

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.
Episodes
Mentioned books

May 18, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W20 Highlights
A tidymodels approach to the Introduction to Statistical Learning learning labs, exploring class imbalance on the TidyX video series, and encrypting and hosting a R Markdown report.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
ISLR: tidymodels labs: This book aims to be a complement to the 1st version An Introduction to Statistical Learning book with translations of the labs into using the tidymodels set of packages.
TidyX Episode 59: MLB Pitch Classification - Class Imbalance and Model Evaluation
Encrypt and host a knitted R Markdown file
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W20
Supplemental Resources
An Introduction to Statistical Learning and The Elements of Statistical Learning official sites with links to download each.
TidyX MLB Pitch Classification playlist
My appearance on TidyX episode 32
{encryptedRmd}: Password protected markdown HTML reports in R using libsodium
libsodium encryption library

May 11, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W19 Highlights
Using the trifecta of map, walk, and pivot for data processing, obtaining quotes from the Friends characters in R, and putting the spolight on Shiny user interfaces in the Shiny Dev Series.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Hey, it's me, Eric! (@theRcast)
Map, Walk, Pivot
Introducing {centralperk}: Get quotes from the main characters of the TV show 'Friends'
Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W19

May 4, 2021 • 9min
Issue 2021-W18 Highlights
A call to action for testing R 4.1, a practical guide to unit tests, and a tutorial on creating pizza charts with football data
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
R Can Use Your Help: Testing R Before Release
Writing unit tests in R
Soccer Percentile Radars/Pizza's Tutorial
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W18

Apr 27, 2021 • 13min
Issue 2021-W17 Highlights
Exploring wikidata with the {tidywikidatar} package, accessibility improvements in {knitr}, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for March.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq (@batool664)
What does Wikidata know about members of the European Parliament?
New in knitr: Improved accessibility with image alt text
March 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W17
Supplemental Resources
https://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-turns-20-aims-reach-035212015.html
https://github.com/yihui/knitr/releases/tag/v1.32
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pkglite/index.html
https://flujoo.github.io/gm/

Apr 20, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W16 Highlights
The latest news from rOpenSci, creating ggplot2 postcards with ggirl, and an introduction to process mining in R
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
rOpenSci News Digest, April 2021
{ggirl} 1.0.1: An R package that lets you make ggplots in real life
Process Mining in 10 minutes with R
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W16
Supplemental Resources
rOpenSci Software Peer Review
{dataspice} package peer review GH isssue
{brochure}: Natively multipage Shiny apps
What Process Mining Is, and Why Companies Should Do It
{bupaR}: Business process analysis in R

Apr 13, 2021 • 13min
Issue 2021-W15 Highlights
reprex 2.0, using Kubernetes and the future package, and SQL in RMarkdown
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
reprex 2.0.0
Using Kubernetes and the Future Package to Easily Parallelize R in the Cloud
sql-in-rmarkdown
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W15
Supplemental Resources
Jenny Bryan's rstudio::conf 2020 keynote materials: Object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
High Performance and Parallel Computing CRAN task view
Future: Simple Async, Parallel & Distributed Processing in R rstudio::conf 2020 resources
tidyquery: Query R data frames with SQL

Apr 5, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W14 Highlights
{workflowsets} with tidy models, exploring other {ggplot2} goems, and top 10 R errors
Episode Links
This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman)
workflowsets 0.0.1
Exploring Other ggplot2 Geoms
The top 10 R errors, the 7th one will surprise you
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W14
Supplemental Resources
Screening many models chapter from Tidy Modeling with R
Extending ggplot2 vignette

Mar 30, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W13 Highlights
The Minard System in R, ggplot2 wizardry, a slackbot created with plumber and googleCouldRunner
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr)
"The Minard System" in R
A guide to creating a Slackbot that sends weekly updates via plumber, googleCloudRunner and Cloud Run
ggplot2 Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and secrets for Beautiful Plots in R, Cédric Scherer
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W13
Supplemental Resources
DataViz History Series: Edward Tufte, Charles Minard, Napoleon and the Russian Campaign of 1812 - Part 2 and Part 5
{ggplot2} Wizardry recorded talk from UseR Oslo meetup (25 March 2021)
Introducing googleCouldRunnner - serverless R on Google Could Platform

Mar 23, 2021 • 12min
Issue 2021-W12 Highlights
{gt} tables cookbook, best weather cities, and mapping over many files
Episode Links
This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain)
The GT Cookbook
Cities with Best (and Worst) Weather, 2021 edition
How to treat as many files as fit on your hard disk without loops (sorta) nor running out of memory all the while being as lazy as possible
Supplemental Resources
GT Advanced Cookbook
R-Podcast episode 27: Get the {gt} Tables!
R-Weekly Highlights Episode 24: {blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
R-Weekly Highlights episode 5: Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactive in Shiny applications
Bruno Rodrigues' YouTube Channel

Mar 16, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W11 Highlights
Time series forecasting with torch, automated scraping of stock metrics with GitHub Actions, and default knitr options and hooks.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman)
Introductory time series forecasting with torch
Daily Stock Gainers Automated Web Scraping in R with Github Actions
Default knitr options and hooks
Supplemental Resources
Introducing Torch for R
Automating COVID-19 PDF scraping
1littlecoder YouTube channel
Shiny Developer Series