Exciting Developments in R Programming Tools

The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns for Our first episode of 2025! We learn how hosted and self-hostem LLM's perform in the summarization of Bluesky R posts, as well as how models hosted on Azure infrastructure summarize cycling destinations. Lastly, we visit the visualization corner once again to bring a little (or a lot) of color in your next graphics created with R.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)
• Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse.
• Harnessing Azure OpenAI and R for Web Content Summarisation: A Practical Guide with rvest and tidyverse
• Working with colours in R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W01

Supplement Resources

• Rasa open-source documentation https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/
• Brand.yml https://posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/
• {rix} updates https://docs.ropensci.org/rix/news/index.html
• Strategic Investment Analysis: Key Questions Generated by DoTadda’s Knowledge Platform https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-12-26/

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