R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jan 14, 2022 • 50min

Update on RWeekly and 2021 Reflections

An update on the current state of RWeekly, plus Eric and Mike reflect on their journeys with data science from the industry and consulting perspectives in an eventful 2021! Episode Links The very first issue of RWeekly: https://rweekly.org/issue-0.html R for Data Science Learning Community: https://www.rfordatasci.com discoRd: https://www.r-discord.com/home Analytics Power Hour Episode 184 - Psychological Safety and Analytics with J.D. Long: https://analyticshour.io/2022/01/11/184-psychological-safety-and-analytics-with-j-d-long/ GitHub Project Boards: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/trying-out-the-new-projects-experience/about-projects
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Dec 15, 2021 • 36min

Issue 2021-W50 Highlights

A batch of Shiny tips from creating an application tailored to teaching statistics, and the Big Book of R gains nine new entries to the collection. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) 6 simple Shiny things I have learned from creating a somewhat small app 9 new books added to Big Book of R - In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W50 Supplement Resources Albert Rapp's YouTube channel R Development Guide DevOps for Data Science Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers "Introducing {admiral}" presentation at R/Pharma 2021
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Dec 9, 2021 • 32min

Issue 2021-W49 Highlights

A fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Data serialisation in R Day 02: Postcards with distill || rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify || #12daysofdusting Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W49 Supplement Resources https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/12/01/dusty-domains-your-forgotten-domains-raise-money-for-charity https://dusty.domains/
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Dec 1, 2021 • 33min

Issue 2021-W48 Highlights

How GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe Getting started with unit testing in R {filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W48 Supplement Resources Issue 2021-W47 https://rweekly.org/2021-W47.html GitHub Actions for the R language

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