrospective Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Ec4ZktjJQ
• igraph 2.0 https://igraph.org/2024/05/21/rigraph-2.0.0.html

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• DevilSLAB - Final Fantasy VI - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00250
• Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400 

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• Make your functions compa-tibble
• Creating R tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using Quarto
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W23

• Invariants: Comparing behavior with data frames https://tibble.tidyverse.org/articles/invariants.html
• geoarrow: Extension types for geospatial data for use with 'Arrow' http://geoarrow.org/geoarrow-r/
• Customize your R startup message https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/rproject/
• About Podcasting Episode 10: Podcasting and Data Science with Eric Nantz https://www.aboutpodcasting.show/episodepage/podcasting-and-data-science-with-eric-nantz-from-the-r-weekly-highlights-podcast

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• Illustrations from the Openscapes blog Tidy Data for reproducibility, efficiency, and collaboration by Julia Lowndes and Allison Horst https://www.openscapes.org/blog/2020/10/12/tidy-data/
• Introducing the Geoparquet data format https://getindata.com/blog/introducing-geoparquet-data-format/

• Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Generalizing Support for Functional OOP in R
• Getting and visualizing Overture Maps buildings data in R
• What I edit when refactoring a test file
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W22

• Overture Maps https://overturemaps.org
• Shiny Developer Series Episode 30 - The Connecticut COVID-19 Test Spotter App (Part 1) https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep030/
• Introduction to vvcanvas https://vusaverse.github.io/posts/vvcanvas.html
• How to Split a Number into Digits in R Using gsub() and strsplit() https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-05-22/
• Get a Free New Logo for Your R Package in Our Hex Design Contest - https://www.appsilon.com/post/hex-contest
• op3r - R client to the Open Podcast Prefix Project https://rpodcast.github.io/op3r/

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• Liquid Puzzles - Baba Is You - Gaspode - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04582
• Bar Hopping - Streets of Rage 2 - Jaxx - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00437

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• The Aesthetics Wiki - an R Addendum
• R Dplyr vs. DuckDB - How to Enhance Your Data Processing Pipelines with R DuckDB
• TLG Catalog 🤝 WebR
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W20

• Eric joins Adam Curry & Dave Jones on Podcasting 2.0 Episode 179! https://podverse.fm/clip/dYmaWGIOc
• DuckDB quacks Arrow: A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.html
• Demo repository for creating a Quarto workflow with {quarto-webr} and {quarto-pyodide} https://github.com/coatless-quarto/quarto-webr-pyodide-demo
• What's new in ShinyProxy 3.1.0 https://hosting.analythium.io/what-is-new-in-shinyproxy-3-1-0/

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• Green Glade Groove - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - TSori, dpMusicman, etc - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437
• Gerudo Desert Party - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Reuben6 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03720

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] & [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)
• Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn't be afraid to ask
• Calculating birthday probabilities with R instead of math
• Highlights from ShinyConf 2024
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W19

• R-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/
• CVE-2024-27322 Should Never Have Been Assigned And R Data Files Are Still Super Risky Even In R 4.4.0 https://rud.is/b/2024/05/03/cve-2024-27322-should-never-have-been-assigned-and-r-data-files-are-still-super-risky-even-in-r-4-4-0/
• Safety Radar for RDA Files https://github.com/hrbrmstr/rdaradar
• R's new exploit: how it works & other ways you're vulnerable (Josiah Parry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvXEi4nG5k
• Bogus CVE follow-ups https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/05/bogus-cve-follow-ups/
• Data serialisation in R https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-11-15_serialisation-with-rds/
• Tapyr https://connect.appsilon.com/tapyr-docs/
• Podcast Index Database Dashboard (built with R and Quarto) https://rpodcast.github.io/pod-db-dash/
• Eric will be a guest on the Podcasting 2.0 show this Friday! (10-May-2024 1:30 PM EDT) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666 

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• Green Glade Groove - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - TSori, dpMusicman, etc - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437
• Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• What's new in R 4.4.0?
• It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippet
• Tailoring Shiny for Modern Users
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W18

• Full R 4.4.0 changelog https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.html
• R-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/
• ASTHO Profile dashboard https://astho.shinyapps.io/profile/
• {plotcli} command-line plots for R https://github.com/cheuerde/plotcli 
• Fritz Leisch (1968-2024) https://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/fritz.html

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• Trippin' on the Bridge - Streets of Rage - lazygecko - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00993
• You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Interactive volcano plots with the ggiraph R package
• Modular R code for analytical projects with {box}
• Kicking tyres
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W17

• How to interpret a volcano plot https://biostatsquid.com/volcano-plot/
• Source code behind Tim's {duckplyr} and {data.table} benchmarks https://git.sr.ht/~tim-taylor/duckplyr-benchmarks
• Attach to a DuckDB Database over HTTPS or S3 https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/networkcloudstorage/duckdboverhttpsors3

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• Snow Cone Heaven - Ice Climber - Mazedude - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01176
• Cleaning Out Axis - Batman (NES) - Midee - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03008

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• Chat with AI in RStudio
• Test warnings faster
• R-hub v2
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W16

• R/Pharma 2023 presentation by Edgar Ruiz (GitHub Copilot in RStudio) - https://youtu.be/-Fjb8LZmTSI
• The 2024 Appsilon Shiny Conference is just days away! https://www.shinyconf.com/

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• Memories of a Master - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - Captain Hogan - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02268
• Higgins Goes to Miami - Adventure Island - virt - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00461

• This week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter)
• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and Cachix
• webR 0.3.1
• Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle data
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W15

• Bruno’s unit test involving {tidyselect} https://raw.githack.com/b-rodrigues/nixpkgs-r-updates-fails/targets-runs/output/r-updates-fails.html
• Cachix https://www.cachix.org/
• R/Medicine Call for Abstracts Open https://www.r-consortium.org/events/2024/04/05/r-medicine-coming-june-10-14-2024
• Survival analysis for time-to-event data with tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/04/tidymodels-survival-analysis/

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• Sun Ra - Ragnarok Online - Anthony Lofton, Joshua Morse - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01811
• Chopinesque Kirby - Kirby’s Dream Land - Bladiator - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01257

• This week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• I Made R Text For Me
• Stop Jenny committing arson
• The log-rank Test Assumes More Than the Cox Model
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W14

• Linux Unplugged episode 156: The xz Backdoor Exposed https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/556/
• Pushbullet https://www.pushbullet.com/
• {rpushbullet} R interface to the awesome Pushbullet service https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rpushbullet
• Mike’s PDF quarto reports in devcontainers GitHub repo https://github.com/ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-dev
• Aligning Beliefs and Profession: Using R in Protecting the Penobscot Nation’s Traditional Lifeways https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/03/27/aligning-beliefs-and-profession-using-r-in-protecting-the-penobscot-nations-traditional-lifeways
• Using Data to Protect Traditional Lifeways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjOSBHRm74

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How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox.

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• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• Update on mocking for testing R packages
• {rspell} Are you writing in a foreign language? The RStudio spelling dictionary setting is not sufficient to correct grammar errors. Try the {rspell} package to grammar-proof your notebooks and documentation straight on RStudio without copying-pasting.
• 3MW (Aligning content with flexboxes)
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W13

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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.

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• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Patterns and anti-patterns of data analysis reuse
• $%@! R help from $%@! AI
• Best Practice for R :: Cheat Sheet
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W12

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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.

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• This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
• Marketing Ideas For Your Package
• Spring clean your R packages
• webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR inside
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W11

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• rOpenSci software review process: Aims and scope https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereview_policies.html#aims-and-scope
• Colin Fay's hexmake Shiny app https://github.com/ColinFay/hexmake
• No installation required: How WebAssembly is changing scientific computing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00725-1
• tryr - Client/Server Error Handling for HTTP APIs https://github.com/analythium/tryr

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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?

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• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem
• {data.table} Community Survey: Results and insights
• Doom plots
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W10

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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 (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• HelloWorld(“print”)
• ggplot2 3.5.0
• Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W09

Supplement Resources

• lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
• Advanced R - Expressions https://adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.html
• Jenny Bryan's talk on code smells and feels https://github.com/jennybc/code-smells-and-feels

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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 (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• My Year of Riding Danishly
• Tame your namespace with a dash of suggests
• Guess My Name with Decision Trees
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W08

Supplement Resources

• {fusen} - Inflate your package from a simple flat Rmd https://thinkr-open.github.io/fusen/
• R Packages Second Edition https://r-pkgs.org/
• {usethis} - Automate package and project setup https://usethis.r-lib.org/

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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) (Twitter)
• Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages
• R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals starting March 1st!
• Optimize your images with R and reSmush.it
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W07

Supplement Resources

• {lifecycle} Manage the life cycle of your exported functions and arguments https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/
• {logger} lightweight, modern and flexible, log4j and futile.logger inspired logging utility for R https://daroczig.github.io/logger/

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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.

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• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Teaching you - teaching me
• Things that can go wrong when using renv
• Parquet vs the RDS Format
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W06

Supplement Resources

• Quartaki an introduction to Quarto https://drmowinckels.io/quartaki/
• R project management https://www.capro.dev/workshop_rproj/
• r2u - CRAN binaries as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
• Shiny and Arrow https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
• data.table new release and governance structure https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-30-new_governance_new_release-toby_hocking/
• rix is looking for testers https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2024-02-02-nix_for_r_part_9/
• The 2024 Shiny Conference call for speakers https://www.shinyconf.com/call-for-speakers

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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.

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• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
• Notes from live code review of {soils}
• Load different R package versions at once with git worktree
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W05

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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_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• How to Update a Translation with Babeldown
• Six not-so-basic base R functions
• 3MW (Making dashboard interactive)
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W04

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• babeldown R package https://docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/
• DeepL API https://www.deepl.com/en/docs-api
• Albert Rapp's Quarto dashboard repository https://github.com/AlbertRapp/quarto_dashboard/tree/master

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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 using the httr2 package
• Five Powerful ggplot Extensions
• Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W03

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• Eric's podindexr package (accessing the Podcast Index API from R) https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexr
• Melissa's web site https://www.melissavanbussel.com/
• ggnot2 YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ggnot2
• Jon Harman's web APIs with R book https://wapir.io/
• beekeeper (rapidly scaffold API client packages) https://github.com/jonthegeek/beekeeper
• ggtext - Claus Wilke https://wilkelab.org/ggtext/
• patchwork - Thomas Pedersen https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/
• ggpattern - Mike FC (coolbutuseless) https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/ggpattern/
• ggforce - Thomas Pedersen https://ggforce.data-imaginist.com/
• ggbump - David Sjoberg https://github.com/davidsjoberg/ggbump
• ShinyConf 2024 https://www.shinyconf.com/
• Yihui Xie: RAP god (Matt Dray) https://www.rostrum.blog/posts/2024-01-12-yihui-rap/

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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 (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Four ways to streamline your R workflows
• The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
• Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these "*down" packages for these years, here I am to announce "Yihui-down"
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W02

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• R-Weekly Curation Calendar Dashboard https://rweekly.github.io/rweekly-calendar/
• Quarto All the Things workshop from R/Pharma 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dQ36sx4Rk
• Rami Krispin's VS-Code R container template repository https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r-template
• Assignment pipe operator discussion on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/111664623134443564

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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?

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• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• Are Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players?
• Quarto Dashboards
• Why is View() capitalized, anyway?
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W50

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• JJ Allaire's Quarto dashboards keynote at PyData 20203 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCAScFqr10
• MyNorfolk Quarto dashboard https://grrrck.quarto.pub/mynorfolk-dash

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A timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
• Cliff notes about the cli package
• How to make your own #RStats Wrapped
• deposits R Package Delivers a Common Workflow for R Users
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W49

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• Rethinking packages & functions preloading in webR 0.2.2 https://colinfay.me/rethinking-packages-and-functions-preloading-in-webr-0.2.2/
• healthyr: Free Resources
• Webinar: Discover the future of R in regulatory submissions https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2023/11/20/webinar-discover-the-future-of-r-in-regulatory-submissions

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A glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Object-Oriented Express: Refactoring in R
• Using benchmarking to guide the adoption of dependencies in R packages
• Building a DataFusion CSV reader with arrow-extendr
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W48

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• Sharing app state between Shiny modules https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13___ZiOO1aEv0xiCj2TAm2JenEdy_Sfy6SEIWAltAYI/edit#slide=id.g216fe8fbc25_0_71
• {pkgdepends} Package Dependency Resolution, Downloads and Installation https://r-lib.github.io/pkgdepends
• {reactable.extras} 0.2.0 Release: Enhanced Interactivity and Efficiency for Shiny Apps https://appsilon.com/reactable-extras-enhancing-shiny-applications
• Folks, C'mon, Use Parquet https://appsilon.com/csv-to-parquet-transition
• Shiny and Arrow - A match made in high-performance-web-application heaven https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
• Jadey Ryan's The Coding Cats on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecodingcats

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From the "is there anything R cannot do" department comes QR code scanning, a tidy time series analysis on a major problem in the roads of Pittsburgh, and rolling up your sleeves with custom ggplot2 tricks to enhance a spatial visualization.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
• Scanning QR codes in R
• Forecasting Pittsburgh Potholes with {fable}
• Adding context to maps made with ggplot2
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W45

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• Tidy tools for for time series https://tidyverts.org
• Forecasting: Principles and Practices 3rd Edition https://otexts.com/fpp3/

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A collection of post-workshop answers for the R/Pharma introduction to tidymodels workshop, the Shiny UI Editor takes a huge step out of the alpha stage, and a unique approach to Shiny modules with the new component package.

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• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Answering some {tidymodels} questions
• ShinyUIEditor: Out of alpha
• {component} - Creating components for Shiny inspired by Vue
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W44

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• Introduction to machine learning with tidymodels https://nrennie.github.io/r-pharma-2023-tidymodels
• Support nav_panel within apps using the page_navbar template https://github.com/rstudio/shinyuieditor/issues/190
• Shiny Developer Series Episode 26 - Peeling Back the Curtain of the Movie Vue-R Part 1 https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep026/

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Another collection of package testing workflow nuggets you can make great use of today, the definitive guide to effective use of logging in Shiny applications from the recent Shiny in Production conference, and a cautionary tale of the potential impact of default function arguments in your downstream analytical pipelines.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Two recent enhancements to my testing workflow
• Shiny In Production 2023: Effective Logging in Shiny
• Note to self: be aware of functions with default arguments
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W42

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• testthat 3.2.0 https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/10/testthat-3-2-0/
• lazytest - Runs only failed tests https://github.com/cynkra/lazytest
• Effective logging in Shiny GH repository https://github.com/tanho63/talk_shinyprod2023_logging
• shinymetrics https://shinymetrics.com
• Shiny In Production 2023: Anatomy of a Shiny app
• Shiny in Production 2023: Dynamic annotations: 10 tips for better text

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How the {potools} package jump-starts your R package translations, the most-upvoted feature request lands in the RStudio IDE with GitHub Copilot integration, and a reflective post on the multiple paths to reproducible data science workflows in R.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• How to translate your package's messages with {potools}
• GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it's finally here!
• An overview of what's out there for reproducibility with R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W41

Supplement Resources

• potools - Tools for Portability and Internationalization of R packages https://michaelchirico.github.io/potools/
• GitHub Copilot in RStudio, it’s finally here! https://colorado.posit.co/rsc/rstudio-copilot/
• GitHub Copilot RStudio User Guide: https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/guide/tools/copilot.html
• Rami Krispin's GitHub repo on devcontainers w/ R in VSCode: https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r
• R/Pharma virtual conference registration: https://hopin.com/events/r-pharma-2023/registration
• R/Pharma 2023 workshops (please register for conference before your register for a workshop): https://rinpharma.com/workshop/2023conference/

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A new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• {zoomerjoin} 0.1.0: Superlatively-fast fuzzy-joins in R.
• Creating typewriter-styled maps in ggplot2
• System Dependencies in R Packages & Automatic Testing
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W40

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• Locality-sensitive hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing
• Value 4 Value podcast by Kyrin Down https://blubrry.com/1475054/

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Reflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
• Reflections on posit conf(2023)
• Snap Slides: a Lightweight HTML Presentation Framework
• Parallel raster processing in stars
• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 6 -- CI/CD has never been easier
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W39

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• Shiny in Production Tools & Techniques https://posit-conf-2023.github.io/shiny-r-prod/
• Jill McKay's posit conf presentation https://jillymackay.github.io/positconf2023_vetdata/positconf2023.html#/title-slide
• Scroll snap technique https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scroll_Snap/Basic_concepts
• Data science at the command line https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/
• Spatial data science with applications in R https://r-spatial.org/book/
• geoparquet https://geoparquet.org/

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Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data.

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• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API
• A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents
• Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W37

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• WebR binary R package repository - https://repo.r-wasm.org/
• How do I preload the R packages in a node app - https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/issues/260
• Minutes from 2023-08-18 Pilot 4 R-Consortium R-Submissions working group meeting (sending a Shiny application built with containers and webR to FDA) - https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-pilot4/minutes/2023-08-18/
• ggannotate - Interactively annotate your ggplots https://github.com/MattCowgill/ggannotate
• UFO sightings around the world - https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25

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A batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights.

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• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter)
• Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week
• Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds
• Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now!
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W36

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• June Choe's comment on Mike Mahoney's post https://fosstodon.org/@yjunechoe/110975018204561319
• 10 years of rio
• Shiny for R updates: tooltips, popovers, a new theme, and more

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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.

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• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• {S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4
• Creating template files with R
• A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W35

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• S7 - A new object-oriented system in R https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/
• Name of the game (issue 262): https://github.com/RConsortium/OOP-WG/issues/262
• TidyX Episode 109 - R Classes and Objects - Making an S3 Object Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PGOx9Oqjo
• Mike's boston R user group talk
• Standard Notes (End-to-End Encrypted Notes App) https://standardnotes.com/
• HedgeDoc https://hedgedoc.org/
• fs - Provide cross platform file operations based on libuv https://fs.r-lib.org/
• Room by Room Temperature Tracking (Jared Lander) https://www.jaredlander.com/2021/02/room-by-room-temperature-tracking/
• Ted Laderas - A gRadual introduction to Web APIs and JSON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7KfdEsdpo
• Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 Applications (deadline September 4th, 2023) https://ropensci.org/champions/

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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.

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• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Best Practices for Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
• Analyzing new USDA data using open source tools
• Taking from Infinite Sequences+ Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-WXX

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• janitor package by Sam Firke https://sfirke.github.io/janitor
• CRAN task view on missing data https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MissingData.html
• Tidy modeling with R https://www.tmwr.org/

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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.

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• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next!
• Wrapping C Code in an R Package
• How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W33

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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.

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• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed
• Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Cookbook Polars for R Cookbook to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in using Polars with R. A side-by-side comparison of polars, R base, dplyr, tidyr and data.table packages.
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W32

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• Tube Archivist - Your self-hosted YouTube media server https://www.tubearchivist.com
• webR code extension for HTML Quarto documents https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr
• Into the webR-verse (Bob Rudis presentation at the 2023 New York R Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY
• tidypolars - Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the Tidyverse https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com

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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 (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Reducing my for loop usage with purrr::reduce()
• How to fill maps with density gradients with R, {ggplot2}, and {sf}
• Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2}
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W31

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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.

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• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
• Tips for debugging and cleaning broken code
• Jazz up your ggplots!
• Four reasons to learn HTML + CSS as an R programmer
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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 - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• R for Data Science, 2nd edition
• Array Languages: R vs APL
• Reproducible data science with Nix
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W29

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• R for Data Science 2nd Edition: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
• APL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
• Try APL in a browser: https://tryapl.org/
• Jonathan Carroll could be available for your next project! https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll/110726981972909319
• Linux Unplugged Episode 451 The NixOS Challenge https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/451/
• Zero to Nix - An unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix https://zero-to-nix.com/
• It's not too late to register for Eric and Mike's Shiny in Production workshop at posit::conf(2023)! https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf23/attendee-portal/page/sessioncatalog?search=shiny&search.sessiontype=1675316728702001wr6r&search.day=20230918

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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 to Markdown
• How Can Someone Else Use My Model?
• How to debug your package in a {rhub} fedora container before sending to CRAN?
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W26

Supplement Resources

• {datapasta} RStudio addins and R functions that make copy-pasting vectors and tables to text painless https://milesmcbain.github.io/datapasta
• Matt Kaye's series "The missing semester of your DS education" https://matthewrkaye.com/series.html#the-missing-semester-of-your-ds-education
• Put R in production: Tools and guides to put R models in production https://putrinprod.com
• {checkhelper} A package to help you deal with devtools::check outputs https://thinkr-open.github.io/checkhelper
• Remote Explorer Visual Studio Code extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.remote-explorer
• {crew}: A distributed worker launcher framework for asynchronous and distributed computing https://wlandau.github.io/crew
• Data4Good Explores Visualizing Freshwater Resources on a Global Scale https://appsilon.com/visualizing-fresh-water-resources-data

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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).

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• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Row relational operations with slice()
• Merging columns together and fixing up column labels in {gt} 0.9.0
• Bayes Lived Here (Probably)
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W25

Supplement Resources

• Argument-type data masking: https://rlang.r-lib.org/reference/args_data_masking.html
• {usedthese} Summarize package and function usage https://www.quantumjitter.com/blog/usedthese/
• Easy and secure database access with a custom R6 package https://reds-code-collection.netlify.app/posts/r_db_connector/
• Building Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with R now available in print! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C87H6MGF/
• My computer can read! https://blog.devgenius.io/my-computer-can-read-98bc339e1f66
• New maintainer of {echarts4r}
• {carlesswhisper} Automatic speech recognition in R with whisper.cpp https://github.com/coolbutuseless/carelesswhisper

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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}.

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• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Three useful (to me) R patterns
• Towards easy, delightful, and customizable dashboards in Shiny for R with {bslib}
• Easily create sector (pie, donut) and series of circle charts using Cartesian coordinates and ggplot2 with the new #RStats icon {ggtricks}
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W24

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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.

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• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• On updating a chat assistant app for the RStudio IDE
• Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W23

Supplement Resources

• GPT RStudio addins that enable GPT assisted coding, writing & analysis https://github.com/MichelNivard/gptstudio
• A Twitter and Mastodon bot posting random R packages on CRAN https://github.com/TimTeaFan/rstatspkgbot
• CRAN Task Views: The next generation
• How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap: Use R to get geocoded location and routing data from OpenStreetMap and explore a 5,000 mile road trip around the USA

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Another gem in the functional programming toolkit with partial functions, simplifying R package creation using fusen, and a creative visualization of worldwide parliament representation.

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• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Curried functions in R - Examples with purrr and ggplot2
• {fusen}: Simplifying Writing Packages for R Users
• Showing women proportion of Parliamentarians on a map
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W22

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• YEGRUG 2023-05 Recording (Futureverse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dp6zMelrmg

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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.

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• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
• Better Understanding Your Tools Choices with Online Book HTTP Testing in R
• ggblend: Blending and compositing algebra for ggplot2
• Why should I use R: Handling Dates in R and Excel: Part 3
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W21

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• HTTP Testing with R: https://books.ropensci.org/http-testing/index.html
• Updating Graphics Devices for R 4.2.0: https://blog.r-project.org/2021/12/14/updating-graphics-devices-for-r-4.2.0/
• ggdist Visualizations of distribution and uncertainty: https://mjskay.github.io/ggdist/
• Learning Bayesian Statistics Episode 66 - Uncertainty Visualization & Usable Stats, with Matthew Kay https://learnbayesstats.com/episode/66-uncertainty-visualization-usable-stats-matthew-kay

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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_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Introducing {ggflowchart}
• Why you should consider working on a dockerized development environment
• Colin Fay, Keynote: Production is like ultra running: brutal, ungrateful, but worth every step
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W20

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• Episode 82 (the origins of ggflowchart) https://rweekly.fireside.fm/82
• Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R https://raps-with-r.dev
• The Rocker Project https://rocker-project.org
• Shiny Dev Series Livestream: Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wRiPG9LM3o
• Development Container Features https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2022/09/15/dev-container-features
• r2u: CRAN as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
• A preview of Eric and Mike's Production Shiny Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRwhDYI5Ec

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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.

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• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter)
• Pull Requests, Code Review, and The Art of Requesting Changes
• Sketch Package looks to add JavaScript to R packages
• Error Handling in R and Python
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W18

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• What they forgot to teach you about R https://rstats.wtf
• Sketch - Interactive sketches in R https://github.com/kcf-jackson/sketch
• {purrr} safely https://purrr.tidyverse.org/reference/safely.html
• quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

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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.

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• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• What's new in R 4.3.0?
• Writing performant code with tidy tools
• On Indentation in R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W17

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• Changes in R 4.3.0: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html
• A Question A Day Twitter account https://twitter.com/data_question
• Advanced R- Measure Performance https://adv-r.hadley.nz/perf-measure.html

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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.

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• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Dev containers with R and Quarto
• Extending Data Frames
• Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar}
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W16

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• R in Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/r
• Remote Development Extension Pack https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
• Podman - Configure VS Code for Containers https://blog.while-true-do.io/podman-configure-vscode-for-containers/
• From disconnected elements to a harmonious ecosystem: The Epiverse-TRACE project https://epiverse-trace.github.io/slides/harmonious-ecosystem/
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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.

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• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• What are people commenting about their loaded packages?
• Introducing rtlr - an R Package for RTL Languages
• hrbrmstr's WebR Experiments Index
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W15

Supplement Resources

• annotater: Annotate Package Load Calls https://github.com/luisDVA/annotater
• cld3: R wrapper to Google's Compact Language Detector 3 https://docs.ropensci.org/cld3/
• shiny.i18n: Shiny applications internationalization made easy https://appsilon.github.io/shiny.i18n/
• JavaScript for R https://book.javascript-for-r.com/
• Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny https://unleash-shiny.rinterface.com/
• JavaScript for Data Science https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Data-Science-Chapman-Hall-ebook/dp/B084H2JXSY
• A Way Better Structured WebR Demo App https://rud.is/b/2023/03/12/almost-bare-bones-webr-starter-app/
• An example of using WebR with Lit components https://rud.is/w/lit-webr/
• WebR & Pyodide: Another WebR Experiment https://rud.is/w/webr-pyodide/
• An R template/tag function for WebR https://rud.is/w/r-template-tag-function/
• Monaco-powered WebR "REPL" https://rud.is/w/repl
• https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr/fiddling-with-r-universe-webr

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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.

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• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• Hello world examples with 10 different R web API frameworks
• Reading Remote Data Files
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W14

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• Seeking community endorsement for an upgrade to 'Big Book of R'

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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 - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Some love for Base R. Part 1
• Teaching ChatGPT What It Doesn’t Know
• Alt Text in R: Plots, Reports, and Shiny
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W13

Supplement Resources

• A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases https://frankzliu.com/blog/a-gentle-introduction-to-vector-databases
• Text Mining with R - A Tidy Approach https://www.tidytextmining.com
• Writing Meaningful Alt Texts for Data Visualizations in R (Liz Hare) R Ladies NYC https://lizharedogs.github.io/RLadiesNYAltText
• {ggdatasaver} Automatically save data associated with a ggplot2 plot https://eliocamp.github.io/ggdatasaver

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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_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• webR 0.1.0 has been released
• webR with Quarto HTML Standalone Document Proof of Concept
• Software engineering techniques that non-programmers who write a lot of code can benefit from — the DRY WIT approach
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W11

Supplement Resources

• Almost Bare Bones WebR Starter App: https://rud.is/b/2023/03/12/almost-bare-bones-webr-starter-app/
• webR Dashboard: https://rud.is/webr-dash/no-dplyr.html
• webR Quarto demos: https://github.com/coatless-r-n-d/webR-quarto-demos

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A episode full of discovery in this week's edition of R-Weekly Highlights! How you can parse your own R code with parse and getParseData, a closer look at the search capabilities in R-Universe, and a look back at the key milestones in the history of the R language.

Episode Links

• This week's curators: Kellly Bodwin - @KellyBodwin (Twitter) and Emily Robinson - @robinson_es (Twitter)
• "I can't be parsed, mate!" Parsing in R
• Search for packages in r-universe
• Happy 23rd birthday, R!
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W10

Supplement Resources

• Advanced R chapter 17 (Metaprogramming the big picture): https://adv-r.hadley.nz/meta-big-picture.html
• Algorithm behind package rank calculation in R-Universe: https://github.com/r-universe-org/help#how-is-the-package-rank-score-calculated
• Jeroen's RStudio Global 2021 presentation (Monitoring Health and Impact of Open-source Projects) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoe7xuIJ1U
• Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R https://raps-with-r.dev
• 3 Years In: Reflections on Starting, Surviving, and Scaling a Data Science Consultancy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-years-reflections-starting-surviving-scaling-data-science-thomas

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How to easily create interactive versions of your favorite ggplots with ggiraph, bringing AutoML to R with forester, and a head-to-head comparison of R and Excel for common data wrangling and summaries.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
• Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny)
• forester: what makes the package special?
• Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W09

Supplement Resources

• ggiraph online book https://www.ardata.fr/ggiraph-book
• {openxlsx2} read, write, and modify xlsx files https://janmarvin.github.io/openxlsx2

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The current state and future of {rtweet}, bringing the best of testing and CI/CD in a statistical package, and navigating through a Shiny maze (literally).

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• rtweet future
• Ensuring & Showcasing the Statistical Correctness of your R Package
• Shiny Monster Maze
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W08

Supplement Resources

• Lluis Revilla's call for a co-maintainer of {rtweet} https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues/763
• Denis Pushkarev's post on the current state of core-js: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md
• {mmrm} Mixed models for repeated measures in R: https://openpharma.github.io/mmrm/latest-tag/
• Shiny Monster Maze blog post: https://www.bitfoam.com/post/2023-01-24-shiny-monster-maze/

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A glimpse into the day-to-day of maintaining an R package, exploring gender effects in art history data with the power of resampling, and a huge win for accessible SVG plots with R-Markdown.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package?
• Resampling to understand gender in #TidyTuesday art history data
• Manipulate SVG Plots with JavaScript in R Markdown
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W07

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• Bootstrap resampling and tidy regression models https://www.tidymodels.org/learn/statistics/bootstrap/
• Accessible Data Science Beyond Visual Models: Non-Visual Interactions with R and RStudio Packages (JooYoung Seo from rstudio::global(2021)) https://www.rstudio.com/resources/rstudioglobal-2021/accessible-data-science-beyond-visual-models-non-visual-interactions-with-r-and-rstudio-packages
• Eric's adventures with Shiny modules and SVG interactions https://community.rstudio.com/t/passing-module-namespace-to-embedded-javascript-function/26988

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Just how far back can we turn back time with an R installation, many enhancements to joining data sets in dplyr 1.1.0, and a retrospective on the 2022 thirty-day map challenge.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Postmortem of my #30DayMapChallenge 2022
• The oldest R version one can still run today
• dplyr 1.1.0: Joins
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W06

Supplement Resources

• Replicating "Zoom to selected features" function in ArcGIS / QGIS with R shiny https://khwongk12.medium.com/replicating-zoom-to-selected-features-function-in-arcgis-qgis-with-r-shiny-652b6c714e6f

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How you can make R package testing a little easier with switches, how the combination of group processing and compute resources can level up geospatial data processing, and a few quick wins to improve the responsiveness of your Shiny apps that got your podcast hosts to think hard about previous design choices!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• A testing pattern: adding switches to your code
• Geospatial distributed processing with furrr
• Improving the responsiveness of Shiny applications
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W05

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• Preventative Care for R Packages

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A large helping of football data for your analytics with the englishfootball package, building a Shiny application with both R and python, and a first look at upcoming conferences this year.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• englishfootball: A Comprehensive Database on the Premier League and the English Football League (1888-2022)
• Seeing double? Building the same app in Shiny for R and Shiny for Python
• Some R Conferences for 2023
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W03

Supplement Resources

• {worldcup} A Comprehensive Database on the FIFA World Cup https://github.com/jfjelstul/worldcup

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A glimpse into the world of end-to-end Shiny app testing with shinytest2, and an important look at the spectrum of reproducibility within R using container technology and services.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
• End-to-end testing with shinytest2 Part 2
• MRAN is getting shutdown - what else is there for reproducibility with R, or why reproducibility is on a continuum?
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W02

Supplement Resources

• {leprechaun}: Code generator for lean and robust Shiny applications https://leprechaun.opifex.org
• Bruno's excitement for our episode on Twitter and Mastodon
• Looking to the future for R in Azure SQL and SQL Server https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2021/06/30/looking-to-the-future-for-r-in-azure-sql-and-sql-server/
• {groundhog} Reproducible R Scripts Via Date Controlled Installing & Loading of CRAN & Git Packages https://groundhogr.com
• Toward practical transparent verifiable and long-term reproducible research using Guix: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01720-9#Abs1
• {scenes} demo app

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A big progress updates in the latest {knitr} development release (literally), how the {litr} package enables literate programming development for R packages, and how you can translate Morse code directly in R with the {remorse} package!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• An Upcoming Clean Progress Bar in knitr
• litr: Write an R Package Entirely with an R Markdown Document
• .-././--/---/.-./.../.
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W01

Supplement Resources

• Rethink the progress bar issue https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/1880
• {fusen} R package https://thinkr-open.github.io/fusen
  • Tutorial
• {packagefinder} https://github.com/jsugarelli/packagefinder
• What is Morse code? https://web.northeastern.edu/stemout/morse-code
• Our very important message to the audience:

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Our first episode of 2023 covers the brand-new gpttools package to called chatGPT directly in R, a wholistic look at MLOps with the latest tidymodels tooling, and a spotlight on the lesser-known quantile regression. Plus listener feedback and much more!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
• {gpttools} for Chat GPT in RStudio
• MLOps: The Whole Game
• Quantile Regression
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W52

Supplement Resources

• Why Everyone's Obsessed With ChatGPT, a Mind-Blowing AI Chatbot https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/why-everyones-obsessed-with-chatgpt-a-mind-blowing-ai-chatbot
• Yury's quantile regression video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtz8ca_4hVg
• What is R7? A New OOP System for R https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/r7-oop-object-oriented-programming-r
• R Weekly Highlights Episode 98 https://podverse.fm/episode/VvyuAA4kj
• Shiny Dev Series episodes with Mike discussing the Connective COVID-19 Test Spotter App:
  • Part 1: https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep030
  • Part 2: https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep031

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Data munging and visualization of your Twitter archive with R, a successful Shiny app submission to the FDA, and scoring Rock Paper Scissors.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive
• UPDATE: Successful R-Based Package Submission with Shiny Component to FDA
• How to score Rock Paper Scissors
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W50

Supplement Resources

• {ggiraph}: Make {ggplot2} plots interactive https://davidgohel.github.io/ggiraph
• RConsortium/submissions-pilot2 GitHub repository: https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot2
• R/Pharma 2022 Conference Playlists on YouTube:
  • Day 1 talks
  • Day 2 talks
  • Day 3 talks
  • Workshops

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Big new features coming in {dplyr} 1.1.0, how you can make your own #rstats wrapped, and enhancing your Shiny apps with JavaScript (without knowing much JS). Plus your feedback and more!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• How to make your own #RStats Wrapped!
• dplyr 1.1.0 is coming soon
• How to enhance your Shiny apps with JavaScript (JS) without knowing much JS
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W49

Supplement Resources

• Differences between .by and group_by() in {dplyr}: https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/dev/reference/dplyr_by.html#differences-between-by-and-group-by-
• https://fosstodon.org/@posit_glimpse/109424114108257429
• Travis Gerke's take on Spotify Wrapped https://www.linkedin.com/posts/travisgerke_spotify-wrapped-is-proof-that-sometimes-count-activity-7003778803088990209-E9yE
• NCmisc: miscellaneous functions for creating adaptive functions and scripts https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NCmisc/index.html
• Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny https://unleash-shiny.rinterface.com/index.html
• Javascript for R https://book.javascript-for-r.com/
• Pharmaverse https://pharmaverse.org
• Admiral hackathon https://www.cdisc.org/events/webinar/pre-admiral-hackathon-workshop-introduction-r-sas-programmers

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A new approach to adding package tests with {doctest}, scraping data from dynamic web pages with {RSelenium}, and a simple checklist to power up your next bar chart.

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• {doctest} 0.1.0: Generate Tests from Examples Using 'roxygen' and 'testthat'
• Webscraping with RSelenium: automate your browser actions
• A simple checklist for bar plots
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W48

Supplement Resources

• Webscraping with RSelenium and rvest: https://ivanmillanes.netlify.app/post/2020-06-30-webscraping-with-rselenium-and-rvest/
• RSelenium with Docker: https://callumgwtaylor.github.io/post/using-rselenium-and-docker-to-webscrape-in-r-using-the-who-snake-database
• Shiny in Production recordings from Jumping Rivers: YouTube playlist

Reshaping your R function syntax with {codegrip}, ways you can apply DRY principles to R package development, and a new online book teaching you how to create beautiful tables in R with {gt}

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
• {codegrip} 0.0.0.9000: Reshaping and navigation commands for R code
• DRY Package Development in R (slides)
• Creating beautiful tables in R with {gt}
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W47

Supplement Resources

• The tidyverse style guide: https://style.tidyverse.org
• Google R style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.html
• {dm} - Working with relational data models in R: https://dm.cynkra.com
• Posit Table Contest (deadline extended to December 2, 2022): https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-table-contest-2022/

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A major achievement unlocked! In episode 100 of RWeekly Highlights: The new {rtoot} package for collecting and analyzing Mastodon data, using the {unheadr} package to fix broken and irregular column headers, a tour of the apply functions in base R, and creating posters of NBA rosters with R and ImageMagick.

Plus a big announcement on a new way to directly support the show!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• {rtoot}: Collecting and analyzing mastodon data!
• Fixing broken and irregular column headers
• Let's Get Apply'ing
• NBA Posters
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W46

Supplement Resources

• Everything I know about Mastodon: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/
• Fedi.tips (an unofficial guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse): https://fedi.tips
• RWeekly is now on Mastodon! @[email protected]
• Favorite/most important base R functions new users should know: https://twitter.com/newmeyermn/status/1591464874827460608

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Embracing the dual role of data scientist and software developer with state-of-the-art tooling, illustrating the fundamentals of Shiny (literally), and the TidyX crew put their data wrangling skills to the test.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_)
• Are you Data Scientists or Software Developers?!
• Understanding ShinyApps
• TidyX Episode 121: Tell me what you want - user submitted data
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W44

Supplement Resources

• Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers
• Alternatives to paired bar charts

The power of Quarto's interoperability shines again with integrating R and JavaScript maps, as well as the grammar of table generation in both R and Python. Plus boost the launching of your R session with the startup package.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin
• Let’s make maps with bertin.js in Quarto
• startup 0.19.0 - Friendly R Startup Configuration
• The grammar of tables in python (pandas) and R (gt)
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W42

Supplement Resources

• https://github.com/mcanouil/awesome-quarto
• https://github.com/neocarto/bertin
• https://quarto.org/docs/interactive/ojs/libraries.html

The magic of automated Shiny app deployment and data aggregation using GitHub actions, 6 productivity hacks for Quarto, and valuable tips for managing large codebases in R.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
• Automatically deploying a Shiny app for browsing #RStats tweets with GitHub Actions
• 6 Productivity Hacks for Quarto
• "Managing Large Codebases in R" webinar
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W41

Supplement Resources

• littler - scripting and command-line front-end for R https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html

Design principles for data analysis, unraveling pipeline analyses with {Unravel}, and visualizing simulated environmental changes in western Canada with Shiny.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz
• Design Principles for Data Analysis
• {Unravel} - A fluent code explorer for R
• Case Study: Simulating Environment Change Agents on Species in Canada's Western Boreal Forests
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W40

Supplement Resources

• Casual Inference Podcast: https://casualinfer.libsyn.com
• Not So Standard Deviations Podcast: https://nssdeviations.com/
• Designing for Analytics Podcast: https://designingforanalytics.com/experiencing-data-podcast/
• Elements and Principles for Characterizing Variation between Data Analyses (preprint) https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07639
• Stephanie Hicks' thread on the preprint: https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks/status/1108462768099856384
• Lucy D'Agostino McGowan's presentation at JSM 2022: https://www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/asa_joint_statistical_meeting_2022
• Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245917747646
• Unravel presentation at UIST 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ77e39XVEs
• ShinyWBI https://wbi-nwt.analythium.app/apps/nwt/

A collection of highlights to give your future developer self a helping hand: Deploying a Flexdashboard using GitHub Pages and Docker, an illustrated guide showcasing the perks of Git and GitHub for version control, and how the logger package integrates smoothly with plumber for an API package.

Additional note: The recording of this episode was met with unfortunate technical glitches. We apologize and promise the quality will be back to normal next time!

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
• Deploy Flexdashboard on Github Pages with Github Actions and Docker
• GitHub - The Perks of Collaboration and Version Control
• API as a package: Logging
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W39

Supplement Resources

• Submitting Your Work to the Table Contest | 2022 Table Contest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgYgaYKpLO0
• Let's Create a Quarto Doc & Share it on Quarto.Pub | Table Contest 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-AQ4yAQXy0

A few major benefits of adopting variable labels for R data frames, wrapping a plumber API into a package with mariobox, and getting started with obtaining new data in R via APIs and web scraping.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr)
• The case for variable labels in R
• {mariobox} 0.0.0.9000: A framework for packaging {plumber} APIs
• APIs and web scraping
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W38

Supplement Resources

• MLOps with vetiver in Python & R: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQANK13-k4

A collection of highlights powered by mathematics, statistics, and a little bit of R magic: Mapping wind data with R, calculating the expected statistic in football, and how the vetiver package fits in an ML-Ops production flow using Docker and Plumber.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
• Mapping wind data with R
• Calculating and comparing expected points from different expected goals sources (soccer)
• Use Docker to deploy a model for #TidyTuesday LEGO sets
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W37

Supplement Resources

• Julia Silge's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JuliaSilge

Using base R to decrypt an Australian coin's hidden messages, the Palmer Penguins data set achieves another milestone, and visualizing multiple statistcal properties with faded raincloud plots.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain)
• Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption
• Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises
• Efficient data visualization with faded raincloud plots
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W36

Supplement Resources

• Using distill template with knitr::read_chunk https://twitter.com/apreshill/status/1565752119751237638
• Manuscript on raincloud plots: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-63/v2
• {gghalves}: https://erocoar.github.io/gghalves/
• {ggp0}: https://docs.r4photobiology.info/ggpp/

Using hierarchical forecasting to explore subway fare recovery, and how you can learn more about {gtsummary} to create your next publication-quality table within R.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
• Exploring Types of Subway Fares with Hierarchical Forecasting
• Clinical Reporting with {gtsummary} by Daniel D. Sjoberg
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W35

Supplement Resources

• R-Podcast Episode 27: Get the {gt} Tables! https://r-podcast.org/027-rstudioconf-tables

The rstudio::conf(2022) presentation recordings are now available for viewing, and we learn about the unique development journey of the new CRAN release of the countdown package.

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