Issue 2026-W03 Highlights

Issue 2026-W03 Highlights

From R Weekly Highlights by Eric Nantz

January 14, 2026 · 43 min · Episode 217

About this episode

This episode discusses the positive impact of intellectual diversity in the R and Python communities and introduces new tools and resources for developers.

It's a new year of R Weekly Highlights! In this episode we learn of the positive intellectual diversity impacting R and Python communities, a great starting point to create your first RAG-powered knowledge store, and a new package enters the Shiny ecosystem that is certainly not tiny in its ambitions. Episode Links  This week's curator: Eric Nantz: @rpodcast@podcastindex.social (Mastodon) & @rpodcast.bsky.social (BlueSky) & @theRcast (X/Twitter) R + Python: From polyglot to pluralism : A very targeted recap on posit::conf(2025) and a broader reflection on how the best design and devtools ideas from R and python have influenced each others' stacks for the better Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Setting up a Knowledge Store in R {tinyshinyserver} 0.1.0 : Tiny 'shiny' Server - Lightweight Multi-App 'shiny' Proxy Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2026-W03 Supplement Resources tinyshinyserver GitHub repository: https://github.com/lab1702/tinyshinyserver Yann Tourman's R Weekly episode length analysis https://bsky.app/profile/yannco.bsky.social/post/3mbarm75kik2j Supporting the show Use the contact page at https://serve.podhome.fm/custompage/r-weekly-highlights/contact…

People in this episode

Host: Eric Nantz

Topics covered

  • R programming
  • Python programming
  • intellectual diversity
  • knowledge store
  • Shiny ecosystem
  • devtools
  • podcasting

Keywords

  • R Weekly Highlights
  • R
  • Python
  • tinyshinyserver
  • knowledge store
  • devtools
  • podcasting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: R Weekly Highlights, Python, posit::conf(2025), Podcastindex.org, Alby, value4value.info

Products: tinyshinyserver

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