Issue 2024-W51 Highlights
An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for mathematics algorithms solvable in R, and solving the recent 2024 Advent of Code puzzles with data.table.<br /><br /><br />Episode Links<br /><ul><li>This week's curator: Colin Fay - <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@colinfay" target="_blank">@[email protected]</a> [@_ColinFay]](<a href="https://twitter.com/_ColinFay)" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/_ColinFay)</a> (X/Twitter) <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/colinfay.bsky.social" target="_blank">@colinfay.bsky.social</a></li><li><a href="https://rtask.thinkr.fr/parallel-and-asynchronous-programming-in-shiny-with-future-promise-future_promise-and-extendedtask/" target="_blank">Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Shiny with future, promise, future_promise, and ExtendedTask</a></li><li><a href="https://rworks.dev/posts/back-to-four-weights/" target="_blank">Writing Signed Trinary: or, Back To the Four Weights Problem</a></li><li><a href="https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-12-07-advent_of_code-kelly_bodwin/" target="_blank">Advent of Code with data.table: Week One</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2024-W51.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2024-W51</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<br /><ul><li>Futureverse - A Unifying Parallelization Framework in R for Everyone <a href="https://www.futureverse.org/" target="_blank">https://www.futureverse.org/</a></li><li>Non-blocking operations with ExtendedTask <a href="https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/improve/nonblocking/" target="_blank">https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/improve/nonblocking/</a></li><li>Asynchronous Shiny apps with crew and mirai <a href="https://wlandau.github.io/crew/articles/shiny.html" target="_blank">https://wlandau.github.io/crew/articles/shiny.html</a></li><li>Bachet’s Four Weights Problem <a href="https://rworks.dev/posts/four-weights/" target="_blank">https://rworks.dev/posts/four-weights/</a></li><li>Advent of Code 2024 <a href="https://adventofcode.com/" target="_blank">https://adventofcode.com/</a></li><li>Lime Bikes Summary Dashboard <a href="https://jokasan.github.io/Lime_Dash/" target="_blank">https://jokasan.github.io/Lime_Dash/</a></li></ul>Chapter image credits<br /><ul><li>Advent of Code <a href="https://thenewstack.io/advent-of-codes-programming-puzzles-set-new-global-record/" target="_blank">https://thenewstack.io/advent-of-codes-programming-puzzles-set-new-global-record/</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">@[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">@[email protected]</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) </li></ul></li></ul>Music credits powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><br /><ul><li>J-Type - Tetris - Nostalvania - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04401" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04401</a></li><li>I Just Skipped Time Yesterday - Puyo Puyo - Rexy - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03941" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03941</a></li></ul>
