R Weekly Highlights
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R Weekly Highlights
The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.
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Issue 2025-W42 Highlights
Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization with more th...
Issue 2025-W40 Highlights
The ducks have made their presence felt in the world of databases, but now you can take a dip in a new Ducklake all within R! If you ever felt someone...
Issue 2025-W39 Highlights
Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences...
Issue 2025-W34 Highlights
In episode 210 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast: The Positron IDE has officially been released after two years of intense development, and we share...
Issue 2025-W31 Highlights
In episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights we learn ways you can pinpoint just what is slowing down your R code, a novel framing for testing your next plum...
Issue 2025-W30 Highlights
In episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights, the LLM train keeps moving along in the data science community: First impressions of the new Positron Assistant...
Issue 2025-W28 Highlights
It's been far too long since our last episode of R Weekly Highlights, but we are finally back with episode 207! In this episode we learn about novel w...
Issue 2025-W24 Highlights
The summer schedule has been crazy, but we finally have a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode: How the new shiny2docker package eases...
Issue 2025-W21 Highlights
Have you wanted a chance to rewrite your own history? With Git, you certainly can! We learn that and other amazing tips to supercharge your version co...
Issue 2025-W19 Highlights
Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels sui...
Issue 2025-W18 Highlights
In this episode of R Weekly Highlights we hear from industry experts on how they choose a programming language for their projects, a big boost to the...
Issue 2025-W16 Highlights
It's not every day that we get to dive into a brand new release of R, but we get to do just that in episode 202! We share our takes on the major new f...
Issue 2025-W15 Highlights
In this episode of R Weekly Highlights: We have a six-month follow-up perspective from an early Positron user, how the current landscape of AI tools p...
Issue 2025-W14 Highlights
By some minor miracle (even on April Fools) the R Weekly Highlights podcast has made it to episode 200! We go "virtual" shopping for LLM-powered text...
Issue 2025-W12 Highlights
Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscri...
Issue 2025-W11 Highlights
Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power of...
Issue 2025-W10 Highlights
A major milestone for leveraging LLMs in R just landed with the new ellmer package, along with a terrific showcase of retrieval-augmented generation c...
Issue 2025-W08 Highlights
Our candid takes on the state of CRAN's role in light of recent package archival events, how creative use of LLMs could greatly streamline your next l...
Issue 2025-W07 Highlights
An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the unique formatt...
Issue 2025-W06 Highlights
Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the world (of d...
Issue 2025-W05 Highlights
Ready to bring your next presentation slides to the world of Quarto? Our first highlight has a batch of power tips you can use for your next slide dec...
Issue 2025-W04 Highlights
Bringing a little tidy magic to creating flowcharts in R, how data.table is addressing recent shifts in R's C APIs, and another showcase of R's visual...
Issue 2025-W01 Highlights
The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns for Our first episode of 2025! We learn how hosted and self-hostem LLM's perform in the summarization of Blues...
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 mathematic...
Issue 2024-W50 Highlights
The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for possibly switching to the Positron IDE, and why there...
Issue 2024-W49 Highlights
As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to the contributors of your open-source package. Plus...
Issue 2024-W48 Highlights
What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for the first-ever native mobile Shiny application (a...
Issue 2024-W47 Highlights
A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production conference, and visualizing ice thickness in Greenla...
Issue 2024-W46 Highlights
The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to generating markdown was vital to a high-profile Quarto site...
Issue 2024-W45 Highlights
Eric's flying solo this week, but the show goes on! The eagerly-anticipated recordings of the 2024 Posit conference are now available and Eric shares...
Issue 2024-W43 Highlights
Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and how data.ta...
Issue 2024-W42 Highlights
A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a clever use of A...
Issue 2024-W40 Highlights
A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modification rabbit h...
Issue 2024-W39 Highlights
How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your guides, and...
Issue 2024-W38 Highlights
Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say "surreal!" Plus a data-driven approach to investigate re...
Issue 2024-W37 Highlights
How being fair to your research has a new and important meaning than what you may expect, the power you can unlock with custom roxygen tags, and a col...
Issue 2024-W36 Highlights
A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure in automating the translation of Quarto documents...
Issue 2024-W35 Highlights
A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of interactivity to a reactable table, and save your...
Issue 2024-W34 Highlights
Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to panic when you see a merge conflict in Git, the genesi...
Issue 2024-W32 Highlights
A realistic take on converting the NY Forest Carbon Assessment modeling pipeline to the tidymodels suite, and a review of R package development workfl...