Issue 2024-W07 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

A few great tips for ensuring your R package doesn't "talk too much" (within reason), shrinking down the size of your images with a new API directly available in a new package, and the first opportunity in 2024 for submitting your proposals for R Consortium projects is on the horizon.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter)
• Please Shut Up! Verbosity Control in Packages
• R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) Grant Program Accepting Proposals starting March 1st!
• Optimize your images with R and reSmush.it
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W07

Supplement Resources

• {lifecycle} Manage the life cycle of your exported functions and arguments https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/
• {logger} lightweight, modern and flexible, log4j and futile.logger inspired logging utility for R https://daroczig.github.io/logger/

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