Issue 2023-W37 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

Another adventure with incorporating R packages into a WebR application, annotating your fancy equations in a Quarto PDF document, and unleasing a Bayesian model on UFO sightings data.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Carroll - @carroll_jono (Twitter) & @[e-mail] (Mastodon)
• Preloading your R packages in webR in an Express JS API
• A guide to annotating equations in quarto documents
• Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W37

Supplement Resources

• WebR binary R package repository - https://repo.r-wasm.org/
• How do I preload the R packages in a node app - https://github.com/r-wasm/webr/issues/260
• Minutes from 2023-08-18 Pilot 4 R-Consortium R-Submissions working group meeting (sending a Shiny application built with containers and webR to FDA) - https://rconsortium.github.io/submissions-pilot4/minutes/2023-08-18/
• ggannotate - Interactively annotate your ggplots https://github.com/MattCowgill/ggannotate
• UFO sightings around the world - https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/tree/master/data/2019/2019-06-25

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