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Issue 2024-W16 Highlights
Episode 161
Another way to hop on LLM train with the chattr package, a clever use of defensive programming to get to those warnings in your tests faster, and a m…
2 years, 2 months ago
Issue 2024-W15 Highlights
Episode 160
The Nix and R train rolls on with automated caching, a collection of big improvements landing in webR, and how hand-crafted visualizations bring fund…
2 years, 2 months ago
Issue 2024-W14 Highlights
Episode 159
Taking the tradition of spring cleaning your R session to a nefarious direction, how a little R and automation crafted together helps with bill payme…
2 years, 2 months ago
Issue 2024-W13 Highlights
How a recent pivot in one of the most popular testing frameworks in R unlocks mocking once again, bringing robust grammar checks to your R developmen…
2 years, 2 months ago
Issue 2024-W12 Highlights
An honest take on common patterns and anti-patterns for re-use of data analyses that hit a bit too close to home for your hosts, a cautionary tale of…
2 years, 3 months ago
Issue 2024-W11 Highlights
A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful e…
2 years, 3 months ago
Issue 2024-W10 Highlights
How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recen…
2 years, 3 months ago
Issue 2024-W09 Highlights
Flipping a Hello World function on its head, assorted improvements landing in ggplot2 3.5.0, and why authoring beautiful code is so worth it.
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2 years, 3 months ago
Issue 2024-W08 Highlights
Putting those bike pedals to work with a comprehensive exploratory data analysis, navigating through a near-inferno of namespace and dependency issue…
2 years, 4 months ago
Issue 2024-W07 Highlights
A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly …
2 years, 4 months ago