R Weekly Highlights

We learn about the variety of ways you can contribute back to the core of R, a roundup of the excellent choices available for package and environment reproducibility, and an amazing collection of Shiny applications and packages addressing massive needs in bioinformatics … all created in a single internship! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) How Do I Contribute to R? A Guide to Getting Involved with R Core {renv}, {rix}, rv, uvr, ir: An explosion of R package and environment managers Genomes, Prompts, and Shiny: What I Built During My Summer at Posit Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W43 Supplement Resources R Developer Guide https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/ R Dev Container Guide https://contributor.r-project.org/r-dev-env/ Package Management in R (R/Pharma Hangout) https://rinpharma.com/docs/hangout/recordings/package_management/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Lost in a Nightmare - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Palpable - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03001 On Wings of Steel - Afterburner - Juan Medrano - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03405

A roundtrip between formatted tables and spreadsheets is now very much possible, how {shinyreact} represents a new path for user interface development in Shiny, and a candid take on ownership of code and the products we build from it (including very awesome art). Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) From spreadsheet to gt and back again Introducing shinyreact: React UI backed by a Shiny server Aperiodic tilings with the de Bruijn method Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W41 Supplement Resources {forgts} - Formatted spreadsheets to gts https://luisdva.github.io/forgts {gtxlsx} - Write gt and HTML tables into {openxlsx2} workbooks https://janmarvin.github.io/gtxlsx Bold indicates negative? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJz0779Seto {shinyreact} - Shiny UI infrastructure for React-based component rendering https://posit-dev.github.io/shinyreact/r/index.html Agent skills vignette for {shinyreact} https://posit-dev.github.io/shinyreact/r/articles/agent-skills.html R + AI conference https://rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_website/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix J-Type - Tetris - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04401 Smoke & Marbles - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Emunator, ZackParrish, Lucas Guimaraes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04714

After a massive backlog issue sprint, the foundational {knitr} gains terrific updates to supercharge SQL code chunks. The R Project moves to an open source platform for asynchronous communication, and a key technique for bringing the user's perspective on error messages when you test your R package. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) The knitr SQL Engine Grows Up Zulip Chat for the R Project Snapshotting error messages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W40 Supplement Resources A Four-Day {knitr} Issue/PR Backlog Sprint https://yihui.org/en/2026/09/knitr-backlog Zulip R-Project signup https://r-project.zulipchat.com A Practical Introduction To Reproducible R with Nix & {rix} https://b-rodrigues.github.io/r_pharma_26/#/title-slide Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Brinstar Bonsai Garden - Super Metroid - Red Tailed Fox - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01473 Dark World Jazz - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - Gux - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00156

Have you found a rogue line of rm(list=ls()) in your R scripts? Then we have a terrific update to a package to find those environment issues and much more. Plus a candid take on the lifecycle of spreadsheet-creating packages, and how to take matters to your "R" hands when faced with a perplexing reviewer comment. Mike and I also share our takeaways from an eventful posit::conf(2026)! Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @colinfay.bsky.social (Bluesky) & [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter) Release: sessioncheck 0.2 Ghosts of spreadsheets past Observed power tells you nothing Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W39 Supplement Resources {sessioncheck} https://sessioncheck.djnavarro.net/ Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a sitrep() Function https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/ Marimo https://docs.marimo.io Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix A View from the Top (of Shinra HQ) - Final Fantasy VII Remake - TheManPF, Andre Beller, jnWake, Kev Ragone, Michelle Dreyband, newmajoe, Ronin Op F - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04777 Hotel Rhumba (I Want to Go Home) - Earthbound - The Pancake Chef - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00526

A data-driven investigation on how September is a dangerous month for bikers in Wisconsin, a novel look at the distribution of castles across the globe, and the fundamentals behind an influential analysis method commonly used in experimental designs. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky) Madison bike crashes peak in September An Atlas of Stone Repeated measures ANOVA in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W37 Supplement Resources Madison Bikes https://www.madisonbikes.org Tidy Tuesday Castlemap dataset https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/main/data/2026/2026-09-01 Deepali's GitHub repository https://github.com/deepdk {rstatix}: Pipe-friendly Framework for Basic Statistical Tests in R https://rpkgs.datanovia.com/rstatix/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social mediaEric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix Relm's Weepy Loop - Final Fantasy 6 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00178 Cammy's London Drizzle - Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453