R Weekly Highlights

Discover how the R community is evolving with exciting contributions highlighted from a recent conference. Dive into creating stunning interactive visualizations of Greenland's ice thickness using Leaflet and Terra packages. Learn about the innovative use of Docker containers to enhance R development. Additionally, hear about collaborative efforts aimed at improving the R language as community members tackle real-time translation and graphics engine challenges. It's a vibrant discussion full of data, innovation, and community spirit!

The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to generating markdown was vital to a high-profile Quarto site, a novel infograph of Bob's Burgers sentiment analysis, and updates to the next evolution of object-oriented programming in R.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter)Guide to generating and rendering computational markdown content programmatically with QuartoBob’s Burgers Episode Fingerprints by SeasonS7 0.2.0Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W46Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixCammy's London Drizzle - Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453Bar Hopping - Streets of Rage 2 - jaxx - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00437

Eric flies solo this week, highlighting the most exciting insights from the 2024 Posit conference. Discover innovations in R programming, including the Quarto publishing system and its GitHub Actions for automating report generation. Dive into Sliny's latest UI improvements and the Close Read extension for enhanced data storytelling. The episode also emphasizes community engagement in data science, inviting listeners to contribute and support ongoing projects.

Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.table stacks up to DuckDB and polars for reshaping your data layouts.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Exploring the tidyHeatmap R packageDon't Expect That "Function Works Correctly", Do This InsteadComparing data.table reshape to duckdb and polarsEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W43Supplement ResourcestidyHeatmap: Draw heatmap simply using a tidy data frame https://stemangiola.github.io/tidyHeatmap/Novel App knock-in mouse model shows key features of amyloid pathology and reveals profound metabolic dysregulation of microglia https://molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13024-022-00547-7Shiny App-Packages chapter on writing tests and specifications https://mjfrigaard.github.io/shiny-app-pkgs/test_specs.htmlWANT CLEANER UNIT TESTS? TRY ARRANGE, ACT, ASSERT COMMENTS https://jakubsob.github.io/blog/want-cleaner-test-try-arrange-act-assert/Super Data Science Podcast 827: Polars: Past, Present and Future, with Polars Creator Ritchie Vink https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast/827duckplyr: A DuckDB-backed version for dplyr https://duckplyr.tidyverse.org/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixBlack Feathers in the Sky - Kid Icarus: Uprising - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04200Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - PrototypeRaptor - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01846

A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a clever use of AI to summarize a large collection of blog posts.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Nested unit tests with testthatshinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for RCreating post summary with AI from Hugging FaceEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W42Supplement Resourceselmer: Call LLM APIs from R https://hadley.github.io/elmer/Joe Cheng's sidebot app (R edition) https://github.com/jcheng5/r-sidebotEDA Reimagined in R: GWalkR + DuckDB for Lightning-Fast Visualizations https://medium.com/@bruceyu0416/eda-reimagined-in-r-gwalkr-duckdb-for-lightning-fast-visualizations-05b011e8ae39Apache superset https://superset.apache.org/Postprocessing is coming to tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10/postprocessing-preview/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixPachelbel's Ganon - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - djpretzel - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00753Voodoo, Roots 'n Grog - The Secret of Monkey Island - Alex Jones, Diggi Dis - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02180

A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modification rabbit hole across multiple languages, and a sampling of sage advice from the Data Science Hangout.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Reproducible data science with Nix, part 13 -- {rix} is on CRAN!In-Place ModificationsData Career Insights: Lessons from four senior leaders in the data spaceEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W40Supplement Resourcesrix rOpenSci review: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625Determinate Systems Zero to Nix guide https://zero-to-nix.com/ vec - A new vector class with added functionality https://jonocarroll.github.io/vec/rray - Simple arrays https://rray.r-lib.org/Libby Heeren's podcast Data Humans https://libbyheeren.com/podcast.html or https://datahumans.libsyn.com/siteA Bayesian Plackett-Luce model in Stan applied to pinball championship data https://sumsar.net/blog/bayesian-plackett-luce-model-pinball-competition/ Cover and modify, some tips for R package development https://masalmon.eu/2024/09/24/cover-modify-r-packages/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixTorvus Clockwork - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - DarkeSword - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01507Home is Where You Belong - Final Fantasy IX - Reuben Spears, Earth Kid - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04135

How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your guides, and a prime way of using R to brute-force the answer to a mathematical brain-teaser.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)patchwork 1.3.0{gguidance}: Extended guide options for 'ggplot2'Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nzEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W39Supplement Resourcesgt 0.11.0 release notes https://gt.rstudio.com/news/index.html#gt-0110Being free from constraint https://www.data-imaginist.com/posts/2024-01-05-patchwork-1-2-0/#being-free-from-constraintgguidance: A guided tour vignette https://teunbrand.github.io/gguidance/articles/tour.htmlCreate a free Llama 3.1 405B-powered chatbot on an R package's GitHub repo in <1 min https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/create-a-free-llama-405b-llm-chatbot-github-repo-huggingfaceEase renv::restore() by updating your repository to Posit Public Package Manager https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2024-09-16-ease-renvrestore-by-updating-your-repositories-to-p3mSupporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixSmoke & Marbles - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Emunator, ZackParrish, Lucas Guimaraes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04714See Me Again - Valis III - tibonev - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04610

Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say "surreal!" Plus a data-driven approach to investigate recent changes to the Australian census, and a cautionary reminder to check just where those numbers are coming from the next time you build a prediction model.Plus the quest to make R the official language for the Coder Radio program reaps a new reward!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter){surreal} 0.0.1: Create Datasets with Hidden Images in Residual PlotsGender and sexuality in Australian surveys and censusPlease Version DataEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W38Supplement ResourcesSurfing the WSL Wave - Coder Radio episode 587 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/coder-radio/587/Brian (bhh32) on Nostrsurreal https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/surreal/Residual Plots and Data Sets (archived version) https://web.archive.org/web/20210927100125/https://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~stefanski/NSFSupported/HiddenImages/statresplots.htmlLabels for Technical Writing Projects https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/12/labels-writing-projects/Express to Impress: Leveraging IBCS Standards for Powerful Data Presentations https://medium.com/number-around-us/express-to-impress-leveraging-ibcs-standards-for-powerful-data-presentations-3c3a269f0ec0Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixMoonlight Vibin' - Mega Man X5 - DCT - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02053You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

How being fair to your research has a new and important meaning than what you may expect, the power you can unlock with custom roxygen tags, and a collection of tips you can apply today for your next visualization.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Making your blog FAIRCreate and use a custom roxygen2 tagFive ways to improve your chart axesEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W37Supplement Resourceshttr2: Perform HTTP requests and process the response https://httr2.r-lib.org/Athanasia's GitHub Actions workflow files https://github.com/drmowinckels/drmowinckels.github.io/tree/main/.github/workflowsmaestro: Orchestration of data pipelines https://whipson.github.io/maestro/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixCrysis Crystal - Mega Man 9: Black in Blue - k-wix - https://backinblue.ocremix.org/index.phpOf Whips and Strings - Vampire Variations: A Musical Tribute to Castlevania - Super Guitar Bros. - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02480 

A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure in automating the translation of Quarto documents to multiple languages, and there's no time like the present to give your code a little linting love.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)Long input linesTranslating Quarto (and other markdown files) into Any LanguageGet your codebase lint-free forever with lintrEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W36Supplement ResourcesNews from R Submissions Working Group – Pilot 3 Successfully Reviewed by FDAMastodon Accounts Posting About #RStatsSupporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixTorvus Clockwork - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - DarkeSword - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01507Sleep, My Sephy (Judgement Day) - Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream - Pot Hocket - https://ff7.ocremix.org/