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R Weekly HighlightsIssue 2025-W19 HighlightsEpisode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels suite, Nicola Rennie's adventures with this year's 30 day chart challenge, going back to math school with Jon Carroll's latest explorations in digit rotation, and our picks out of the excellent collection of the top 40 R packages for March.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)recipes 1.3.030 Day Chart Challenge 2025Rotation with ModuloMarch 2025 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W19Supplement Resources{recipes} Pipeable steps...
2025-05-0742 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2025-W11 HighlightsGiving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power of LaTeX to all of your plots!Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter)Customize your expedition: Create a unique documentation for your R PackageLaTeX Typesetting in R: The 'xdvir' PackageEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W11Supplement Resources{xdvir} package vignette https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xdvir/vignettes/xdvir-intro.htmltinytex- A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live https...
2025-03-1241 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2025-W01 HighlightsThe 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 posts, as well as how models hosted on Azure infrastructure summarize cycling destinations. Lastly, we visit the visualization corner once again to bring a little (or a lot) of color in your next graphics created with R.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Bluesky conversation analysis with local and frontier LLMs with R/Tidyverse.Harnessing Azure OpenAI and R for Web Content Summarisation: A Practical Guide with rvest...
2025-01-1548 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2024-W45 HighlightsEric'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 a few of his favorite gems, plus the Quarto publishing system takes center stage with how GitHub actions brings automation to report generation, and a terrific batch of answers to the recent R/Pharma workshop on building parameterized Quarto reports in R.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Talk recordings and workshop materials from posit::conf(2024)3MW (Automate Anything With R & GitHub Actions)Parameterized plots and reports with...
2024-11-0643 min
SustainEpisode 254: Batool Almarzouq on Localizing Open Source CommunitiesGuest
Batool Almarzouq
Panelist
Richard Littauer | Amanda Casari
Show Notes
In this episode, hosts Richard Littauer and Amanda Casari are joined by Batool Almarzouq, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and Research Project Manager at the Alan Turing Institute. They discuss Batool's work in open science, including her involvement in the Open Science Community Saudi Arabia, localization efforts, and the challenges of connecting global and local open science initiatives. The conversation covers Batool's efforts to make research more accessible and open in the Arab region, the concept...
2024-11-0132 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2024-W37 HighlightsHow 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 collection of tips you can apply today for your next visualization.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)Making your blog FAIRCreate and use a custom roxygen2 tagFive ways to improve your chart axesEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W37Supplement Resourceshttr2: Perform HTTP requests and process the response https://httr2.r-lib.org/Athanasia's GitHub Actions workflow files https://github.com/drmowinckels...
2024-09-1149 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2024-W28 HighlightsThe world of web-assembly in R continues to move fast with key updates to the webrcli & spidyr packages, and what has us excited about the mapgl package for producing amazing spatial visualizations. Episode LinksThis week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)webrcli & spidyr: What’s newCreate a Compare slider widgetEntire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W28Supplement Resourcesmapgl package site https://walker-data.com/mapglMike's migrate package https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/migrate/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-Weekly Highlights on the...
2024-07-1833 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2024-W13 HighlightsHow a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R development environment with rspell, and flex your Shiny and HTML design muscles with flexbox.
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This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (X/Twitter)
Update on mocking for testing R packages
{rspell} Are you writing in a foreign language? The RStudio spelling dictionary setting is not sufficient to correct grammar errors. Try the {rspell} package to grammar-proof your notebooks and documentation straight on RStudio without copying-pasting.
3MW (Aligning content with...
2024-03-2739 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2024-W05 HighlightsThe R-Weekly Highlights podcast has crossed another milestone with episode 150! In this episode we cover a terrific collection of development nuggets of wisdom revealed in a recent package review livestream, and how a feature flying under the radar from Git can facilitate investigations of multiple package versions.
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This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Notes from live code review of {soils}
Load different R package versions at once with git worktree
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W05
Supplement Resources
How to embed videos with GitHub markdown: https://youtu.be/G3...
2024-01-3123 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2023-W49 HighlightsA timely collection of tips and tricks in adopting the cli package for your R package interfaces, how the deposits package addresses an all-to-familiar problem of sharing research data, and an encore of creating your own RStats-wrapped of your most used R functions.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Cliff notes about the cli package
How to make your own #RStats Wrapped
deposits R Package Delivers a Common Workflow for R Users
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W49
Supplement Resources
Rethinking packages & functions preloading in webR 0.2.2 https://colinfay.me...
2023-12-0636 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2023-W39 HighlightsReflections on the amazing posit::conf(2023), a new framework that'll have you snap into HTML slides, the Nix reproducible data science train powers forward into CI/CD territory, and leveraging parallel processing in spatial data prediction.
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This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Reflections on posit conf(2023)
Snap Slides: a Lightweight HTML Presentation Framework
Parallel raster processing in stars
Reproducible data science with Nix, part 6 -- CI/CD has never been easier
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W39
Supplement Resources
Shiny in Production Tools & Techniques https://posit-conf-2023.github.io/shiny-r-prod/
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2023-09-2739 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2023-W30 HighlightsHow consistent formatting and styling is valuable technique for debugging, a visual tour-de-force of jazzing up your ggplots with the amazing ecosystem of extension packages, and why a little investment in learning HTML and CSS is worth your time as an R programmer.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Tips for debugging and cleaning broken code
Jazz up your ggplots!
Four reasons to learn HTML + CSS as an R programmer
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-WXX
Supporting the show
Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact...
2023-07-2637 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2023-W21 HighlightsA must-have resource to get you primed for testing R packages interfacing with the web, how ggblend taps into new compositing functionality for clearer plots, and how R stacks up with Excel in handling dates.
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This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
Better Understanding Your Tools Choices with Online Book HTTP Testing in R
ggblend: Blending and compositing algebra for ggplot2
Why should I use R: Handling Dates in R and Excel: Part 3
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W21
Supplement Resources
HTTP Testing with R: https://books.ropensci.org/http-testing...
2023-05-2539 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2023-W02 HighlightsA glimpse into the world of end-to-end Shiny app testing with shinytest2, and an important look at the spectrum of reproducibility within R using container technology and services.
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This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batool664 (Twitter)
End-to-end testing with shinytest2 Part 2
MRAN is getting shutdown - what else is there for reproducibility with R, or why reproducibility is on a continuum?
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W02
Supplement Resources
{leprechaun}: Code generator for lean and robust Shiny applications https://leprechaun.opifex.org
Bruno's excitement for our episode on Twitter and Mastodon
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2023-01-1934 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2022-W35 HighlightsUsing hierarchical forecasting to explore subway fare recovery, and how you can learn more about {gtsummary} to create your next publication-quality table within R.
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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
2022-08-3125 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2022-W32 HighlightsA 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
2022-08-1024 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2022-W24 HighlightsMany 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
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2022-06-1522 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2022-W22 HighlightsAnnotated screencasts of David Robinson's Tidy Tuesday analyses, and the second edition of Deep Learning with R is on the way.
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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
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R DiscoRd...
2022-06-0121 min
The Digital Infrastructure Fund PodcastEpisode 8: Rayya El Zein on the Digital Infrastructure IncubatorGuest
Rayya El Zein | Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal | Heather Turner | Batool Almarzouq | Nic Weber
Jackson Maxfield Brown | Stephan Druskat | Gemma Turon | Miquel Duran Frigola
Panelist
Richard Littauer
Show Notes
Hello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund Podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool. Today, I’m very excited with all my guests. We have one...
2022-04-1830 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2022-W13 HighlightsAfter 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...
2022-03-3029 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2021-W50 HighlightsA 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.
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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
Ha...
2021-12-1535 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2021-W39 HighlightsData 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...
2021-09-3025 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2021-W28 HighlightsCreating 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
2021-07-1309 min