R Weekly Highlights

A big progress updates in the latest {knitr} development release (literally), how the {litr} package enables literate programming development for R packages, and how you can translate Morse code directly in R with the {remorse} package! Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) An Upcoming Clean Progress Bar in knitr litr: Write an R Package Entirely with an R Markdown Document .-././--/---/.-./.../. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W01 Supplement Resources Rethink the progress bar issue https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/1880 {fusen} R package https://thinkr-open.github.io/fusen Tutorial {packagefinder} https://github.com/jsugarelli/packagefinder What is Morse code? https://web.northeastern.edu/stemout/morse-code Our very important message to the audience: -/./.-../.-.. -.--/---/..-/.-. ..-./.-./.././-./-../... .-/-.../---/..-/- -/..../. .-. .--/././-.-/.-../-.-- ..../../--./..../.-../../--./..../-/... .--./---/-../-.-./.-/.../- Audio version of message: https://archive.org/details/output_20230110 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)

Our first episode of 2023 covers the brand-new gpttools package to called chatGPT directly in R, a wholistic look at MLOps with the latest tidymodels tooling, and a spotlight on the lesser-known quantile regression. Plus listener feedback and much more! Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) {gpttools} for Chat GPT in RStudio MLOps: The Whole Game Quantile Regression Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W52 Supplement Resources Why Everyone's Obsessed With ChatGPT, a Mind-Blowing AI Chatbot https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/why-everyones-obsessed-with-chatgpt-a-mind-blowing-ai-chatbot Yury's quantile regression video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtz8ca_4hVg What is R7? A New OOP System for R https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/r7-oop-object-oriented-programming-r R Weekly Highlights Episode 98 https://podverse.fm/episode/VvyuAA4kj Shiny Dev Series episodes with Mike discussing the Connective COVID-19 Test Spotter App: Part 1: https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep030 Part 2: https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep031 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media: Eric: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)

Data munging and visualization of your Twitter archive with R, a successful Shiny app submission to the FDA, and scoring Rock Paper Scissors. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Read and Visualize your Twitter Archive UPDATE: Successful R-Based Package Submission with Shiny Component to FDA How to score Rock Paper Scissors Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W50 Supplement Resources {ggiraph}: Make {ggplot2} plots interactive https://davidgohel.github.io/ggiraph RConsortium/submissions-pilot2 GitHub repository: https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot2 R/Pharma 2022 Conference Playlists on YouTube: Day 1 talks Day 2 talks Day 3 talks Workshops Supporting the Show New Podcast Apps: https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info/

Big new features coming in {dplyr} 1.1.0, how you can make your own #rstats wrapped, and enhancing your Shiny apps with JavaScript (without knowing much JS). Plus your feedback and more! Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) How to make your own #RStats Wrapped! dplyr 1.1.0 is coming soon How to enhance your Shiny apps with JavaScript (JS) without knowing much JS Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W49 Supplement Resources Differences between .by and group_by() in {dplyr}: https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/dev/reference/dplyr_by.html#differences-between-by-and-group-by- https://fosstodon.org/@posit_glimpse/109424114108257429 Travis Gerke's take on Spotify Wrapped https://www.linkedin.com/posts/travisgerke_spotify-wrapped-is-proof-that-sometimes-count-activity-7003778803088990209-E9yE NCmisc: miscellaneous functions for creating adaptive functions and scripts https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NCmisc/index.html Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny https://unleash-shiny.rinterface.com/index.html Javascript for R https://book.javascript-for-r.com/ Pharmaverse https://pharmaverse.org Admiral hackathon https://www.cdisc.org/events/webinar/pre-admiral-hackathon-workshop-introduction-r-sas-programmers Supporting the Show Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info

A new approach to adding package tests with {doctest}, scraping data from dynamic web pages with {RSelenium}, and a simple checklist to power up your next bar chart. This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) {doctest} 0.1.0: Generate Tests from Examples Using 'roxygen' and 'testthat' Webscraping with RSelenium: automate your browser actions A simple checklist for bar plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W48 Supplement Resources Webscraping with RSelenium and rvest: https://ivanmillanes.netlify.app/post/2020-06-30-webscraping-with-rselenium-and-rvest/ RSelenium with Docker: https://callumgwtaylor.github.io/post/using-rselenium-and-docker-to-webscrape-in-r-using-the-who-snake-database Shiny in Production recordings from Jumping Rivers: YouTube playlist

Reshaping your R function syntax with {codegrip}, ways you can apply DRY principles to R package development, and a new online book teaching you how to create beautiful tables in R with {gt} Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) {codegrip} 0.0.0.9000: Reshaping and navigation commands for R code DRY Package Development in R (slides) Creating beautiful tables in R with {gt} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W47 Supplement Resources The tidyverse style guide: https://style.tidyverse.org Google R style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.html {dm} - Working with relational data models in R: https://dm.cynkra.com Posit Table Contest (deadline extended to December 2, 2022): https://www.rstudio.com/blog/rstudio-table-contest-2022/ Supporting the Show Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info

A major achievement unlocked! In episode 100 of RWeekly Highlights: The new {rtoot} package for collecting and analyzing Mastodon data, using the {unheadr} package to fix broken and irregular column headers, a tour of the apply functions in base R, and creating posters of NBA rosters with R and ImageMagick. Plus a big announcement on a new way to directly support the show! Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) {rtoot}: Collecting and analyzing mastodon data! Fixing broken and irregular column headers Let's Get Apply'ing NBA Posters Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W46 Supplement Resources Everything I know about Mastodon: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/ Fedi.tips (an unofficial guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse): https://fedi.tips RWeekly is now on Mastodon! @rweekly@fosstodon.org Favorite/most important base R functions new users should know: https://twitter.com/newmeyermn/status/1591464874827460608 Supporting the Show New Podcast Apps: https://podcastindex.org/apps?appTypes=app&elements=Value A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info/

Embracing the dual role of data scientist and software developer with state-of-the-art tooling, illustrating the fundamentals of Shiny (literally), and the TidyX crew put their data wrangling skills to the test. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_) Are you Data Scientists or Software Developers?! Understanding ShinyApps TidyX Episode 121: Tell me what you want - user submitted data Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W44 Supplement Resources Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers Alternatives to paired bar charts

The power of Quarto's interoperability shines again with integrating R and JavaScript maps, as well as the grammar of table generation in both R and Python. Plus boost the launching of your R session with the startup package. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin Let’s make maps with bertin.js in Quarto startup 0.19.0 - Friendly R Startup Configuration The grammar of tables in python (pandas) and R (gt) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W42 Supplement Resources https://github.com/mcanouil/awesome-quarto https://github.com/neocarto/bertin https://quarto.org/docs/interactive/ojs/libraries.html

The magic of automated Shiny app deployment and data aggregation using GitHub actions, 6 productivity hacks for Quarto, and valuable tips for managing large codebases in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) Automatically deploying a Shiny app for browsing #RStats tweets with GitHub Actions 6 Productivity Hacks for Quarto "Managing Large Codebases in R" webinar Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W41 Supplement Resources littler - scripting and command-line front-end for R https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html