R Weekly Highlights

Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The (updated) history of the pipe operator in R Creating a Dataset from an Image in R Markdown using reticulate Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W40

Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Resources for Data Viz Accessibility Curating for @WeAreRLadies on Twitter Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W39 Supplement Resources Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community Why Accessibility is at the Heart of Data Visualization Growing into the R community Become a part of the R-Weekly Highlights podcast! I am looking for members of the community to join me in sharing their perspectives on the highlighted resources in future podcast episodes! If you are interested in learning more and possibly joining my efforts, please get in touch via my Twitter account (@theRcast) or via email: theRcast (at) gmail.com

Eras of MTV and system commands Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W38

Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) Art, jasmines, and the water colours {clockify} Time Tracking from R The Four Pipes of magrittr Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W37 View the entire process of recording this episode from the livestream recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MA_WT7IXL0 Supplement resources https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-09-10-setting-up-the-artfulbot/ {rprojroot}: Finding files in project subdirectories

Elegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Elegant and informative maps with tmap A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack {gitlabr} 2.0 - Communicate with GitLab API from R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W36 Supplement resources https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap/ Geocomputation in R (authored by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Meunchow): https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html https://github.com/emilyriederer/data-validation-demo https://rich-iannone.github.io/pointblank/

The July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) July 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data Scientist & RStudio Connect with Tom Mock The World's Countries Colored by Their First Letter Supplement resources codemeta: https://github.com/cboettig/codemeta https://codemeta.github.io/ Multiclass classification of dry beans using computer vision and machine learning techniques Thomas Mock's RMD Marvel GitHub repo: https://github.com/jthomasmock/penguin-project

Debugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting conclusion to SLICED season one Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12) Supplement resources TJ's notestar notebook system buit upon the {targets} package. {eulerr}: Area-proportional Euler and Venn diagrams with ellipses SLICED season 1 YouTube playlist SLICED web site Practical AI Episode 144

The new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using R. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin (@R_by_Ryo) {flow} 0.0.2: View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams. Some Covid Donuts To End The Week Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W33 Supplement resources: {boomer} - Debugging tools to inspect the intermediate steps of a call

Creating mobile-friendly Shiny apps, {gitlabr} 2.0.0, and achieving reproducible workflows with R and Docker Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Making Shiny apps mobile friendly {gitlabr} 2.0.0: Access to the 'Gitlab' API. How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W32 Supplement resources: Jesse Mostipak's Twitter thread: Stumbling blocks encountered with learning Shiny Jacqueline Nolis: I made an entier e-commerce platform on Shiny https://youtu.be/tTgRhJ6lb4w https://www.rocker-project.org My R development template repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects

Up and running with officedown, testing with a reprex to solve your problems, and a tidy take on performing hypothesis testing with statsExpressions. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Up and running with Officedown Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!) {statsExpressions} 1.2.0: Add statistical detail to data frames and plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W31 Supplement resources: Friction Logs: The Key to Unlocking Product Growth MS-OOXML: A pseudo-standard that pretends to be open The officer package: Making PowerPoint slides from R (my presentation from the Advanced R Markdown Workshop)