R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz
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. 3 DAYS AGO

    Issue 2024-W51 Highlights

    An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for mathematics algorithms solvable in R, and solving the recent 2024 Advent of Code puzzles with data.table. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter) @colinfay.bsky.socialParallel and Asynchronous Programming in Shiny with future, promise, future_promise, and ExtendedTaskWriting Signed Trinary: or, Back To the Four Weights ProblemAdvent of Code with data.table: Week OneEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W51Supplement Resources Futureverse - A Unifying Parallelization Framework in R for Everyone https://www.futureverse.org/Non-blocking operations with ExtendedTask https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/improve/nonblocking/Asynchronous Shiny apps with crew and mirai https://wlandau.github.io/crew/articles/shiny.htmlBachet’s Four Weights Problem https://rworks.dev/posts/four-weights/Advent of Code 2024 https://adventofcode.com/Lime Bikes Summary Dashboard https://jokasan.github.io/Lime_Dash/Chapter image credits Advent of Code https://thenewstack.io/advent-of-codes-programming-puzzles-set-new-global-record/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), @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 J-Type - Tetris - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04401I Just Skipped Time Yesterday - Puyo Puyo - Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03941

    40 min
  2. DEC 11

    Issue 2024-W50 Highlights

    The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for possibly switching to the Positron IDE, and why there is more than meets the eyes when it comes to the potential of LLMs and AI (even in highly-regulated industries). Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @theRcast (X/Twitter)R-Universe Named R Consortium’s Newest Top Level ProjectPositron vs RStudio - is it time to switch?Summer is Coming: AI for Shiny, R, and PharmaEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W50Supplement Resources rOpenSci Blog Post https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/12/03/r-universe-r-consortium-tlp/Positron IDE - A new IDE for data science https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/positron/Fun with Positron https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/07/08/fun-with-positron/Open VSX Registry https://open-vsx.orgPower Mode Extension https://open-vsx.org/extension/hoovercj/vscode-power-modeJoe Cheng's slides from R/Pharma keybote https://jcheng5.github.io/pharma-ai-2024/#/title-slideR Consortium Submissions Pilot 2 Shiny Application https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot2Daniel Sebanes Bove & Joe Cheng - Discussion of R/Pharma Keynote https://youtu.be/AU1MmcXYnJ0?si=A3V9JHYdZLiz-lvvPractical Tips for Using Generative AI in Data Science Workflows https://youtu.be/rPeOdc8jTSE?si=APtIhpRqlh2I_Ek1Apple Music Wrapped in R https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/12/04/apple-music-wrapped-r/Predicting Best Picture at the 2025 Academy Awards https://www.markhw.com/blog/oscars2025Navidrome - Your Personal Streaming Service https://www.navidrome.org/Scrubbing your music with Maloja https://wenkdth.org/posts/maloja-scrobbling/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), @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 The Traveling Band's Last Song - Wild Arms: Armed and Dangerous - Artem Bank - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02588Secrets Abound - Final Fantasy - Midgarian Sky - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02452

    1h 1m
  3. DEC 4

    Issue 2024-W49 Highlights

    As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to the contributors of your open-source package. Plus a practical introduction to missing value interpolation with a tried-and-true R package with a rich history, and a comprehensive analysis to predict an NBA superstar's next shot result (who has made a lot of shots already in his career). Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Give Thanks with the allcontributors PackageHow to Interpolate Missing Values in R: A Step-by-Sthttps://github.com/ropensci/allcontributors/?tab=readme-ov-file#contributorsep Guide with ExamplesPredicting NBA Score Plays - Steph Curry ShotsEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W49Supplement Resources allcontributors - Acknowledge all contributors to a project https://docs.ropensci.org/allcontributors/Contributor section of {allcontributors} README https://github.com/ropensci/allcontributors/?tab=readme-ov-file#contributorszoo - S3 Infrastructure for Regular and Irregular Time Series https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/index.htmlmice - Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations https://amices.org/mice/naniar - Data structures, summaries, and visualization for missing data http://naniar.njtierney.com/hoopR - Data and tools for men's basketball https://hoopr.sportsdataverse.org/BasketballAnalyzeR - Analysis and Visualization of Basketball Data https://github.com/sndmrc/BasketballAnalyzeR/tree/masterOptimizing R/Shiny App Performance with Advanced Caching Techniques https://www.appsilon.com/post/r-shiny-caching-techniquesSupporting 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 Diddy Kong Luau Party - Diddy Kong Racing - Guifrog - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02794From Downtown - NBA Jam - ktriton, Mustin, Steve Lella - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02111

    44 min
  4. NOV 27

    Issue 2024-W48 Highlights

    What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for the first-ever native mobile Shiny application (and yes, it is real), how you can expand your network on Bluesky from the friendly confines of R, and the potential of the S7 object-oriented paradigm to streamline and validate function parameters. Plus late-breaking news on the integrations of Bluesky and Quarto! Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)You’ve Been Waiting for Native Mobile Apps with R? The Wait Is Over.Expand your Bluesky network with R and the atrrr packageS7 & Options objects - reimagining readr::read_csv()Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W48Supplement Resources Obtainium: Get Android apps straight from the source https://github.com/ImranR98/ObtainiumF-Droid: Free and open-source Android app repository https://f-droid.org/en/{atttr} Wrapper for the AT protocol behind Bluesky https://jbgruber.github.io/atrrr/Bluesky network analyzer https://bsky-follow-finder.theo.ioBluesky comments extension (James Blastula) https://quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/bluesky-comments/Bluesky comments for Quarto (Garrick Aiden-Buie) https://pkg.garrickadenbuie.com/quarto-bluesky-comments/Classes and objects (S7 documentation) https://rconsortium.github.io/S7/articles/classes-objects.html{roxy.shinylive} A roxygen2 extension for Shinylive https://insightsengineering.github.io/roxy.shinylive/main/Introducing WebR to TLG Catalog (Pawel's talk from R/Pharma 2024) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaoDUrUscZASpotify Wrapped: R and ggplot2 Edition https://rpubs.com/colebaril/spotify-wrappedNavidrome: Your personal music streaming service https://www.navidrome.org/Tailscale https://tailscale.com/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), @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 Cammy's London Drizzle - Super Street Fighter II - MkVaff - https://sf2.ocremix.org/Voodoo, Roots 'n Grog - Secret of Monkey Island - Diggi Dis feat. Alex Jones - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02180

    48 min
  5. NOV 21

    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
  6. 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
  7. 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

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