Issue 2024-W17 Highlights

Bringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities.
Episode Links

• 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

Supplement Resources

• 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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