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 <ul> <li>This week&#39;s curator: Jon Calder (<a href="https://twitter.com/jonmcalder" rel="nofollow">@jonmcalder</a>) (Twitter)</li> <li><a href="https://ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/automated-youtube-dashboard/" rel="nofollow">Using flexdashboard to create a GitHub Actions-powered YouTube feed</a></li> <li><a href="https://hypebright.nl/index.php/en/2023/07/25/building-serverless-shiny-apps-with-webr-a-step-by-step-guide/" rel="nofollow">Building Serverless Shiny Apps with webR: A Step-by-Step Guide</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ddotta/cookbook-rpolars" rel="nofollow">Cookbook Polars for R</a> 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.</li> <li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2023-W32.html" rel="nofollow">rweekly.org/2023-W32</a></li> </ul> Supplement Resources <ul> <li>Tube Archivist - Your self-hosted YouTube media server <a href="https://www.tubearchivist.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tubearchivist.com</a></li> <li>webR code extension for HTML Quarto documents <a href="https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/coatless/quarto-webr</a></li> <li>Into the webR-verse (Bob Rudis presentation at the 2023 New York R Conference) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inpwcTUmBDY</a></li> <li>tidypolars - Provide the functionalities of Polars with the syntax of the Tidyverse <a href="https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tidypolars.etiennebacher.com</a></li> </ul> Supporting the show <ul> <li>Use the contact page at <a href="https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact" rel="nofollow">https://rweekly.fireside.fm/contact</a> to send us your feedback</li> <li><a href="https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1062040" rel="nofollow">R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org</a> - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with <a href="https://getalby.com/" rel="nofollow">Alby</a>, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index.</li> <li>A new way to think about value: <a href="https://value4value.info" rel="nofollow">https://value4value.info</a> </li> <li>Get in touch with us on social media <ul> <li>Eric Nantz: <a href="https://twitter.com/theRcast" rel="nofollow">@theRcast</a> (Twitter) and <a href="https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast" rel="nofollow">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</a> (Mastodon)</li> <li>Mike Thomas: <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" rel="nofollow">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (Twitter) and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mike_thomas" rel="nofollow">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon)</li> </ul></li> </ul>

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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.