R Weekly Highlights

The flow of both data and analytical jobs just got smoother with mizu, opening the door for multiple agent harnesses in Positron, and an optimal statistical model tailored to complex experimental designs with a friendly R interface. Bonus: A glimpse into Eric's recent gaming adventures! Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter) mizu: thread-speed parallel R and Python over shared memory Bring your own agent to Positron with the Positron MCP Modelling cell-type proportions in repeated-measures designs with sccomp: a TMA case study Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W46 Supplement Resources Super Video Golf: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2173760/Super_Video_Golf/ 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 Pricolescence - Tails and the Music Maker - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176 Gurgling Desert Pond - Final Fantasy - blackguitar - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02555

What happens when that online data set isn't so easy to download anymore? We learn of two packages to ease the pain of obtaining these files and then some. Plus a visit to the visualization corner with a handy way to send interactive charts without requiring a server-side process, plus the key questions and principles to create amazing plots. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky) Introducing safeconduct and r2parquet How to make interactive charts you can email On message and on brand: conversation-starting dataviz with R and ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W45 Supplement Resources Brad Lindblad family fundraiser https://give.lendahandup.org/fundraisers/brad-h-lindblad 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 The Art of Zoning Out - Pokemon Scarlet - timaeus222 - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04570 The Unnamed Frontier - Metroid II: Return of Samus - Pyro Paper Planes, Viking Guitar - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02892

The celebration of rOpenSci's 15-year anniversary continues with the community sharing their perspectives, and a fun Shiny app that could be quite useful during celebrations on a weekend or the holidays. If you ever wanted to hear a slightly unhinged episode of the podcast, this is it! Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Celebrating 15 Years of rOpenSci: Then, Now & Next Estimate your BAC, now 100% in the browser Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W44 Supplement Resources rOpenSci Developer Guide https://devguide.ropensci.org/ rOpenSci Peer Review Process https://ropensci.org/software-review/ Donation page for rOpenSci https://ropensci.org/donate/ drinkR: Estimate your Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) https://rasmusab.github.io/drinkr/ 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 media Eric 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 Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400

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