Context is king in a trifecta of R packages harnessing LLMs to be your virtual assistant in package development and data science, plus the world (of data) is at your fingertips for data exploration and sharing your insights using the innovative closeread Quarto extension.Episode Links<ul><li>This week's curator: Jonathan Kitt - <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonathankitt.bsky.social" target="_blank">@jonathankitt.bsky.social</a> (Bluesky)</li><li><a href="https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01/experiments-llm/" target="_blank">Three experiments in LLM code assist with RStudio and Positron</a></li><li><a href="https://nrennie.rbind.io/scrollytelling/posts/gapminder/" target="_blank">Gapminder: how has the world changed?</a></li><li><a href="https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/downloading-datasets-from-our-world-in-data-in-r/" target="_blank">Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W06.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W06</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<ul><li>From hours to minutes: accelerating your tidymodels code <a href="https://youtu.be/pTMiDHFIiPQ?si=4qZC3_NLUVhD5hAa" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/pTMiDHFIiPQ?si=4qZC3_NLUVhD5hAa</a></li><li>Effecient Machine Learning with R <a href="https://emlwr.org/" target="_blank">https://emlwr.org/</a></li><li>Closeread: Bringing scrollytelling to Quarto <a href="https://youtu.be/KqLxy66B3lQ?si=w7DIB4QhYk2u6cLG" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/KqLxy66B3lQ?si=w7DIB4QhYk2u6cLG</a></li><li>Closeread Posit contest submissions <a href="https://forum.posit.co/tag/closeread-prize-2024" target="_blank">https://forum.posit.co/tag/closeread-prize-2024</a></li><li><h1>Extract Information From Images and PDFs With R & LLMs&nbsp; <a href="https://3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/extract-information-from-images-and-pdfs-with-r-llms" target="_blank">https://3mw.albert-rapp.de/p/extract-information-from-images-and-pdfs-with-r-llms</a></h1></li><li>usgs geological survey mapping water <a href="https://waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/acs-maps/" target="_blank">https://waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/acs-maps/</a></li></ul>Supporting the show<ul><li>Use the contact page at <a href="https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact" target="_blank">https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact</a> to send us your feedback</li><li><a href="https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1062040" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">https://value4value.info</a></li><li>Get in touch with us on social media<ul><li>Eric Nantz: <a href="https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast" target="_blank">@rpodcast@podcastindex.social</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social" target="_blank">@rpodcast.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky) and <a href="https://twitter.com/theRcast" target="_blank">@theRcast</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li>Mike Thomas: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@mike_thomas" target="_blank">@mike_thomas@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon), <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mike-thomas.bsky.social" target="_blank">@mike-thomas.bsky.social</a> (BlueSky), and <a href="https://twitter.com/mike_ketchbrook" target="_blank">@mike_ketchbrook</a> (X/Twitter)&nbsp;</li></ul></li></ul>Music credits powered by <a href="https://ocremix.org/" target="_blank">OCRemix</a><ul><li>Costa del Sol DANCE - Final Fantasy VII - posu yan - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00095" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00095</a></li><li>Aerobotics - Mega Man 8 - Just Coffee - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03323" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03323</a></li></ul>

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