Creating Interactive Visualizations with R for Geospatial Data

A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production conference, and visualizing ice thickness in Greenland with the power of the tidyverse and leaflet.


Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• R Dev Day @ SIP 2024
• Greenland ice thickness
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W47

Supplement Resources

• R Contribution Working Group https://contributor.r-project.org/working-group
• R Translations Status Dashboard https://contributor.r-project.org/translations-dashboard/
• R Development Guide https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/
• Connect local Positron IDE to Gitpod via SSH? https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-env/issues/193#issuecomment-2383816303

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• Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400