Science & Medicine

R Weekly Highlights

Eric Nantz

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.

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Listen to R Weekly Highlights, a Science & Medicine podcast by Eric Nantz. Stream 225 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Issue 2026-W18 Highlights

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...

00:33:03May 2, 2026

Issue 2026-W16 Highlights

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...

00:37:11Apr 17, 2026

Issue 2026-W09 Highlights

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...

00:50:30Feb 27, 2026

Issue 2026-W08 Highlights

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...

00:35:51Feb 20, 2026

Issue 2026-W06 Highlights

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

00:35:10Feb 4, 2026

Issue 2026-W05 Highlights

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

00:40:26Jan 28, 2026

Issue 2026-W04 Highlights

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

00:33:49Jan 23, 2026

Issue 2026-W03 Highlights

It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities,...

00:42:57Jan 14, 2026

Issue 2025-W51 Highlights

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

00:31:38Dec 17, 2025

Issue 2025-W50 Highlights

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

00:38:03Dec 10, 2025

Issue 2025-W48 Highlights

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

00:38:49Nov 26, 2025

Issue 2025-W42 Highlights

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...

00:39:33Oct 15, 2025

Issue 2025-W40 Highlights

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...

00:44:31Oct 1, 2025

Issue 2025-W39 Highlights

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...

00:51:33Sep 24, 2025

Issue 2025-W34 Highlights

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

00:44:20Aug 22, 2025

Issue 2025-W31 Highlights

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...

00:45:03Aug 2, 2025

Issue 2025-W30 Highlights

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

00:32:16Jul 23, 2025

Issue 2025-W28 Highlights

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...

00:47:32Jul 12, 2025

Issue 2025-W24 Highlights

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...

00:42:21Jun 13, 2025

Issue 2025-W21 Highlights

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...

00:52:51May 23, 2025

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