Issue 2024-W06 Highlights

Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets. Episode Links This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon) Teaching you - teaching me Things that can go wrong when using renv Parquet vs the RDS Format Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W06 Supplement Resources Quartaki an introduction to Quarto https://drmowinckels.io/quartaki/ R project management https://www.capro.dev/workshop_rproj/ r2u - CRAN binaries as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/ Shiny and Arrow https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow data.table new release and governance structure https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-30-new_governance_new_release-toby_hocking/ rix is looking for testers https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2024-02-02-nix_for_r_part_9/ The 2024 Shiny Conference call for speakers https://www.shinyconf.com/call-for-speakers 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) Music credits powered by OCRemix Tails and the Music Maker - Picolescence - zircon - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02176 Wily theme - Mega Man 2 - TheManPF, Chocobao, DakotaCityRag, Gamer of the Winds, Zach Chapman - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04485