

R Weekly Highlights
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.
Episodes
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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/

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

May 5, 2022 • 31min
Issue 2022-W18 Highlights
A brand-new tables gallery powered by the R community, noteworthy items from the Appsilon Shiny conference, and R-Markdown is not going anywhere.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
RStudio Community Table Gallery
shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference
With Quarto coming, is R Markdown going away? No.
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W18
Supplement Resources
https://community.rstudio.com/t/expected-goals-xg-shot-timeline-for-soccer-football-with-gt/86449
https://community.rstudio.com/t/conditionally-formatted-state-transition-matrices/120336
https://www.rstudio.com/champion
R-Podcast episode 24 (Yihui Xie returns) https://r-podcast.org/024-rstudioconf-yihui-xie

Apr 27, 2022 • 33min
Issue 2022-W17 Highlights
Lessons from teaching R to non-programmers, loading a large and messy CSV file with data.table and command-line tools, Bayesian analyses with the brms package, and getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
6 Lessons I learned from teaching R to non-programmers
Loading a large, messy csv using data.table fread with cli tools
Bayesian analyses made easy: GLMMs in R package brms
Not so standard evaluations - Getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W17
Supplement Resources
Data science at the command line
Learning Bayesian statistics podcast
Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling

Apr 20, 2022 • 30min
Issue 2022-W16 Highlights
An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr)
R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools
Error chaining
Why you should(n't) care about Monads if you're an R programmer
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W16
Supplement Resources
Roger Bivand's announcement of the rgdal, rgeos, and maptools packages retirement
Geocomputation with R
Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data
Rweekly Highlights episode 72
Bruno Rodregues' monads YouTube video
"Function Factories" Chapter in Advanced R

Apr 13, 2022 • 31min
Issue 2022-W15 Highlights
The cone of silence is lifted for the Quarto publishing engine, re-creating a storytelling look with ggplot2, and programming a fun Dragon Realm game in Shiny.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
We don't talk about Quarto
Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot
Programming Games with Shiny - Dragon Realm
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W15
Supplement Resources
Recordings of Nic Wan's Viz Buzz online graph competition on YouTube
Flowchart Diagrams in GitHub
Quarto GitHub discussion board
Improve this graph! Storytelling with data YouTube video
CRAN task views ctv package GitHub repository

Apr 6, 2022 • 27min
Issue 2022-W14 Highlights
A trifecta of new R packages for data validation, function logging, and a new ggplot2 extension.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation
{chronicler} 0.1: Implementation of the logger monad in R.
{ggbraid} 0.1.0: Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2.
Supplement Resources
Monads: https://ericlippert.com/category/monads/page/2/
Episode 62: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/62
ggbraid vignette: https://nsgrantham.github.io/ggbraid/articles/hoops.html

Mar 30, 2022 • 29min
Issue 2022-W13 Highlights
After a brief hiatus, the R-Weekly Highlights podcast is back! In this episode we discuss: Understanding the native R pipe, and using RopenSci's pkgcheck within GitHub Actions.
Episode Links
This week's curators: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) and Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
Understanding the native R pipe |>
pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W13
Supplement Resources
Episode 60: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/60
GitHub Actions for the R Community: https://github.com/r-lib/actions/
Appsilon Shiny Conference: https://appsilon.com/2022-appsilon-shiny-conference
Shiny Developer Series episode 30 - The Connecticut COVID-19 Test Spotter App (Part 1): https://shinydevseries.com/ep30