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608: R With Eric Nantz
Coder Radio
Feb 24, 2025
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House Keeping Google / YouTube Update Join the Discord! Feedback Rust in the Linux Kernel. R Stuff What is R Again? Great presentation by John Chambers at UseR! 2006
https://www.r-project.org/conferences/useR-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf
The times have changed, now R is very much suited for production use and not just an academic research language Highly recommend reading Advanced R for more comprehensive details on the quirks of the language
https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html
R VS Python for Data? Different philosophies on the use of the language CRAN vs PyPi Interoperability becoming more mainstream now Visualization: R has always been leaps and bounds ahead (Grammar of Graphics, interactive widgets, etc) R Dev Stack? IDEs: RStudio, now Positron
https://positron.posit.co/
Managing package installations with renv
https://rstudio.github.io/renv/
Building web apps with Shiny:
https://shiny.posit.co/
(I got so engrossed in this space that I created the Shiny Developer Series because of it) Early adopter of using Docker with R in devcontainers with VS-Code. New tech I’m excited about to enhance dev stacks and sharing apps WebAssembly with webR
https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/
Shiny apps in webR? Yes you can
https://github.com/RConsortium/submissions-pilot4-webR
Managing dev environment combined with Nix: The rix package
https://github.com/ropensci/rix
(More organized links for show notes) R Language:
https://r-project.org
Posit (formerly RStudio):
https://posit.co
RStudio IDE
https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/
Positron (still in beta):
https://positron.posit.co/
History of S and R presentation by John Chambers at useR! 2006:
http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Chambers.pdf
Advanced R (2nd edition) by Hadley Wickham
https://adv-r.hadley.nz/index.html
Shiny - Easy interactive web applications with R:
https://shiny.posit.co/
renv - Project environments for R:
https://rstudio.github.io/renv/
R Markdown:
https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
WebR - R in the browser:
https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/
Rix - Reproducible Data Science environments for R with Nix:
https://github.com/ropensci/rix
Chromatic by ModRetro Chromatic:
https://modretro.com/products/chromatic-tetris-bundle?variant=47637522579758
FPGA Mike’s Review Eric’s Thoughts Eric's Socials R Weekly Highlights:
https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights
Shiny Developer Series:
https://shinydevseries.com/
R Podcast:
https://r-podcast.org
Bluesky: @
rpodcast@bsky.social
Mastodon: @
rpodcast@podcastindex.social
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nantz-6621617/
Coder's Socials Mike on X (
https://x.com/dominucco
) Mike on BlueSky (
https://bsky.app/profile/dominucco.bsky.social
) Coder on X (
https://x.com/coderradioshow
) Coder on BlueSky (
https://bsky.app/profile/coderradio.bsky.social
) Show Discord (
https://discord.gg/k8e7gKUpEp
) Alice (
https://alice.dev
)
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