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Issue 2025-W15 Highlights
Episode 201
In this episode of R Weekly Highlights: We have a six-month follow-up perspective from an early Positron user, how the current landscape of AI tools …
1 year, 2 months ago
Issue 2025-W14 Highlights
Episode 200
By some minor miracle (even on April Fools) the R Weekly Highlights podcast has made it to episode 200! We go "virtual" shopping for LLM-powered text…
1 year, 2 months ago
Issue 2025-W12 Highlights
Episode 199
Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscr…
1 year, 3 months ago
Issue 2025-W11 Highlights
Episode 198
Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Issue 2025-W10 Highlights
Episode 197
A major milestone for leveraging LLMs in R just landed with the new ellmer package, along with a terrific showcase of retrieval-augmented generation …
1 year, 3 months ago
Issue 2025-W08 Highlights
Episode 196
Our candid takes on the state of CRAN's role in light of recent package archival events, how creative use of LLMs could greatly streamline your next …
1 year, 4 months ago
Issue 2025-W07 Highlights
Episode 195
An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the unique format…
1 year, 4 months ago
Issue 2025-W06 Highlights
Episode 194
Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the world (of …
1 year, 4 months ago
Issue 2025-W05 Highlights
Episode 193
Ready to bring your next presentation slides to the world of Quarto? Our first highlight has a batch of power tips you can use for your next slide de…
1 year, 4 months ago
Issue 2025-W04 Highlights
Episode 192
Bringing a little tidy magic to creating flowcharts in R, how data.table is addressing recent shifts in R's C APIs, and another showcase of R's visua…
1 year, 4 months ago