Issue 2023-W18 Highlights

Why effective code reviews can bring many benefits to data science teams, the origin story of the sketch package to transpile R code to JavaScript, and a primer on error handling in both R and Python.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter)
• Pull Requests, Code Review, and The Art of Requesting Changes
• Sketch Package looks to add JavaScript to R packages
• Error Handling in R and Python
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W18

Supplement Resources

• What they forgot to teach you about R https://rstats.wtf
• Sketch - Interactive sketches in R https://github.com/kcf-jackson/sketch
• {purrr} safely https://purrr.tidyverse.org/reference/safely.html
• quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

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