R Weekly Highlights

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. Episode Links @parmsam@fosstodon.org@parmsam_The Aesthetics Wiki - an R AddendumR Dplyr vs. DuckDB - How to Enhance Your Data Processing Pipelines with R DuckDBTLG Catalog 🤝 WebRrweekly.org/2024-W20Supplement Resources https://podverse.fm/clip/dYmaWGIOchttps://duckdb.org/2021/12/03/duck-arrow.htmlhttps://github.com/coatless-quarto/quarto-webr-pyodide-demohttps://hosting.analythium.io/what-is-new-in-shinyproxy-3-1-0/Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info @rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437https://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. Episode Links @colinfay@fosstodon.orgColinFay]](https://twitter.com/ColinFay)Everything you never wanted to know about the R vulnerabilityCalculating birthday probabilities with R instead of mathHighlights from ShinyConf 2024rweekly.org/2024-W19Supplement Resources https://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/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/https://github.com/hrbrmstr/rdaradarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGvXEi4nG5khttps://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/05/bogus-cve-follow-ups/https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2021-11-15_serialisation-with-rds/https://connect.appsilon.com/tapyr-docs/https://rpodcast.github.io/pod-db-dash/https://podcastindex.org/podcast/920666Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info @rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04437https://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 @rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcastWhat's new in R 4.4.0?It's time to add bslib to your shinyapp snippetTailoring Shiny for Modern Usersrweekly.org/2024-W18Supplement Resources https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/NEWS.htmlhttps://hiddenlayer.com/research/r-bitrary-code-execution/https://astho.shinyapps.io/profile/https://github.com/cheuerde/plotclihttps://www.r-project.org/doc/obit/fritz.htmlSupporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info @rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00993https://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. Episode Links @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org@carroll_jonoInteractive volcano plots with the ggiraph R packageModular R code for analytical projects with {box}Kicking tyresrweekly.org/2024-W17Supplement Resources https://biostatsquid.com/volcano-plot/https://git.sr.ht/~tim-taylor/duckplyr-benchmarkshttps://duckdb.org/docs/guides/networkcloudstorage/duckdboverhttpsors3Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info @rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01176https://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. Episode Links @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com @TonyElHabrChat with AI in RStudioTest warnings fasterR-hub v2rweekly.org/2024-W16Supplement Resources https://youtu.be/-Fjb8LZmTSIhttps://www.shinyconf.com/Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info @rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mikethomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) and @mikeketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02268https://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. Episode Links @jonmcalderReproducible 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 animationsrweekly.org/2024-W15Supplement Resources https://raw.githack.com/b-rodrigues/nixpkgs-r-updates-fails/targets-runs/output/r-updates-fails.htmlhttps://www.cachix.org/https://www.r-consortium.org/events/2024/04/05/r-medicine-coming-june-10-14-2024https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/04/tidymodels-survival-analysis/Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org@mike_ketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01811https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01257

Taking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payments, and the tried-and-true method of simulation in action to investigate time-to-event inference statistics. Episode Links @R_by_Ryo@R_by_Ryo@mstdn.socialI Made R Text For MeStop Jenny committing arsonThe log-rank Test Assumes More Than the Cox Modelrweekly.org/2024-W14Supplement Resources https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/556/https://www.pushbullet.com/https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rpushbullethttps://github.com/ketchbrookanalytics/quarto-pdf-devhttps://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/03/27/aligning-beliefs-and-profession-using-r-in-protecting-the-penobscot-nations-traditional-lifewayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjOSBHRm74Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org@mike_ketchbrookMusic credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04572https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176

How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox. Episode Links @batool664Update on mocking for testing R packages{rspell}3MW (Aligning content with flexboxes)rweekly.org/2024-W13 Supplement Resources https://github.com/r-lib/testthat/pull/1739#issuecomment-1428027869 Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@theRcast@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org@mike_ketchbrook Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04571https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04570

An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of garbage online references pretending to be authentic material, and a new (human-created) cheat sheet with terrific best practices taking front and center. Episode Links @parmsam_@parmsam@fosstodon.orgPatterns and anti-patterns of data analysis reuse$%@! R help from $%@! AIBest Practice for R :: Cheat Sheetrweekly.org/2024-W12 Additional Links https://fosstodon.org/@R4DSCommunity/112099679313058951https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/554/ Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03679https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03726

A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR. Episode Links https://twitter.com/_ColinFayMarketing Ideas For Your PackageSpring clean your R packageswebrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR insiderweekly.org/2024-W11 Supplement Resources https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereview_policies.html#aims-and-scopehttps://github.com/ColinFay/hexmakehttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00725-1https://github.com/analythium/tryr Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04555https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796

How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not? Episode Links @theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.socialI Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem{data.table} Community Survey: Results and insightsDoom plotsrweekly.org/2024-W10 Supplement Resources https://exercism.org/ Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://dkc2.ocremix.org/https://ocremix.org/album/4/doom-the-dark-side-of-phobos

Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it. Episode Links @carroll_jono@jonocarroll@fosstodon.orgHelloWorld(“print”)ggplot2 3.5.0Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!rweekly.org/2024-W09 Supplement Resources https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygithttps://adv-r.hadley.nz/expressions.htmlhttps://github.com/jennybc/code-smells-and-feels Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04368https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01064

Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issues in package development, and how you can ensure bragging rights during your next play of Guess My Name using decision trees. Episode Links @TonyElHabr@tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com My Year of Riding DanishlyTame your namespace with a dash of suggestsGuess My Name with Decision Treesrweekly.org/2024-W08 Supplement Resources https://thinkr-open.github.io/fusen/https://r-pkgs.org/https://usethis.r-lib.org/ Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04560https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04542

A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon. Episode Links @jonmcalderPlease Shut Up! Verbosity Control in PackagesR Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals starting March 1st!Optimize your images with R and reSmush.itrweekly.org/2024-W07 Supplement Resources https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/https://daroczig.github.io/logger/ Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04558https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links @R_by_Ryo@R_by_Ryo@mstdn.socialTeaching you - teaching meThings that can go wrong when using renvParquet vs the RDS Formatrweekly.org/2024-W06 Supplement Resources https://drmowinckels.io/quartaki/https://www.capro.dev/workshop_rproj/https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrowhttps://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-30-new_governance_new_release-toby_hocking/https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2024-02-02-nix_for_r_part_9/https://www.shinyconf.com/call-for-speakers Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04485

The R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions. Episode Links @batool664Notes from live code review of {soils}Load different R package versions at once with git worktreerweekly.org/2024-W05 Supplement Resources https://youtu.be/G3Cytlicv8Yhttps://youtu.be/BoiW9UWDLY0 Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03720

How the babeldown package enables low-friction updates to living documents, uncovering innovative functions all within the base R installation, and supercharging a static Quarto dashboard with interactive tables and visualizations. Episode Links @parmsam_@parmsam@fosstodon.orgHow to Update a Translation with BabeldownSix not-so-basic base R functions3MW (Making dashboard interactive)rweekly.org/2024-W04 Supplement Resources https://docs.ropensci.org/babeldown/https://www.deepl.com/en/docs-apihttps://github.com/AlbertRapp/quarto_dashboard/tree/master Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org Music credits powered by OCRemix https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03256https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00352

A tour of how the httr2 package streamlines API processing in R, five must-have ggplot2 extension packages for your next visualization, and the Appsilon Shiny Conf 2024 is shaping up to be the biggest yet for all things Shiny. Episode Links https://twitter.com/_ColinFayHow to work with APIs using the httr2 packageFive Powerful ExtensionsCall for Speakers: ShinyConf 2024 by Appsilonrweekly.org/2024-W03 Supplement Resources https://github.com/rpodcast/podindexrhttps://www.melissavanbussel.com/https://www.youtube.com/c/ggnot2https://wapir.io/https://github.com/jonthegeek/beekeeperhttps://wilkelab.org/ggtext/https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/ggpattern/https://ggforce.data-imaginist.com/https://github.com/davidsjoberg/ggbumphttps://www.shinyconf.com/https://www.rostrum.blog/posts/2024-01-12-yihui-rap/ Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org

We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community. Episode Links @theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.socialFour ways to streamline your R workflowsThe case for a pipe assignment operator in RBye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these "*down" packages for these years, here I am to announce "Yihui-down"rweekly.org/2024-W02 Supplement Resources https://rweekly.github.io/rweekly-calendar/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dQ36sx4Rkhttps://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r-templatehttps://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/111664623134443564 Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org

A data-driven investigation to the association of early birthdays and hockey players, one of the most-requested feature requests is coming to the next version of Quarto, and just why in the world does the View() function start with V? Episode Links @jonmcalderAre Birth Dates Still Destiny for Canadian NHL Players?Quarto DashboardsWhy is View() capitalized, anyway?rweekly.org/2023-W50 Supplement Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HCAScFqr10https://grrrck.quarto.pub/mynorfolk-dash Supporting the show https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contactR-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.orgAlbyhttps://value4value.info@theRcast@rpodcast@podcastindex.social@mike_ketchbrook@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org