Issue 2024-W02 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

We kick off 2024 with a jam-packed episode! Learn four ways to streamline your R workflows, a proposal for a new pipe assignment operator in base R, and our raw responses to a surprising turn of events affecting one of the most influential members of the R community.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[e-mail] (Mastodon)
• Four ways to streamline your R workflows
• The case for a pipe assignment operator in R
• Bye, RStudio/Posit! - After writing all these "*down" packages for these years, here I am to announce "Yihui-down"
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W02

Supplement Resources

• R-Weekly Curation Calendar Dashboard https://rweekly.github.io/rweekly-calendar/
• Quarto All the Things workshop from R/Pharma 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-dQ36sx4Rk
• Rami Krispin's VS-Code R container template repository https://github.com/RamiKrispin/vscode-r-template
• Assignment pipe operator discussion on Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@eliocamp/111664623134443564

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• Get in touch with us on social media
  • Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[e-mail] (Mastodon)
  • Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @[e-mail] (Mastodon)