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Aug 16, 2023 40 min

Issue 2023-W33 Highlights

from R Weekly Highlights Hosted by Eric Nantz

Another excellent use case of Nix for solving R package installation woes, a practical dev journey of wrapping C code in an R package, and a guide for using the new refugees R package from UNHCR. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) She issued install.packages() -- you won't believe what happened next! Wrapping C Code in an R Package How to use UNHCR’s {refugees} R package Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W33 Supplement Resources R Packages Chapter on Data: https://r-pkgs.org/data.html Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)

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Issue 2023-W33 Highlights

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  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 1:37 Installing R packages with Nix
  3. 15:09 Wrapping C code in an R package
  4. 28:01 UNHCR's refugee package
  5. 33:15 Additional Finds
  6. 35:51 Episode Wrapup...
  7. 39:15 Bloopers!

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