R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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Aug 28, 2024 • 47min

Issue 2024-W35 Highlights

A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of interactivity to a reactable table, and save yourself many hours of manual effort with Quarto parameterized reporting.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)Unveiling Bottlenecks (Part 2): A Deep Dive into Profiling Tools\Creating interactive tables with reactableAutomating Quarto reports with parametersEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W35Supplement Resources{golem} 0.5.0 is now availableShiny Developer Series Episode 12: Reactlog with Barrett Schlerke https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep012/ The Coding Cats shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecodingcats/A visual journey through world exhibitions https://georgios.quarto.pub/a-visual-journey-through-world-exhibitions/Six ways to find better content on Mastodon https://www.infoworld.com/article/2338712/6-ways-to-find-better-content-on-mastodon.htmlSupporting 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 OCRemixTails and the Music Maker - Picolescence - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176The Amazon Session - Ducktales - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00402
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Aug 21, 2024 • 37min

Issue 2024-W34 Highlights

Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to panic when you see a merge conflict in Git, the genesis of the new R ARUG community in India, and a great primer on creating your own Quarto templates.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Please let me merge before I start crying and other things I've said at the Git terminalA New R Community in Ahmedabad, India, focused on Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical IndustriesDesigning and deploying internal Quarto templatesEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W34Supplement ResourcesShiny-based clinical submissions using WebAssembly https://rpodcast.github.io/shiny-webr-posit2024/#/sectionIntroducing saperlipopette, a package to practice Git! https://masalmon.eu/2024/01/18/saperlipopette-package-practice-git/NORC crime tracker Shiny app https://livecrimetracker.norc.org/#homeSupporting 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 OCRemixYou Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064Seven Pipes to Heaven - Super Mario Land - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03256
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Aug 7, 2024 • 58min

Issue 2024-W32 Highlights

A realistic take on converting the NY Forest Carbon Assessment modeling pipeline to the tidymodels suite, and a review of R package development workflows in the Positron IDE.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Converting New York’s Forest Carbon Assessment to TidymodelsR package development in PositronEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W32Supplement ResourcesTidy Modeling with R e-book: https://www.tmwr.orgmaestro: Orchestration of data pipelines https://whipson.github.io/maestro/Pharma RUG: The Rise of R in China’s Pharmaceutical Industry https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/08/01/pharma-rug-the-rise-of-r-in-chinas-pharmaceutical-industry R/Pharma APAC track call for talks: https://rinpharma.com/post/2024-07-17-apac-track/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 OCRemixPerson, Place, or Groove? - Pictionary - The Orichalcon - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01548
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Jul 31, 2024 • 31min

Issue 2024-W31 Highlights

Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Let's Talk About the Weather2024 Shiny ContestEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W31Supplement Resourceshttps://lorenzwalthert.github.io/precommit/index.htmlhttps://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/llm-rag/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 OCRemixA Flea and His Giant - Megaman X: Maverick Rising - Chuck Dietz - https://maverick.ocremix.org/music.php
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Jul 24, 2024 • 43min

Issue 2024-W30 Highlights

Creating retro-gaming sprites rendered from the comforts of R? Yes we can! Plus an honest take on the utility of Github's Copilot Workspace in the context of package development, and taking the concept of code trees to another level with treesitter.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)Tile-style sprite delightSome thoughts after a trial run of GitHub's Copilot WorkspaceExtracting names of functions defined in a script with treesitterEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W30Supplement Resourcestree-sitter-r https://github.com/r-lib/tree-sitter-rShiny.telemetry 0.3.0 https://www.appsilon.com/post/shiny-telemetry-0-3-0-updateIntroduction to R with the Tidyverse https://introduction-r-tidyverse.netlify.app/session1_notesSupporting 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/OCR02053Forest Through the Trees - Shea's Violin - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04484
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Jul 18, 2024 • 33min

Issue 2024-W28 Highlights

The world of web-assembly in R continues to move fast with key updates to the webrcli & spidyr packages, and what has us excited about the mapgl package for producing amazing spatial visualizations. Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)webrcli & spidyr: What’s newCreate a Compare slider widgetEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W28Supplement Resourcesmapgl package site https://walker-data.com/mapglMike's migrate package https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/migrate/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 media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixSuper Buck II - Super Mario Bros 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577
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Jun 26, 2024 • 46min

Issue 2024-W26 Highlights

The latest updates to the rayverse bring new meaning to smoothing out the rough edges of your next 3-D visualization, the momentum of DuckDB continues with the MotherDuck data warehouse, and the role nanoparquet plays to bring the benefits of parquet to small data sets.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement MappingJoining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDucknanoparquet 0.3.0Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W26Supporting 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 media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixThe Amazon Session - Ducktales - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00402Doomsday - Sonic & Knuckles - elzfernomusic - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02532
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Jun 21, 2024 • 43min

Issue 2024-W25 Highlights

How the newly-released CRAN package deadline metadata inspired multiple learning journeys of the latest Shiny features with one of your podcast hosts joining the ride, a fresh coat of frontend paint to the amazing R-Universe, and the innovations R brings to forensic analyses of handwriting.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)Expose CRAN deadlines and DOIsA fresh new look for R-universe!{handwriter} 3.1.1: Handwriting Analysis in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W25Supplement ResourcesEric's pull request to fix the shinylive version of the CRAN deadlines app https://github.com/matt-dray/cran-deadlines/pull/3The handwriter package documentation site https://csafe-isu.github.io/handwriter/index.htmlScraping the R-Weekly Highlights podcast https://github.com/iamYannC/r-podcastSimulations for 2024 Euro Cup and Copa America https://lukebenz.com/post/intlsoccer2024/Forecasting the UEFA Euro 2024 with a machine learning ensemble https://www.zeileis.org/news/euro2024/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 media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixAcrophobia - Earthworm Jim - about:blank - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01568Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - PrototypeRaptor - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01846
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Jun 12, 2024 • 59min

Issue 2024-W24 Highlights

A thoughtful perspective on why it's not an either/or situation with popular data processing paradigms in R, another case of being kind to future you with your Git commit messages, and satisfying the need for speed in the evolving geospatial space.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on "dialects" in RWhy you need small, informative Git commitsMaking a Ridiculously Fast™ API ClientEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W24Supplement ResourcesWelcome to the {data.table} ecosystem project! https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2023-10-15-introtogrant-toby_hocking/Pinball machines per capita https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pinball-machines-per-capita/New York R Conference Retrospective Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Ec4ZktjJQigraph 2.0 https://igraph.org/2024/05/21/rigraph-2.0.0.htmlSupporting 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 media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemixDevilSLAB - Final Fantasy VI - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00250Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400 
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Jun 5, 2024 • 35min

Issue 2024-W23 Highlights

How vintage features in R could introduce chaos in your quest for a tibble & data.frame function, and the awesome potential of integrating custom parameters and conditional processing in your next Quarto workflow.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Make your functions compa-tibbleCreating R tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using QuartoEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W23Supplement ResourcesInvariants: Comparing behavior with data frames https://tibble.tidyverse.org/articles/invariants.htmlgeoarrow: Extension types for geospatial data for use with 'Arrow' http://geoarrow.org/geoarrow-r/Customize your R startup message https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/rproject/About Podcasting Episode 10: Podcasting and Data Science with Eric Nantz https://www.aboutpodcasting.show/episodepage/podcasting-and-data-science-with-eric-nantz-from-the-r-weekly-highlights-podcastSupporting 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 media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Chapter image creditsIllustrations from the Openscapes blog Tidy Data for reproducibility, efficiency, and collaboration by Julia Lowndes and Allison Horst https://www.openscapes.org/blog/2020/10/12/tidy-data/Introducing the Geoparquet data format https://getindata.com/blog/introducing-geoparquet-data-format/Music credits powered by OCRemixSalut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

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