R Weekly Highlights

Using base R to decrypt an Australian coin's hidden messages, the Palmer Penguins data set achieves another milestone, and visualizing multiple statistcal properties with faded raincloud plots. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Australian Signals Directorate 50c Coin Decryption Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the palmerpenguins R Package - An Alternative to Anderson’s Irises Efficient data visualization with faded raincloud plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W36 Supplement Resources Using distill template with knitr::read_chunk https://twitter.com/apreshill/status/1565752119751237638 Manuscript on raincloud plots: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-63/v2 {gghalves}: https://erocoar.github.io/gghalves/ {ggp0}: https://docs.r4photobiology.info/ggpp/

Using hierarchical forecasting to explore subway fare recovery, and how you can learn more about {gtsummary} to create your next publication-quality table within R. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Exploring Types of Subway Fares with Hierarchical Forecasting Clinical Reporting with {gtsummary} by Daniel D. Sjoberg Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W35 Supplement Resources R-Podcast Episode 27: Get the {gt} Tables! https://r-podcast.org/027-rstudioconf-tables

The rstudio::conf(2022) presentation recordings are now available for viewing, and we learn about the unique development journey of the new CRAN release of the countdown package. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parsam_) Talk recordings and workshop materials from rstudio::conf(2022) The Past and Future of Shiny - Joe Cheng - rstudio::conf(2022) countdown v0.4.0 - Now on CRAN! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W34

Avoid repeating yourself by using dplyr's across function, going inside the process of creating a custom theme in ggplot2, and a few keyboard-centric tricks to manage your RStudio pane viewing. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Using across() to create multiple columns Pretty ggplots with custom themes, ggtext, and ggh4x Window and Pane Management Tricks for RStudio and your OS Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W33 Supplement Resources {ggh4x}: https://teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/index.html

A wealth of R content from the UseR! 2022 conference is now available, focusing on accessibility in the diffify tool, and a great recap of rstudio::conf(2022) from TidyX. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) useR2022 recordings are now on the conference YouTube channel Theming diffify for accessibility: Part 2 RStudio::Conf 2022 Recap Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W32 Supplement Resources UseR! 2022 Program: https://user2022.r-project.org/program/overview/ Fundamentals of Data Visualization: https://clauswilke.com/dataviz

RStudio re-brands as Posit, the shinytest2 package continues to make waves in the Shiny community, and more Quarto tips to boost your workflow. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) RStudio rebrands as Posit {shinytest2}: For testing Shiny apps. (slides) One Quarto tip a day Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W31 Supplement Resources JJ Allaire and Jeremy Howard 2-way AMA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxVVSxcjNQs Tom Mock's Welcome to Quarto online event (August 9, 2023): https://www.addevent.com/event/Eh13574863

Another great use case for Docker containers with interactive R-Markdown reports, a recap of RStudio's presence at the Appsilon Shiny conference, and building an interactive point-and-click game with Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) Containerizing Interactive R Markdown Documents RStudio Recap From the Appsilon Shiny Conference How to build an interactive point-and-click game with {Shiny} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W28 Supplement Resources Appsilon Shiny Conference playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLexAKolMzPcrYjGA1PULfm7-P12qjKmPb R Workflow by Frank Harrell: http://hbiostat.org/rflow/ Albert's video on styling a Quarto blog with CSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRX8plZpQE

Advice on building Docker containers for Shiny applications, an R-centric tutorial on fundamentals with shell, and tips on evaluating GitHub activity for contributors. Episode Links This issue's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) UseR!2022: Best Practices for Shiny Apps with Docker and More Shell vs R Fundamentals – From Syntax to Control Structures with Zsh & BASH Evaluating GitHub Activity for Contributors Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W27 Supplement Resources Hosting Data Apps: https://hosting.analythium.io slim.ai: https://www.slim.ai/ {dockerfiler} - Easy Dockerfile creation from R: https://github.com/ThinkR-open/dockerfiler Data Science at the Command Line: https://datascienceatthecommandline.com

Flexing new table-creation capabilities in the latest flextable update, how less is more with Shiny application processing, and the RainbowR community shines once again. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) {flextable} 0.7.2 - Framework for easily creating tables for reporting and publications Offload Shiny's Workload: COVID-19 processing for the WHO/Europe (Re)launching RainbowR: a community of LGBTQ+ R users Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W26 Supplement Resources flextable gallery https://ardata.fr/en/flextable-gallery The officeverse https://ardata-fr.github.io/officeverse SHiny and Arrow: Mike's guest post on the RStudio Blog https://www.rstudio.com/blog/shiny-and-arrow RainbowR https://rainbowr.netlify.app

Previewing the upcoming rstudio::conf, why you should (or shouldn't) build an API client package, and monitoring Shiny application usage with Hotjar. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) rstudio::conf(2022) Conference Schedule Why You Should (or Shouldn't) Build an API Client R Shiny Hotjar – How To Monitor User Behavior in R Shiny Apps Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W25

Many improvements to {gt} version 0.6, and creating flow charts effeciently with {ggplot2}. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Changes (for the better) in {gt} 0.6.0 Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2} Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W24 Supplement Resources The {gtExtras} is now on CRAN: https://themockup.blog/posts/2022-06-13-gtextras-cran New features in {gt} 0.6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TV9uWCJps {gt} table battles - Eurovision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIB_N0nUfNs {gt} table battles - Digital publications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_PUee8Cu0 {gt} table battles: Crosswords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxdutTgyDE Nicola's tweet of day 29 chart challenge https://twitter.com/nrennie35/status/1519960428167811074 R-Ladies Nairobi: #30DayChartChallenge https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/2022-may-rladies-nairobi/ R-Ladies Nairobi Meetup YouTube Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-fW7HqPP0

Creating user interfaces in R with a vintage toolkit, and a candid take on learning R with the right perspectives in mind. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar (@parmsam_) {tickle}: a package for creating UIs in base R R will always be arcane to those who do not make a serious effort to learn it... Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W23 Supplement Resources More people use Tcl than know about it (2004) https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/More-people-use-Tcl-than-know-about-it The R Tcl/Tk Interface paper by Peter Dalgaard: https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2001/Proceedings/Dalgaard.pdf Mike FC's tickle annoucement tweet https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1532593976422805505 Mike FC's take on why tickle? https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless/status/1533685352451301376 R for data science learning community https://www.rfordatasci.com

Annotated screencasts of David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday analyses, and the second edition of Deep Learning with R is on the way. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) RScreencasts.com: A collection of 80+ hours of time-stamped, annotated TidyTuesday screencasts highlighting the R packages and functions used in each section and what the activity is. Screencasts by David Robinson. Annotation by Alex Cookson and Eric Fletcher. Website by Oscar Baruffa. For more detail, read the launch post. Deep Learning with R, 2nd Edition Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W22 Supplement Resources R DiscoRd community: https://discord.gg/FQp6ZNd David Granjon's preview of Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny: https://twitter.com/divadnojnarg/status/1530710989574111232 Shiny Developer Series Episode 20: Outstanding User Interfaces with David Granjon https://shinydevseries.com/interview/ep020/

Amazing software development resources for data scientists, community-contributed R markdown tips & tricks to save you time, and combining GitHub gists and Carbon screenshots with gistillery. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast Software Development Resources for Data Scientists R Markdown Tips and Tricks #3: Time-savers & Trouble-shooters gistillery: Take local code, send it to a Github gist, get a beautiful image from Carbon.now.sh, and make it ready to share! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W21

A preview of R for Data Science (2nd edition) with missing data, creating topography maps, and (yes) playing the drums directly in R. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) New r4ds chapter: missing values Making a crisp topography map with R {tr808r}: Play the drums with an R package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W20 Supplement Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808

A dungeon-crawler for your R console, storytelling in ggplot2 with rounded rectangles, and updates to the tidymodels recipes suite of packages. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) Simple procedural dungeons in R Storytelling in ggplot using rounded rectangles Updates for recipes extension packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W19 Supplement Resources Binder - Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks https://mybinder.org R-Podcast Episode 28 - Tidymodels with Max Kuhn https://r-podcast.org/028-max-kuhn

A brand-new tables gallery powered by the R community, noteworthy items from the Appsilon Shiny conference, and R-Markdown is not going anywhere. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) RStudio Community Table Gallery shinytest2, Rhino R Shiny framework top news at Appsilon conference With Quarto coming, is R Markdown going away? No. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W18 Supplement Resources https://community.rstudio.com/t/expected-goals-xg-shot-timeline-for-soccer-football-with-gt/86449 https://community.rstudio.com/t/conditionally-formatted-state-transition-matrices/120336 https://www.rstudio.com/champion R-Podcast episode 24 (Yihui Xie returns) https://r-podcast.org/024-rstudioconf-yihui-xie

Lessons from teaching R to non-programmers, loading a large and messy CSV file with data.table and command-line tools, Bayesian analyses with the brms package, and getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) 6 Lessons I learned from teaching R to non-programmers Loading a large, messy csv using data.table fread with cli tools Bayesian analyses made easy: GLMMs in R package brms Not so standard evaluations - Getting a better understanding of the tidyeval framework Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W17 Supplement Resources Data science at the command line Learning Bayesian statistics podcast Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling

An important change coming to the R-spatial ecosystem, enhancing function error reporting with chaining, and traveling down the monad rabbit hole. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) R-spatial evolution: retirement of rgdal, rgeos and maptools Error chaining Why you should(n't) care about Monads if you're an R programmer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W16 Supplement Resources Roger Bivand's announcement of the rgdal, rgeos, and maptools packages retirement Geocomputation with R Progress in the R ecosystem for representing and handling spatial data Rweekly Highlights episode 72 Bruno Rodregues' monads YouTube video "Function Factories" Chapter in Advanced R

The cone of silence is lifted for the Quarto publishing engine, re-creating a storytelling look with ggplot2, and programming a fun Dragon Realm game in Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) We don't talk about Quarto Recreating the Storytelling with Data look with ggplot Programming Games with Shiny - Dragon Realm Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W15 Supplement Resources Recordings of Nic Wan's Viz Buzz online graph competition on YouTube Flowchart Diagrams in GitHub Quarto GitHub discussion board Improve this graph! Storytelling with data YouTube video CRAN task views ctv package GitHub repository

A trifecta of new R packages for data validation, function logging, and a new ggplot2 extension. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Exemplar: a prototype R package for data validation {chronicler} 0.1: Implementation of the logger monad in R. {ggbraid} 0.1.0: Braid two lines and a ribbon in ggplot2. Supplement Resources Monads: https://ericlippert.com/category/monads/page/2/ Episode 62: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/62 ggbraid vignette: https://nsgrantham.github.io/ggbraid/articles/hoops.html

After a brief hiatus, the R-Weekly Highlights podcast is back! In this episode we discuss: Understanding the native R pipe, and using RopenSci's pkgcheck within GitHub Actions. Episode Links This week's curators: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) and Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Understanding the native R pipe |> pkgcheck now available as a GitHub action! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W13 Supplement Resources Episode 60: https://rweekly.fireside.fm/60 GitHub Actions for the R Community: https://github.com/r-lib/actions/ Appsilon Shiny Conference: https://appsilon.com/2022-appsilon-shiny-conference Shiny Developer Series episode 30 - The Connecticut COVID-19 Test Spotter App (Part 1): https://shinydevseries.com/ep30

An update on the current state of RWeekly, plus Eric and Mike reflect on their journeys with data science from the industry and consulting perspectives in an eventful 2021! Episode Links The very first issue of RWeekly: https://rweekly.org/issue-0.html R for Data Science Learning Community: https://www.rfordatasci.com discoRd: https://www.r-discord.com/home Analytics Power Hour Episode 184 - Psychological Safety and Analytics with J.D. Long: https://analyticshour.io/2022/01/11/184-psychological-safety-and-analytics-with-j-d-long/ GitHub Project Boards: https://docs.github.com/en/issues/trying-out-the-new-projects-experience/about-projects

A batch of Shiny tips from creating an application tailored to teaching statistics, and the Big Book of R gains nine new entries to the collection. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) 6 simple Shiny things I have learned from creating a somewhat small app 9 new books added to Big Book of R - In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W50 Supplement Resources Albert Rapp's YouTube channel R Development Guide DevOps for Data Science Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers "Introducing {admiral}" presentation at R/Pharma 2021

A fascinating journey to understand serialization of RDS files in R, and giving an old domain new life with R markdown while giving back to charity. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Data serialisation in R Day 02: Postcards with distill || rmarkdown + postcards + distill + Netlify || #12daysofdusting Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W49 Supplement Resources https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/12/01/dusty-domains-your-forgotten-domains-raise-money-for-charity https://dusty.domains/

How GitHub Actions empowers the {cffr} package to perform automated testing with 2,000 packages, recap of the recent R-Ladies Philly workshop on automated testing in R, and introducing the new {filebin} package for easy file sharing. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay (@_colinFay) How I Test cffr on (about) 2,000 Packages using GitHub Actions and R-universe Getting started with unit testing in R {filebin} Quick & Easy File Sharing Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W48 Supplement Resources Issue 2021-W47 https://rweekly.org/2021-W47.html GitHub Actions for the R language

A cautionary tale about ML interpretations with food, practical solutions for dealing with big data in R, and the adventures of installing R on the new Apple Silicon hardware. Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr (@TonyElHabr Why machine learning hates vegetables (a dialogue about Zillow) Should I Move to a Database? Transitioning from x86 to arm64 on macOS - experiences of an R user Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W46 Supplement Resources Building code movies with flipbookr A guide to modeling proportions with Bayesian beta and zero-inflated beta regression models by Andrew Heiss

A lesser-known R function drives finding coordinates on fictitious Pokemon maps, creating customized point shapes with ggplot2 and gggrid, and how the branchMover Shiny app can save you a load of time and effort with GitHub branch renaming. Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Get coordinates from fictitious maps Custom {ggplot2} point shapes with {gggrid} branchMover: A Shiny app for moving the default branch of your GitHub repos Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W45 Supplement Resources Using {arrow} + {shiny}

An analysis of dialogue from "The Office", and a package promoting accessibility for visually impaired R-Users. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Analyzing The Office's dialogues {BrailleR} 0.32.1: Improved Access for Blind Users Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W44 Supplement Resources {schrute} package by Brad Lindlad Danilo's data viz portfolio The Pudding data viz publication Silicon Valley Hot Dog Scene JooYoung Seo's Talk at RStudio::Global

A tutorial on getting started with aRtistry, simulating the Squid Game bridge scene, and a video demonstration of installing Shiny server on AWS. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Simulating the Squid Game Bridge Scene Thinking outside the grid - A "bare bones" introduction to Rtistry concepts in R using ggplot TBD, but likely a Shiny server video tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4T0qfqY7k Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W43 Supplement Resources "Hosting Data Apps" Blog by Analythium Meghan Harris' website, The Tidy Trekker

A major announcement for R developers interested in type safety, thoughts on using Visual Studio Code from the perspective of a long-time RStudio user, and the adventures of filling regions between lines with ggplot2. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Introducing rpp: The long-term goal of the organisation is to add static type checking and other features to R, with zero cost at run time How not to be lost with VSCode when coming from RStudio? Fill the region between two lines in ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W42 Supplement Resources Type safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety Eric's R development repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects Visual Studio Code R extension: https://github.com/REditorSupport/vscode-R Looking to provide feedback on this episode and the podcast in general? Feel free to get in touch with Mike (@mike_ketchbrook) or Eric (@theRcast) on Twitter!

Using the helpers from usethis for pull request workflows, 2021 New York R conference videos now available, and the origins of the newly released ggalignment package for D&D inspired alignments. Plus, a new era of the podcast begins with our new co-host Mike Thomas! Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Welcome our brand new co-host Mike Thomas! (@mike_ketchbrook) Pull Request Flow with usethis 2021 New York R Conference Videos {ggalignment} 1.0.0: Plots 'D&D'-Style Alignment Charts Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W41 Supplement Resources {gert}: Simple Git client for R Jared Lander's talk: GPU Computing in R Megan Robertson's talk: Creating Production-Level Data Science Code Dungeons & Dragons alignment history on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons) Afton Coombs' previous Twitch stream submitting {ggalignment} to CRAN!

Parameterized reports in RMarkdown with Plumber, an updated history of the pipe operator in R, and creating data from an image with reticulate Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) The Power of Parameterized Reports With Plumber Plumbers, chains, and famous painters: The (updated) history of the pipe operator in R Creating a Dataset from an Image in R Markdown using reticulate Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W40

Data visualization accessibility, curating for R-Ladies, and a soccer data pipeline. Plus an annoucement on my goals for the future of the podcast. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) Resources for Data Viz Accessibility Curating for @WeAreRLadies on Twitter Creating a data pipeline with Github Actions & the {googledrive} package for the Canadian Premier League soccer data initiative! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W39 Supplement Resources Revealing Room for Improvement in Accessibility within a Social Media Data Visualization Learning Community Why Accessibility is at the Heart of Data Visualization Growing into the R community Become a part of the R-Weekly Highlights podcast! I am looking for members of the community to join me in sharing their perspectives on the highlighted resources in future podcast episodes! If you are interested in learning more and possibly joining my efforts, please get in touch via my Twitter account (@theRcast) or via email: theRcast (at) gmail.com

Eras of MTV and system commands Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Finding the Eras of MTV's The Challenge Through Clustering How to Use System Commands in your R Script or Package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W38

Techniques for creating generative art in R, time tracking with clockify, and the four pipes of magrittr Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) Art, jasmines, and the water colours {clockify} Time Tracking from R The Four Pipes of magrittr Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W37 View the entire process of recording this episode from the livestream recording on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MA_WT7IXL0 Supplement resources https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-09-10-setting-up-the-artfulbot/ {rprojroot}: Finding files in project subdirectories

Elegant maps with tmap, a data validation ecosystem, and a major release for gitlabr. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin Elegant and informative maps with tmap A lightweight data validation ecosystem with R, GitHub, and Slack {gitlabr} 2.0 - Communicate with GitLab API from R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W36 Supplement resources https://r-tmap.github.io/tmap/ Geocomputation in R (authored by Robin Lovelace, Jakub Nowosad, and Jannes Meunchow): https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html https://github.com/emilyriederer/data-validation-demo https://rich-iannone.github.io/pointblank/

The July top 40 R packages, R Markdown advanced tips video, and colored world maps Episode Links This week's curator: Tony ElHabr (@TonyElHabr) July 2021: "Top 40" New CRAN Packages R Markdown Advanced Tips to Become a Better Data Scientist & RStudio Connect with Tom Mock The World's Countries Colored by Their First Letter Supplement resources codemeta: https://github.com/cboettig/codemeta https://codemeta.github.io/ Multiclass classification of dry beans using computer vision and machine learning techniques Thomas Mock's RMD Marvel GitHub repo: https://github.com/jthomasmock/penguin-project

Debugging lessons with source, illustrating the coefficient of variation, and the exciting conclusion to SLICED season one Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Keep your R scripts locally sourced: A lesson from debugging Exploring R² and regression variance with Euler/Venn diagrams SLICED CHAMPIONSHIP: COMPETITIVE DATA SCIENCE (S01E12) Supplement resources TJ's notestar notebook system buit upon the {targets} package. {eulerr}: Area-proportional Euler and Venn diagrams with ellipses SLICED season 1 YouTube playlist SLICED web site Practical AI Episode 144

The new {flow} package for visualization R code, and producing donut charts of COVID-19 cases using R. Episode Links This week's curator: Wolfram Qin (@R_by_Ryo) {flow} 0.0.2: View and Browse Code Using Flow Diagrams. Some Covid Donuts To End The Week Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W33 Supplement resources: {boomer} - Debugging tools to inspect the intermediate steps of a call

Creating mobile-friendly Shiny apps, {gitlabr} 2.0.0, and achieving reproducible workflows with R and Docker Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara (@R_by_Ryo) Making Shiny apps mobile friendly {gitlabr} 2.0.0: Access to the 'Gitlab' API. How to setup a reproducible workflow in R and Docker Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W32 Supplement resources: Jesse Mostipak's Twitter thread: Stumbling blocks encountered with learning Shiny Jacqueline Nolis: I made an entier e-commerce platform on Shiny https://youtu.be/tTgRhJ6lb4w https://www.rocker-project.org My R development template repository: https://github.com/rpodcast/r_dev_projects

Up and running with officedown, testing with a reprex to solve your problems, and a tidy take on performing hypothesis testing with statsExpressions. Episode Links This week's curator: Kelly Bodwin (@KellyBodwin) Up and running with Officedown Reminder to test with a reprex to help yourself solve your problems (or get help!) {statsExpressions} 1.2.0: Add statistical detail to data frames and plots Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W31 Supplement resources: Friction Logs: The Key to Unlocking Product Growth MS-OOXML: A pseudo-standard that pretends to be open The officer package: Making PowerPoint slides from R (my presentation from the Advanced R Markdown Workshop)

Top 3 coding best practices from the Shiny contest, improvements in Target Markdown for {targets} 0.6.0, and the new {facetious} package for alternative facets with {ggplot2} Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz (@theRcast) Top 3 Coding Best Practices from the Shiny Contest {targets} 0.6.0: Dynamic Function-Oriented 'Make'-Like Declarative Workflows Introducing {facetious} - alternate facets for ggplot2 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W30 Supplement resources: Recording of my issue curation livestream! Effective communication between Shiny modules {targets} 0.6.0 NEWS Chapter 3 - Target Markdown Target Markdown template format {targets} resources from upcoming R in Medicine workshop

How to become a better R code detective, a practical introduction to custom fonts, and making error messages your own. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Carroll (@carroll_jono) How to become a better R code detective? Setting up and debugging custom fonts: a practical introduction to the all (new) things font in R Make error messages your own Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W29

Creating a package directly from R-Markdown with {fusen}, and a new milestone release of the {googledrive} package Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq (@batool664) {fusen} 0.2.2: Build a Package from R Markdown File googledrive 2.0.0 Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W28 Supplement Resources How to build a package following Rmd Driven Development GitHub Repository Batool's presentation from UseR! 2021: Make Your Computational Analysis Citable

Practical tips on starting new R projects, and improving a visualization of US streaming market share. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) Draw me a project Improving a Visualization Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W27

Creating your own CRAN-like repository with R-universe, results the third annual Shiny contest, and insights on why to use Shiny. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay) How to create your personal CRAN-like repository on R-universe Winners of the 3rd annual Shiny Contest Why Shiny? Insights from a Shiny Developer Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W26 Supplement Resources https://ropensci.org/blog/2021/03/04/r-universe-buildsystem/ https://ropensci.org/commcalls/may2021-r-universe/

Projecting and tracking COVID-19 infection rates in England with R, leveraging Wikidata to tag scientific abstracts, and a new deep-learning workflow with the luz package Episode Links This week's curator: Robert Hickman (@robwhickman) Tracking SARS-CoV-2 In England with {epidemia} Tagging the Scientific Abstracts with Wikidata Items Que haja luz: More light for torch! Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W25 Supplemental Resources {epidemia} package documentation A COVID-19 Model for Local Authorities of the United Kingdom How epidemiology has shaped the COVID pandemic

Using Animal Crossing data with the Google Vision API and machine learning, the latest Shiny developer series with Nick Strayer, and ensuring robust database transactions in Shiny Episode Links This week's curator: Tony Elhabr ([@TonyElHabr] Everybody Loves Raymond: Running Animal Crossing Villagers through the Google Vision API Shiny Developer Series Episode 21: RStudio software engineer Nick Strayer returns to share how he arrived to RStudio and motivations behind the new Shiny App Stories. Shiny in Production: Database Transactions Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W24

Reusing knitr chunk options, the combo of VS-Code and R in 2021, and say hello to gggrid Episode Links This week's curator: Miles McBain (@MilesMcBain) Reusing Code Chunks and Chunk Options with knitr R in 2021 with VSCode 'gggrid' it's g-g-great! Accessing 'grid' from 'ggplot2' Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2021-W23