Issue 2024-W22 Highlights

The recent patches in R that pave the way for a future object-oriented-programming framework to accompany S3 and S4, a treasure-trove of open spatial data ready for your mapping visualization adventures, and a collection of tips for the next time you refactor your testing scripts.
Episode Links

• 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

Supplement Resources

• 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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