Episode Details

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 Logging dplyr Pipelines
• Generating universes within universes with a single seed
• Working Smarter in R: Tips, Tricks & Real-World Lessons
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W18

Supplement Resources

• tidylog https://github.com/elbersb/tidylog/
• logrittr documentation https://guillaumepressiat.github.io/logrittr/
• Fine-grained control of RNG seeds in R https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2023-12-27_seedcatcher

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• Passing Breeze (Lounge Suite) - OutRun - Remorse - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00875