R Weekly Highlights

A cautionary tale about ML interpretations with food, practical solutions for dealing with big data in R, and the adventures of installing R on the new Apple Silicon hardware. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr Why machine learning hates vegetables (a dialogue about Zillow) Should I Move to a Database? Transitioning from x86 to arm64 on macOS - experiences of an R user Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W46 Supplement Resources Building code movies with flipbookr A guide to modeling proportions with Bayesian beta and zero-inflated beta regression models by Andrew Heiss

A lesser-known R function drives finding coordinates on fictitious Pokemon maps, creating customized point shapes with ggplot2 and gggrid, and how the branchMover Shiny app can save you a load of time and effort with GitHub branch renaming. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Get coordinates from fictitious maps Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid} branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W45 Supplement Resources Using {arrow} + {shiny}

An analysis of dialogue from "The Office", and a package promoting accessibility for visually impaired R-Users. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Analyzing The Office's dialogues {BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W44 Supplement Resources {schrute} package by Brad Lindlad Danilo's data viz portfolio The Pudding data viz publication Silicon Valley Hot Dog Scene JooYoung Seo's Talk at RStudio::Global

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