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.

R Weekly Highlights is a science podcast hosted by Eric Nantz, with 239 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Eric Nantz hosts R Weekly Highlights, a science show with 239 episodes published.

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  Episode #239

  Issue 2026-W33 Highlights

  Aug 14, 202645 min

  A collection of tips to ensure reproducibility for R-based clinical submissions, a modern architecture lands in R-Universe, and going beyond the built-in mtcars set to educate students with NYC Open Data.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) Making R Submissions Reviewable for FDA Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W33 Supplement Resources R Consortium Submissions Working Group https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-wg SimpleEnglish Agent skill https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish New R tooling https://r-devs.com/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact 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: https://value4value.info 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 Chillout - Mega Man 2 - sedure - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01175 Brushwork - Mario Paint - Fratto, Wiesty, The OC Jazz Collective - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04389

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  Episode #238

  Issue 2026-W32 Highlights

  Aug 7, 202634 min

  Orchestrating multiple package quality checking frameworks all within a single R package, and how learning in the world of AI has fundamentally shifted once you get over that initial hump (inspired by a quick quote from one of your hosts).  Episode Links  This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) rsonar: The R equivalent of SonarQube - centralizes code quality analysis into a single interactive report Cognitive Courage: The Real Bottleneck to Learning AI Tools - Learning a new AI workflow no longer means studying it first. The platform you work in is the platform you learn in, and the only thing between you and your first skill is the nerve to say ‘I don’t know – show me.’ Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W32 Supplement Resources {rsonar} documentation https://ddotta.github.io/rsonar/ {rsonar} examples repository https://github.com/ddotta/rsonar-examples {rsonar} presentation (French) https://ddotta.github.io/rsonar_presentation/#/title-slide R Weekly Highlights episode 232 https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/r-weekly-highlights/232 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact 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: https://value4value.info 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 Lost in a Nightmare - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Palpable - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03001

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  Episode #237

  Issue 2026-W31 Highlights

  Jul 31, 202649 min

  The value of community and sustainability in full view at UserR 2026, a new tool ready to equip reproducibility and more for command-line utilities built with R, and the conclusion to LLM-prompting black magic that draws upon the awesome glue package.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Colin Fay - @colinfay@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @colinfay.bsky.social (Bluesky) & [@_ColinFay]]( https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter) What Makes R Strong: Reflections from useR! 2026 ir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents Building our own glue with R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W31 Supplement Resources Matrix operators in R https://019b2dbc-0ac6-3185-aa9f-0bea50e3da6d.share.connect.posit.cloud/matrix-operators.html {golem} 1.0.0 is here https://golemverse.org/news/golem-1.0.0-release-on-cran/ Package Tools with ir https://r-lib.github.io/ir/tools.html Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact 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: https://value4value.info 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 Snow Cone Heaven - Ice Climber - Mazedude - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01176 Salut Voisin! - Final Fantasy IV - Colorado Weeks, Aeroprism - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04553

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  Episode #235

  Issue 2026-W29 Highlights

  Jul 17, 202643 min

  An exciting new way to search and discover R packages wrapping novel technology, how the new checktor package finds the key issues standard checks will miss, and yes, you can play Doom in R (what?) Episode Links  This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo@mstdn.social (Mastodon) & @rbyryo.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @R_by_Ryo ) (X/Twitter) Searching the R Ecosystem by Function, Not Package Name The Check Passed. The Reviewer Didn’t. {rdoom} is a playable version of Doom for R. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W29 Supplement Resources The Warehouse https://rwarehouse.netlify.app/ Warehouse GitHub repository https://github.com/kylieainslie/warehouse checktor https://r-pkg.thecoatlessprofessor.com/checktor/ tigerfb Interactive Framebuffer for R https://github.com/coolbutuseless/tigerfb Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact 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: https://value4value.info 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 On Wings of Steel - After Burner - Juan Medrano - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03405 Black Genesis - Final Fantasy 6 - Brandon Strader, Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796

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  Episode #233

  Issue 2026-W28 Highlights

  Jul 10, 202633 min

  A set of principles to enhance testing APIs created inside R, and the engine behind automatic reloading of rendered Shiny apps becomes available for new use cases. Episode Links  This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Testing Your Plumber APIs from R watcher 0.2.0: filesystem watching for R, and the engine behind Shiny auto-reload Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W28 Supplement Resources {plumber2}: https://plumber2.posit.co/ {httr2}: https://httr2.r-lib.org/index.html {mirai}: https://mirai.r-lib.org/index.html {nanonext}: https://nanonext.r-lib.org/index.html roxygen2 @exampleIF tag https://roxygen2.r-lib.org/articles/rd-functions.html#examples {watcher}: https://watcher.r-lib.org/ fswatch https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact 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: https://value4value.info 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 Relm's Weepy Loop - Final Fantasy 6 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00178

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