Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ( @TonyElHabr ) Shiny 1.6: Theming, Caching, Accessibility Remote Pair Programming in R Using Visual Studio Code and Live Share Lists are my secret weapon for reporting stats with knitr Supplemental Resources Custom theming in Shiny & R Markdown with {bslib} & {thematic} (rstudio::global 2021) Making Shiny apps faster with caching (rstudio::global 2021)...
Feb 09, 2021•11 min
rstudio::global 2021 and UseR! 2021 call for abstracts Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) rstudio::global 2021 talks rstudio::global(2021) %>% summarise() 15th Mar: useR2021 Call for Abstracts Supplemental Resources Lifelong Learning with R Weekly (rstudio::global 2021) Your Public Garden - rstudio::global(2021) Keynote by Vicki Boykis...
Feb 02, 2021•14 min
{blogdown} v1.0, announcing {pagedreport}, and the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) Announcing blogdown v1.0 Announcing pagedreport Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide Supplemental Resources Up & running with blogdown in 2021 Yihui's perspective on early development of {blogdown} from episode 24 of The R-Podcast The new and improved R-Podcast site {pagedown}: Creating beautiful PDFs with R Markdown and CSS (r...
Jan 26, 2021•10 min
Data Science as an atomic habit, Japan soccer league season review, Fantasy football scheduling, and UseR! 2021 call for tutorials Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Data science as an atomic habit J.League Soccer 2020 Season Review with R! Fantasy Football and the Classical Scheduling Problem UseR! 2021: Call for Tutorials Supplemental Resources Book Review: Atomic Habits ffsched - R package for simulating schedules and standings for fantasy football UseR! 2020 Tutorials Playlist L...
Jan 18, 2021•10 min
Plots with GitHub Actions, and major updates to {renv} and {fastai} Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almazrouq Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions {renv} 0.12.5 : Project Environments {fastai} 2.0.2 : Interface to fastai Supplemental Resources GitHub Actions: built by you, run by us R-Podcast Episode 32: RStudio's Big Move and Kevin Ushey Fully containerized R dev environment with Docker, RStudio, and VS-Code What does it mean to freeze or unfreeze a model?...
Jan 11, 2021•8 min
Data Science course in a box, up and running with blogdown, and voting visualization in Switzerland Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Data Science Course in a Box - The core content of the course focuses on data acquisition and wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, inference, modelling, and effective communication of results. Up & running with blogdown in 2021 A version of the famous visualization - Land doesn't vote, people do Supplemental Resources A Fresh...
Jan 05, 2021•10 min
R Markdown family updates & table contest results Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram King Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest Latest News from the R Markdown Family Supplemental Resources Editable DataTables in R Shiny using SQL...
Dec 28, 2020•6 min
Targetopia, extracting JSON data, and ggrepel update Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) The targetopia: An R package ecosystem for democratized reproducible pipelines at scale Extracting JSON data from websites and public APIs with R {ggrepel} : Automatically Position Non-Overlapping Text Labels with ggplot2. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-51 Supplement resources {targets} statement of need {stantargets} {ggrepel} 0.9.0 changelog...
Dec 21, 2020•8 min
Underrated tidyverse functions, bullet chart variants, and AWS Lambda with R Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz ( @theRcast ) Underrated Tidyverse Functions Bullet Chart Variants in R R on AWS Lambda with containers Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-50...
Dec 14, 2020•8 min
Extended ggplot2 tutorial, static code analysis, and a customized visual CV with ggplot2 Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll ( @carroll_jono ) An extended version of "A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting" A brief introduction to the basics of R's static code analysis Creation of a custom visual CV by ggplot hacking Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-49...
Dec 07, 2020•8 min
About this episode Your first R package, magrittr 2.0, and Engineering Shiny use case Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon ( @ma_salmon ) Your first R package in 1 hour magrittr 2.0 is here! Use case from "Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps" - Building an App, from Start to Finish Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-48 Supplement Resources Recording of Shannon's workshop on YouTube: youtu.be/xcXzaEmZ-m4...
Dec 01, 2020•8 min
About this episode Testthat utility belt, NHS-R conference, and application of Bayesian networks to sports injury prediction Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder ( @jonmcalder ) NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference -- so much great content, so little time to catch it all... Helper code and files for your testthat tests Bayesian networks and sports injuries with {bnlearn} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-47 Supplement Resources https://nhsrcommunity.com/blog/nhs-meets-r/...
Nov 24, 2020•8 min
About this episode Open-access tools to find conronaviruses, developing inside containers, and error handling Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye ( @_colinFay ) Using Open-Access Tools (rentrez, taxize) to Find Coronaviruses, Their Genetic Sequences, and Their Hosts How to develop inside a Docker container to ease collaboration? YAPOEH! (Yet another post on error handling) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-46...
Nov 16, 2020•7 min
About this episode Single source publishing, rainbow parentheses, and VisiumExperiment Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman ( @robwhickman ) Single-source publishing for R users RStudio 1.4 Preview: Rainbow Parentheses Using VisiumExperiment at spatialLIBD package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-45 Supplement Links https://github.com/maelle/bspagedjs https://bookdown.org/...
Nov 10, 2020•7 min
About this episode {emphatic} highlighting, analyzing open political data, and helping data-science learners Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ( @TonyElHabr ) {emphatic} : Augments the output of data.frames and matrices in R by adding user-defined ANSI highlighting. A guide to accessing & analyzing open source American political data using R Let’s stop doubly-screwing data science learners Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-44 Supplement Links {pillar} format columns wit...
Nov 02, 2020•6 min
About this episode Rolling averages with {slider}, personal art map, and flood mapping Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain ( @MilesMcBain ) Rolling Averages with {slider} and Covid Data Personal Art Map with R Flood mapping and rapid impact assessment in Niamey Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-43 Supplement Links Melt the Clock: Tidy time series analysis by Earo Wang {slider} - Sliding Window Functions https://inequality.media.mit.edu/ {sen2r} - Find, download, and process ...
Oct 26, 2020•6 min
About this episode Climate animation, decomposition and smoothing with R and python, and a Raspberry Pi dashboard Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara ( @R_by_Ryo ) Climate animation of maximum temperatures Decomposition and Smoothing with data.table, reticulate, and spatstat Raspberry Pi E-Paper Dashboard with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-42...
Oct 19, 2020•7 min
About this episode Topics in package development, contributing to ROpenSci, and shining a light on learnr Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz ( @theRcast ) Picking and researching blog topics about R package development Hacktober? Any Month is a Good Month to Contribute to rOpenSci Shiny Developer Series Episode 14 - Shining a Light on {learnr} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-41 Supplement Links R Packages 2nd Edition R-package-devel mailing list Writing R Extensions rOpenSc...
Oct 12, 2020•8 min
About this episode Visual markdown editing, stat layers in ggplot2, and learnr tutorials in a package Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll ( @carroll_jono ) RStudio v1.4 Preview: Visual Markdown Editing How to deliver learnr tutorials in a package Demystifying stat_ layers in {ggplot2} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-40 Supplement Links Visual R Markdown documentation Introducing learnr Shiny Developer Series Episode 14 - Shining a Light on learnr Distill for R Markdown...
Oct 05, 2020•7 min
About this episode A calendar right in your R console, accessibility tooling for Shiny, and shinydashboardPlus v2.0 Episode Links This week's curator: Maelle Salmon ( @ma_salmon ) A Calendar in Your R Console accessibility (a11y) tooling for shiny {shinydashboardPlus 2.0.0}: extensions for shinydashboard Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-39...
Sep 28, 2020•6 min
About this episode Making learning to code friendlier with art, ggforce functions, and debugging in VSCode Episode Links It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's a ggforce function Making Learning to Code Friendlier with Art — An Interview with Dr. Allison Horst Introduction to debugging R in VSCode Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-38 This week's curator: Jon Calder @jonmcalder...
Sep 21, 2020•6 min
About this episode Guidelines for creating better tables, a controlled vocabulary to name data frame columns, and exploring reactivity in Shiny applications. Episode Links 10+ Guidelines for Better Tables in R: Make tables people ACTUALLY want to read. Column Names as Contracts Episode 12: Barret Schloerke Part 1 (reactlog) Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-37...
Sep 14, 2020•6 min
About this episode A stunning combination of physics and 3-D visualization, behind the curtain of package installation, and an alternative workflow for error handling in functions. Episode Links Plinko Statistics: Insights from the Bean Machine State of R packages in your library Handling errors using purrr's possibly() and safely() Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-36 The R-Weekly Patreon: www.patreon.com/rweekly...
Sep 07, 2020•6 min
About this episode A substantial update to the magrittr package coming soon, creating visualizations in D3 from an R user's perspective, and a big book of R. Episode Links magrittr 2.0 is coming soon D3 to R to D3 Big Book of R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-35 Details on how to submit resources and becoming an editor on the RWeekly team: github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org...
Aug 31, 2020•5 min
About this episode Choosing an operating system for R users, examining regression techniques, and inside the development of dittodb / generating data from truncated distributions Episode Links Best OS for R users Lines of best fit Generating data from a truncated distribution Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-34 Creating a new RWeekly issue demonstration: youtu.be/tnclyMsy638...
Aug 24, 2020•6 min
About this episode Exploring comic book creation with the tidyverse and ggplot2, and updates to the showtext and shinycssloader packages on CRAN. Episode Links A visualization exploring types of comic transitions as described in Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". {showtext} 0.9 : Using Fonts More Easily in R Graphs {shinycssloaders} v1.0: You can now use your own image, plus 3 years' worth of new features! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2020-33...
Aug 17, 2020•4 min
In this introduction episode, Eric Nantz shares an introduction to the RWeekly community project as well as the movitation for creating this brand new RWeekly Highlights podcast! Episode Links rweekly.org github.com/rweekly/rweekly.org
Aug 13, 2020•4 min