

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
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Mar 9, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W10 Highlights
Serverless dashboards, learning tidy evaluation by re-implementing dplyr, and bootstrap confidence intervals with tidy modeling
Episode Links
This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin)
Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}
Learning tidy eval by re-implementing dplyr
Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Super Bowl Commercials
Supplemental Resources
Learning Tidy Evaluation by Reimplementing dplyr (Government & Public Sector R Conference)
Programming with dplyr vignette

Mar 2, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W09 Highlights
Random effects, GGanimate intro, and updates to dplyr backends
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo)
Random effects and penalized splines are the same thing
GGanimating a geographic introduction
dplyr backends: multidplyr 0.1.0, dtplyr 1.1.0, dbplyr 2.1.0
Supplemental Resources
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/55364/mixed-model-in-simple-english
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-linear-mixed-model-works-350950a82911
https://twitter.com/tjmahr/status/1365424619344318466

Feb 23, 2021 • 12min
Issue 2021-W08 Highlights
Multi-page Shiny apps, R package citation, and refactoring the squashinformr package
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast)
Multi-page {shiny} Applications with {brochure}
Make Your R Package Easier to Cite
Refactoring {squashinformr}

Feb 16, 2021 • 9min
Issue 2021-W07 Highlights
Installing packages, {distill} for personal websites, and Shiny app stories
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono)
The Comprehensive Guide to Installing R Packages from CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub and Co.
Distill it down
Introducing Shiny App Stories
Supplemental Resources
20 Years of R
Package management basics (Mozilla Developer Network Web Docs)
Sharing on Short Notice: How to Get Your Materials Online with R Markdown
Building a {distill} website}
Shiny Developer Series Episode 1: Shiny Development Past and Future
Shiny Developer Series Episode 5: shinysense and custom javascript visualizations

Feb 9, 2021 • 11min
Issue 2021-W06 Highlights
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr)
Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility
Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share
Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr
Supplemental Resources
Custom theming in Shiny & R Markdown with {bslib} & {thematic} (rstudio::global 2021)
Making Shiny apps faster with caching (rstudio::global 2021)

Feb 2, 2021 • 14min
Issue 2021-W05 Highlights
rstudio::global 2021 and UseR! 2021 call for abstracts
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder)
rstudio::global 2021 talks
rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise()
15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts
Supplemental Resources
Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (rstudio::global 2021)
Your Public Garden - rstudio::global(2021) Keynote by Vicki Boykis

Jan 26, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W04 Highlights
{blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
Announcing blogdown v1.0
Announcing pagedreport
Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
Supplemental Resources
Up & running with blogdown in 2021
Yihui's perspective on early development of {blogdown} from episode 24 of The R-Podcast
The new and improved R-Podcast site
{pagedown}: Creating beautiful PDFs with R Markdown and CSS (rstudio::conf 2019)
{pagedreport} gallery

Jan 18, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W03 Highlights
Data Science as an atomic habit, Japan soccer league season review, Fantasy football scheduling, and UseR! 2021 call for tutorials
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Data science as an atomic habit
J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R!
Fantasy Football and the Classical Scheduling Problem
UseR! 2021: Call for Tutorials
Supplemental Resources
Book Review: Atomic Habits
ffsched - R package for simulating schedules and standings for fantasy football
UseR! 2020 Tutorials Playlist
Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (Wolfram Qin) lightning talk at rstudio::global!
Session 1: 2021-01-21 10:21 PM - 10:26 PM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 AM - 03:26 AM UTC
Session 2: 2021-01-22 10:21 AM - 10:26 AM EST / 2021-01-22 03:21 PM- 03:26 PM UTC

Jan 11, 2021 • 8min
Issue 2021-W02 Highlights
Plots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai}
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq
Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions
{renv} 0.12.5: Project Environments
{fastai} 2.0.2: Interface to fastai
Supplemental Resources
GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us
R-Podcast Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey
Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code
What does it mean to freeze or unfreeze a model?

Jan 5, 2021 • 10min
Issue 2021-W01 Highlights
Data Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland
Episode Links
This week's curator: Wolfram King
Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results.
Up & running with blogdown in 2021
A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn't vote, people do
Supplemental Resources
A Fresh Look at Introductory Data Science
The R-Podcast Episode 31: Data Science Education with R
‘For responsible businesses – protecting human rights and the environment’ initiative background