A major milestone for leveraging LLMs in R just landed with the new ellmer package, along with a terrific showcase of retrieval-augmented generation combining ellmer and DuckDB. Plus an inspiring roundup of the recent Closeread contest winners.
Episode Links
Episode Links
- This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
- Announcing ellmer: A package for interacting with Large Language Models in R
- Rapid RAG Prototyping: Building a Retrieval Augmented Generation Prototype with ellmer and DuckDB
- Winners of the Closeread Prize – Data-Driven Scrollytelling with Quarto
- Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W10
- Coder Radio episode 608 - R with Eric Nantz https://coder.show/608
- nhyris - The minimal framework for transform R shiny application into standalone
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