Issue 2024-W10 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

How an attempt to solve a clever programming exercise led to a new patch to the R language itself, a review of the enlightening results for the recent data.table community survey, and creating a Doom map in R, because why not?

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz - @theRcast (Twitter) & @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• I Patched R to Solve an Exercism Problem
• {data.table} Community Survey: Results and insights
• Doom plots
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W10

Supplement Resources

• https://exercism.org/

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  • Eric Nantz: @theRcast (Twitter) and @[email protected] (Mastodon)
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Music credits powered by OCRemix

• Bonus Bop - Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business - Xenon Odyssey, The UArts "Z" Big Band - https://dkc2.ocremix.org/
• Hangarmageddon - Doom Dark Side of the Phobos - EvilHorde - https://ocremix.org/album/4/doom-the-dark-side-of-phobos