Issue 2024-W24 Highlights

A thoughtful perspective on why it's not an either/or situation with popular data processing paradigms in R, another case of being kind to future you with your Git commit messages, and satisfying the need for speed in the evolving geospatial space.
Episode Links

• 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

Supplement Resources

• 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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