Issue 2023-W29 Highlights

The second edition of the highly-regarded R for Data Science arrives with substantial updates, an adventure with "A Programming Language" that brings new perspectives to functional programming approaches, and a new take on reproducibility in data science combining R with the Nix packaging system.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon)
• R for Data Science, 2nd edition
• Array Languages: R vs APL
• Reproducible data science with Nix
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W29

Supplement Resources

• R for Data Science 2nd Edition: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
• APL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
• Try APL in a browser: https://tryapl.org/
• Jonathan Carroll could be available for your next project! https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll/110726981972909319
• Linux Unplugged Episode 451 The NixOS Challenge https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/451/
• Zero to Nix - An unofficial, opinionated, gentle introduction to Nix https://zero-to-nix.com/
• It's not too late to register for Eric and Mike's Shiny in Production workshop at posit::conf(2023)! https://reg.conf.posit.co/flow/posit/positconf23/attendee-portal/page/sessioncatalog?search=shiny&search.sessiontype=1675316728702001wr6r&search.day=20230918

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