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Eric Nantz
The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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


