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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 minR Weekly HighlightsIssue 2022-W41 HighlightsThe magic of automated Shiny app deployment and data aggregation using GitHub actions, 6 productivity hacks for Quarto, and valuable tips for managing large codebases in R.
Episode Links
This week's curator: Colin Faye (@_colinFay)
Automatically deploying a Shiny app for browsing #RStats tweets with GitHub Actions
6 Productivity Hacks for Quarto
"Managing Large Codebases in R" webinar
Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2022-W41
Supplement Resources
littler - scripting and command-line front-end for R https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html
2022-10-1237 min
CppCastRcppDirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library.
News
Crow v1.0 released
C++23 will be really awesome
C isn't A Programming Language Anymore
Links
Rcpp
Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
2022-04-2159 min
CppCastRcppDirk Eddelbuettel joins Rob and Jason. They first talk about an updated C++ web framework, and whether C should be considered a programming language or a protocol. Then they talk to Dirk about the R programming language, and RCPP the R/C++ interop library.
News
Crow v1.0 released
C++23 will be really awesome
C isn't A Programming Language Anymore
Links
Rcpp
Rcpp: Seamless R and C++ Integration
Patreon
CppCast Patreon
2022-04-2154 min
The R-PodcastEpisode 21: Episode 21: Talking Rcpp and more with Dirk EddelbuettelThe R-Podcast concludes its coverage of rstudio::conf by chatting with R Foundation member and Rcpp author Dirk Eddelbuettel! We cover a variety of topics including the state of Rcpp, how the integration of Rcpp in RStudio came about, and his perspective on Linux in the R community. Plus a new batch of listener feedback and a package pick that gives your shiny apps and rmarkdown reports a little more bootstrap polish. Enjoy episode 21 of the R-Podcast!
2017-02-0940 min
DataScience.LA PodcastA Conversation with Dirk Eddelbuettel at useR! 2014First things first, Dirk Eddelbuettel was recently named ordinary. This seems contradictory, since Dirk is a known HPC expert, an organizer of the R in Finance conference, the creator of Rcpp, and a Debiancontributor. These are only a few of the many accolades bestowed upon Dirk without even a hint of puffery. And yet, Dirk Eddelbuettel is considered ordinary. What makes Dirk ordinary? It should be mentioned that to the Vienna-based nonprofit that provides R’s leadership, the R Foundation for Statistical Computing, ‘ordinary’ means something quite different to the lay person. Ordinary members provide guidance and direction for the R P...
2014-09-2524 min