R Weekly 2025-W25 Air, Testing Shiny, Databricks

16 Jun 2025

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This week’s release was curated by Colin Fay, with help from the R Weekly team members and contributors.

Highlight

• Air 0.7.0

• From lab to real life: How your Shiny application can survive its users

• Deploy R or Python models to production in Databricks using Orbital

Insights

• Vibe coding with AI agents is not for scientists

R in the Real World

• LA County Population

• Impact of Budget Deficits on Treasury Yields with XGBoost

• Investigating running R on RISC-V thanks to r-base on Ubuntu

Resources

• Free R, Python and SQL editors in techtonique dot net

• Setting up VScode for R and generative AI tools

Updated Packages

• Air 0.7.0

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Videos and Podcasts

• Listen to the R-Weekly Highlights Podcast

Shiny

• nhyris CLI v1 release on npm

Tutorials

• From lab to real life: How your Shiny application can survive its users

• Power and ‘fragile’ p-values by @ellis2013nz

• How to Create a Data Frame from Vectors in R

• From Math to Code: Building GAM with Penalty Functions From Scratch

• Deploy R or Python models to production in Databricks using Orbital

• Creating a Linux Personal Package Archive (PPA)

R Project Updates

Updates from R Core:

Call for Participation

Post by @[email protected]

View on Mastodon

• Call For Talks R/Pharma

Upcoming Events in 3 Months

Events in 3 Months:

• A list of R conferences and meetings

• This week’s local R-User and applied stats events

• Weekly R Workshops for Ukraine

Datasets

• Open repo of ecological data for use in teaching

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