Issue 2023-W32 Highlights

How a novel blend of automation and the YouTube API formed a new R-Ladies meetup recording dashboard built entirely with R, the momentum of webR continues with a fantastic guide to create a serverless Shiny app, and a new challenger in the world of high-performance data manipulation libraries arrives. Episode Links This week's curator: Jon Calder (@jonmcalder) (Twitter) Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by-Step Guide Cookbook Polars for R Cookbook to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in using Polars with R. A side-by-side comparison of polars, R base, dplyr, tidyr and data.table packages. Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2023-W32 Supplement Resources Tube Archivist - Your self-hosted YouTube media server https://www.tubearchivist.com webR code extension for HTML Quarto documents https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr Into the webR-verse (Bob Rudis presentation at the 2023 New York R Conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY tidypolars - Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the Tidyverse https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://rweekly.fireside.fm/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: @theRcast (Twitter) and @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) Mike Thomas: @mike_ketchbrook (Twitter) and @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)