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Issue 2026-W08 Highlights
Episode 221
A glimpse into the R Consortium Submissions Working Group's recent successes and future work, and a new way to view those nested lists from a familia…
4 months ago
Issue 2026-W06 Highlights
Episode 220
A prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git workshop …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Issue 2026-W05 Highlights
Episode 219
The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning along the way…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Issue 2026-W04 Highlights
Episode 218
The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the myth on s…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Issue 2026-W03 Highlights
Episode 217
It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great s…
5 months, 1 week ago
Issue 2025-W51 Highlights
Episode 216
A retrospective that showcases favourite data visualisation projects and insights from 2025, a practical guide offering R package maintainers methods…
6 months ago
Issue 2025-W50 Highlights
Episode 215
How the recent frontier LLM model releases compare for successfully generating R code, our take on the new Test Set data science podcast, and a surpr…
6 months, 1 week ago
Issue 2025-W48 Highlights
Episode 214
Prepare to deploy multiple LLM-powered agents for your next (secret) missions with mini007, a new contender to the high-performance linter tools with…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Issue 2025-W42 Highlights
Episode 213
Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization with more t…
8 months ago
Issue 2025-W40 Highlights
Episode 212
The ducks have made their presence felt in the world of databases, but now you can take a dip in a new Ducklake all within R! If you ever felt someon…
8 months, 2 weeks ago