Issue 2024-W51 Highlights

An evolution of asynchronous programming techniques to boost your Shiny apps, how a puzzle from over a century ago could tip the scales for mathematics algorithms solvable in R, and solving the recent 2024 Advent of Code puzzles with data.table. Episode Links This week's curator: Colin Fay - @[email protected] [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (X/Twitter) @colinfay.bsky.social Parallel and Asynchronous Programming in Shiny with future, promise, future_promise, and ExtendedTask Writing Signed Trinary: or, Back To the Four Weights Problem Advent of Code with data.table: Week One Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W51 Supplement Resources Futureverse - A Unifying Parallelization Framework in R for Everyone https://www.futureverse.org/ Non-blocking operations with ExtendedTask https://shiny.posit.co/r/articles/improve/nonblocking/ Asynchronous Shiny apps with crew and mirai https://wlandau.github.io/crew/articles/shiny.html Bachet’s Four Weights Problem https://rworks.dev/posts/four-weights/ Advent of Code 2024 https://adventofcode.com/ Lime Bikes Summary Dashboard https://jokasan.github.io/Lime_Dash/ Chapter image credits Advent of Code https://thenewstack.io/advent-of-codes-programming-puzzles-set-new-global-record/ Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/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: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @[email protected] (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter) Music credits powered by OCRemix J-Type - Tetris - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04401 I Just Skipped Time Yesterday - Puyo Puyo - Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03941