Issue 2024-W11 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

A collection of tips for spreading the good word about your awesome R package, how spring cleaning a package codebase doesn't have to be a dreadful experience thanks to usethis, and the culmination of a learning journey to bootstrap node JS projects powered by webR.

Episode Links

• This week's curator: Colin Fay - [@_ColinFay]](https://twitter.com/_ColinFay) (Twitter)
• Marketing Ideas For Your Package
• Spring clean your R packages
• webrcli & spidyr: A starter pack for building NodeJS projects with webR inside
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W11

Supplement Resources

• rOpenSci software review process: Aims and scope https://devguide.ropensci.org/softwarereview_policies.html#aims-and-scope
• Colin Fay's hexmake Shiny app https://github.com/ColinFay/hexmake
• No installation required: How WebAssembly is changing scientific computing https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00725-1
• tryr - Client/Server Error Handling for HTTP APIs https://github.com/analythium/tryr

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Music credits powered by OCRemix

• Vivid Orbis - Marble Madness - Gaspode - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04555
• Black Genesis (Floating Continent) - Final Fantasy VI Balance & Ruin - Brandon Stradery, Rexy - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02796