Issue 2024-W40 Highlights

R Weekly Highlights

A monumental achievement for bringing the Nix package manager to reproducible data science, travelling deep through the in-place modification rabbit hole across multiple languages, and a sampling of sage advice from the Data Science Hangout.
Episode Links

• This week's curator: Tony Elhabr - @[e-mail] (Mastodon) & @TonyElHabr (X/Twitter)
• Reproducible data science with Nix, part 13 -- {rix} is on CRAN!
• In-Place Modifications
• Data Career Insights: Lessons from four senior leaders in the data space
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2024-W40

Supplement Resources

• rix rOpenSci review: https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625
• Determinate Systems Zero to Nix guide https://zero-to-nix.com/
• vec - A new vector class with added functionality https://jonocarroll.github.io/vec/
• rray - Simple arrays https://rray.r-lib.org/
• Libby Heeren's podcast Data Humans https://libbyheeren.com/podcast.html or https://datahumans.libsyn.com/site
• A Bayesian Plackett-Luce model in Stan applied to pinball championship data https://sumsar.net/blog/bayesian-plackett-luce-model-pinball-competition/
• Cover and modify, some tips for R package development https://masalmon.eu/2024/09/24/cover-modify-r-packages/

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• Torvus Clockwork - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - DarkeSword - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01507
• Home is Where You Belong - Final Fantasy IX - Reuben Spears, Earth Kid - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04135