Issue 2026-W41 Highlights

A roundtrip between formatted tables and spreadsheets is now very much possible, how {shinyreact} represents a new path for user interface development in Shiny, and a candid take on ownership of code and the products we build from it (including very awesome art).


Episode Links 

• This week's curator: Sam Parmar - @parmsam@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @parmsam_ (X/Twitter)
• From spreadsheet to gt and back again
• Introducing shinyreact: React UI backed by a Shiny server
• Aperiodic tilings with the de Bruijn method
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W41

Supplement Resources

• {forgts} - Formatted spreadsheets to gts https://luisdva.github.io/forgts
• {gtxlsx} - Write gt and HTML tables into {openxlsx2} workbooks https://janmarvin.github.io/gtxlsx
• Bold indicates negative? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJz0779Seto
• {shinyreact} - Shiny UI infrastructure for React-based component rendering https://posit-dev.github.io/shinyreact/r/index.html
• Agent skills vignette for {shinyreact} https://posit-dev.github.io/shinyreact/r/articles/agent-skills.html
• R + AI conference https://rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_website/

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