Issue 2024-W06 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

Key learnings from learners in recent R workshops, advice on navigating thorny package installation issues within renv, and a showdown of how the parquet and RDS formats perform with large data sets.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Ryo Nakagawara - @R_by_Ryo) (Twitter) & @[e-mail] (Mastodon)
• Teaching you - teaching me
• Things that can go wrong when using renv
• Parquet vs the RDS Format
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W06

Supplement Resources

• Quartaki an introduction to Quarto https://drmowinckels.io/quartaki/
• R project management https://www.capro.dev/workshop_rproj/
• r2u - CRAN binaries as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
• Shiny and Arrow https://posit.co/blog/shiny-and-arrow
• data.table new release and governance structure https://rdatatable-community.github.io/The-Raft/posts/2024-01-30-new_governance_new_release-toby_hocking/
• rix is looking for testers https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2024-02-02-nix_for_r_part_9/
• The 2024 Shiny Conference call for speakers https://www.shinyconf.com/call-for-speakers

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