S7: The Next Generation of Object-Oriented Programming in R

The next generation of object-oriented programming in R arrives on CRAN, a novel use of R to automate R scripts and documents for Tidy Tuesday analyses, and a terrific presentation de-mystifying the world of web APIs in R.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon)
• {S7} 0.1.0: An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4
• Creating template files with R
• A Gradual Introduction to Web APIs and JSON
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W35

Supplement Resources

• S7 - A new object-oriented system in R https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/
• Name of the game (issue 262): https://github.com/RConsortium/OOP-WG/issues/262
• TidyX Episode 109 - R Classes and Objects - Making an S3 Object Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9PGOx9Oqjo
• Mike's boston R user group talk
• Standard Notes (End-to-End Encrypted Notes App) https://standardnotes.com/
• HedgeDoc https://hedgedoc.org/
• fs - Provide cross platform file operations based on libuv https://fs.r-lib.org/
• Room by Room Temperature Tracking (Jared Lander) https://www.jaredlander.com/2021/02/room-by-room-temperature-tracking/
• Ted Laderas - A gRadual introduction to Web APIs and JSON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA7KfdEsdpo
• Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 Applications (deadline September 4th, 2023) https://ropensci.org/champions/

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