Description

How to easily create interactive versions of your favorite ggplots with ggiraph, bringing AutoML to R with forester, and a head-to-head comparison of R and Excel for common data wrangling and summaries.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
• Creating interactive visualizations with {ggiraph} (with or without Shiny)
• forester: what makes the package special?
• Why should I use R: The Excel R Data Wrangling comparison: Part 1
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W09

Supplement Resources

• ggiraph online book https://www.ardata.fr/ggiraph-book
• {openxlsx2} read, write, and modify xlsx files https://janmarvin.github.io/openxlsx2

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