Episode Details

Creating retro-gaming sprites rendered from the comforts of R? Yes we can! Plus an honest take on the utility of Github's Copilot Workspace in the context of package development, and taking the concept of code trees to another level with treesitter.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @RbyRyo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @RbyRyo) (X/Twitter)
• Tile-style sprite delight
• Some thoughts after a trial run of GitHub's Copilot Workspace
• Extracting names of functions defined in a script with treesitter
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W30

Supplement Resources

• tree-sitter-r https://github.com/r-lib/tree-sitter-r
• Shiny.telemetry 0.3.0 https://www.appsilon.com/post/shiny-telemetry-0-3-0-update
• Introduction to R with the Tidyverse https://introduction-r-tidyverse.netlify.app/session1_notes

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• Moonlight Vibin' - Mega Man X5 - DCT - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02053
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