Issue 2025-W07 Highlights
An illuminating set of tips for making the best out of the phrase "fifty shades of grey" in your next monochrome visualisation, how the unique formatting features of the Scotland census data were tamed with the power of R, and how the first-ever native mobile application powered by R has opened the doors wide open for innovation across many parts of data science.Episode LinksThis week's curator: Jon Carroll - @jonocarroll@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter)Designing monochrome data visualisationsThe life changing magic of tidying text filesRlinguo — Why Did We Build It?Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W07Supplement ResourcesColorBrewer palettes https://colorbrewer2.orgJohn's GitHub repository for tidying census files https://github.com/johnmackintosh/tidy-scotland-censusIntroducing Rlinguo, a native mobile app that runs R https://rtask.thinkr.fr/introducing-rlinguo-a-native-mobile-app-that-runs-r/mirai v2.0 - Continuous Innovation https://shikokuchuo.net/posts/25-mirai-v2/Key considerations for retiring/superseding an R package https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/superseding-bpmodels/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 powered by OCRemixChillout - Mega Man 2 - sedure - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01175Black Genesis - Final Fantasy VI Balance & Ruin - Brandon Strader, Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796