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R Weekly Highlights
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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Issue 2026-W30 Highlights
The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever ta...
Issue 2026-W29 Highlights
An exciting new way to search and discover R packages wrapping novel technology, how the new checktor package finds the key issues standard checks wil...
Issue 2026-W28 Highlights
A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for n...
Issue 2026-W26 Highlights
The R Core team receives a prestigious award in the world of Statistics, a month-long recognition of the rOpenSci package maintainers, and a collectio...
Issue 2026-W25 Highlights
The evolution of Posit's data science agents, robust approaches to unnamed parameters in R functions, and the power of math and visualization collide...
Issue 2026-W24 Highlights
A friendly reminder on checking customization when upgrading R, how refactoring may not be so tedious when using the Jarl utility, and honest takes on...
Issue 2026-W23 Highlights
R is capable of many analyes in the world of data science, but can it build a computer? Also a massive usability feature landing in the latest bslib t...
Issue 2026-W22 Highlights
The power of choice is in full effect! How you can leverage GitLab to publish your next Quarto document online, how to bring key R functional paradigm...
Issue 2026-W21 Highlights
Applying novel statistical and visualization techniques to predict war duration, why there is more than meets the statistical eye behind a classical m...
Issue 2026-W20 Highlights
A massive milestone for the language that eventually led to the R we know and love, plus a comprehensive look at two popular workflow frameworks acros...
Issue 2026-W19 Highlights
If Shiny wasn't awesome enough, a new toolkit is bringing the awesome to new heights! Plus a handful of ggplot2 functions that can immediate impact co...
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 far beyon...
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 in Excel, t...
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 for analys...
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 a familiar...
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 workshop t...
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 along the way,...
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 myth on se...
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 st...
Issue 2025-W51 Highlights
A retrospective that showcases favourite data visualisation projects and insights from 2025, a practical guide offering R package maintainers methods...
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, and a surpri...
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 tools with...
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 with more th...
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 felt someone...
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 experiences...
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 we share...
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 next plum...
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 Assistant...
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 about novel w...
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 package eases...
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 version co...
Issue 2025-W19 Highlights
Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is jam-packed with four highlights! We discuss the recent improvements to the recipes package in the tidymodels sui...
Issue 2025-W18 Highlights
In this episode of R Weekly Highlights we hear from industry experts on how they choose a programming language for their projects, a big boost to the...
Issue 2025-W16 Highlights
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 major new f...
Issue 2025-W15 Highlights
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 p...
Issue 2025-W14 Highlights
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...
Issue 2025-W12 Highlights
Thriving in a multi-lingual data science lifestyle while authoring your next Quarto project, putting LLMs to the scientific test with parsing manuscri...
Issue 2025-W11 Highlights
Giving your package documentation site a little personality and much more with {pkgdown} customization, plus a novel new package to bring the power of...
Issue 2025-W10 Highlights
A major milestone for leveraging LLMs in R just landed with the new ellmer package, along with a terrific showcase of retrieval-augmented generation c...
Issue 2025-W08 Highlights
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 l...