R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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Jul 15, 2022 • 31min

Issue 2022-W28 Highlights

Another great use case for Docker containers with interactive R-Markdown reports, a recap of RStudio's presence at the Appsilon Shiny conference, and building an interactive point-and-click game with Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) Containerizing Interactive R Markdown Documents RStudio Recap From the Appsilon Shiny Conference How to build an interactive point-and-click game with {Shiny} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W28 Supplement Resources Appsilon Shiny Conference playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLexAKolMzPcrYjGA1PULfm7-P12qjKmPb R Workflow by Frank Harrell: http://hbiostat.org/rflow/ Albert's video on styling a Quarto blog with CSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRX8plZpQE
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Jul 13, 2022 • 37min

Issue 2022-W27 Highlights

Advice on building Docker containers for Shiny applications, an R-centric tutorial on fundamentals with shell, and tips on evaluating GitHub activity for contributors. Episode Links This issue's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) UseR!2022: Best Practices for Shiny Apps with Docker and More Shell vs R Fundamentals – From Syntax to Control Structures with Zsh & BASH Evaluating GitHub Activity for Contributors Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W27 Supplement Resources Hosting Data Apps: https://hosting.analythium.io slim.ai: https://www.slim.ai/ {dockerfiler} - Easy Dockerfile creation from R: https://github.com/ThinkR-open/dockerfiler Data Science at the Command Line: https://datascienceatthecommandline.com
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Jun 29, 2022 • 32min

Issue 2022-W26 Highlights

Flexing new table-creation capabilities in the latest flextable update, how less is more with Shiny application processing, and the RainbowR community shines once again. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) {flextable} 0.7.2 - Framework for easily creating tables for reporting and publications Offload Shiny's Workload: COVID-19 processing for the WHO/Europe (Re)launching RainbowR: a community of LGBTQ+ R users Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W26 Supplement Resources flextable gallery https://ardata.fr/en/flextable-gallery The officeverse https://ardata-fr.github.io/officeverse SHiny and Arrow: Mike's guest post on the RStudio Blog https://www.rstudio.com/blog/shiny-and-arrow RainbowR https://rainbowr.netlify.app
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Jun 22, 2022 • 26min

Issue 2022-W25 Highlights

Previewing the upcoming rstudio::conf, why you should (or shouldn't) build an API client package, and monitoring Shiny application usage with Hotjar. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) rstudio::conf(2022) Conference Schedule Why You Should (or Shouldn't) Build an API Client R Shiny Hotjar – How To Monitor User Behavior in R Shiny Apps Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W25
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Jun 15, 2022 • 23min

Issue 2022-W24 Highlights

Many improvements to {gt} version 0.6, and creating flow charts effeciently with {ggplot2}. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Changes (for the better) in {gt} 0.6.0 Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W24 Supplement Resources The {gtExtras} is now on CRAN: https://themockup.blog/posts/2022-06-13-gtextras-cran New features in {gt} 0.6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TV9uWCJps {gt} table battles - Eurovision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIB_N0nUfNs {gt} table battles - Digital publications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_PUee8Cu0 {gt} table battles: Crosswords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxdutTgyDE Nicola's tweet of day 29 chart challenge https://twitter.com/nrennie35/status/1519960428167811074 R-Ladies Nairobi: #30DayChartChallenge https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/2022-may-rladies-nairobi/ R-Ladies Nairobi Meetup YouTube Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-fW7HqPP0
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Jun 8, 2022 • 30min

Issue 2022-W23 Highlights

Creating user interfaces in R with a vintage toolkit, and a candid take on learning R with the right perspectives in mind. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_) {tickle}: a package for creating UIs in base R R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it... Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W23 Supplement Resources More people use Tcl than know about it (2004) https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/More-people-use-Tcl-than-know-about-it The R Tcl/Tk Interface paper by Peter Dalgaard: https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Dalgaard.pdf Mike FC's tickle annoucement tweet https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1532593976422805505 Mike FC's take on why tickle? https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1533685352451301376 R for data science learning community https://www.rfordatasci.com
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Jun 1, 2022 • 22min

Issue 2022-W22 Highlights

Annotated screencasts of David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday analyses, and the second edition of Deep Learning with R is on the way. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) RScreencasts.com: A collection of 80+ hours of time-stamped, annotated TidyTuesday screencasts highlighting the R packages and functions used in each section and what the activity is. Screencasts by David Robinson. Annotation by Alex Cookson and Eric Fletcher. Website by Oscar Baruffa. For more detail, read the launch post. Deep Learning with R, 2nd Edition Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W22 Supplement Resources R DiscoRd community: https://discord.gg/FQp6ZNd David Granjon's preview of Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny: https://twitter.com/divadnojnarg/status/1530710989574111232 Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep020/
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May 25, 2022 • 35min

Issue 2022-W21 Highlights

Amazing software development resources for data scientists, community-contributed R markdown tips & tricks to save you time, and combining GitHub gists and Carbon screenshots with gistillery. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast Software Development Resources for Data Scientists R Markdown Tips and Tricks #3: Time-savers & Trouble-shooters gistillery: Take local code, send it to a Github gist, get a beautiful image from Carbon.now.sh, and make it ready to share! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W21
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May 19, 2022 • 29min

Issue 2022-W20 Highlights

A preview of R for Data Science (2nd edition) with missing data, creating topography maps, and (yes) playing the drums directly in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) New r4ds chapter: missing values Making a crisp topography map with R {tr808r}: Play the drums with an R package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W20 Supplement Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808
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May 11, 2022 • 26min

Issue 2022-W19 Highlights

A dungeon-crawler for your R console, storytelling in ggplot2 with rounded rectangles, and updates to the tidymodels recipes suite of packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) Simple procedural dungeons in R Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles Updates for recipes extension packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W19 Supplement Resources Binder - Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks https://mybinder.org R-Podcast Episode 28 - Tidymodels with Max Kuhn https://r-podcast.org/028-max-kuhn

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