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 Links This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy (Bluesky) & @carroll_jono (X/Twitter) Designing monochrome data visualisations The life changing magic of tidying text files Rlinguo — Why Did We Build It? Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W07 Supplement Resources ColorBrewer palettes https://colorbrewer2.org John's GitHub repository for tidying census files https://github.com/johnmackintosh/tidy-scotland-census Introducing 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 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 powered by OCRemix Chillout - Mega Man 2 - sedure - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01175 Black Genesis - Final Fantasy VI Balance & Ruin - Brandon Strader, Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796