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/ 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 J-Type - Tetris - Nostalvania - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04401 Smoke & Marbles - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Emunator, ZackParrish, Lucas Guimaraes - https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR04714