R Weekly Highlights Eric Nantz

An aesthetically-pleasing journey through the history of R, another demonstration of DuckDB's power with analytics, and how webR with shinylive brings new learning life to the Pharmaverse TLG gallery.

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This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)The Aesthetics Wiki - an R AddendumR Dplyr vs. DuckDB - How to Enhance Your Data Processing Pipelines with R DuckDBTLG Catalog 🤝 WebREntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W20Supplement Resources
Eric joins Adam Curry & Dave Jones on Podcasting 2.0 Episode 179! https://podverse.fm/clip/dYmaWGIOcDuckDB quacks Arrow: A zero-copy data integration between Apache Arrow and DuckDB https://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.htmlDemo repository for creating a Quarto workflow with {quarto-webr} and {quarto-pyodide} https://github.com/coatless-quarto/quarto-webr-pyodide-demoWhat's new in ShinyProxy 3.1.0 https://hosting.analythium.io/what-is-new-in-shinyproxy-3-1-0/Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media
 Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix
Green Glade Groove - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - TSori, dpMusicman, etc - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437Gerudo Desert Party - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Reuben6 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03720

Our take on the important conversations spurred by the recent R deserialization CVE, how simulations may save you from cracking open that probability textbook, and recapping the exciting 2024 Shiny Conference.
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This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org & [@ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay) (X/Twitter)Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerability, but shouldn't be afraid to askCalculating birthday probabilities with R instead of mathHighlights from ShinyConf 2024Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W19Supplement Resources
R-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/CVE-2024-27322 Should Never Have Been Assigned And R Data Files Are Still Super Risky Even In R 4.4.0 https://rud.is/b/2024/05/03/cve-2024-27322-should-never-have-been-assigned-and-r-data-files-are-still-super-risky-even-in-r-4-4-0/Safety Radar for RDA Files https://github.com/hrbrmstr/rdaradarR's new exploit: how it works & other ways you're vulnerable (Josiah Parry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvXEi4nG5kBogus CVE follow-ups https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/05/bogus-cve-follow-ups/Data serialisation in R https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-11-15_serialisation-with-rds/Tapyr https://connect.appsilon.com/tapyr-docs/Podcast Index Database Dashboard (built with R and Quarto) https://rpodcast.github.io/pod-db-dash/Eric will be a guest on the Podcasting 2.0 show this Friday! (10-May-2024 1:30 PM EDT) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666 Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media
 Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix
Green Glade Groove - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest - TSori, dpMusicman, etc - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

Why R 4.4.0 may reduce your trips to a certain kind of stack overflow, a call to update your favorite Shiny application code snippets, and how the steller ASTHOS Profile Shiny dashboard has your hosts blown away and fighting the urge to refactor their applications UIs!
Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)What's new in R 4.4.0?It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippetTailoring Shiny for Modern UsersEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W18Supplement Resources
Full R 4.4.0 changelog https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.htmlR-bitrary Code Execution: Vulnerability in R’s Deserialization https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/ASTHO Profile dashboard https://astho.shinyapps.io/profile/{plotcli} command-line plots for R https://github.com/cheuerde/plotcli Fritz Leisch (1968-2024) https://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/fritz.htmlSupporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media
 Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix
Trippin' on the Bridge - Streets of Rage - lazygecko - http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00993You Are Not Confined - Final Fantasy IX - Sonicade - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

Bringing interactivity to a staple graphical display in the genomics space, how one team is taking the box approach to sharing and developing modular R code, and a set of intriguing benchmarks with the newly-releaed duckplyr that have your hosts thinking of many possibilities.
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This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Interactive volcano plots with the ggiraph R packageModular R code for analytical projects with {box}Kicking tyresEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W17Supplement Resources
How to interpret a volcano plot https://biostatsquid.com/volcano-plot/Source code behind Tim's {duckplyr} and {data.table} benchmarks https://git.sr.ht/~tim-taylor/duckplyr-benchmarksAttach to a DuckDB Database over HTTPS or S3 https://duckdb.org/docs/guides/networkcloudstorage/duckdboverhttpsors3Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media
 Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix
Snow Cone Heaven - Ice Climber - Mazedude - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01176Cleaning Out Axis - Batman (NES) - Midee - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03008

Another way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a major milestone for the R-Hub project.
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This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Chat with AI in RStudioTest warnings fasterR-hub v2Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W16Supplement Resources
R/Pharma 2023 presentation by Edgar Ruiz (GitHub Copilot in RStudio) - https://youtu.be/-Fjb8LZmTSIThe 2024 Appsilon Shiny Conference is just days away! https://www.shinyconf.com/Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media
 Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix
Memories of a Master - Street Fighter II: The World Warrior - Captain Hogan - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02268Higgins Goes to Miami - Adventure Island - virt - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00461

The Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fundamental dplyr grouping operations to life.
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This week’s curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (X/Twitter)Reproducible data science with Nix, part 11 – build and cache binaries with Github Actions and CachixwebR 0.3.1Visualizing {dplyr}’s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() with animations: Visually explore how {dplyr}’s more complex core functions work together to wrangle dataEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W15Supplement Resources
Bruno’s unit test involving {tidyselect} https://raw.githack.com/b-rodrigues/nixpkgs-r-updates-fails/targets-runs/output/r-updates-fails.htmlCachix https://www.cachix.org/R/Medicine Call for Abstracts Open https://www.r-consortium.org/events/2024/04/05/r-medicine-coming-june-10-14-2024Survival analysis for time-to-event data with tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/04/tidymodels-survival-analysis/Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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 media Eric 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
Sun Ra - Ragnarok Online - Anthony Lofton, Joshua Morse - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01811Chopinesque Kirby - Kirby’s Dream Land - Bladiator - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01257