Issue 2026-W03 Highlights

It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great starting point to create your first RAG-powered knowledge store, and a new package enters the Shiny ecosystem that is certainly not tiny in its ambitions.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• R + Python: From polyglot to pluralism: A very targeted recap on posit::conf(2025) and a broader reflection on how the best design and devtools ideas from R and python have influenced each others' stacks for the better
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Setting up a Knowledge Store in R
• {tinyshinyserver} 0.1.0: Tiny 'shiny' Server - Lightweight Multi-App 'shiny' Proxy
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W03

Supplement Resources

• tinyshinyserver GitHub repository: https://github.com/lab1702/tinyshinyserver
• Yann Tourman's R Weekly episode length analysis https://bsky.app/profile/yannco.bsky.social/post/3mbarm75kik2j

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• Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback
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• Get in touch with us on social media
  • Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon), @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) and @theRcast (X/Twitter)
  • Mike Thomas: @mike_thomas@fosstodon.org (Mastodon), @mike-thomas.bsky.social (BlueSky), and @mike_ketchbrook (X/Twitter)

Music credits powered by OCRemix

• We're the Fugawe Forest - Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - XPRTNovice feat. Weisty - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR03597
• Zelda's Graceful Nightmare - 25YEARLEGEND: A Legend of Zelda Indie Game Composer Tribute - Matheus Manente - https://zelda25.ocremix.org/index.html