Happy Friday everyone! Here's some news from the world of R this week:
- Scrolly moly: Posit have announced the start of a Closeread competition! Closeread is a new Quarto extension that helps you write scrollytelling stories. Scrollytelling is a method (popular with NYT, BBC and others) where concepts are built up or highlighted as the reader scrolls down the page, by zooming, transitioning or altering the visible element on the page as they do. Posit's competition calls for entries on any topic to be submitted by 15th December, with some cool prizes up for grabs.
- Dash-ing through Quarto: Posit's Mine ?etinkaya-Rundel has recorded a three part series on Youtube diving into Quarto Dashboards. The functionality has been around for almost a year now and these videos dive into all you can do with them in both R and Python. The second and third videos look at components and theming respectively.
- Lucky number S7: a new version of R's latest Object Oriented Programming system - meant to become a successor to S3 and S4 - has been released! Tomasz Kalinowski and Hadley Wickham have written a blog post accompanying this v0.2.0 release. If you were unsure about S7 or had some issues with early releases now is the time to take another look as it starts to be used in more CRAN packages.
- Across the webR: George Stagg has written a series of blog posts about the current state of WebAssembly in R. Running R in the browser without a server has been one of the hot new areas of development this year and George covers the latest in webR, shinylive and the new Quarto Live extension!
- Action required: it has been confirmed that Github Actions will be removing R from the 'ubuntu-latest' image within a couple of months for "maintenance reasons". See the full list of changes here. Luckily R users have great alternatives for using R in Github Actions (or Azure Devops): r2u and r-lib/actions.
- Fun fact:?did you know, you can use the {usethis} package to setup your global .gitignore with common entries:
- {ntfy} v0.0.6 - an interesting looking newer package which wraps the ntfy.sh lightweight notification service.
- {httr2} v1.0.6 - some fixes and new features for interacting with AWS.
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!
