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) & <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) </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>
