Issue 2025-W12 Highlights

MAR 19, 202539 MIN
R Weekly Highlights

Issue 2025-W12 Highlights

MAR 19, 202539 MIN

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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 />