R Weekly Highlights

The R Weekly podcast offers a quick description of the latest highlighted stories and other stories from the latest R Weekly issue, as curated by the R Weekly team and R community.

R Weekly Highlights is a science podcast hosted by Eric Nantz, with 242 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Eric Nantz hosts R Weekly Highlights, a science show with 242 episodes published.

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  Episode #242

  Issue 2026-W37 Highlights

  Sep 11, 202640 min

  A data-driven investigation on how September is a dangerous month for bikers in Wisconsin, a novel look at the distribution of castles across the globe, and the fundamentals behind an influential analysis method commonly used in experimental designs. Episode Links  This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - @jonathankitt.bsky.social (Bluesky) Madison bike crashes peak in September An Atlas of Stone Repeated measures ANOVA in R Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W37 Supplement Resources  Madison Bikes https://www.madisonbikes.org Tidy Tuesday Castlemap dataset https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/main/data/2026/2026-09-01 Deepali's GitHub repository https://github.com/deepdk   {rstatix}: Pipe-friendly Framework for Basic Statistical Tests in R https://rpkgs.datanovia.com/rstatix/ 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: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter)  Music credits powered by OCRemix Relm's Weepy Loop - Final Fantasy 6 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00178 Cammy's London Drizzle - Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00453

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  Episode #241

  Issue 2026-W36 Highlights

  Sep 4, 202627 min

  The newest linter on the R block gains a bold new feature in version 0.6.0, and a new package documentation framework altdown enters the world.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter) Jarl 0.6.0: A fast R linter A new take on documentation sites for R packages Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W36 Supplement Resources Ark: An R kernel https://github.com/posit-dev/ark Arf: Alternative R Frontend https://github.com/eitsupi/arf 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: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter)  Music credits powered by OCRemix Super Buck II - Super Mario Brothers 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577

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  Episode #240

  Issue 2026-W35 Highlights

  Aug 28, 202641 min

  A collection of techniques to unlock creativity for your next visualisation, a look at the exciting present and future of the futurize transpiler package, and how to avoid an all-to-common pitfall managing database connections in mirai daemons. Episode Links  This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) Why creativity matters in data visualisation useR! 2026: Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers Tricky Parts of Async Mirai Magic Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W35 Supplement Resources When creativity meets code slides and abstract https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/ross-ihaka-lecture/ When creativity meets code recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAiyiE8Pm8s {futurize} documentation https://futurize.futureverse.org UseR! 2026 {futurize} slides https://henrikbengtsson.github.io/talk-user2026-futurize/ {mirai} documentation https://mirai.r-lib.org 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: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter)  Music credits powered by OCRemix Warriors of Light - Final Fantasy - Darangen - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01339 Ice Cap Zone (Pulse Mix) - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - MkVaff - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04400

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  Episode #239

  Issue 2026-W33 Highlights

  Aug 14, 202645 min

  A collection of tips to ensure reproducibility for R-based clinical submissions, a modern architecture lands in R-Universe, and going beyond the built-in mtcars set to educate students with NYC Open Data.  Episode Links  This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter) Making R Submissions Reviewable for FDA Windows ARM64 comes to R-universe The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W33 Supplement Resources R Consortium Submissions Working Group https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-wg SimpleEnglish Agent skill https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish New R tooling https://r-devs.com/ 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: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter)  Music credits powered by OCRemix Chillout - Mega Man 2 - sedure - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01175 Brushwork - Mario Paint - Fratto, Wiesty, The OC Jazz Collective - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04389

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  Episode #238

  Issue 2026-W32 Highlights

  Aug 7, 202634 min

  Orchestrating multiple package quality checking frameworks all within a single R package, and how learning in the world of AI has fundamentally shifted once you get over that initial hump (inspired by a quick quote from one of your hosts).  Episode Links  This week's curator: Batool Almarzouq - @batoolmm.bsky.social (Bluesky) & @batool664 (X/Twitter) rsonar: The R equivalent of SonarQube - centralizes code quality analysis into a single interactive report Cognitive Courage: The Real Bottleneck to Learning AI Tools - Learning a new AI workflow no longer means studying it first. The platform you work in is the platform you learn in, and the only thing between you and your first skill is the nerve to say ‘I don’t know – show me.’ Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W32 Supplement Resources {rsonar} documentation https://ddotta.github.io/rsonar/ {rsonar} examples repository https://github.com/ddotta/rsonar-examples {rsonar} presentation (French) https://ddotta.github.io/rsonar_presentation/#/title-slide R Weekly Highlights episode 232 https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/r-weekly-highlights/232 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: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter) Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter)  Music credits powered by OCRemix Lost in a Nightmare - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Palpable - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03001

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