Engaging With the R Community: Advent of Code and Contributions

The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for possibly switching to the Positron IDE, and why there is more than meets the eyes when it comes to the potential of LLMs and AI (even in highly-regulated industries).
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• R-Universe Named R Consortium’s Newest Top Level Project
• Positron vs RStudio - is it time to switch?
• Summer is Coming: AI for Shiny, R, and Pharma
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W50

Supplement Resources

• rOpenSci Blog Post https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/12/03/r-universe-r-consortium-tlp/
• Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/positron/
• Fun with Positron https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/07/08/fun-with-positron/
• Open VSX Registry https://open-vsx.org
• Power Mode Extension https://open-vsx.org/extension/hoovercj/vscode-power-mode
• Joe Cheng's slides from R/Pharma keybote https://jcheng5.github.io/pharma-ai-2024/#/title-slide
• R Consortium Submissions Pilot 2 Shiny Application https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot2
• Daniel Sebanes Bove & Joe Cheng - Discussion of R/Pharma Keynote https://youtu.be/AU1MmcXYnJ0?si=A3V9JHYdZLiz-lvv
• Practical Tips for Using Generative AI in Data Science Workflows https://youtu.be/rPeOdc8jTSE?si=APtIhpRqlh2I_Ek1
• Apple Music Wrapped in R https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/12/04/apple-music-wrapped-r/
• Predicting Best Picture at the 2025 Academy Awards https://www.markhw.com/blog/oscars2025
• Navidrome - Your Personal Streaming Service https://www.navidrome.org/
• Scrubbing your music with Maloja https://wenkdth.org/posts/maloja-scrobbling/

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