R Weekly Highlights

About this episode A calendar right in your R console, accessibility tooling for Shiny, and shinydashboardPlus v2.0 Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon (@ma_salmon) A Calendar in Your R Console accessibility (a11y) tooling for shiny {shinydashboardPlus 2.0.0}: extensions for shinydashboard Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-39

About this episode Making learning to code friendlier with art, ggforce functions, and debugging in VSCode Episode Links It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a ggforce function Making Learning to Code Friendlier with Art — An Interview with Dr. Allison Horst Introduction to debugging R in VSCode Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-38 This week's curator: Jon Calder @jonmcalder

About this episode Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactivity in Shiny applications. Episode Links 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read. Column Names as Contracts Episode 12: Barret Schloerke Part 1 (reactlog) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-37

About this episode A stunning combination of physics and 3-D visualization, behind the curtain of package installation, and an alternative workflow for error handling in functions. Episode Links Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine State of R packages in your library Handling errors using purrr's possibly() and safely() Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-36 The R-Weekly Patreon: www.patreon.com/rweekly

About this episode A substantial update to the magrittr package coming soon, creating visualizations in D3 from an R user's perspective, and a big book of R. Episode Links magrittr 2.0 is coming soon D3 to R to D3 Big Book of R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-35 Details on how to submit resources and becoming an editor on the RWeekly team: github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org

About this episode Choosing an operating system for R users, examining regression techniques, and inside the development of dittodb / generating data from truncated distributions Episode Links Best OS for R users Lines of best fit Generating data from a truncated distribution Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-34 Creating a new RWeekly issue demonstration: youtu.be/tnclyMsy638

About this episode Exploring comic book creation with the tidyverse and ggplot2, and updates to the showtext and shinycssloader packages on CRAN. Episode Links A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". {showtext} 0.9: Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs {shinycssloaders} v1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years' worth of new features! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-33

In this introduction episode, Eric Nantz shares an introduction to the RWeekly community project as well as the movitation for creating this brand new RWeekly Highlights podcast! Episode Links rweekly.org github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org