Shows
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
Open SourceCraft (Audio)Dirk EddelbuettelFor the last 15 years Dirk has been contributing to both Debian Linux and the R language. Learn how he uses code to do Financial Econometrics. More info at http://codepop.com/open-sourcecraft/episodes/dirk-eddelbuettel/
2017-04-0521 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
The R-PodcastEpisode 21: Talking Rcpp and More With Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk’s site: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/
Rcpp documentation portal: http://rcpp.org/
Using Rcpp with RStudio: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/200486088-Using-Rcpp-with-RStudio
R Community Roundup
CRAN hits 10,000 packages with hurricaneexposure by Brooke Anderson
CRAN now has 10,000 R packages. Here’s how to find the ones you need: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/01/cran-10000.html
Using R to prevent food poisoning in Chicago: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/12/food-inspection-forecasting.html
Listener Feedback
Jan: rintrojs package issue
Robust solution for multi-page apps (such as navbar layout): https://github.com/carlganz/rintrojs/issues/17
Erich: SAS and R
SAS/IML...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