Issue 2024-W18 Highlights

Why R 4.4.0 may reduce your trips to a certain kind of stack overflow, a call to update your favorite Shiny application code snippets, and how the steller ASTHOS Profile Shiny dashboard has your hosts blown away and fighting the urge to refactor their applications UIs!
Episode Links

• 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

Supplement Resources

• 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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