Issue 2026-W30 Highlights

The first wave of 2026 R Consortium technical grants has arrived, how the new ggchord2 can round out your next process visualizations, and a clever take on supplementing your prompts with R objects. Episode Links This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) R Consortium Awards First Round of 2026 Technical Grants Chord diagrams in R with ggchord2 R Blackmagic for LLM Prompting Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W30 Supplement Resources igvShiny demo app https://gladkia-igvshiny-demo.share.connect.posit.cloud/ ggchord2: Chord diagrams with ggplot2 https://nrennie.gitlab.io/ggchord2/ Generic Functions: The Underrated R Technique Fixing Your Worst Problems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p00um9ezh74 Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact to send us your feedback R-Weekly Highlights on the Podcastindex.org - You can send a boost into the show directly in the Podcast Index. First, top-up with Alby, and then head over to the R-Weekly Highlights podcast entry on the index. A new way to think about value: https://value4value.info Get in touch with us on social media 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) Music credits powered by OCRemix The Unnamed Frontier - Metroid II: Return of Samus - Pyro Paper Planes, Viking Guitar - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02892 Super Buck II - Super Mario Brothers 2 - Estradasphere - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00577