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The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.

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...

After an unexpected break we are back with a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! If you thought the easiest way to create pivot tables was i...

Choice is good, but sometimes you may want a little help! Our first two highlights showcase approaches you can take to inform your next LLM...

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 prominent leader at the intersection of data science and data engineering across multiple languages shares her insights, how a recent Git...

The way LLMs can be a little stubborn when interpreting data visualizations, bringing new meaning to digging for your data and learning alon...

The inside story of how Claude Code with the proper scope provided a massive boost to drafting hundreds of pull requests, and debunking the...

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 retrospective that showcases favourite data visualisation projects and insights from 2025, a practical guide offering R package maintainer...

How the recent frontier LLM model releases compare for successfully generating R code, our take on the new Test Set data science podcast, an...

Prepare to deploy multiple LLM-powered agents for your next (secret) missions with mini007, a new contender to the high-performance linter t...

Creating your own race to a programming finish line with a hidden gem in mirai, the lowdown on using Generative AI for data visualization wi...

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 fe...

Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their ex...

In episode 210 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast: The Positron IDE has officially been released after two years of intense development, and...

In episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights we learn ways you can pinpoint just what is slowing down your R code, a novel framing for testing your...

In episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights, the LLM train keeps moving along in the data science community: First impressions of the new Positron...

It's been far too long since our last episode of R Weekly Highlights, but we are finally back with episode 207! In this episode we learn abo...

The summer schedule has been crazy, but we finally have a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode: How the new shiny2docker pack...

Have you wanted a chance to rewrite your own history? With Git, you certainly can! We learn that and other amazing tips to supercharge your...

Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidy...

In this episode of R Weekly Highlights we hear from industry experts on how they choose a programming language for their projects, a big boo...

It's not every day that we get to dive into a brand new release of R, but we get to do just that in episode 202! We share our takes on the m...

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...

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-pow...

Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsin...

Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring th...

A major milestone for leveraging LLMs in R just landed with the new ellmer package, along with a terrific showcase of retrieval-augmented ge...

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 y...

An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the uniq...

Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the w...

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...

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...

The R Weekly Highlights podcast returns for Our first episode of 2025! We learn how hosted and self-hostem LLM's perform in the summarizatio...

An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for...

The future of R-Universe looks even brighter for 2025 and beyond, revisiting the key factors for possibly switching to the Positron IDE, and...

As the holiday season enters the picture, learn how a humble R package helps you to give thanks to the contributors of your open-source pack...

What a way to close out the month of November with this batch of highlights! The ultimate teaser for the first-ever native mobile Shiny appl...

A summary of key contributions to the R language itself from R Dev Day at the Shiny in Production conference, and visualizing ice thickness...

The innovations of the R community never cease to amaze us! How a programmatic approach to generating markdown was vital to a high-profile Q...

Eric's flying solo this week, but the show goes on! The eagerly-anticipated recordings of the 2024 Posit conference are now available and Er...

Bringing tidy principles to a fundamental visualization for gene expressions, being on your best "behavior" for organizing your tests, and h...

A helpful way to organizing your growing collection of unit tests, how interfacing with LLMs just got easier in the R ecosystem, and a cleve...

A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modificatio...

How the latest release of patchwork is saving a cozy space for gt tables, a new package in the ggplot2 ecosystem to lend a guide for your gu...

Hide a picture of Homer Simpson in a residual plot of all places? Oh it's real, you could say "surreal!" Plus a data-driven approach to inve...

How being fair to your research has a new and important meaning than what you may expect, the power you can unlock with custom roxygen tags,...

A peek behind the curtain of how R handles that batch of code you send to the console, an adventure in automating the translation of Quarto...

A few tools you can use to find those elusive bottlenecks in Shiny app performance, adding a dash of interactivity to a reactable table, and...

Eric flies solo for this episode with a recap of his positconf 2024 adventures! Also how not to panic when you see a merge conflict in Git,...