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Feb 21, 2025 52 min

Issue 2025-W08 Highlights

from R Weekly Highlights Hosted by Eric Nantz

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 literature review, and a few great illustrations of lazy being a good thing in your R session. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) Is CRAN Holding R Back? How to use large language models to assist in systematic literature reviews Lazy introduction to laziness in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W08 Supplement Resources A guide to contributing to open-source Python packages https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/01/02/a-guide-to-contributing-to-open-source-python-packages/ Continue https://www.continue.dev/ 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 Gurgling Desert Pond - Final Fantasy Random Encounter - blackguitar - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02555 Hotel Rhumba - Earthbound - The Pancake Chef - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00526

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Issue 2025-W08 Highlights

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  1. 2:20 CRAN holding R back?
  2. 20:23 LLMs for Lit Review
  3. 34:45 Intro to Laziness
  4. 50:22 Episode Wrapup

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