Issue 2025-W24 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

The summer schedule has been crazy, but we finally have a new episode of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode: How the new shiny2docker package eases your entry to the world of containers, the power of WebAssembly in full ggplot2 glory, and how the latest solution for speeding up R code draws upon a classic computing language you may not expect.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @[email protected] (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Containerizing Shiny Apps with {shiny2docker}: A Step-by-Step Guide
• ggplot2 layer explorer
• {quickr} 0.1.0: Compiler for R
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W24

Supplement Resources

• {attachment} - Tools to deal with dependencies in scripts, Rmd, and packages https://thinkr-open.github.io/attachment/
• The Rocker Project - Docker Containers for the R Environment https://rocker-project.org/
• r2u - CRAN as Ubuntu binaries https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
• ShinyProxy https://shinyproxy.io/
• GitHub repository for ggplot2 Explorer https://github.com/yjunechoe/ggplot2-layer-explorer

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