Issue 2026-W35 Highlights

A collection of techniques to unlock creativity for your next visualisation, a look at the exciting present and future of the futurize transpiler package, and how to avoid an all-to-common pitfall managing database connections in mirai daemons.

Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter)
• Why creativity matters in data visualisation
• useR! 2026: Futurize - Tearing Down Parallelization Barriers in R with Transpilers
• Tricky Parts of Async Mirai Magic
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W35

Supplement Resources

• When creativity meets code slides and abstract https://nrennie.rbind.io/talks/ross-ihaka-lecture/
• When creativity meets code recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAiyiE8Pm8s
• {futurize} documentation https://futurize.futureverse.org
• UseR! 2026 {futurize} slides https://henrikbengtsson.github.io/talk-user2026-futurize/
• {mirai} documentation https://mirai.r-lib.org

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  • 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) 

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