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, a great starting point to create your first RAG-powered knowledge store, and a new package enters the Shiny ecosystem that is certainly not tiny in its ambitions. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) R + Python: From polyglot to pluralism : A very targeted recap on posit::conf(2025) and a broader reflection on how the best design and devtools ideas from R and python have influenced each others' stacks for the better Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Setting up a Knowledge Store in R {tinyshinyserver} 0.1.0 : Tiny 'shiny' Server - Lightweight Multi-App 'shiny' Proxy Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W03 Supplement Resources tinyshinyserver GitHub repository: Yann Tourman's R Weekly episode length analysis Supporting the show Use the contact page at to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby , and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: Get in touch with us on social media Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix We're the Fugawe Forest - Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - XPRTNovice feat. Weisty - Zelda's Graceful Nightmare - 25YEARLEGEND: A Legend of Zelda Indie Game Composer Tribute - Matheus Manente -

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This episode was published on Jan 14, 2026.

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