Fresh off an amazing experience at posit::conf(2025), the R Weekly Highlights podcast is back with episode 211! Eric and Mike share their experiences at the conference and then dive into an amazing collection of highlights. We learn about a myriad of packages to programmatically write and parse markdown documents, initial impressions with vibe-coding an R package to learn Japanese, and the immense lengths the R-Exams project is taking to clean up messy scans of exam papers.Episode Links<ul><li>This week's curator: Jon Carroll - <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jonocarroll" target="_blank">@jonocarroll@fosstodon.org</a> (Mastodon) & <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy" target="_blank">@jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy</a> (Bluesky) & <a href="https://twitter.com/carroll_jono" target="_blank">@carroll_jono</a> (X/Twitter)</li><li><a href="https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/18/markdown-programmatic-parsing/" target="_blank">All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents</a></li><li><a href="https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/09/13/i-vibe-coded-an-r-package/" target="_blank">I Vibe Coded an R Package</a></li><li><a href="https://www.R-exams.org/tutorials/nops_fix/" target="_blank">Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams</a></li><li>Entire issue available at <a href="https://rweekly.org/2025-W39.html" target="_blank">rweekly.org/2025-W39</a></li></ul>Supplement Resources<ul><li>Mike's presentation slides: <strong>Building Multilingual Data Science Teams</strong> <a href="https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/multilingual-data-science-presentation" target="_blank">https://ketchbrookanalytics.github.io/multilingual-data-science-presentation</a></li><li>Eric's presentation slides: <strong>Introducing Shinystate - Launching Shiny collaboration to new heights</strong> <a href="https://rpodcast.github.io/shinystate-positconf2025/#/titleslide" target="_blank">https://rpodcast.github.io/shinystate-positconf2025/#/titleslide</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)&nbsp;</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>Twoson Hits the Road - EarthBound - djpretzel - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01427" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01427</a></li><li>Gemini Salsa - Mega Man 3 - MkVaff - <a href="https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00146" target="_blank">https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00146</a></li></ul>

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