Issue 2024-W20 Highlights

An aesthetically-pleasing journey through the history of R, another demonstration of DuckDB's power with analytics, and how webR with shinylive brings new learning life to the Pharmaverse TLG gallery.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
• 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

Supplement Resources

• 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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Music credits powered by OCRemix

• 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