A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny.

Episode Links

This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
How to work with APIs using the httr2 package
Five Powerful ggplot Extensions
Call for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilon
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W03

Supplement Resources

Eric's podindexr package (accessing the Podcast Index API from R) https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexr
Melissa's web site https://www.melissavanbussel.com/
ggnot2 YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ggnot2
Jon Harman's web APIs with R book https://wapir.io/
beekeeper (rapidly scaffold API client packages) https://github.com/jonthegeek/beekeeper
ggtext - Claus Wilke https://wilkelab.org/ggtext/
patchwork - Thomas Pedersen https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/
ggpattern - Mike FC (coolbutuseless) https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/ggpattern/
ggforce - Thomas Pedersen https://ggforce.data-imaginist.com/
ggbump - David Sjoberg https://github.com/davidsjoberg/ggbump
ShinyConf 2024 https://www.shinyconf.com/
Yihui Xie: RAP god (Matt Dray) https://www.rostrum.blog/posts/2024-01-12-yihui-rap/

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