

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.
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Aug 17, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W33 Highlights
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

Aug 10, 2021 • 17min
Issue 2021-W32 Highlights
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

Aug 4, 2021 • 16min
Issue 2021-W31 Highlights
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)

Jul 27, 2021 • 19min
Issue 2021-W30 Highlights
Top 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2}
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest
{targets} 0.6.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Workflows
Introducing {facetious} - alternate facets for ggplot2
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W30
Supplement resources:
Recording of my issue curation livestream!
Effective communication between Shiny modules
{targets} 0.6.0 NEWS
Chapter 3 - Target Markdown
Target Markdown template format
{targets} resources from upcoming R in Medicine workshop

Jul 20, 2021 • 12min
Issue 2021-W29 Highlights
How to become a better R code detective, a practical introduction to custom fonts, and making error messages your own.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
How to become a better R code detective?
Setting up and debugging custom fonts: a practical introduction to the all (new) things font in R
Make error messages your own
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W29

Jul 13, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W28 Highlights
Creating a package directly from R-Markdown with {fusen}, and a new milestone release of the {googledrive} package
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664)
{fusen} 0.2.2: Build a Package from R Markdown File
googledrive 2.0.0
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W28
Supplement Resources
How to build a package following Rmd Driven Development GitHub Repository
Batool's presentation from UseR! 2021: Make Your Computational Analysis Citable

Jul 7, 2021 • 13min
Issue 2021-W27 Highlights
Practical tips on starting new R projects, and improving a visualization of US streaming market share.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
Draw me a project
Improving a Visualization
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W27

Jun 29, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W26 Highlights
Creating your own CRAN-like repository with R-universe, results the third annual Shiny contest, and insights on why to use Shiny.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe
Winners of the 3rd annual Shiny Contest
Why Shiny? Insights from a Shiny Developer
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W26
Supplement Resources
https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/03/04/r-universe-buildsystem/
https://ropensci.org/commcalls/may2021-r-universe/

Jun 23, 2021 • 12min
Issue 2021-W25 Highlights
Projecting and tracking COVID-19 infection rates in England with R, leveraging Wikidata to tag scientific abstracts, and a new deep-learning workflow with the luz package
Episode Links
This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman)
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia}
Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items
Que haja luz: More light for torch!
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W25
Supplemental Resources
{epidemia} package documentation
A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom
How epidemiology has shaped the COVID pandemic

Jun 15, 2021 • 13min
Issue 2021-W24 Highlights
Using Animal Crossing data with the Google Vision API and machine learning, the latest Shiny developer series with Nick Strayer, and ensuring robust database transactions in Shiny
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ([@TonyElHabr]
Everybody Loves Raymond: Running Animal Crossing Villagers through the Google Vision API
Shiny Developer Series Episode 21: RStudio software engineer Nick Strayer returns to share how he arrived to RStudio and motivations behind the new Shiny App Stories.
Shiny in Production: Database Transactions
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W24


