Issue 2025-W06 Highlights
Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the world (of data) is at your fingertips for data exploration and sharing your insights using the innovative closeread Quarto extension.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky)Three experiments in LLM code assist with RStudio and PositronGapminder: how has the world changed?Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in REntire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W06Supplement ResourcesFrom hours to minutes: accelerating your tidymodels code https://youtu.be/pTMiDHFIiPQ?si=4qZC3_NLUVhD5hAaEffecient Machine Learning with R https://emlwr.org/Closeread: Bringing scrollytelling to Quarto https://youtu.be/KqLxy66B3lQ?si=w7DIB4QhYk2u6cLGCloseread Posit contest submissions https://forum.posit.co/tag/closeread-prize-2024Extract Information From Images and PDFs With R & LLMs https://3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/extract-information-from-images-and-pdfs-with-r-llmsusgs geological survey mapping water https://waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/acs-maps/Supporting the showUse the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedbackR-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.infoGet in touch with us on social mediaEric 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 OCRemixCosta del Sol DANCE - Final Fantasy VII - posu yan - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00095Aerobotics - Mega Man 8 - Just Coffee - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03323