Navigating R Package Lifecycles and Community Involvement

An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the unique formatting features of the Scotland census data were tamed with the power of R, and how the first-ever native mobile application powered by R has opened the doors wide open for innovation across many parts of data science.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)
• Designing monochrome data visualisations
• The life changing magic of tidying text files
• Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It?
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W07

Supplement Resources

• ColorBrewer palettes https://colorbrewer2.org
• John's GitHub repository for tidying census files https://github.com/johnmackintosh/tidy-scotland-census
• Introducing Rlinguo, a native mobile app that runs R https://rtask.thinkr.fr/introducing-rlinguo-a-native-mobile-app-that-runs-r/
• mirai v2.0 - Continuous Innovation https://shikokuchuo.net/posts/25-mirai-v2/
• Key considerations for retiring/superseding an R package https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/superseding-bpmodels/

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