Issue 2023-W33 Highlights

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon)
• She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next!
• Wrapping C Code in an R Package
• How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W33

Supplement Resources

• R Packages Chapter on Data: https://r-pkgs.org/data.html

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