R Weekly Highlights

How the {potools} package jump-starts your R package translations, the most-upvoted feature request lands in the RStudio IDE with GitHub Copilot integration, and a reflective post on the multiple paths to reproducible data science workflows in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) How to translate your package's messages with {potools} GitHub Copilot in Rstudio, it's finally here! An overview of what's out there for reproducibility with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W41 Supplement Resources potools - Tools for Portability and Internationalization of R packages https://michaelchirico.github.io/potools/ GitHub Copilot in RStudio, it’s finally here! https://colorado.posit.co/rsc/rstudio-copilot/ GitHub Copilot RStudio User Guide: https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide/guide/tools/copilot.html Rami Krispin's GitHub repo on devcontainers w/ R in VSCode: https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r R/Pharma virtual conference registration: https://hopin.com/events/r-pharma-2023/registration R/Pharma 2023 workshops (please register for conference before your register for a workshop): https://rinpharma.com/workshop/2023conference/ 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 Person, Place, or Groove? - Pictionary - The Orichalcon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01548 Forest Through the Trees - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - Shea's Violin - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04484

A new contender for speedy fuzzy joins of data frames enough to make Sonic jealous, a novel use of ggplot2 for creating a map that could have come from a vintage typewriter, and the immense progress of detecting R package system dependencies. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) {zoomerjoin} 0.1.0: Superlatively-fast fuzzy-joins in R. Creating typewriter-styled maps in ggplot2 System Dependencies in R Packages & Automatic Testing Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W40 Supplement Resources Locality-sensitive hashing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality-sensitive_hashing Value 4 Value podcast by Kyrin Down https://blubrry.com/1475054/ 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 Jazzer Soul - Soul Blade - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00194 Super Buck II - Super Mario Brothers 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577

Reflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Reflections on posit conf(2023) Snap Slides: a Lightweight HTML Presentation Framework Parallel raster processing in stars Reproducible data science with Nix, part 6 -- CI/CD has never been easier Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W39 Supplement Resources Shiny in Production Tools & Techniques https://posit-conf-2023.github.io/shiny-r-prod/ Jill McKay's posit conf presentation https://jillymackay.github.io/positconf2023_vetdata/positconf2023.html#/title-slide Scroll snap technique https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Scroll_Snap/Basic_concepts Data science at the command line https://datascienceatthecommandline.com/ Spatial data science with applications in R https://r-spatial.org/book/ geoparquet https://geoparquet.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 Azure Your Cause (The Color of the Summer Sky) - Secret of Mana Resonance of the Pure Land - Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03650 Secrets Abound (Matoya's Cave) - FInal Fantast Random Encounter - Midgarian Sky - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02452 Thunder Beam (Elec Man Stage) - Mega Man Series The Robot Museum - Joshua Morse - https://museum.ocremix.org/

Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W37 Supplement Resources WebR binary R package repository - https://repo.r-wasm.org/ How do I preload the R packages in a node app - https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/issues/260 Minutes from 2023-08-18 Pilot 4 R-Consortium R-Submissions working group meeting (sending a Shiny application built with containers and webR to FDA) - https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-pilot4/minutes/2023-08-18/ ggannotate - Interactively annotate your ggplots https://github.com/MattCowgill/ggannotate UFO sightings around the world - https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25 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 Kraid’s Campfire Ballad - Harmony of a Hunter - Sebastian Mårtensson feat. Kristin Björkebäck - https://harmony.shinesparkers.net/album/harmony-of-a-hunter Cool Burn - Mega Man 9 Back in Blue - DarkeSword - https://backinblue.ocremix.org/music.php

A batch of R functions to level-up your development tasks, revisting a classic R inferno on object allocation, and a call for proposals to take R's infrastructure to new heights. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter) Three (four?) R functions I enjoyed this week Pre-allocating vectors is for nerds Grants For R Language Infrastructure Projects Available Now! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W36 Supplement Resources June Choe's comment on Mike Mahoney's post https://fosstodon.org/@yjunechoe/110975018204561319 10 years of rio Shiny for R updates: tooltips, popovers, a new theme, and more 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 Escape Route - Cave Story - Corran - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01513 A Flea and His Giant - Maverick Rising - Chuck Dietz - https://maverick.ocremix.org

The podcast discusses the release of S7, a new object-oriented programming system in R. It also delves into automation, home monitoring, and API usage, including setting up climate monitoring and using collaborative editing platforms. There are updates on the R sample package and information on the R open side project's champions program. The hosts also talk about workshop preparations and an upcoming event.

Key practices for data preprocessing in R, amazing wins with open source processing USDA geospatial data, recursion and infinite data structures in R, and new developments in web apps with R.

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next! Wrapping C Code in an R Package How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W33 Supplement Resources R Packages Chapter on Data: https://r-pkgs.org/data.html 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)

How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by-Step Guide Cookbook Polars for R Cookbook to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in using Polars with R. A side-by-side comparison of polars, R base, dplyr, tidyr and data.table packages. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W32 Supplement Resources Tube Archivist - Your self-hosted YouTube media server https://www.tubearchivist.com webR code extension for HTML Quarto documents https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr Into the webR-verse (Bob Rudis presentation at the 2023 New York R Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY tidypolars - Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the Tidyverse https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com 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)

Reducing usage of for loops with the reduce function from purrr, filling spatial maps with density gradients to account for overplotting, and a fun way to add attribution to your fancy ggplots. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) Reducing my for loop usage with purrr::reduce() How to fill maps with density gradients with R, {ggplot2}, and {sf} Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W31 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 / X / whatever it is called) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)