Issue 2026-W19 Highlights

If Shiny wasn't awesome enough, a new toolkit is bringing the awesome to new heights! Plus a handful of ggplot2 functions that can immediate impact common visualization operations, and knitr gains support for a much-hyped typesetting format for the static document crowd. 


Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Announcing shiny.webawesome: a web UI package for R/Shiny
• Five ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier
• Preliminary Support for Typst in knitr
• Issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W19

Supplement Resources

• Add links discussed in the episode (in place of this sentence)
• {shiny.webawesome} documentation https://www.shiny-webawesome.org
• Web Awesome: The Web's Open Source Design System https://webawesome.com
• {lemon} Freshen up your ggplots https://github.com/stefanedwards/lemon
• ligt.js Miscellaneous lightweight tools and utilities in JavaScript https://github.com/yihui/lite.js/blob/main/js/pages.js
• R 4.6.0 binary transition https://github.com/eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition
• Exploring and Learning Quantum Computing Part 1 https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/qc1/
• Mike's talk "Fully Reproducible Model Validation Reports Using Docker, R, Quarto, {renv} and {targets}" https://youtube.com/watch?v=hRIbxv516hY

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