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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 min

R 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 min

R 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 min

R 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 min

R 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 min

R 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 min

R 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. Episode Links 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 min

R 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. Episode Links 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 min

R 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 min

R 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. Episode Links 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/ ...2023-09-2739 min

R 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 min

R 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. Episode Links 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 min

R 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. Episode Links 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 ...2023-01-1934 min

R 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. 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 2022-08-3125 min

R 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 min

R 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 ...2022-06-1522 min

R 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. 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...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 min

R 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 min

R 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. 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 Ha...2021-12-1535 min

R 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 min

R 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