Episode Details

A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a clever use of AI to summarize a large collection of blog posts.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Nested unit tests with testthat
• shinychat: Chat UI component for Shiny for R
• Creating post summary with AI from Hugging Face
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W42

Supplement Resources

• elmer: Call LLM APIs from R https://hadley.github.io/elmer/
• Joe Cheng's sidebot app (R edition) https://github.com/jcheng5/r-sidebot
• EDA Reimagined in R: GWalkR + DuckDB for Lightning-Fast Visualizations https://medium.com/@bruceyu0416/eda-reimagined-in-r-gwalkr-duckdb-for-lightning-fast-visualizations-05b011e8ae39
• Apache superset https://superset.apache.org/
• Postprocessing is coming to tidymodels https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10/postprocessing-preview/

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