R-Podcast (Eric)

Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social
🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl

And a favorite segment returns 😅

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs

Is shipping to the US possible? I didn't see it in the country choices.

As a big advocate of RSS, I'm really curious what you are building!

This is terrific! I am going to add this to the upcoming R Weekly issue 🙏

A day after my #positconf2025 presentation, I'm delighted to share that my new package {shinystate} has arrived on CRAN!

Learn how {shinystate} supercharges bookmarkable state and more in this blog post: shinydevseries.com/blog/2025-09...

(Even Dr. Light & Dr. Wily like it too 🤖 )

#RStats #Shiny

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 at…

Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 what…

Episode 210 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🎉 Positron officially arrives! @posit.co
🛠️ shinytesters @ashbaldry.bsky.social
🤔 Parameters in Shiny URL (Mauricio "Pachá" Vargas)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @colinfay.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 plumber…

Episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏎️ Speed testing @kellybodwin.com
🪄 Testing Plumber APIs from R (Jakub Sobolewski)
📊 Recreating NY Times chart with ggplot2 (Spencer Schien)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

#RStats

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 for…

Episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

✨ Positron Assistant for creating R packages @stephenturner.us
📰 LLM-powered guide to Posit Conf 2025 agenda @ivelasq3.bsky.social & Sam Parmar

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonmcalder.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 ways…

Episode 207 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
🛠️ Generating Quarto syntax (Danielle Navarro)
🤔 Behavior-Driven Development @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social
🔍 Dive()ing into the Hunt @milesmcbain.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

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 your…

Finally we are back with episode 206 of R Weekly Highlights! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📦 {shiny2docker} (Vincent Guyader)
📊 ggplot2 layer explorer @yjunechoe.bsky.social‬
🏎️ quickr ‪@t-kalinowski.bsky.social‬

h/t ‪@mike-thomas.bsky.social‬ 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 control…

Episode 205 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📜 Good Git History @maellesalmon.bsky.social (SLCRUG)
📦 dockViewR @davidgranjon.bsky.social (Cynkra)
🕵️ Mock them all (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

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 suite,…

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🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social
➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

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 use…

Episode 203 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤔 Choosing a programming language @jperkel.bsky.social
✨ Shiny with Copilot (Piotr Pasza Storożenko) @appsilon.bsky.social
🏫 Journey to learning R (Bruno Ponne)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats

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…

Episode 202 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🚀 R 4.5.0 highlights @russhyde.bsky.social @jumpingrivers.com
🚰 plumber2 @thomasp85.com
🗒 Introducing chores @simonpcouch.com @posit.co

h/t @mike-thomas 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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…

Episode 201 of R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛠 Positron joys & pains @drmowinckels.io
🏫 Learning Tidyverse with AI @minecr.bsky.social
📈 Observable for R users @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

#rstats

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…

A podcasting achievement unlocked: Episode 200 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛒 Text analysis & prediction with {mall} @camlivio.bsky.social @posit.co
📊 Guide to gradients @jamesgoldie.dev

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

New #RStats X #Nix blog post: Announcing rixpress

brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...

build polyglott data science pipelines easily with R and Nix!

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 manuscripts,…

Episode 199 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📑 Multilingual Quarto @ivelasq3.bsky.social
🐢 {ellmer} for science (seascapes models)
⚕️ 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map in R (Niamh Mimnagh)

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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…

Episode 198 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🌐 Unique documentation for your R package (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)
📉 LaTeX typesetting on graphs with {xdivr} (Paul Murrell)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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…

Episode 197 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📦 {ellmer} on CRAN @hadley.nz
📜 RAG Prototyping @christophscheuch.bsky.social
📰 Closeread Contest Winners @posit.co

Plus a recap of my appearance on @coderradio.bsky.social 608!

h/t Sam Parmar 🙏

#rstats

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…

Episode 196 of R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤔 CRAN holding R back? (Ari Lamstein)
📓 Lit review with LLMs (Seascape Models)
💤 Introduction to laziness @maellesalmon.bsky.social @drmowinckels.io @frick.ws

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 formatting…

Episode 195 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📓 Monochrome visualisation @nrennie.bsky.social
🧹 Tidying census files @johnmackintosh.bsky.social
📱 Why Rlinguo? @colinfay.bsky.social

h/t @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

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 data)…

Episode 194 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🪄 Experiments with LLM code assist @simonpcouch.com
📊 Gapminder and closeread @nrennie.bsky.social
🌏 Downloading Our World in Data (Kenneth Tay)

h/t Jonathan Kitt & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

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 deck.…

Episode 193 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

💡 7 #quarto revealjs slide tips (Dr. Tom Palmer)
🌍 From novice to contributor @ropensci.org @yabellini.bsky.social (Sunny Tseng) (Pascal Burkhard)

h/t Jon Calder & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

● completed target site [1.122 minutes, 1.028 gigabytes] ▶ dispatched target deploy_site ✔ Website uploaded to https://evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com/ ● completed target deploy_site [3.15 seconds, 63 bytes] ▶ ended pipeline [1.375 minutes]

tar_target(deploy_site, { # Force dependencies site if (Sys.getenv("UPLOAD_WEBSITES") == "TRUE") { processx::run(paste0("./", deploy_script)) cli::cli_alert_success(paste0("Website uploaded to ", base_url)) } })

Fun little #rstats thing I've been doing with {targets}—you can use the {cli} package (cli.r-lib.org) to add nicely formatted messages to your targets pipeline output, like the "Website uploaded…" message here with cli_alert_success()

Works for anything, really, not just {targets} things

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…

Episode 192 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast flows again! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
➡️ Tidy flowcharts (Pau Satorra)
🤔 Non-API entry points (Ivan Krylov) @rdatatable.bsky.social
🧠 Brain Imaging (Joset Etzel)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

I even practice this before the recording! Something "just" happens when I push that record button ... Nonetheless I'm going to fix this 😅

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 Bluesky R…

The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns with episode 191! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

💬 Bluesky summaries with LLMs @stephenturner.us
🚲 Cycling destinations & Azure OpenAI @martinctc.bsky.social
🎨 Colors in R @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

Screenshot of OBS running inside a distrobox container on my media production machine now powered by NixOS showing the Positron IDE and code from my new shinystate R package with a simple example Shiny app on the right. I have a long ways to go, but the revival of my streaming setup begins!

⭐️ Brand new install of #nixos ...

🎥 #obs running in a container ...

The resurrection of my streaming and recording setup begins!

#rstats #shiny