If Shiny wasn't awesome enough, a new toolkit is bringing the awesome to new heights! Plus a handful of ggplot2 functions that can immediate impact common visualization operations, and knitr gains support for a much-hyped typesetting format for the static document crowd. <br /><br /><br />Episode Links <br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Eric Nantz: <a href="https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast" target="_blank">@
[email protected]</a> (Mastodon) & <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social" target="_blank">@rpodcast.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky) & <a href="https://twitter.com/theRcast" target="_blank">@theRcast</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://mbanand.github.io/ghpages/announcement/" target="_blank">Announcing shiny.webawesome: a web UI package for R/Shiny</a></li><li><a href="https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-ggplot2-functions/" target="_blank">Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier</a></li><li><a href="https://yihui.org/en/2026/04/knitr-typst/" target="_blank">Preliminary Support for Typst in knitr</a></li><li>Issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2026-W19.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2026-W19</a></li></ul><br />Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>Add links discussed in the episode (in place of this sentence)</li><li>{shiny.webawesome} documentation <a href="https://www.shiny-webawesome.org" target="_blank">https://www.shiny-webawesome.org</a></li><li>Web Awesome: The Web's Open Source Design System <a href="https://webawesome.com" target="_blank">https://webawesome.com</a></li><li>{lemon} Freshen up your ggplots <a href="https://github.com/stefanedwards/lemon" target="_blank">https://github.com/stefanedwards/lemon</a></li><li>ligt.js Miscellaneous lightweight tools and utilities in JavaScript <a href="https://github.com/yihui/lite.js/blob/main/js/pages.js" target="_blank">https://github.com/yihui/lite.js/blob/main/js/pages.js</a></li><li>R 4.6.0 binary transition <a href="https://github.com/eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition" target="_blank">https://github.com/eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition</a></li><li>Exploring and Learning Quantum Computing Part 1 <a href="https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/qc1/" target="_blank">https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/qc1/</a></li><li>Mike's talk "Fully Reproducible Model Validation Reports Using Docker, R, Quarto, {renv} and {targets}" <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=hRIbxv516hY" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=hRIbxv516hY</a></li></ul><br />Supporting the show<br /><ul><li>Use the contact page at <a href="https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact" target="_blank">https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact</a> to send us your feedback</li><li><a href="https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1062040" target="_blank">R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org</a> - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with <a href="https://getalby.com/" target="_blank">Alby</a>, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.</li><li>A new way to think about value: <a href="https://value4value.info" target="_blank">https://value4value.info</a></li><li>Get in touch with us on social media<ul><li>Eric Nantz: <a href="https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast" target="_blank">@
[email protected]</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social" target="_blank">@rpodcast.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky) and <a href="https://twitter.com/theRcast" target="_blank">@theRcast</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li>Mike Thomas: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mike_thomas" target="_blank">@
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