R Weekly Highlights

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)

How to easily create interactive versions of your favorite ggplots with ggiraph, bringing AutoML to R with forester, and a head-to-head comparison of R and Excel for common data wrangling and summaries. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter) Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny) forester: what makes the package special? Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W09 Supplement Resources ggiraph online book https://www.ardata.fr/ggiraph-book {openxlsx2} read, write, and modify xlsx files https://janmarvin.github.io/openxlsx2 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 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 current state and future of {rtweet}, bringing the best of testing and CI/CD in a statistical package, and navigating through a Shiny maze (literally). Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) rtweet future Ensuring & Showcasing the Statistical Correctness of your R Package Shiny Monster Maze Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W08 Supplement Resources Lluis Revilla's call for a co-maintainer of {rtweet} https://github.com/ropensci/rtweet/issues/763 Denis Pushkarev's post on the current state of core-js: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md {mmrm} Mixed models for repeated measures in R: https://openpharma.github.io/mmrm/latest-tag/ Shiny Monster Maze blog post: https://www.bitfoam.com/post/2023-01-24-shiny-monster-maze/ 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 glimpse into the day-to-day of maintaining an R package, exploring gender effects in art history data with the power of resampling, and a huge win for accessible SVG plots with R-Markdown. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) What Does It Mean to Maintain a Package? Resampling to understand gender in #TidyTuesday art history data Manipulate SVG Plots with JavaScript in R Markdown Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W07 Supplement Resources Bootstrap resampling and tidy regression models https://www.tidymodels.org/learn/statistics/bootstrap/ Accessible Data Science Beyond Visual Models: Non-Visual Interactions with R and RStudio Packages (JooYoung Seo from rstudio::global(2021)) https://www.rstudio.com/resources/rstudioglobal-2021/accessible-data-science-beyond-visual-models-non-visual-interactions-with-r-and-rstudio-packages Eric's adventures with Shiny modules and SVG interactions https://community.rstudio.com/t/passing-module-namespace-to-embedded-javascript-function/26988 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)