R Weekly Highlights
R Weekly Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz

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The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.

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Issue 2025-W12 Highlights
MAR 19, 2025
Issue 2025-W12 Highlights
Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscripts, and replicating a life-saving spatial visualization originally created over 170 years ago!<br />Episode Links<br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - <a href="https://mstdn.social/@R_by_Ryo" target="_blank">@R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social</a> (Mastodon) &amp; <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rbyryo.bsky.social" target="_blank">@rbyryo.bsky.social</a> (Bluesky) &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/R_by_Ryo" target="_blank">@R_by_Ryo</a>) (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://posit.co/blog/creating-multilingual-documentation-with-quarto/" target="_blank">Creating multilingual documentation with Quarto</a></li><li><a href="http://www.seascapemodels.org/rstats/2025/03/15/LMs-in-R-with-ellmer.html" target="_blank">The ellmer package for using LLMs with R is a game changer for scientists</a></li><li><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=SnowData" target="_blank">{SnowData} 1.0.0</a>: Historical Data from John Snow's 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map</li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W12.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W12</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>Wes McKinney &amp; Hadley Wickham (on cross-language collaboration, Positron, career beginnings, &amp; more) <a href="https://youtu.be/D-xmvFY_i7U" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/D-xmvFY_i7U</a></li><li>Tabby Quarto extension <a href="https://quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/tabby/" target="_blank">https://quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/tabby/</a></li><li>Plotting the Past: The 1854 Cholera Outbreak Visualized in R <a href="https://simplifyingstats.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/plotting-the-past-the-1854-cholera-outbreak-visualised-in-r/" target="_blank">https://simplifyingstats.wordpress.com/2025/01/18/plotting-the-past-the-1854-cholera-outbreak-visualised-in-r/</a></li></ul>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">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</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">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mike-thomas.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mike-thomas.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky), and <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" target="_blank">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (X/Twitter)&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul>Music credits powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><br /><ul><li>Lost in a Nightmare - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Palpable - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03001" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03001</a></li><li>Cammy's London Drizzle - Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - MkVaff - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453</a></li></ul><br />
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Issue 2025-W11 Highlights
MAR 12, 2025
Issue 2025-W11 Highlights
Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power of LaTeX to all of your plots!<br /><br />Episode Links<br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/batoolmm.bsky.social" target="_blank">@batoolmm.bsky.social</a> (Bluesky) &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/batool664" target="_blank">@batool664</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://rtask.thinkr.fr/customize-your-expedition-create-a-unique-documentation-for-your-r-package/" target="_blank">Customize your expedition: Create a unique documentation for your R Package</a></li><li><a href="https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Reports/dvir/xdvir/xdvir.html" target="_blank">LaTeX Typesetting in R: The 'xdvir' Package</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W11.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W11</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>{xdvir} package vignette <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xdvir/vignettes/xdvir-intro.html" target="_blank">https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xdvir/vignettes/xdvir-intro.html</a></li><li>tinytex- A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live <a href="https://yihui.org/tinytex/" target="_blank">https://yihui.org/tinytex/</a></li><li>Adding arm64 to r2u <a href="https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/04#046_arm64_comes_to_r2u" target="_blank">https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/04#046_arm64_comes_to_r2u</a></li><li>Website for tidyplots use cases <a href="https://tidyplots.org/use-cases/" target="_blank">https://tidyplots.org/use-cases/</a></li></ul>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">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</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">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mike-thomas.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mike-thomas.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky), and <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" target="_blank">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (X/Twitter)&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul>Music credits powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><br /><ul><li>A View from the Top (of Shinra HQ) - Final Fantasy VII Remake - TheManPF, Andre Beller, jnWake, Kev Ragone, Michelle Dreyband, newmajoe, Ronin Op F - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04777" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04777</a></li></ul>
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Issue 2025-W10 Highlights
MAR 7, 2025
Issue 2025-W10 Highlights
A major milestone for leveraging LLMs in R just landed with the new ellmer package, along with a terrific showcase of retrieval-augmented generation combining ellmer and DuckDB. Plus an inspiring roundup of the recent Closeread contest winners.<br />Episode Links<br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Sam Parmar - <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@parmsam" target="_blank">@parmsam@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon) &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/parmsam_" target="_blank">@parmsam_</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://posit.co/blog/announcing-ellmer/" target="_blank">Announcing ellmer: A package for interacting with Large Language Models in R</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.tidy-intelligence.com/posts/rapid-rag-prototyping/" target="_blank">Rapid RAG Prototyping: Building a Retrieval Augmented Generation Prototype with ellmer and DuckDB</a></li><li><a href="https://posit.co/blog/closeread-prize-winners/" target="_blank">Winners of the Closeread Prize – Data-Driven Scrollytelling with Quarto</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W10.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W10</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>Coder Radio episode 608 - R with Eric Nantz <a href="https://coder.show/608" target="_blank">https://coder.show/608</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.jahnen.io/nhyris/" target="_blank">nhyris - The minimal framework for transform R shiny application into standalone</a></li></ul>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">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</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">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mike-thomas.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mike-thomas.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky), and <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" target="_blank">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (X/Twitter)&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul>Music credits powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><br /><ul><li>Watermelon Flava - Breath of Fire III - Joshua Morse, posu yan - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01411" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01411</a></li><li>Stomp the Summer Sky - Secret of Mana - Ziwtra - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00859" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00859</a></li></ul>
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41 MIN
Issue 2025-W08 Highlights
FEB 21, 2025
Issue 2025-W08 Highlights
Our candid takes on the state of CRAN's role in light of recent package archival events, how creative use of LLMs could greatly streamline your next literature review, and a few great illustrations of lazy being a good thing in your R session.<br />Episode Links<br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Eric Nantz - <a href="https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast" target="_blank">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</a> (Mastodon) &amp; <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social" target="_blank">@rpodcast.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky) &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/theRcast" target="_blank">@theRcast</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/02/12/is-cran-holding-r-back/" target="_blank">Is CRAN Holding R Back?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.seascapemodels.org/rstats/2025/02/12/LLMs-for-literature-reviews.html" target="_blank">How to use large language models to assist in systematic literature reviews</a></li><li><a href="https://blog.r-hub.io/2025/02/13/lazy-meanings/" target="_blank">Lazy introduction to laziness in R</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W08.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W08</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>A guide to contributing to open-source Python packages <a href="https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/01/02/a-guide-to-contributing-to-open-source-python-packages/" target="_blank">https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/01/02/a-guide-to-contributing-to-open-source-python-packages/</a></li><li>Continue <a href="https://www.continue.dev/" target="_blank">https://www.continue.dev/</a></li></ul>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">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</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">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mike-thomas.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mike-thomas.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky), and <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" target="_blank">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (X/Twitter)&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul>Music credits powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><br /><ul><li>Gurgling Desert Pond - Final Fantasy Random Encounter - blackguitar - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02555" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02555</a></li><li>Hotel Rhumba - Earthbound - The Pancake Chef - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00526" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00526</a></li></ul><br />
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Issue 2025-W07 Highlights
FEB 14, 2025
Issue 2025-W07 Highlights
An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the unique formatting features of the Scotland census data were tamed with the power of R, and how the first-ever native mobile application powered by R has opened the doors wide open for innovation across many parts of data science.<br />Episode Links<br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Jon Carroll - <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll" target="_blank">@jonocarroll@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon) &amp; <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy" target="_blank">@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy</a> (Bluesky) &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/carroll_jono" target="_blank">@carroll_jono</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochrome-data-visualisations/" target="_blank">Designing monochrome data visualisations</a></li><li><a href="https://johnmackintosh.net/blog/rstats/2024-12-22-tidying-text-files/" target="_blank">The life changing magic of tidying text files</a></li><li><a href="https://rtask.thinkr.fr/rlinguo-why-did-we-build-it/" target="_blank">Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It?</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W07.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W07</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>ColorBrewer palettes <a href="https://colorbrewer2.org" target="_blank">https://colorbrewer2.org</a></li><li>John's GitHub repository for tidying census files <a href="https://github.com/johnmackintosh/tidy-scotland-census" target="_blank">https://github.com/johnmackintosh/tidy-scotland-census</a></li><li>Introducing Rlinguo, a native mobile app that runs R <a href="https://rtask.thinkr.fr/introducing-rlinguo-a-native-mobile-app-that-runs-r/" target="_blank">https://rtask.thinkr.fr/introducing-rlinguo-a-native-mobile-app-that-runs-r/</a></li><li>mirai v2.0 - Continuous Innovation <a href="https://shikokuchuo.net/posts/25-mirai-v2/" target="_blank">https://shikokuchuo.net/posts/25-mirai-v2/</a></li><li>Key considerations for retiring/superseding an R package <a href="https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/superseding-bpmodels/" target="_blank">https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/superseding-bpmodels/</a></li></ul>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">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</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">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mike-thomas.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mike-thomas.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky), and <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" target="_blank">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (X/Twitter)&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul>Music powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><br /><ul><li>Chillout - Mega Man 2 - sedure - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01175" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01175</a></li><li>Black Genesis - Final Fantasy VI Balance &amp; Ruin - Brandon Strader, Rexy - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796</a></li></ul>
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53 MIN