Issue 2023-W48 Highlights

A glimpse of refactoring functional R code to object-oriented programming with R6, using benchmarking as another input to adopting package dependencies, and building a high-performance CSV reader by combining R and Rust.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @TonyElHabr (Twitter) & @tonyelhabr@skrimmage.com (Mastodon)
• Object-Oriented Express: Refactoring in R
• Using benchmarking to guide the adoption of dependencies in R packages
• Building a DataFusion CSV reader with arrow-extendr
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W48

Supplement Resources

• Sharing app state between Shiny modules https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13___ZiOO1aEv0xiCj2TAm2JenEdy_Sfy6SEIWAltAYI/edit#slide=id.g216fe8fbc25_0_71
• {pkgdepends} Package Dependency Resolution, Downloads and Installation https://r-lib.github.io/pkgdepends
• {reactable.extras} 0.2.0 Release: Enhanced Interactivity and Efficiency for Shiny Apps https://appsilon.com/reactable-extras-enhancing-shiny-applications
• Folks, C'mon, Use Parquet https://appsilon.com/csv-to-parquet-transition
• Shiny and Arrow - A match made in high-performance-web-application heaven https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
• Jadey Ryan's The Coding Cats on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecodingcats

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