R Weekly Highlights

A must-have resource to get you primed for testing R packages interfacing with the web, how ggblend taps into new compositing functionality for clearer plots, and how R stacks up with Excel in handling dates. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter) Better Understanding Your Tools Choices with Online Book HTTP Testing in R ggblend: Blending and compositing algebra for ggplot2 Why should I use R: Handling Dates in R and Excel: Part 3 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W21 Supplement Resources HTTP Testing with R: https://books.ropensci.org/http-testing/index.html Updating Graphics Devices for R 4.2.0: https://blog.r-project.org/2021/12/14/updating-graphics-devices-for-r-4.2.0/ ggdist Visualizations of distribution and uncertainty: https://mjskay.github.io/ggdist/ Learning Bayesian Statistics Episode 66 - Uncertainty Visualization & Usable Stats, with Matthew Kay https://learnbayesstats.com/episode/66-uncertainty-visualization-usable-stats-matthew-kay 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)

Introducing the new ggflowchart package, how a dockerized development environment is another win for reproducibility, and our take on Colin Fay's keynote from the Appsilon Shiny Conference. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Introducing {ggflowchart} Why you should consider working on a dockerized development environment Colin Fay, Keynote: Production is like ultra running: brutal, ungrateful, but worth every step Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W20 Supplement Resources Episode 82 (the origins of ggflowchart) https://rweekly.fireside.fm/82 Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R https://raps-with-r.dev The Rocker Project https://rocker-project.org Shiny Dev Series Livestream: Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wRiPG9LM3o Development Container Features https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2022/09/15/dev-container-features r2u: CRAN as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/ A preview of Eric and Mike's Production Shiny Workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlRwhDYI5Ec Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

Why effective code reviews can bring many benefits to data science teams, the origin story of the sketch package to transpile R code to JavaScript, and a primer on error handling in both R and Python. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @_ColinFay (Twitter) Pull Requests, Code Review, and The Art of Requesting Changes Sketch Package looks to add JavaScript to R packages Error Handling in R and Python Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W18 Supplement Resources What they forgot to teach you about R https://rstats.wtf Sketch - Interactive sketches in R https://github.com/kcf-jackson/sketch {purrr} safely https://purrr.tidyverse.org/reference/safely.html quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

A few strict checks offered in R 4.3.0, measuring and writing performant code in the Tidyverse, and a please for indenting your code with (more) spaces. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) What's new in R 4.3.0? Writing performant code with tidy tools On Indentation in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W17 Supplement Resources Changes in R 4.3.0: https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html A Question A Day Twitter account https://twitter.com/data_question Advanced R- Measure Performance https://adv-r.hadley.nz/perf-measure.html Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Find R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcast Index https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1062040 Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost directly! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

Using development containers to bootstrap a reproducible R and Quarto environment, a comprehensive approach to extending the data frame class, and plotting your own universe of labels with ggsolar. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) Dev containers with R and Quarto Extending Data Frames Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W16 Supplement Resources R in Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/r Remote Development Extension Pack https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack Podman - Configure VS Code for Containers https://blog.while-true-do.io/podman-configure-vscode-for-containers/ From disconnected elements to a harmonious ecosystem: The Epiverse-TRACE project https://epiverse-trace.github.io/slides/harmonious-ecosystem/ ExtendDataFrames https://github.com/joshwlambert/ExtendDataFrames Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

A data-driven look at package loading annotations in R scripts, a fit-for-purpose package that makes a large contribution to the global R ecosystem, and a collection of amazing showcases of webR in action that is paving the way for continued innovation. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) What are people commenting about their loaded packages? Introducing rtlr - an R Package for RTL Languages hrbrmstr's WebR Experiments Index Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W15 Supplement Resources annotater: Annotate Package Load Calls https://github.com/luisDVA/annotater cld3: R wrapper to Google's Compact Language Detector 3 https://docs.ropensci.org/cld3/ shiny.i18n: Shiny applications internationalization made easy https://appsilon.github.io/shiny.i18n/ JavaScript for R https://book.javascript-for-r.com/ Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny https://unleash-shiny.rinterface.com/ JavaScript for Data Science https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Data-Science-Chapman-Hall-ebook/dp/B084H2JXSY A Way Better Structured WebR Demo App https://rud.is/b/2023/03/12/almost-bare-bones-webr-starter-app/ An example of using WebR with Lit components https://rud.is/w/lit-webr/ WebR & Pyodide: Another WebR Experiment https://rud.is/w/webr-pyodide/ An R template/tag function for WebR https://rud.is/w/r-template-tag-function/ Monaco-powered WebR "REPL" https://rud.is/w/repl https://observablehq.com/@hrbrmstr/fiddling-with-r-universe-webr Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

Ten unique ways to create your own Web APIs in R, and how you can import local and remote data files in CSV and (yes) Excel formats with a selection of innovative R packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Hello world examples with 10 different R web API frameworks Reading Remote Data Files Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W14 Supplement Resources Seeking community endorsement for an upgrade to 'Big Book of R' Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

A new perspective on the value of base R functions, enhancing the capabilities of gpttools with vector databases, and three ways you can add alt text to your R-based visualizations. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) Some love for Base R. Part 1 Teaching ChatGPT What It Doesn’t Know Alt Text in R: Plots, Reports, and Shiny Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W13 Supplement Resources A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases https://frankzliu.com/blog/a-gentle-introduction-to-vector-databases Text Mining with R - A Tidy Approach https://www.tidytextmining.com Writing Meaningful Alt Texts for Data Visualizations in R (Liz Hare) R Ladies NYC https://lizharedogs.github.io/RLadiesNYAltText {ggdatasaver} Automatically save data associated with a ggplot2 plot https://eliocamp.github.io/ggdatasaver Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

The future of running R in your web browser is here with webR 0.1, a demonstration of integrating Quarto and webR with immense potential in the space of reproducible analysis, and two fundamental techniques from the world of software development tailored to non-programmers. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam_ (Twitter) & @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) webR 0.1.0 has been released webR with Quarto HTML Standalone Document Proof of Concept Software engineering techniques that non-programmers who write a lot of code can benefit from — the DRY WIT approach Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W11 Supplement Resources Almost Bare Bones WebR Starter App: https://rud.is/b/2023/03/12/almost-bare-bones-webr-starter-app/ webR Dashboard: https://rud.is/webr-dash/no-dplyr.html webR Quarto demos: https://github.com/coatless-r-n-d/webR-quarto-demos Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)

A episode full of discovery in this week's edition of R-Weekly Highlights! How you can parse your own R code with parse and getParseData, a closer look at the search capabilities in R-Universe, and a look back at the key milestones in the history of the R language. Episode Links This week's curators: Kellly Bodwin - @KellyBodwin (Twitter) and Emily Robinson - @robinson_es (Twitter) "I can't be parsed, mate!" Parsing in R Search for packages in r-universe Happy 23rd birthday, R! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W10 Supplement Resources Advanced R chapter 17 (Metaprogramming the big picture): https://adv-r.hadley.nz/meta-big-picture.html Algorithm behind package rank calculation in R-Universe: https://github.com/r-universe-org/help#how-is-the-package-rank-score-calculated Jeroen's RStudio Global 2021 presentation (Monitoring Health and Impact of Open-source Projects) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoe7xuIJ1U Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R https://raps-with-r.dev 3 Years In: Reflections on Starting, Surviving, and Scaling a Data Science Consultancy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-years-reflections-starting-surviving-scaling-data-science-thomas Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact to send us your feedback Get a New Podcast App and send us a boost! https://podcastindex.org/apps?elements=Boostagrams%2CValue Support creators with boostagrams using Podverse and Alby: https://blog.podverse.fm/support-creators-with-boostagrams-and-streaming-sats-using-podverse-and-alby/ 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)