R Weekly Highlights
By Eric Nantz
Categories: Science
The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.
247 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Issue 2026-W44 Highlights
The celebration of rOpenSci's 15-year anniversary continues with the community sharing their perspectives, and a fun Shiny app that could be quite useful during celebrations on a weekend or the holidays. If you ever wanted to hear a slightly unhinged episode of the podcast, this is it! Episode…
- Issue 2026-W43 Highlights
We learn about the variety of ways you can contribute back to the core of R, a roundup of the excellent choices available for package and environment reproducibility, and an amazing collection of Shiny applications and packages addressing massive needs in bioinformatics … all created in a single…
- Issue 2026-W41 Highlights
A roundtrip between formatted tables and spreadsheets is now very much possible, how {shinyreact} represents a new path for user interface development in Shiny, and a candid take on ownership of code and the products we build from it (including very awesome art).Episode Links This week's curator…
- Issue 2026-W40 Highlights
After a massive backlog issue sprint, the foundational {knitr} gains terrific updates to supercharge SQL code chunks. The R Project moves to an open source platform for asynchronous communication, and a key technique for bringing the user's perspective on error messages when you test your R…
- Issue 2026-W39 Highlights
Have you found a rogue line of rm(list=ls()) in your R scripts? Then we have a terrific update to a package to find those environment issues and much more. Plus a candid take on the lifecycle of spreadsheet-creating packages, and how to take matters to your "R" hands when faced with a perplexing…
- Issue 2026-W37 Highlights
A data-driven investigation on how September is a dangerous month for bikers in Wisconsin, a novel look at the distribution of castles across the globe, and the fundamentals behind an influential analysis method commonly used in experimental designs.Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt…
- Issue 2026-W36 Highlights
The newest linter on the R block gains a bold new feature in version 0.6.0, and a new package documentation framework altdown enters the world. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Jarl 0.6.0: A fast R linterA new take on…
- Issue 2026-W35 Highlights
A collection of techniques to unlock creativity for your next visualisation, a look at the exciting present and future of the futurize transpiler package, and how to avoid an all-to-common pitfall managing database connections in mirai daemons.Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz…
- Issue 2026-W33 Highlights
A collection of tips to ensure reproducibility for R-based clinical submissions, a modern architecture lands in R-Universe, and going beyond the built-in mtcars set to educate students with NYC Open Data. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_…
- Issue 2026-W32 Highlights
Orchestrating multiple package quality checking frameworks all within a single R package, and how learning in the world of AI has fundamentally shifted once you get over that initial hump (inspired by a quick quote from one of your hosts). Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq…
- Issue 2026-W31 Highlights
The value of community and sustainability in full view at UserR 2026, a new tool ready to equip reproducibility and more for command-line utilities built with R, and the conclusion to LLM-prompting black magic that draws upon the awesome glue package. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay…
- Issue 2026-W30 Highlights
The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever take on supplementing your prompts with R objects. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) &…
- Issue 2026-W29 Highlights
An exciting new way to search and discover R packages wrapping novel technology, how the new checktor package finds the key issues standard checks will miss, and yes, you can play Doom in R (what?)Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @[email protected] (Mastodon) &…
- Issue 2026-W28 Highlights
A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for new use cases.Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)Testing Your Plumber APIs…
- Issue 2026-W26 Highlights
The R Core team receives a prestigious award in the world of Statistics, a month-long recognition of the rOpenSci package maintainers, and a collection of helpful tips for obtaining robust R code from AI agents. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected]…
- Issue 2026-W25 Highlights
The evolution of Posit's data science agents, robust approaches to unnamed parameters in R functions, and the power of math and visualization collide in an unexpected way.Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)A brief and biased…
- Issue 2026-W24 Highlights
A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on various code smells you can prevent in your next testing suite. Episode Links This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social…
- Issue 2026-W23 Highlights
R is capable of many analyes in the world of data science, but can it build a computer? Also a massive usability feature landing in the latest bslib to power up your cards, and optimizing memory usage with the latest rleases of mirai and mori. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt…
- Issue 2026-W22 Highlights
The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigms to a Python session, and adding a larger safety net with your unit tests with {mutagen} 0.2.0. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll…
- Issue 2026-W21 Highlights
Applying novel statistical and visualization techniques to predict war duration, why there is more than meets the statistical eye behind a classical model benchmarking statistic, and celebrating a major milestone for pioneers in open science with R. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay…
- Issue 2026-W20 Highlights
A massive milestone for the language that eventually led to the R we know and love, plus a comprehensive look at two popular workflow frameworks across the R and Python ecosystems. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)S at…
- Issue 2026-W19 Highlights
If Shiny wasn't awesome enough, a new toolkit is bringing the awesome to new heights! Plus a handful of ggplot2 functions that can immediate impact common visualization operations, and knitr gains support for a much-hyped typesetting format for the static document crowd. Episode Links This week's…
- Issue 2026-W18 Highlights
How the new logrittr package gives you a peek behind the tidy pipelines of dplyr, and a fascinating glimpse into the universe of seeds going far beyond a favorite 80's song. Episode Links This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)logrittr: A Verbose Pipe Operator for…
- Issue 2026-W16 Highlights
After an unexpected break we are back with a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! If you thought the easiest way to create pivot tables was in Excel, the a new package just might change your perspective. Plus how you can pull the strings for a multi-agent LLM workflow with the new puppeteeR…
- Issue 2026-W09 Highlights
Choice is good, but sometimes you may want a little help! Our first two highlights showcase approaches you can take to inform your next LLM for analyses and open-source license. Plus how to make your mark(s) within your version control history. Episode Links This week's curator: Sam Parmar…
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