R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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R Weekly Highlights

The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.

  1. 31 MIN. AGO

    Issue 2024-W47 Highlights

    A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production conference, and visualizing ice thickness in Greenland with the power of the tidyverse and leaflet. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)R Dev Day @ SIP 2024Greenland ice thicknessEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W47Supplement Resources R Contribution Working Group https://contributor.r-project.org/working-groupR Translations Status Dashboard https://contributor.r-project.org/translations-dashboard/R Development Guide https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/Connect local Positron IDE to Gitpod via SSH? https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-env/issues/193#issuecomment-2383816303Supporting the show Use 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.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400

    28 min

  2. 6 DAYS AGO

    Issue 2024-W46 Highlights

    The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to generating markdown was vital to a high-profile Quarto site, a novel infograph of Bob's Burgers sentiment analysis, and updates to the next evolution of object-oriented programming in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @R_by_Ryo) (X/Twitter)Guide to generating and rendering computational markdown content programmatically with QuartoBob’s Burgers Episode Fingerprints by SeasonS7 0.2.0Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W46Supporting the show Use 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.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Mike Thomas: @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Cammy's London Drizzle - Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453Bar Hopping - Streets of Rage 2 - jaxx - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00437

    50 min

  3. NOV 6

    Issue 2024-W45 Highlights

    Eric's flying solo this week, but the show goes on! The eagerly-anticipated recordings of the 2024 Posit conference are now available and Eric shares a few of his favorite gems, plus the Quarto publishing system takes center stage with how GitHub actions brings automation to report generation, and a terrific batch of answers to the recent R/Pharma workshop on building parameterized Quarto reports in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2024)3MW (Automate Anything With R & GitHub Actions)Parameterized plots and reports with R and QuartoEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W45Supplement Resources Eric's recap of the Posit conference experience in episode 174 https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/r-weekly-highlights/174Eric's talk on web-assembly for shiny-based clinical submissions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC78WbnwnIsIntroducing Positron https://youtu.be/8uRcB34HhswWe CAN have nice Shiny apps: What's new in Shiny's UI & UX (Greg Swinehart) https://youtu.be/FPc5PJRWHskCloseread: Bringing Scrollytelling to Quarto (Andrew Bray) https://youtu.be/KqLxy66B3lQCloseread Posit Contest https://posit.co/blog/closeread-prize-announcement/Collection of Quarto GitHub Actions https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-actionsData Wrangling for Python or R Like a Boss With DuckDB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GELhdezYmP0Eric's advanced use of GitHub actions for the R Pilot Submissions web-assembly app infrastructure: https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot4-webRNicola Rennie's R/Pharma workshop materials for parameterized reports with R and Quarto https://nrennie.rbind.io/r-pharma-2024-parameterized-reports/The Ultimate Guide to Creating Lists in R: From Basics to Advanced Examples https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2024-10-29/Supporting the show Use 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.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric 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 Divinity - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03442Smoke & Marbles - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Emunator, ZackParrish, Lucas Guimaraes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04714

    43 min

  4. OCT 23

    Issue 2024-W43 Highlights

    Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.table stacks up to DuckDB and polars for reshaping your data layouts. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Exploring the tidyHeatmap R packageDon't Expect That "Function Works Correctly", Do This InsteadComparing data.table reshape to duckdb and polarsEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W43Supplement Resources tidyHeatmap: Draw heatmap simply using a tidy data frame https://stemangiola.github.io/tidyHeatmap/Novel App knock-in mouse model shows key features of amyloid pathology and reveals profound metabolic dysregulation of microglia https://molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13024-022-00547-7Shiny App-Packages chapter on writing tests and specifications https://mjfrigaard.github.io/shiny-app-pkgs/test_specs.htmlWANT CLEANER UNIT TESTS? TRY ARRANGE, ACT, ASSERT COMMENTS https://jakubsob.github.io/blog/want-cleaner-test-try-arrange-act-assert/Super Data Science Podcast 827: Polars: Past, Present and Future, with Polars Creator Ritchie Vink https://www.superdatascience.com/podcast/827duckplyr: A DuckDB-backed version for dplyr https://duckplyr.tidyverse.org/Supporting the show Use 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.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric 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 Black Feathers in the Sky - Kid Icarus: Uprising - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04200Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - PrototypeRaptor - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01846

    50 min

  5. OCT 16

    Issue 2024-W42 Highlights

    A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a clever use of AI to summarize a large collection of blog posts. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Nested unit tests with testthatshinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for RCreating post summary with AI from Hugging FaceEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W42Supplement Resources elmer: Call LLM APIs from R https://hadley.github.io/elmer/Joe Cheng's sidebot app (R edition) https://github.com/jcheng5/r-sidebotEDA Reimagined in R: GWalkR + DuckDB for Lightning-Fast Visualizations https://medium.com/@bruceyu0416/eda-reimagined-in-r-gwalkr-duckdb-for-lightning-fast-visualizations-05b011e8ae39Apache superset https://superset.apache.org/Postprocessing is coming to tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10/postprocessing-preview/Supporting the show Use 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.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric 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 Pachelbel's Ganon - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - djpretzel - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00753Voodoo, Roots 'n Grog - The Secret of Monkey Island - Alex Jones, Diggi Dis - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02180

    53 min

  6. OCT 2

    Issue 2024-W40 Highlights

    A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modification rabbit hole across multiple languages, and a sampling of sage advice from the Data Science Hangout. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Reproducible data science with Nix, part 13 -- {rix} is on CRAN!In-Place ModificationsData Career Insights: Lessons from four senior leaders in the data spaceEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W40Supplement Resources rix rOpenSci review: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625Determinate Systems Zero to Nix guide https://zero-to-nix.com/ vec - A new vector class with added functionality https://jonocarroll.github.io/vec/rray - Simple arrays https://rray.r-lib.org/Libby Heeren's podcast Data Humans https://libbyheeren.com/podcast.html or https://datahumans.libsyn.com/siteA Bayesian Plackett-Luce model in Stan applied to pinball championship data https://sumsar.net/blog/bayesian-plackett-luce-model-pinball-competition/ Cover and modify, some tips for R package development https://masalmon.eu/2024/09/24/cover-modify-r-packages/Supporting the show Use 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 OCRemix Torvus Clockwork - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - DarkeSword - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01507Home is Where You Belong - Final Fantasy IX - Reuben Spears, Earth Kid - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04135

    52 min

  7. SEP 25

    Issue 2024-W39 Highlights

    How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your guides, and a prime way of using R to brute-force the answer to a mathematical brain-teaser. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)patchwork 1.3.0{gguidance}: Extended guide options for 'ggplot2'Prime numbers as sums of three squares. by @ellis2013nzEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W39Supplement Resources gt 0.11.0 release notes https://gt.rstudio.com/news/index.html#gt-0110Being free from constraint https://www.data-imaginist.com/posts/2024-01-05-patchwork-1-2-0/#being-free-from-constraintgguidance: A guided tour vignette https://teunbrand.github.io/gguidance/articles/tour.htmlCreate a free Llama 3.1 405B-powered chatbot on an R package's GitHub repo in 1 min https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/create-a-free-llama-405b-llm-chatbot-github-repo-huggingfaceEase renv::restore() by updating your repository to Posit Public Package Manager https://www.pipinghotdata.com/posts/2024-09-16-ease-renvrestore-by-updating-your-repositories-to-p3mSupporting the show Use 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 OCRemix Smoke & Marbles - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Emunator, ZackParrish, Lucas Guimaraes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04714See Me Again - Valis III - tibonev - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04610

    43 min

  8. SEP 18

    Issue 2024-W38 Highlights

    Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say "surreal!" Plus a data-driven approach to investigate recent changes to the Australian census, and a cautionary reminder to check just where those numbers are coming from the next time you build a prediction model. Plus the quest to make R the official language for the Coder Radio program reaps a new reward! Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter){surreal} 0.0.1: Create Datasets with Hidden Images in Residual PlotsGender and sexuality in Australian surveys and censusPlease Version DataEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W38Supplement Resources Surfing the WSL Wave - Coder Radio episode 587 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/coder-radio/587/Brian (bhh32) on Nostrsurreal https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/surreal/Residual Plots and Data Sets (archived version) https://web.archive.org/web/20210927100125/https://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~stefanski/NSFSupported/HiddenImages/statresplots.htmlLabels for Technical Writing Projects https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/12/labels-writing-projects/Express to Impress: Leveraging IBCS Standards for Powerful Data Presentations https://medium.com/number-around-us/express-to-impress-leveraging-ibcs-standards-for-powerful-data-presentations-3c3a269f0ec0 Supporting the show Use 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 OCRemix Moonlight Vibin' - Mega Man X5 - DCT - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02053You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

    40 min
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The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.

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  • Creator
    Eric Nantz
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    187
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Eric Nantz
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    R Weekly Highlights

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