R Weekly Highlights

Why R 4.4.0 may reduce your trips to a certain kind of stack overflow, a call to update your favorite Shiny application code snippets, and how the steller ASTHOS Profile Shiny dashboard has your hosts blown away and fighting the urge to refactor their applications UIs!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)What's new in R 4.4.0?It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippetTailoring Shiny for Modern UsersEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W18Supplement ResourcesFull R 4.4.0 changelog https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.htmlR-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/ASTHO Profile dashboard https://astho.shinyapps.io/profile/{plotcli} command-line plots for R https://github.com/cheuerde/plotcli Fritz Leisch (1968-2024) https://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/fritz.htmlSupporting the showUse the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 OCRemixTrippin' on the Bridge - Streets of Rage - lazygecko - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00993You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

Bringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Interactive volcano plots with the ggiraph R packageModular R code for analytical projects with {box}Kicking tyresEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W17Supplement ResourcesHow to interpret a volcano plot https://biostatsquid.com/volcano-plot/Source code behind Tim's {duckplyr} and {data.table} benchmarks https://git.sr.ht/~tim-taylor/duckplyr-benchmarksAttach to a DuckDB Database over HTTPS or S3 https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/networkcloudstorage/duckdboverhttpsors3Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 OCRemixSnow Cone Heaven - Ice Climber - Mazedude - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01176Cleaning Out Axis - Batman (NES) - Midee - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03008

Another way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a major milestone for the R-Hub project.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Chat with AI in RStudioTest warnings fasterR-hub v2Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W16Supplement ResourcesR/Pharma 2023 presentation by Edgar Ruiz (GitHub Copilot in RStudio) - https://youtu.be/-Fjb8LZmTSIThe 2024 Appsilon Shiny Conference is just days away! https://www.shinyconf.com/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 OCRemixMemories of a Master - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - Captain Hogan - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02268Higgins Goes to Miami - Adventure Island - virt - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00461

The Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fundamental dplyr grouping operations to life.Episode LinksThis week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter)Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and CachixwebR 0.3.1Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle dataEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W15Supplement ResourcesBruno’s unit test involving {tidyselect} https://raw.githack.com/b-rodrigues/nixpkgs-r-updates-fails/targets-runs/output/r-updates-fails.htmlCachix https://www.cachix.org/R/Medicine Call for Abstracts Open https://www.r-consortium.org/events/2024/04/05/r-medicine-coming-june-10-14-2024Survival analysis for time-to-event data with tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/04/tidymodels-survival-analysis/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media Eric 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 OCRemixSun Ra - Ragnarok Online - Anthony Lofton, Joshua Morse - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01811Chopinesque Kirby - Kirby’s Dream Land - Bladiator - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01257

Taking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payments, and the tried-and-true method of simulation in action to investigate time-to-event inference statistics.Episode LinksThis week’s curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon)I Made R Text For MeStop Jenny committing arsonThe log-rank Test Assumes More Than the Cox ModelEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W14Supplement ResourcesLinux Unplugged episode 156: The xz Backdoor Exposed https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/556/Pushbullet https://www.pushbullet.com/{rpushbullet} R interface to the awesome Pushbullet service https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rpushbulletMike’s PDF quarto reports in devcontainers GitHub repo https://github.com/ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-devAligning Beliefs and Profession: Using R in Protecting the Penobscot Nation’s Traditional Lifeways https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/03/27/aligning-beliefs-and-profession-using-r-in-protecting-the-penobscot-nations-traditional-lifewaysUsing Data to Protect Traditional Lifeways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjOSBHRm74Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media Eric 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 OCRemixHeart’s Lullaby - Final Fantasy V - RebeccaETripp, Gamer of the Winds, Rahul Vanamali, Teil Buck - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04572Tails and the Music Maker - Picolescence - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176

How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter) Update on mocking for testing R packages {rspell} Are you writing in a foreign language? The RStudio spelling dictionary setting is not sufficient to correct grammar errors. Try the {rspell} package to grammar-proof your notebooks and documentation straight on RStudio without copying-pasting. 3MW (Aligning content with flexboxes) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W13 Supplement Resources testthat 3.2.0 re-introduced mocking after it was removed in 2019. The PR with Hadley's commentary https://github.com/r-lib/testthat/pull/1739#issuecomment-1428027869 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback R-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: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Kannonball - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest - The Good Ice - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04571 The Art of Zoning Out - Pokemon Scarlet - timaeus222 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04570

An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Patterns and anti-patterns of data analysis reuse $%@! R help from $%@! AI Best Practice for R :: Cheat Sheet Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W12 Additional Links Jon Harmon's request for additional R4DS funding: https://fosstodon.org/@R4DSCommunity/112099679313058951 Linux Unplugged Episode 554: SCaLEing Nix https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/554/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback R-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: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Music credits powered by OCRemix A Crook Man's Eyes - Mega Man 5 - Nightswim - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03679 Plastik Skies - VROOM: Sega Racing - Palpable, Diodes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03726

A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Marketing Ideas For Your Package Spring clean your R packages webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR inside Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W11 Supplement Resources rOpenSci software review process: Aims and scope https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereview_policies.html#aims-and-scope Colin Fay's hexmake Shiny app https://github.com/ColinFay/hexmake No installation required: How WebAssembly is changing scientific computing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00725-1 tryr - Client/Server Error Handling for HTTP APIs https://github.com/analythium/tryr Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback R-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: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Music credits powered by OCRemix Vivid Orbis - Marble Madness - Gaspode - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04555 Black Genesis (Floating Continent) - Final Fantasy VI Balance & Ruin - Brandon Stradery, Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796

How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not? Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem {data.table} Community Survey: Results and insights Doom plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W10 Supplement Resources https://exercism.org/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback R-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: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Music credits powered by OCRemix Bonus Bop - Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business - Xenon Odyssey, The UArts "Z" Big Band - https://dkc2.ocremix.org/ Hangarmageddon - Doom Dark Side of the Phobos - EvilHorde - https://ocremix.org/album/4/doom-the-dark-side-of-phobos

Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) HelloWorld(“print”) ggplot2 3.5.0 Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W09 Supplement Resources lazygit - Simple terminal UI for git commands https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit Advanced R - Expressions https://adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.html Jenny Bryan's talk on code smells and feels https://github.com/jennybc/code-smells-and-feels Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback R-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: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Music credits powered by OCRemix Everybody Wants to Rule the Wisps - Sonic Colors - The Good Ice - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04368 You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064