

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

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

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


