R Weekly Highlights

A tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene Thinking outside the grid - A "bare bones" introduction to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot TBD, but likely a Shiny server video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4T0qfqY7k Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W43 Supplement Resources "Hosting Data Apps" Blog by Analythium Meghan Harris' website, The Tidy Trekker

A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of the organisation is to add static type checking and other features to R, with zero cost at run time How not to be lost with VSCode when coming from RStudio? Fill the region between two lines in ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W42 Supplement Resources Type safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety Eric's R development repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects Visual Studio Code R extension: https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R Looking to provide feedback on this episode and the podcast in general? Feel free to get in touch with Mike (@mike_ketchbrook) or Eric (@theRcast) on Twitter!

Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook) Pull Request Flow with usethis 2021 New York R Conference Videos {ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41 Supplement Resources {gert}: Simple Git client for R Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Afton Coombs' previous Twitch stream submitting {ggalignment} to CRAN!

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