Issue 2023-W13 Highlights

A new perspective on the value of base R functions, enhancing the capabilities of gpttools with vector databases, and three ways you can add alt text to your R-based visualizations.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon)
• Some love for Base R. Part 1
• Teaching ChatGPT What It Doesn’t Know
• Alt Text in R: Plots, Reports, and Shiny
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W13

Supplement Resources

• A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases https://frankzliu.com/blog/a-gentle-introduction-to-vector-databases
• Text Mining with R - A Tidy Approach https://www.tidytextmining.com
• Writing Meaningful Alt Texts for Data Visualizations in R (Liz Hare) R Ladies NYC https://lizharedogs.github.io/RLadiesNYAltText
• {ggdatasaver} Automatically save data associated with a ggplot2 plot https://eliocamp.github.io/ggdatasaver

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