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R-Podcast (Eric)

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Hello! I'm a statistician & developer with a huge passion for the R language #rstats for statistical computing and Linux. I always enjoy learning with fun projects and following brilliant members of the community.

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 7d

Episode 212 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🦆 Jumping in Ducklakes @novica.bsky.social
🎨 Slidecrafting book! @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
🤖 Shiny side of LLMs @veerle.hypebright.nl

And a favorite segment returns 😅

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #databs

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

Is shipping to the US possible? I didn't see it in the country choices.

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

As a big advocate of RSS, I'm really curious what you are building!

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 11d

This is terrific! I am going to add this to the upcoming R Weekly issue 🙏

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 11d

A day after my #positconf2025 presentation, I'm delighted to share that my new package {shinystate} has arrived on CRAN!

Learn how {shinystate} supercharges bookmarkable state and more in this blog post: shinydevseries.com/blog/2025-09...

(Even Dr. Light & Dr. Wily like it too 🤖 )

#RStats #Shiny

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · 14d

Episode 211 of R-Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏗️ Parse & edit #markdown documents @ropensci.org
🤖 Vibe-coding a package @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
🏫 R-Exams quality control @zeileis.org

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Carroll 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 at…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Aug 22

Episode 210 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🎉 Positron officially arrives! @posit.co
🛠️ shinytesters @ashbaldry.bsky.social
🤔 Parameters in Shiny URL (Mauricio "Pachá" Vargas)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @colinfay.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 what…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Aug 2

Episode 209 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🏎️ Speed testing @kellybodwin.com
🪄 Testing Plumber APIs from R (Jakub Sobolewski)
📊 Recreating NY Times chart with ggplot2 (Spencer Schien)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

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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 plumber…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Jul 31

Episode 208 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

✨ Positron Assistant for creating R packages @stephenturner.us
📰 LLM-powered guide to Posit Conf 2025 agenda @ivelasq3.bsky.social & Sam Parmar

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @jonmcalder.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 for…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Jul 12

Episode 207 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...
🛠️ Generating Quarto syntax (Danielle Navarro)
🤔 Behavior-Driven Development @jakub-sobolewski.bsky.social
🔍 Dive()ing into the Hunt @milesmcbain.bsky.social

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

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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 ways…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Jun 13

Finally we are back with episode 206 of R Weekly Highlights! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📦 {shiny2docker} (Vincent Guyader)
📊 ggplot2 layer explorer @yjunechoe.bsky.social‬
🏎️ quickr ‪@t-kalinowski.bsky.social‬

h/t ‪@mike-thomas.bsky.social‬ 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 your…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · May 23

Episode 205 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📜 Good Git History @maellesalmon.bsky.social (SLCRUG)
📦 dockViewR @davidgranjon.bsky.social (Cynkra)
🕵️ Mock them all (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

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 control…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · May 7

Episode 204 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🍳 recipes 1.3.0 @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
📊 Chart challenge @nrennie.bsky.social
➗ Rotation modulo @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
📦Top 40 pkgs Joe Rickert

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

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 suite,…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · May 2

Episode 203 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤔 Choosing a programming language @jperkel.bsky.social
✨ Shiny with Copilot (Piotr Pasza Storożenko) @appsilon.bsky.social
🏫 Journey to learning R (Bruno Ponne)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Sam Parmar 🙏

#RStats

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 use…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 16

Episode 202 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🚀 R 4.5.0 highlights @russhyde.bsky.social @jumpingrivers.com
🚰 plumber2 @thomasp85.com
🗒 Introducing chores @simonpcouch.com @posit.co

h/t @mike-thomas 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 9

Episode 201 of R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛠 Positron joys & pains @drmowinckels.io
🏫 Learning Tidyverse with AI @minecr.bsky.social
📈 Observable for R users @nrennie.bsky.social

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy 🙏

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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…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 2

A podcasting achievement unlocked: Episode 200 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛒 Text analysis & prediction with {mall} @camlivio.bsky.social @posit.co
📊 Guide to gradients @jamesgoldie.dev

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

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…

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Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · Mar 20

New #RStats X #Nix blog post: Announcing rixpress

brodrigues.co/posts/2025-0...

build polyglott data science pipelines easily with R and Nix!

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Mar 19

Episode 199 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📑 Multilingual Quarto @ivelasq3.bsky.social
🐢 {ellmer} for science (seascapes models)
⚕️ 1854 Cholera Outbreak Map in R (Niamh Mimnagh)

h/t @mike_ketchbrook & @rbyryo.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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 manuscripts,…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Mar 12

Episode 198 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🌐 Unique documentation for your R package (Murielle Delmotte - ThinkR)
📉 LaTeX typesetting on graphs with {xdivr} (Paul Murrell)

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & @batoolmm.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Mar 7

Episode 197 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📦 {ellmer} on CRAN @hadley.nz
📜 RAG Prototyping @christophscheuch.bsky.social
📰 Closeread Contest Winners @posit.co

Plus a recap of my appearance on @coderradio.bsky.social 608!

h/t Sam Parmar 🙏

#rstats

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…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Feb 21

Episode 196 of R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🤔 CRAN holding R back? (Ari Lamstein)
📓 Lit review with LLMs (Seascape Models)
💤 Introduction to laziness @maellesalmon.bsky.social @drmowinckels.io @frick.ws

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

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…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Feb 14

Episode 195 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

📓 Monochrome visualisation @nrennie.bsky.social
🧹 Tidying census files @johnmackintosh.bsky.social
📱 Why Rlinguo? @colinfay.bsky.social

h/t @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

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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…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Feb 5

Episode 194 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🪄 Experiments with LLM code assist @simonpcouch.com
📊 Gapminder and closeread @nrennie.bsky.social
🌏 Downloading Our World in Data (Kenneth Tay)

h/t Jonathan Kitt & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

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)…

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Jan 29

Episode 193 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

💡 7 #quarto revealjs slide tips (Dr. Tom Palmer)
🌍 From novice to contributor @ropensci.org @yabellini.bsky.social (Sunny Tseng) (Pascal Burkhard)

h/t Jon Calder & @mike-thomas.bsky.social 🙏

#RStats

Issue 2025-W05 Highlights

Ready to bring your next presentation slides to the world of Quarto? Our first highlight has a batch of power tips you can use for your next slide deck.…

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