R Weekly Highlights Eric Nantz

Creating retro-gaming sprites rendered from the comforts of R? Yes we can! Plus an honest take on the utility of Github's Copilot Workspace in the context of package development, and taking the concept of code trees to another level with treesitter.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)Tile-style sprite delightSome thoughts after a trial run of GitHub's Copilot WorkspaceExtracting names of functions defined in a script with treesitterEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W30Supplement Resources
tree-sitter-r https://github.com/r-lib/tree-sitter-rShiny.telemetry 0.3.0 https://www.appsilon.com/post/shiny-telemetry-0-3-0-updateIntroduction to R with the Tidyverse https://introduction-r-tidyverse.netlify.app/session1_notesSupporting 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/OCR02053Forest Through the Trees - Shea's Violin - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04484

The world of web-assembly in R continues to move fast with key updates to the webrcli & spidyr packages, and what has us excited about the mapgl package for producing amazing spatial visualizations. 
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)webrcli & spidyr: What’s newCreate a Compare slider widgetEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W28Supplement Resources
mapgl package site https://walker-data.com/mapglMike's migrate package https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/migrate/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 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
Super Buck II - Super Mario Bros 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577

The latest updates to the rayverse bring new meaning to smoothing out the rough edges of your next 3-D visualization, the momentum of DuckDB continues with the MotherDuck data warehouse, and the role nanoparquet plays to bring the benefits of parquet to small data sets.


Episode Links
This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)Sculpting the Moon in R: Subdivision Surfaces and Displacement MappingJoining the flock from R: working with data on MotherDucknanoparquet 0.3.0Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W26Supporting 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 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
The Amazon Session - Ducktales - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00402Doomsday - Sonic & Knuckles - elzfernomusic - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02532

How the newly-released CRAN package deadline metadata inspired multiple learning journeys of the latest Shiny features with one of your podcast hosts joining the ride, a fresh coat of frontend paint to the amazing R-Universe, and the innovations R brings to forensic analyses of handwriting.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)Expose CRAN deadlines and DOIsA fresh new look for R-universe!{handwriter} 3.1.1: Handwriting Analysis in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W25Supplement Resources
Eric's pull request to fix the shinylive version of the CRAN deadlines app https://github.com/matt-dray/cran-deadlines/pull/3The handwriter package documentation site https://csafe-isu.github.io/handwriter/index.htmlScraping the R-Weekly Highlights podcast https://github.com/iamYannC/r-podcastSimulations for 2024 Euro Cup and Copa America https://lukebenz.com/post/intlsoccer2024/Forecasting the UEFA Euro 2024 with a machine learning ensemble https://www.zeileis.org/news/euro2024/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 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
Acrophobia - Earthworm Jim - about:blank - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01568Cross-Examination - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - PrototypeRaptor - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01846

A thoughtful perspective on why it's not an either/or situation with popular data processing paradigms in R, another case of being kind to future you with your Git commit messages, and satisfying the need for speed in the evolving geospatial space.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)Two Roads Diverged: Opinions on "dialects" in RWhy you need small, informative Git commitsMaking a Ridiculously Fast™ API ClientEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W24Supplement Resources
Welcome to the {data.table} ecosystem project! https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2023-10-15-introtogrant-toby_hocking/Pinball machines per capita https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pinball-machines-per-capita/New York R Conference Retrospective Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Ec4ZktjJQigraph 2.0 https://igraph.org/2024/05/21/rigraph-2.0.0.htmlSupporting 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 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
DevilSLAB - Final Fantasy VI - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00250Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400 

How vintage features in R could introduce chaos in your quest for a tibble & data.frame function, and the awesome potential of integrating custom parameters and conditional processing in your next Quarto workflow.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Make your functions compa-tibbleCreating R tutorial worksheets (with and without solutions) using QuartoEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W23Supplement Resources
Invariants: Comparing behavior with data frames https://tibble.tidyverse.org/articles/invariants.htmlgeoarrow: Extension types for geospatial data for use with 'Arrow' http://geoarrow.org/geoarrow-r/Customize your R startup message https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2024/rproject/About Podcasting Episode 10: Podcasting and Data Science with Eric Nantz https://www.aboutpodcasting.show/episodepage/podcasting-and-data-science-with-eric-nantz-from-the-r-weekly-highlights-podcastSupporting 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 media
 Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrook (X/Twitter) Chapter image credits
Illustrations from the Openscapes blog Tidy Data for reproducibility, efficiency, and collaboration by Julia Lowndes and Allison Horst https://www.openscapes.org/blog/2020/10/12/tidy-data/Introducing the Geoparquet data format https://getindata.com/blog/introducing-geoparquet-data-format/Music credits powered by OCRemix
Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - colorado weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553