Another Friday, another R-eview! Here's some news from the world of R this week:
- Quick quack:?Art Steinmetz published an interesting article looking at the various different tidyverse wrappers around powerful database engines, as a solution for working with large data in the tidyverse. The results are in and the new {duckplyr} wrapper around DuckDB seems to blow the competition out of the water in terms of speed.
- Catching the worm: early bird tickets for EARL (Enterprise Applications of the R Language) conference in Brighton this September have been released this week. See here for more information including the keynote speakers.
- Databases: ?Hadley Wickham has written a release article for {dbplyr} v2.5.0 which was released last month. The new release contains improvements to syntax for specifying tables as well as some minor improvements to SQL generation.
- R-hub evolution: ?Gabor Csardi has announced that R-hub is being retired in favour of the sparkly new modernised R-hub v2. This new iteration of R-hub is built on Github Actions and Gabor's article here explains how to move from v1 to v2.
- Quiz: what will be the output of the two lines of code below, and why? Try it yourself and find out!
# TRUE? FALSE? Something else?
all(NULL)
any(NULL)
I post updates like this every week so if you're interested feel free to follow. Comment below if there's something interesting you found out this week too!
